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Massachusetts hospital offers sex-change treatment for children May 05, 2008

A Massachusetts hospital for children is providing hormone treatment for young people who wish to change their gender identity, reveals an article in the Anchor, the newspaper of the Fall River, Massachusetts, diocese.

The "Gender Management Service Clinic" at Children's Hospital in Boston offers treatment for young people who have "no known anatomic or biochemical disorder who feel like a member of the opposite sex." The clinic treats children as young as 10 years old, reports Gail Besse for the Anchor.

The program at Children's Hospital, which advertises itself as "unique in the Western hemisphere," provides hormone treatment as the first step in gender-reassignment. Young people may then undergo surgery elsewhere to alter their genital organs.

"This is cooperating with psychosis," Father Anthony Mastroeni, a New Jersey priest who has studied sex-change surgery, told the Anchor.