Doctor says Boston gender clinic mutilates and sterilizes children

“These surgical procedures don’t deal with psychological sickness nor forestall suicide,” Cretella mentioned in a press release, “[but] they do mutilate and completely sterilize youngsters who haven’t any capability to evaluate not to mention consent to such life-changing interventions.”

The procedures Boston Kids’s Hospital conducts on transgender youngsters and youths embrace breast augmentation, chest reconstruction, “facial harmonization,” a surgical process that modifies the face to seem extra female or masculine, and surgical strategies to boost or decrease a toddler’s voice to match how they determine.  

The hospital additionally performs genital surgical procedures which might be identified to hold a excessive threat of problems for teenagers. Boston’s initial steering mentioned these surgical procedures could possibly be carried out on minors 17 years of age, then up to date its steering to say 18, after the story broke. 

These embrace metoidioplasty and phalloplasty – the surgical creation of a penis utilizing current genital tissue or flaps of pores and skin  – and vaginoplasty, the surgical creation of a vagina.

These procedures are described by surgeons and physicians at Boston Kids’s Hospital in a sequence of YouTube movies that the hospital put out to market the procedures they provide. 


Phalloplasty, because the hospital describes, is a 12-hour surgical procedure carried out on women searching for to transition into boys. A lady who undergoes phalloplasty should first have a hysterectomy. Then pores and skin is “harvested” to assemble a penis from one other place on her physique, such because the thigh or forearm. The “vagina may additionally be eliminated” and the surgeon grafts the brand new “penis” into place. On common, it takes a affected person 12 to 18 months to heal from a phalloplasty.