Two of the world's top medics for gender reassignment procedures - both of them transgender women - have expressed concern about the number of children being given puberty blockers and undergoing surgery, describing the rise in procedures are deeply worrying.
Dr Marci Bowers, a world-renowned vaginoplasty specialist who operated on reality-television star Jazz Jennings, and Erica Anderson, a clinical psychologist at the University of California San Francisco's Child and Adolescent Gender Clinic, both spoke out for Bari Weiss's Substack newsletter, Common Sense.
Bowers said she was 'not a fan' of putting children in the early stages of puberty on blockers - a technique that doctors increasingly use when young people say they are questioning their gender, and which can maintain more feminine looks for growing boys.
Dr Marci Bowers, one of the world's leading surgeons for transgender people, said that she was troubled by some of the trends in the field, including intolerance of differing views
'This is typical of medicine,' she said, asked about the prevailing orthodoxy.
'We zig and then we zag, and I think maybe we zigged a little too far to the left in some cases.
'I think there was naivete on the part of pediatric endocrinologists who were proponents of early [puberty] blockage thinking that just this magic can happen, that surgeons can do anything.'
Bowers and Anderson were both interviewed for the Substack newsletter run by Bari Weiss (above)
She said that the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) could be intolerant of dissenting opinions.
'There are definitely people who are trying to keep out anyone who doesn't absolutely buy the party line that everything should be affirming, and that there's no room for dissent,' Bowers said.
'I think that's a mistake.'
Anderson said that she had submitted an op ed to The New York Times warning about the risks of treatments, and the paper turned it down because the story was 'outside our coverage priorities right now.'
Bowers operated on reality star Jazz Jennings, in June 2018 - a series of steps she shared on Instagram with her 1.2 million followers.
