Thu Aug 24, 2023 – 5:07 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — A new study released this week shows an alarming increase in the number of so-called “sex change” surgeries committed in the United States. Specifically, these radical procedures nearly tripled between 2016 and 2019, with a significant number of young people obtaining chest mutilation or reconstruction.
Three medical doctors affiliated with Columbia University and the University of Southern California released a cohort study examining how many surgical procedures committed in the name of “gender affirmation” have occurred in the U.S. during a three-year period. It was published on Wednesday in the JAMA Network Open journal.
“Breast and chest surgery” were reportedly “the most common class of procedures performed overall,” while fewer “genital reconstructive procedures” were committed, most often “among older individuals.” While most of the gender-confused Americans included in the study were young adults, researchers noted that “3,678 (7.7%) were aged 12 to 18 years,” contradicting claims from some LGBT activists that such irreversible procedures are not being committed on minors.
The study, titled “National Estimates of Gender-Affirming [sic] Surgery in the US,” included 48,019 Americans who received some form of mutilating procedures between 2016 and 2019.
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