University of Minnesota Medical School

We have Dr. Tanya Melnick here with us, an internal medicine doctor and director of the mHealth Fairview Adult Post-COVID Clinic.

She's also a clinical associate professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School.

Good morning.

Nice to meet you, Dr. Melnick.

Being based off the same cells which lay the framework for our bodies, teratomas can teach us more about the development process of humans.

That's why teratomas can contain so many sorts of different cell material, and why in 2018, a team of researchers from the University of Minnesota Medical School used animal teratomas to grow skeletal muscles in mice that suffered from muscular dystrophy.

Now, I've said it before and I'll say it again.

Mice aren't people, but it's also an interesting development, one that could grow into its very own The Thing.

And it's also giving kids the opportunity to learn what they want to become.

So if there is a biologically born male that decides he doesn't want to be a male but prefers the female genitalia, learning how to dress and play with these paper dolls, which were created at the University of Minnesota Medical School, in the last six years, then they can go home and tell their mother and father, this is what I want to become.

And they're teaching, training, and educating kids to become aware of the transgender options as early as four.

To me, personally, I'm against it because I think each and every human being is born with the knowledge of who or what they are, and we should develop in time as to what we choose.

Anne Garrity is here, too.

And we're so glad Anne is here because Anne is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Minnesota Medical School.

She is a native of New York and has a doctorate in clinical social work with expertise in trauma.

She's been a therapist for nearly four decades.

And because she could see, the kids could see the people falling.

falling out of the building

Barbara I'm so sorry to interrupt you we just have 20 seconds left here but I want to thank everyone who you know took part in this conversation today because we do have to talk about it and think about it and kind of share this experience to move forward I want to thank our guest today we've been talking with Tim Stout the chief of staff for the civilian staff there at the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office but on 9-11 he was on staff there at the White House thank you for sharing your story Tim I appreciate it and Anne Garrity, who is there at the University of Minnesota Medical School, where she's an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.

This conversation was produced by Maya Beckstrom.