Texas taxpayers are funding doctors that are providing harmful experimental sex change services to minor children. The GENder Education and Care Interdisciplinary Support (GENECIS) Program at Children’s Health in Dallas was the first so-called “gender clinic” for children in the Southwest United States. GENECIS provides “feminizing therapy, masculinizing therapy, menstruation suppression, and puberty suppression therapy” for kids. The clinic also provides referrals for sterilizing sex change surgeries.
The clinic is staffed by, among others, Ximena Lopez, M.D., Pediatric Endocrinologist and Director of the GENECIS Program, Jason Jarin, M.D., Pediatric Gynecologist, May Chi Lau, M.D., Meredith Chapman, M.D., Pediatric Psychiatrist, Director of Mental Health Services – GENECIS Program, and Laura Kuper, Ph.D, Clinical Psychologist.
Based on the Texas Tribune’s Government Salaries Explorer:
Dr. Lopez is an assistant professor at the state’s UT Southwestern Medical Center and makes $150,000.
Dr. Jarin is an assistant professor at the state’s UT Southwestern Medical Center and makes $190,000.
Dr. Lau is an assistant professor at the state’s UT Southwestern Medical Center and makes $145,200.
Dr. Chapman is an associate professor at the state’s UT Southwestern Medical Center and makes $214,000.
In 2017, the state allocated $188 million to UT Southwestern Medical Center. Texas taxpayers pay doctors who are providing harmful experimental sex change services to kids. GENECIS admits the dangerous effects of “feminizing therapy” and links to information stating, “Taking estrogen increases the risk of blood clots, which can result in clots traveling to the lungs; or clots may go to the brain causing strokes or the heart leading to and heart attacks. Taking estrogen can increase the risk for diabetes, heart disease and high blood pressure.” Another page warns of the “masculinizing therapy” effects of testosterone, “The major risks include concerns about heart health as testosterone is associated with earlier heart disease and a less favorable cholesterol profile.”
Regarding whether testosterone causes infertility in females, GENECIS information advises, “The effects of testosterone on fertility (the ability of an egg to get fertilized by a sperm or to carry a pregnancy) are not fully predictable.” Regarding whether estrogen causes infertility in males, GENECIS information advises the testes will “shrink to half the initial size” and that “sperm may no longer reach maturity.”
GENECIS is the same clinic mentioned in the tragic story of a six year-old Texas boy named James – whose mother recently made him the focus of national media attention. She has charged the father with child abuse for not affirming the boy is a girl. In the divorce proceedings, she is also seeking to require the father to pay for the boy’s transgender treatments which may include hormonal sterilization starting at age 8.
Because Texas does not yet have laws in place prohibiting these unproven and experimental services from being provided to children, Texas taxpayers are subsidizing child abuse. Texas needs to quickly take action to pass a law prohibiting the provision of gender and sex change services to minors and defunding doctors, clinics and organizations that provide such services.