Mom unable to stop autistic daughter from having a sex change despite teen having mental age of an 11-year-old

A mother who opposed her autistic daughter's desire for sex change considers the operation "a crime against the disabled" after failing to stop it.

"I am a lone voice in the academic and social work world speaking out against the [transgender] transitioning of autistic people, what I feel to be both a crime against the disabled as well as their sterilization," said Dr. Kathleen Levinstein, as reported by Breitbart News.

Levinstein is a clinical social worker teaching at the University of Michigan as well as the mother of a 19-year-old autistic daughter, whom she named Ruth but is now called Ryan, with a mental age of 11.

Even so, her daughter decided to alter her body so she can finally "become a boy" after changing her mind about being a lesbian. The physical changes included undergoing double mastectomy, growing a beard and mustache, taking massive injections of testosterone to "grow a penis" and amputating her breasts.

Levinstein blames the gender therapist, whom her daughter met with only twice and approved the sex change, because she believes her daughter is not capable of making such decisions. She accused the gender specialist, who she refused to identify, for skipping on the proper procedures of evaluation and not looking into her daughter's medical history which includes Crohn's disease and Sotos syndrome.

The head of the psychiatric department at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Dr. Paul McHugh, sympathizes with the mother and calls transgenderism a mental disorder similar to anorexics.

"Only a counter-force that is science-friendly ... will help turn this [transgender] craze around," McHugh said.

Meanwhile, the American College of Pediatricians considers sex change among children as a form of child abuse. The organization published a statement in March where it posted at least eight reasons to explain why gender ideology is harmful for children.

"A person's belief that he or she is something they are not is, at best, a sign of confused thinking," read the statement on the organization's website.

The health professionals gave more weight to a person's biological identity over any gender perception arguing that "no one is born with a gender" but only biological sex. Gender, they said, is not an objective concept.

They also added, "Conditioning children into believing that a lifetime of chemical and surgical impersonation of the opposite sex is normal and healthful is child abuse."