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Last week, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, a Republican, vetoed a measure that would have barred minors from receiving harmful transgender interventions such as puberty blockers and wrong-sex hormones. Amid intense backlash, he’s since tried to run damage control, signing an executive order on Friday that bans only trans surgeries for minors. We hope Ohio Republicans still override DeWine’s veto. There’s more going on behind the scenes of the medical establishment, however, especially as it relates to the “gender dysphoria” diagnosis. Gender dysphoria must be addressed in conjunction with contributing factors, such as adverse childhood experiences, but instead licensed clinicians rush...

90% of the COVID deaths in hospitals were attributed to COVID treatment protocols. ICU doc estimated up to an 80% increase in mortality due to the COVID vaccine... My interview with former Kaiser Permanente Santa Rosa nurse Gail Macrae is the single most devastating interview I’ve done since I first started speaking out against the COVID vaccine in May 2021. Key points of the interview include: Hospitals were actually empty when the press told us they were full. 90% or more of the COVID deaths were actually caused by the treatment protocols dictated from above, not the virus. There were...

Earlier this week, Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine vetoed legislation that would prevent gender transitioning procedures for minors as well as ban biological males from girls' sports teams. The state legislature has the votes to override the veto, but the mainstream media was quick to pick up on DeWine vetoing the "anti-trans" legislation: BREAKING: Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, a Republican, has vetoed a bill that would have banned transgender minors from receiving gender-affirming care and prevented transgender girls from taking part in girls' and women's sports. pic.twitter.com/1qIp3PzOXv — ABC News (@ABC) December 29, 2023 Pedro L. Gonzalez posted a lengthy...

Drug maker Abbvie recently won a court case in which they sued Takeda Pharmaceutical, the company responsible for the production of their drug Lupron. In the case, Abbvie alleges that Takeda created a shortage of the drug by intermittently shutting down one of its plants. A judge found that Takeda Takeda was in breach of its contract with Abbvie and has ordered the to pay most of the $480.6 million it sought. Lupron may sound familiar to you because it has been at the center of the debate art whether or not children should be allowed to suppress puberty to...

A transgender 10-year-old girl in Ohio has described her concern at her state's bid to block access to gender-affirming care for minors. On Friday, Ohio's governor, Mike DeWine, a Republican, will announce his decision on whether to ban the treatments. DeWine had 10 days to make a decision on the bill, House Bill 68, that was approved by the Ohio House and Senate earlier this month. Astrid Burkle told ABC News, in an interview with her family, that she was angry at the 'mean' people who sought to prevent the treatments. Her mother, Alicia Burkle, said that while her daughter...

United States District Judge for the District of Idaho, B. Lynn Winmill, has granted a motion for preliminary injunction to block the January 1, 2024 implementation of House Bill 71, which was signed into law following the 2023 Idaho Legislative session. HB71, also called the Vulnerable Child Protection Act, was written by the Idaho Family Policy Center and sponsored by Representative Bruce Skaug. The legislation was written to stop hormone changing drugs, puberty blocking drugs, and sex-change surgeries from being prescribed for minor children in Idaho for the reasons of ‘gender dysphoria’ and transitioning children from their birth sex to...

An Idaho law passed this year that bans gender-affirming care for minors will not go into effect on Jan. 1, as planned. A federal judge on Tuesday granted a preliminary injunction on the lawsuit against the ban. House Bill 71, "The Vulnerable Child Protective Act" was signed into Idaho law in April. It outlaws gender-affirming care for transgender minors; including puberty blockers, hormones and surgeries. The law finds any doctor that provides gender-transition care guilty of a felony, punishable by up to 10 years of prison time. After the law was signed, a lawsuit was filed against the state on...

A group of 3,000 doctors and medical professionals is suing the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) over a mandate that broadens the term "sex" in federal civil rights statutes to include "gender identity" and "sexual orientation." The group argues that the rule, among other things, forces physicians who see Medicaid patients or receive federal funding to provide "gender-affirming" care to children who want to transition to the opposite sex. This includes prescribing hormone treatments and puberty blockers and performing surgery such as removing girls' breasts. The doctors challenging the rule say it will force them to provide...

Planned Parenthood has seen its transgender treatments business soar in recent years as demand for the life-altering services skyrockets across the country. The transgender medical business has become increasingly lucrative as it swells into a multi-billion dollar industry. According to data published by the organization’s regional branches, Planned Parenthood has seen a major boom in demand for transgender treatments, many of which create patients/customers for life. Planned Parenthood first began providing hormone treatments for transgender patients in 2005. Since then, 41 out of 49 regional branches have provided transgender services as of 2022. However, in just the last three years,...

Search... Consequences: Detransition Lawsuits Threaten 'Booming' Gender-Transition Business Amy Cur Twitchy has covered the Left's ongoing battle to 'transition' children who, according to Rachel Levine might be 'going through the wrong puberty' or otherwise 'identify' as a different gender. Many, many voices have warned that transition is not as reversible (link) or inconsequential as the Left claims (link), and not something we should be doing to minors (places like the UK's NHS have also made some changes to transitioning of kids). And now, the lawsuits begin. People who are detransitioning are suing the providers who transitioned them in the first...

The transgender movement is pressing its agenda everywhere. Most publicly, activist teachers are using classrooms to propagandize on its behalf and activist health professionals are promoting the mutilation of children under the euphemistic banner of "gender-affirmative care." The sudden and pervasive rise of this movement provokes two questions: where did it come from, and how has it proved so successful? The story goes deeper than most Americans know.

PUBLIC DISCOURSE — When a child says he is transgender, we are expected nowadays to accept and celebrate this announcement. But there are many parents who are not celebrating. They are suffering in silence. They know their children were not born in the wrong bodies and that hormones and surgeries are not the answers to their discomfort and confusion. Their stories are heartbreaking. Here is one, in her own words. My daughter, at age fourteen, spontaneously decided that she is actually a male. After suffering multiple traumatic events in her life and spending a large amount of time on the...

A 23-year-old woman who had her uterus and breasts removed at UW Hospital after a self-diagnosis of gender dysphoria that she said was not confirmed by a doctor is suing the hospital and two UW surgeons, alleging they operated on her without proper informed consent. Dr. Jay Lick performed a hysterectomy when the patient was 19, and Dr. Katherine Gast did a double mastectomy when she was 21, as gender-affirming procedures at the hospital, according to the lawsuit filed Wednesday in Dane County Circuit Court. The patient, who lives in Chicago, identified as lesbian, explored if she was transgender and...

I’ve written about Dr. Riittakerttu Kaltiala before. She was one of the leading doctors who dealt with pediatric gender identity patients in Finland and recently she’s become a critic of the model known as gender-affirming care. Monday, the Free Press published a lengthy essay by Dr. Kaltiala in which she outlines her personal involvement in this issue and what she believes about it now.Her story really starts in 2011 when a group of Dutch doctors published a paper arguing that teens (primarily males) could be given hormones to prevent puberty and allow them to pass more easily as women. This...

The transgender movement is pressing its agenda everywhere. Most publicly, activist teachers are using classrooms to propagandize on its behalf and activist health professionals are promoting the mutilation of children under the euphemistic banner of “gender-affirming care.” The sudden and pervasive rise of this movement provokes two questions: where did it come from, and how has it proved so successful? The story goes deeper than most Americans know. In the late 1980s, a group of academics, including Judith Butler, Gayle Rubin, Sandy Stone, and Susan Stryker, established the disciplines of “queer theory” and “transgender studies.” These academics believed gender to...

Dr. Riittakerttu Kaltiala, 58, is a Finnish-born and trained adolescent psychiatrist, the chief psychiatrist in the department of adolescent psychiatry at Finland’s Tampere University Hospital. She treats patients, teaches medical students, and conducts research in her field—publishing more than 230 scientific articles. In 2011, Dr. Kaltiala was assigned a new responsibility. She was to oversee the establishment of a gender identity service for minors, making her among the first physicians in the world to head a clinic devoted to the treatment of gender-distressed young people. Since then, she has personally participated in the assessments of more than 500 such adolescents....

According to an analysis, published this month in the International Journal of Vaccine Theory, Practice, and Research, of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial data, the vaccine makers hid fatality data from regulators in order to qualify for Emergency Use Authorization Pfizer-BioNTech delayed reporting vaccine-associated deaths among BNT162b2 clinical trial participants until after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for the product. The vaccine makers also failed to account for a large number of subjects who dropped out of the trial. Together, these strategies kept regulators and the public ignorant of a 3.7-fold increase...

— A startling study reports that many state medical boards are doing a "dangerously lax job"The consumer advocacy group Public Citizen recently published a reportopens in a new tab or window that ranked states by their rate of serious disciplinary actions from 2019 to 2021, as reported by the federal National Practitioner Data Bank. In this video, healthcare marketing consultant Ron Harman King, JD, MS, discusses the analysis. Following is a transcript of his remarks: Among the recent healthcare news headlines is a startling report by the consumer advocacy group Public Citizenopens in a new tab or window that state...

Chris Moritz told Carlson that the total valuation of the ‘gender transition’ industry jumped to more than $4 billion in 2022 is predicted to top $7 billion by 2030. (LifeSiteNews) — Tucker Carlson has blown the lid off what he and his most recent “Tucker on X” guest are calling “Trans, Inc.,” the multi-billion dollar industry that is reaping profits off dangerous surgeries and experimental drugs for gender-confused minors and adults. Carlson welcomed Chris Moritz to talk about the situation Wednesday evening, as Moritz says he has conducted an in-depth study on the matter. Elon Musk re-posted Carlson’s episode to...

A third of trans children treated with puberty blockers had their mental health deteriorate while on the medication, a new analysis of a landmark study reveals. The original study found that 44 children, aged 12 to 15, who took the controversial drugs experienced no change — good or bad — to their mental health. This report, produced by experts from the NHS's Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) at Tavistock and University College London Hospitals (UCLH) in 2021 eventually led to a lowering of the age children could access puberty blockers. But a fresh analysis of the data used in the...