Detransitioned Navy SEAL warns parents about gender reassignment surgery

A Navy SEAL out of menopause is now warning parents against having their children undergo gender-affirming surgery, saying they won’t be given full information before deciding on the radical procedure.

Chris Beck, a retired member of SEAL Team Six who came out as transgender in 2013, argued that parents are left in the dark when children express gender dysphoria.

He cited studies showing that 80 percent of children who express gender dysphoria stop feeling that way once they hit puberty.

Other surveys found that more than half of parents referred to gender therapists said they felt obligated to give their children medical treatment or change their wardrobe.

“You need to start leaving these kids alone,” he told FOX News Tonight host Joey Jones over the weekend. “They’re neutering them. They do these double mastectomies. They hurt children.’

Beck, formerly known as Kristin Beck, came out as transgender in 2013

Beck, formerly known as Kristin Beck, claimed on FOX News Tonight that therapists don’t tell parents that their children would likely grow out of their gender dysphoria.

“So I was in mental health for my degree here at a university where I live, and so I learned all the procedures, I learned all about human development from birth through — to 25 years old, you’re your brain still developing,” he said.

So the thing is, is when you go through this one [gender-affirming] courses, they coach you and they coach you what to say to parents, and they don’t show all the data.’

He said an important fact that therapists don’t share with parents of children with gender dysphoria is that 80 percent “will be rid of all that gender confusion by the time puberty is over.”

Beck also added that puberty blockers are irreversible and can affect fertility in minors.

“If a child is given puberty blockers when they’re 13, 14 or 15 years old, they’re chemically castrated,” he said. “They won’t have children when they get older.

“They don’t get this data.”

“So eight of those kids, out of those ten, will want to go back and just grow old, and they’re not going to be able to.”

Beck came out as transgender in an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, saying he had to suppress his femininity for years at the time, comparing himself to an onion and saying it was “hidden under all these layers”

Beck served in the Navy for 20 years and received more than 50 medals and ribbons for his service

Beck came out as transgender in a 2013 interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, saying he had to suppress his femininity for years at the time, comparing himself to an onion and saying it was “hidden under all these layers.”

But in December, Beck — who served 20 years in the Navy and received more than 50 medals and ribbons for his service — denounced his decision.

“Everything you see on CNN with my face, don’t believe a word of it,” he told conservative influencer Robby Starbuck. “Everything that happened to me in the last 10 years destroyed my life, I destroyed it.

“I’m not a victim,” Beck clarified. “I did this to myself, but I had help.”

He explained that he was “used” and it only took an hour-long meeting with a psychologist to diagnose him as transgender.

“I was very naive, I was in very bad shape and I was taken advantage of,” he told Starbuck.

“I was propagated. I was badly used by many people who had knowledge far beyond me. They knew what they were doing, I didn’t.’

Beck said he’s speaking out now so parents are aware of what their kids could be going through if they’re put on puberty blockers or choose to have sex-affirming surgery.

“Parents, you need to wake up,” he said over the weekend. “Don’t let your kids get into things.

‘It’s better to share all the data. All data.’

Beck now claims that parents are being tricked into giving their children gender-affirming care that cannot be reversed. In March, trans rights protesters are seen outside the Denver Capitol

Grayson McFerrin, 12, Libby Gonzales, 13, Hobbes Chukumba, 16, and Daniel Trujillo, 15, the organizers of the “Trans Youth Prom” pose for a photo before the US Supreme Court last month

In a survey published in April, nearly 52 percent of parents of trans children described “pressure” from the gender clinic or specialist to help their child transition

Parents said by large margins their child’s mental health deteriorated after they began to change socially, meaning changes in wardrobes, styling, names and/or pronouns

In April, a survey among 1,655 parentspublished in the Archives of Sexual Behavior found that more than half of respondents who were referred to gender therapists said they felt pressured to transition their children.

They were part of an online group called Parents of Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria Kids. Rapid onset gender dysphoria is part of a controversial theory that the surge in trans-identifying youth is a social contagion.

Three quarters of the transidentifying children were biological females. Most of them came out as transgender at the same time as friends and seemed to respond to social media cues, the parents said.

“When they turned to their trusted medical professionals for help, they were told to affirm their child’s newly created identity and support their gender exploration, which means supporting them through social, medical and surgical transition,” the group said in a statement to DailyMail. com.

“If these parents express any doubts, or ask that their child’s mental health issues be addressed first, they are being warned that they are doing their child even more emotional harm — and may even drive them to suicide.”

In addition to describing the pressures of gender clinics, they said their children had developed emotional problems an average of four years before expressing a desire to change gender, and that the transition worsened their mental health.

Michael Bailey, a psychology professor at Northwestern University, said respondents “tended to be socially progressive” and expressed support for LGBT issues, but did not believe their adolescent and young adult children were actually transgender.

“Instead, they believe these youth are socially influenced by peers and other cultural factors to adopt a transgender identity,” Bailey told DailyMail.com.

“Parents reported many pre-existing emotional problems for the youngsters — on average, the problems started nearly four years earlier than the gender problems. It is therefore not surprising that many parents were dissatisfied that the gender therapists they had advised were pushing for gender transition.’

Responses were collected between December 2017 and October 2021. Most respondents were mothers and fathers of a trans-identifying child, although some were step-parents, grandparents, or adoptive parents.