Parents beware!
Your son or daughter can transition from male to female or female to male while away at college. You might not know that your child is struggling with gender identity. By the time you find out it may be too late.
My son never showed any signs of gender dysphoria as a child. Once he went away to college, he found a new group of friends, found a therapist that affirmed his feelings of being a woman, and a doctor that wrote him the prescription for hormones (Estradiol). My son signed an “Informed Consent” and received his 90 day supply of hormone therapy. These practices were conducted by the medical staff at Rutgers University.
Parents are usually the ones who are paying the tuition. We have no say if our child wants to transition because the medical staff will tell us the student is an “adult”.
I wrote to the President of Rutgers, Mr. Robert Barchi. I expressed great concern over how a student can easily receive hormone medication and transition while away at school.
Below is a paragraph from the letter I wrote.
Rutgers University has crossed the line by allowing my son to take these harmful drugs while he is away at school. These drugs have been linked to liver damage and an increased risk of cancer. Changing your gender should not be looked at lightly. It involves life-long drug dependency, sterilization, and the possibility of future surgeries. Rutgers should not be in the business of handing out hormone therapy to young, impressionable adults. I understand my son is a legal adult but he is still under the care of his family. Making a drastic physical change to his body could be detrimental to his future. My son cannot comprehend how his employment opportunities will be in serious jeopardy. I sent my child away to college to get an education, not to have a sex change and be a permanent medical patient.
Let me be clear: my son never showed any signs of gender dysphoria as a child. This leads me to believe his gender dysphoria was either brought on by a social contagion or one of his past traumas.
I attached the response I received from Mr. Barchi. It was a boiler plate response. Mr. Barchi is hiding behind a federal and state law regarding confidentiality. I never asked Mr. Barchi to disclose any personal information about my son. The letter I wrote requested Rutgers University re-evalute their procedures for prescribing hormone medication to students. Students who are away from home can be very vulnerable. Students have to deal with a new environment, being away from family and friends. The amount of pressure students are under with their studies can be overwhelming. These additional stresses could easily cause a student to have anxiety.
The college therapist tells me she was NOT REQUIRED to address any underlying issues. How is that possible? It appears that Rutgers has no problems with transitioning students. Rutgers contributes to placing their students on a path of being life long medical patients.
Rutgers will send my son out into the world to find a job when he clearly has issues. It is delusional to allow my son to think he is really a woman. I guess Rutgers political correctness agenda out weighs what is ethical no matter how cruel it is.
Barchi reply
This is a huge problem, and most people are completely unaware that students are being given irreversible treatments with no consideration of underlying mental health issues, and with no regard for the growing evidence of social contagion as a factor in the explosion of “transgender” youth.