How many times have we heard the following, in one iteration or another, from the left in support of so-called "transgenderism?"
“If a man identifies as a woman, how does it hurt you?”
The question often comes up in conversations about "transgender rights" or "gender-identity" as an argument in support of social acceptance of the "trans" community, and against those who oppose "transgenderism" and particularly its potential impact on children, if not society at large.
The following disturbing story answers the "How does it hurt you?" question in one of the most horrifying cases yet.
As reported on Monday, the European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology published a beyond disturbing case study that describes how a three-year-old girl’s "trans-identifying" father caused devastating physical effects in his daughter's body by exposing her to his transgender “treatments” — estradiol gel, referred to in the study as “gender affirming hormone therapy” (GAHT) — which artificially induced the young girl to grow breasts (just like her dad), caused her bone age to advance to more than twice what it should have been, and also caused her uterus to increase in size.
So does that answer the "How does it affect you?" question, pro-trans activists?
More disgusting details:
The study authors note that “transdermal estrogen in girls with hypogonadism is well known for induction of the puberty,” and that “sexual development due to exogenous exposure for sex steroids in food, environment or medication is known, but sparsely reported.”
After the father began to take hormone treatments, his daughter was exposed to GAHT through skin-to-skin contact. This resulted in “a case of peripheral precocious puberty” in the 3-year-old girl, which produced catastrophic physical consequences.
The study states:
A 3-year-old girl was referred to our pediatric outpatient clinic with breast development… over a period of 6 months. The GAHT of her transgender father was estradiol spray 6.12 mg applied to both forearms daily. After 6 months this was changed to estradiol gel 3.75 mg daily for 7 months. The gel was manually applied to the chest, abdomen, shoulders, and thighs. The father reported skin-to'skin contact on a daily basis.
A physical examination of the girl revealed a Tanner stage III for breast and Tanner stage I for other reproductive development. ... bone age advanced to 6.9 years (Greulich and Pyle). Pelvic ultrasound demonstrated increased size for age of both uterus and endometrium corresponding to Tanner stage III-IV. Estradiol was 0.04 nmol/l and GnRH stimulation test revealed a peak LH of 2.0 IU/l with a LH/FSH ratio of 0.77.
Now, I don't know what some if not most of the above means, but I do know — as do you — that a young girl's life has been irreversibly altered in a horrific way because her dad, of all people, put his sick desire to become a woman ahead of his daughter's health — even if unknowingly.
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The study concluded:
These clinical, radiologic and laboratory findings were consistent with a diagnosis of peripheral precocious puberty due to exogenous estradiol. The hormone therapy of the father was changed from a gel to a transdermal patch, and the girl experienced regression of breast development, normalization of growth velocity, pelvic ultrasound and GnRH stimulation test.
[Those undergoing transgender] treatments [must be aware that] exposure to exogenous estradiol can lead to precocious puberty in prepubertal girls [and that] transgender persons should be thoroughly informed of the risk of transmission of transdermal hormones and be advised to wash hands, use gloves and avoid skin contact shortly after hormone application.
Patients with children must be warned of the risk, and gender clinics should consider the possibility of prescribing alternative routes of administration such as tablets or patches in high-risk patients.
While those of us who write about the notion that a man (or woman) can be "born in the wrong body" and as a result decide to undergo so-called "gender-affirming care" to fix what nature "got wrong," usually write in general terms, real-life stories like this one are almost incomprehensible.
We can ask questions like "What was this dad thinking when he exposed his young daughter — skin-to-skin — to a growth hormone gel on a daily basis?" or "How could this guy think more about his perversive needs or desires than the health of his young child?" but the answers don't come easy; if they come at all.
