UNICEF Ignores Parental Consent in Mutilating Surgery for Kids
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The UN agency for children does not have a policy regarding parental consent for giving minors puberty blockers, transgender surgery, and hormonal contraception.
UNICEF has “no position” on whether or not parents should consent or even know if their children are provided “gender-affirming” care and powerful hormonal drugs like puberty blockers and contraception. Lauren Rumble, Associate Director of the UNICEF Gender Equality Programme Group said this speaking to the Friday Fax after an event co-hosted by UNICEF with the United Kingdom titled “What Adolescent Girls Want.”
Rumble was directed to respond to the Friday Fax by Catherine Russell, the director of UNICEF, who spoke at the event.
Just the previous day, the UK’s National Health Service, NHS, announced that it was banning the administration of hormone treatments to minors who experience gender dysphoria because “there is not enough evidence to support the safety or clinical effectiveness” of such drugs. The UK already has a ban on providing transgender surgery for minors.
The Friday Fax asked Rumble if the failure to have a parental notification policy was not against UNICEF’s mandate, which is tied to the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Article 18 of the convention assigns the “primary responsibility for the upbringing and development of the child” to parents and requires States to assist parents in this duty.
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