Seattle Health Clinic Offers Gender-Affirming Medications to Minors as Young as 11
A health clinic associated with a Seattle Middle school is providing free “gender-reassignment” care to children as young as 11 years old.
Meany Health Center, located at Meany Middle School by independently operated, is extending medical and behavioral health services to enrolled students of Seattle Public Schools at no charge. Among the medical offerings available to students are vaccines, reproductive care management, and the broadly-defined service of “gender-affirming care.”
The nonprofit organization overseeing Meany Health Center, Country Doctor Community Health Centers (CDCHC), clarifies that their definition of gender-affirming care encompasses medications such as estrogen, testosterone, and puberty blockers.
The Health Center dictates that students must have a permission form signed by a parent or guardian to obtain medication. However, students do not need parental consent for services such as birth control or abortion services.
CDCHC has a long history of being a radical organization. The non-profit was partly founded by The Carolyn Downs Center, a center founded by the Seattle Black Panther Party in 1970. The CDCHC was also founded by a progressive militant group known as the Seattle Liberation Front.
Seattle continues to be in the spotlight for its unethical policies regarding transgender youth. Recently, a religious summer camp in the city faced widespread criticism for its decision not to inform parents if their child identifies as transgender. Additionally, Washington Governor Jay Inslee signed a law that permits shelters to withhold information about housing runaway children who have left home for sex change procedures against their parent’s wishes.
Washington State and the institutions that inhabit it have made clear that they do not want to promote the traditional family values that millions of Americans across the country practice. Young parents who are raising their children in the state must be very careful about what institutions they should trust.
