Report: Teen Dies From Sex Change Surgery Complications During Dutch Study
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A Dutch study conducted in 2016 described the death of an 18-year-old boy who passed away from complications following an elective sex-change surgery.
The 18-year-old boy identified as a female and was placed on puberty blockers during adolescence. Researchers say this extended use of puberty blockers caused post-operation complications. The boy was scheduled to receive a vaginoplasty, a “gender-affirming” surgery that dismantles and reconstructs male genitalia to more closely resemble a female.
A standard “gender-affirming” vaginoplasty procedure has several risks, which are often downplayed and sterilized by the medical community. Because of this, the recipients of “gender-affirming” procedures are often unaware of the severe consequences a medical transition can have and instead are sold on the promise of reducing feelings of gender dysmorphia — which is not often the case.
Researchers described the boy in the study as a “healthy transgender female;” however, a “standard vaginoplasty surgery was ‘not feasible’ due to having undeveloped genitals as a result of early puberty suppression,” the Post Millennial explains.
“Transgender women with early-onset gender dysphoria, treated with puberty suppressing hormones, report fewer behavioral and emotional problems and an improvement of general functioning.”
Dutch Study — Negenborn VL, van der Sluis WB, Meijerink WJHJ, Bouman MB
“Major complications began within 24 hours of surgery,” the Post Millennial reports, “necrotizing fasciitis was confirmed in the days that followed. Despite large doses of intravenous antibiotics and ‘repeated surgical debridement,’ the previously healthy patient went into multiple organ failure and died.”
The report states that the death was caused by an E-Coli strain which likely originated from the patient’s intestines, not the hospital, which confirms the researchers’ assumption that years of puberty-blocking treatments ultimately caused the boy’s death.
The truth is, sex change surgeries are gruesome procedures that tear apart healthy body tissue and destroy bodily functions. Even when the procedure goes as planned, lifelong urological follow-up care is often needed, and stenosis, nerve injury, and infection are all common side effects.
A separate case study recorded a 50-year-old man who “transitioned” in his adult life and underwent a feminine sex change procedure which caused him years of severe pain. After his surgery, he suffered from meatal stenosis and stress incontinence predominating (inability to control the bladder) for multiple years. Eventually, the patient needed to undergo two additional procedures to remove “residual erectile tissue” and insert a “pubo-vaginal sling using autologous rectus sheath.”
In one medical survey conducted by PRS Global Open, researchers asked 30 subjects 21 questions before they underwent male-to-female transition surgeries, and one, three, six, and 12 month post-op follow-ups. In addition to questions regarding quality of life, researchers asked patients to self-report any lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS).
Researchers found that more than half of all patients experienced post-op complications or discomfort, but reveled in the fact that “only 3 patients (10%) considered themselves as unhappy” with the procedure. After the short 12-month period, eight patients reported feeling only “slightly satisfied” with the results of the procedure.
The study did not utilize a large sample size of patients to provide more clear and representative results, and did not follow-up with patients more than one year after their procedures. Many patients — like the 50-year old man who underwent a feminization procedure and suffered effects five years later — do not experience complications within the short timeframe provided by the PRS Global Open survey. While the researchers state that “no [other] reports on patient satisfaction after male-to-female (MTF) sex reassignment surgery exist,” the survey which only scratches the surface, summarizes that the results were “encouraging.” The researchers concluded, “Micturition is a problem after surgery, and patients who consider sex reassignment should be informed about these side effects preoperatively.”
Rather than recommending a less invasive approach to treating gender incongruence, the propagators of gender theory continue to encourage vulnerable patents to undergo life-threatening surgeries with the promise of emotional relief. Of course, the very people encouraging these treatments are the same individuals and organizations turning a profit from the destruction of people’s lives.
