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Transgender kids get puberty-blocking drugs, sex-changing hormones; MDs say numbers are rising

Washington Post

Associated Press

CHICAGO – A small but growing number of teens and even younger children who think they were born the wrong sex are getting support from parents and from doctors who give them sex-changing treatments, according to reports in the medical journal Pediatrics.

It’s an issue that raises ethical questions, and some experts urge caution in treating children with puberty-blocking drugs and hormones.

An 8-year-old second-grader in Los Angeles is a typical patient. Born a girl, the child announced at 18 months, “I a boy” and has stuck with that belief. The family was shocked but now refers to the child as a boy and is watching for the first signs of puberty to begin treatment, his mother told The Associated Press. . . [Full text]

 

 

UK human rights chairman wants freedom of religion restricted

Trevor Phillips, the chairman of Britain’s Equality and Human Rights Commission, has said that religious believers should not be free to adhere to their own tenets when acting in the public domain.  “Once you start to provide public services that have to be run under public rules, for example child protection, then it has to go with public law,” he said.  He agreed with the court ruling that forced the closure of all Catholic adoption agencies in Britain because they objected to adoption by persons identified as homosexual.  [The Telegraph]

 

President of Spanish medical college won’t accept government pressure on abortion

Dr. Carmen Rodriguez, the president of the Asturias Medical College, the official physician’s association for the region of Asturias in the north of Spain, told a local paper that society can make laws concerning abortion, but cannot force physicians to participate in them. [LifeSite News]

 

Objecting Spanish physician granted injunction

Dr. Manuel Resa, a physician who has resisted attempts to force him to participate in abortions, has been granted an injunction by Superior Tribunal of the Autonomous Community of Andalusia in Spain.  He appealed to the Tribunal after a lower court refused to grant the injunction.  This means that Dr. Resa will not be forced to participate in abortion pending the outcome of his civil suit on seeking recognition of his freedom to refuse to facilitate abortion.

 

HHS mandate, Kennedy and the Berlin Wall

Former governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee, told the audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference that President Obama’s birth control regulation reminded him of President John F. Kennedy’s statement to the people of Berlin after the erection of the Berlin Wall in 1963: “Ich bin ein Berliner.”  Huckabee,a Baptist, said, “In many ways, thanks to President Obama, we’re all Catholics now.”[ABC news]