Doctors cop to performing ‘non-standard’ gender-affirming surgeries on youth: video

Doctors have admitted to performing “non-standard” gender-affirming procedures on youngsters and sometimes base treatment purely on cosmetic goals — as they see a spike in patients seeking out “nonbinary” surgeries.

The medical professionals copped to sometimes even performing the life-altering procedures with little to no assessment of an individual’s mental health or gender identity, newly emerged videos obtained by The Free Press show.

The recordings, some of which have been made at closed-door medical conferences in the US within the last few years, captured clinicians openly discussing how they were trying to fulfill a patients’ desires — even if it means deviating from guidelines.

One social worker from Oregon once described how an 18-year-old high school graduate wanted to look like “a Barbie down there.”

Amy Penkin, a social worker with the Transgender Health Program at the Oregon Health & Science University, spoke of the case study at the 2021 conference of the US Professional Association for Transgender Health.

The patient, only identified as Sky, had indicated they were asexual, had no desire to have sex in the future and was hoping to have a procedure to remove “all erogenous tissue.”

Penkin went on to say that requests for “nonbinary” procedures were “growing in number.”

It wasn’t immediately clear what became of that specific patient.

At a separate World Professional Association for Transgender Health conference in 2022, one unidentified clinician from Utah sought advice after seeing nonbinary interventions at a “dramatically increased” rate.

The clinician noted, astonishingly, that she was drawn to the idea of providing patients with a “Pinterest board” of gender procedures that could be offered.

She acknowledged, too, that medical professionals were often making it up as they went, saying: “I feel like we’re all just winging it, you know? And which is okay, you’re winging it too. But maybe we can just, like, wing it together.”

The controversial videos emerged as the nationwide debate gender-affirming care rages on.

Since 2021, 28 states with Republican-controlled legislatures have adopted policies to ban or restrict gender-affirming care for minors.