Elliot Page is terribly wrong about gender surgery and hormones for minors

Late last month, NYU Lagone Hospital joined Mt.Sinai, agreeing to end gender care for minors under pressure from the Trump administration.It was good news, but don’t tell that to wacky trans actor Elliot Page, who joined protesters outside the hospital and declared the outcome was the result of “bigoted politics.”“Is this the kind of country we want to live in?” asked Page in an instagram video from the scene.That’s an excellent question.Why yes, Elliot.

I do want to live in this kind of country.I want to live in a country that puts firm safeguards in place for vulnerable, gender confused children.I want to live in a country that thinks twice about indulging the whims of a minor swept up in a mental health crisis — and promised by activists that their life will be perfect if only they can change everything about themself.We do not let children lead, just as we do not let them drive, vote, drink alcohol or get tattoos.We protect them.Page can carry on and pretend that United States is some sort of big, bad, mean outlier in the rest of the Western world when it comes to treating children with gender dysmorphia.But it’s just another bad performance.We lagged behind many European countries that pumped the brakes on medicalizing distressed children.

That includes the United Kingdom, which banned puberty blockers in 2024 after the Cass Review found that clinical guidelines were built on shaky evidence.Like many activists, Page tries to make it sound gentle and kind by referring to it as “gender affirming care.” But there is nothing gentle or healthy about pumping minors full of puberty blocks, cross sex hormones or cutting off healthy body parts.These medications can lead to sterilization, the loss of sexual function and many other complications.Young people simply aren’t capable of consenting nor even comprehending such a life altering decision at that tender age.Still, Page insists that it is “necessary, backed by science, and supported by eve...