Detransitioned Navy SEAL warns parents about gender surgery trends now
A Navy SEAL who detransitioned is now warning parents about getting their children gender-affirming surgery.
Chris Beck, a retired member of SEAL Team Six who came out as transgender in 2013, argued that parents are not being given all of the information when their children express gender dysphoria.
He cited studies that showed that 80 percent of children who express gender dysphoria no longer feel that way once they finish puberty.
Other studies found that more than half of the parents who were referred to gender therapists said they felt directed to put their kids on medical treatments or change their wardrobe.
'Y'all need to start leaving these kids alone,' he told FOX News Tonight host Joey Jones over the weekend. 'They're castrating them. They're doing these double mastectomies. They're hurting kids.'
Chris Beck, a detransitioned Navy veteran, warned parents about getting their children gender-affirming surgery
Beck, who formerly went by the name Kristin Beck, came out as transgender in 2013
Beck, who formerly went by the name Kristin Beck, claimed on FOX News Tonight that therapists are not telling parents that their children would likely grow out of their gender dysphoria.
'So I was in mental health counseling for my graduate degree here at a university where I live, and so I was learning all the procedures, I was learning all about human development from birth all the way through — up to 25 years old, you're still developing your brain,' he said.
'So the thing is, is that when you're going through these [gender-affirming] courses, they're coaching you and they're coaching you on what to say to parents, and they're not showing all the data.'
He said one major data point that therapists are not sharing with parents of children with gender dysphoria is that 80 percent 'will get rid of all that gender confusion by the time puberty is over.'
Beck also added that puberty blockers are irreversible and can impact minors' fertility.
'If a kid goes on puberty blockers when they're 13, 14, 15 years old, they're chemically castrated,' he said. 'They're not going to have children when they get older.
'They're not given this data.'
'So eight of those kids, out of those 10, are going to want to go back to be just a regular old person, and they're not going to be able to.'
Beck came out as transgender in an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper, saying at the time he had to suppress his femininity for years, comparing himself to an onion and saying it was 'hidden underneath all these layers'
Beck served in the Navy for 20 years and received more than 50 medals and ribbons for his service
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Beck came out as transgender in an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper in 2013, saying at the time that he had to suppress his femininity for years, comparing himself to an onion and saying it was 'hidden underneath all these layers.'
But in December, Beck — who served in the Navy for 20 years and received more than 50 medals and ribbons for his service — denounced his decision.
'Everything you see on CNN with my face, do not even believe a word of it,' he told conservative influencer Robby Starbuck. 'Everything that happened to me the last 10 years destroyed my life, I destroyed
