For years, parents who questioned the gender-medicine industry were told to sit down and trust the experts. Here is one of those experts. Dr. Bryan Sack — the pediatric urologist who once dismissed a teenage boy’s alarming reaction to puberty blockers — has been charged with six felony counts of possessing child sexual abuse material, the Western Journal reports, citing reporting from the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Sack was working at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Toledo, Ohio, when he was arrested; the hospital fired him the moment it learned of the charges. According to the criminal complaint, investigators executing a search warrant on his Michigan home found multiple nude images of prepubescent girls in sexually suggestive poses tied to an email and screen name associated with Sack. He pleaded not guilty at an early-June arraignment to federal charges of receiving and possessing child pornography depicting a minor under the age of 12.
The detail surfaced because of a young man named Jonni Skinner. Skinner says he first saw Sack in 2018, at age 15, after a gender clinic put him on transition drugs including the puberty blocker Histrelin. What followed, by his account, was a nightmare: “strawberry colored” urine flecked with skin, urinary accidents, hot flashes, night sweats, genital pain, and full-body cramps.
When Skinner and his mother asked the doctor whether the drugs were causing the damage, the answer was a flat no. “Dr. Sack insisted the answer was no,” Skinner recalled in a sworn declaration. “He said that these drugs had been used for decades.” Instead of connecting the symptoms to the blockers, Sack wrote in the chart that the boy’s problems were “secondary to dysfunctional social voiding,” referred to his male patient with female pronouns, and the resulting diagnosis was used to push the boy toward the girls’ bathroom at school. Skinner had the implant removed in late 2018. Within months, he stopped urinating blood.
Skinner laid all of this out in a declaration filed this week as part of the Federal Trade Commission’s lawsuit against the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, joined by Alaska, Iowa, Nebraska, and Texas. He has also testified before the California Senate, telling lawmakers the drugs “poisoned my body … arresting my puberty and messing with my development.”
Let that sink in. The same authority figure who waved off a child’s bleeding as a behavioral quirk, who overrode a worried mother, who lectured a family that these drugs were safe and time-tested, now stands accused of collecting images of the very children everyone kept insisting he was there to protect. The charges are still allegations, and Sack is entitled to his day in court. But for every parent who was smeared as a bigot for asking one careful question, this is a window into exactly the kind of “expert” they were ordered to obey.
Source: westernjournal.com