'An Enormous Victory in the Battle to Protect Children from Mutilation and Abuse': Vanderbilt Pediatric Gender Clinic Halts Trans Surgeries on Minors after Uproar

Tré Goins-Phillips : Oct 11, 2022
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"We are winning the struggle against one of the greatest evils mankind has ever known. But the fight is far from over." -Matt Walsh, The Daily Wire

[Faithwire.com] Just weeks after facing intense uproar, executives with the Vanderbilt Pediatric Gender Clinic in Nashville, Tennessee, have agreed to pause all transgender surgeries on minors. (Video Screengrab image)

News of the pause came via a letter sent to Tennessee state Rep. Jason Zachary (R).

"We are pausing gender affirmation surgeries on patients under 18 while we complete this review, which may take several months," wrote C. Wright Pinson, deputy CEO and chief health system officer for the Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Pinson noted in the letter that VUMC secured parental consent for each case involving a minor and stated no "genital procedures" had been performed.

The executive also committed to protecting conscientious objectors who work at VUMC but have sincere concerns about performing such treatments and surgeries, particularly on minors. That is a noteworthy concession, given previous statements from Vanderbilt University professor Dr. Ellen Clayton... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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