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The Department of Health and Human Services released a 400-page report today titled "Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria." The report only addresses treatment for those 18 and under and appears to follow the UK's Cass Review in recommending more therapy for children and less use of medical intervention, such as puberty blockers and hormones.The 409-page Health and Human Services report questions standards for the treatment of transgender youth issued by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health and is likely to be used to bolster the government’s abrupt shift in how to care for a subset of the population that...

As Planned Parenthood has expanded its so-called “gender-affirming care” over the past decade, detransitioners who obtained hormones from the corporation have publicly repudiated Planned Parenthood’s dangerous transgender practices. Planned Parenthood disproportionately targets young people aged 18-22 with its so-called “gender affirming care.” As can be observed by reading stories of detransitioners, most describe having been vulnerable and even struggling with mental illness when they sought “treatment” for gender dysphoria from Planned Parenthood. The cross-sex hormones left some of them with permanent issues. Though the number of people negatively affected by Planned Parenthood’s “gender affirming care” will never be known, some...

Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee grilled whistleblower Dr. Eithan Haim this week over his criticism of transgender medical treatments, months after the Biden Justice Department dropped criminal charges against him. During a Wednesday hearing titled "Ending Lawfare Against Whistleblowers Who Protect Children," Haim defended his decision to leak documents to the media, revealing that Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston performed transgender medical procedures on minors through May 2023. "I wouldn't want this to be done to anyone, not even liberals, even if they're the craziest communists ever," Haim said during the hearing. "There's no one in this country who...

Two bills that would strengthen protections for transgender people and gender-affirming care won preliminary approval in the Colorado House on Friday. They come as transgender rights and protections are put on shaky ground at the federal level under the Trump administration, which has issued orders to recognize only two unchangeable genders, stop offering non-binary passport gender markers, and attempts to stop funding care for transgender minors.

Democrats in CO are now pushing bill HB25-1312 which would take “misgendering” & “deadnaming” into account during custody hearings. Colorado father gagged for refusing to let his 13-year old son be sterilized. For that, Colorado courts stripped him of his parental rights - banning him from even talking to his child about gender, medical treatment, or the court case. "I haven't slept well forever... I'm afraid for my child."

Detransitioners’ lawsuits against the medical systems that hurt them could finally undo the industry’s embrace of transgenderism.Gender ideology is unraveling. It’s fraud all the way down. There is no good evidence that “transitioning” helps anyone, especially children. And people are realizing that the entire premise — that a boy can somehow be born into a female body, or vice versa — is superstitious nonsense. Indeed, transgender ideology is so insane that the coalition against it ranges from conservative Christians to lesbian feminists. Transgender ideology has many enemies, but the most effective are those who have been victimized by wrongly named...

It’s been eight years since I started to transition—and four years since I started to detransition. I realized my mistake when I was 16 years old. I’d tried to change genders before I was even a teenager... This week Texas Rep. Dan Crenshaw will introduce a bill to protect kids from being forced down the dark road of gender transitioning... A huge number of US hospitals perpetrate this medical and moral monstrosity — 54, according to the medical nonprofit Do No Harm. Those hospitals gave nearly 14,000 sex-change treatments to kids between 2019 and 2023. More than 5,700 of those...

Let’s revisit the tumultuous second half of 2021. Dementia-addled President Joe Biden executed a disastrous retreat from Afghanistan in August that resulted in the killing of thirteen servicemembers. Having spectacularly failed America’s warfighters, he transitioned quickly to the ongoing “fight against COVID.” No cost was too great or burden too onerous in the federal government’s war against microscopic organisms. Billions were funneled to pharmaceutical companies (aka Democrat Party donors) to pay for witch doctors’ experimental elixirs. Billions more were funneled to “news” platforms and “non-governmental” organizations (all on the USAID dole) to push the White House’s preferred COVID narratives and...

On Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Lauren King issued a preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration's executive order banning funding for hospitals that provide gender-affirming treatments to transgender youth. The order applies to the states of Washington, Oregon, Minnesota and Colorado. Newsweek contacted the White House press office for comment on Saturday via email outside of regular office hours. Why It Matters Since returning to the White House on January 20, President Donald Trump has signed a slew of executive orders impacting on transgender rights, which his supporters claim muddy the biological difference between males and females and are a...

On Jan. 28, when I read the executive order from the White House: PROTECTING CHILDREN FROM CHEMICAL AND SURGICAL MUTILATION, I was shocked. Mutilation. That word, it stung. I panicked. I contacted our child’s gender clinic doctor and learned that they were already fighting to keep their doors open.

He’s been on this journey for four years. Once a week, the 17-year-old transgender boy injects testosterone into his body. He’s already frozen his eggs in case he wants to have his own biological children one day. He’s talked with his parents, his psychologist, and says he knew he was ready. For this teen, the next logical step was almost here: surgery to remove the breast tissue he was born with. “Getting this treatment isn’t fixing something that’s wrong with me,” says the teen, who lives in the Chicago suburbs and asked that his name not be used to protect...

Former top pandemic health official Dr. Deborah Birx has made the startling admission that Covid mRNA “vaccines” were only developed as a desperate measure for vulnerable citizens and were never meant to be widely distributed among the population. Dr. Birx, who served as White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator in President Donald Trump’s first administration, also revealed that the injections were not “designed” to protect against COVID-19 infection. The former top health official made the confession during a recent appearance on Piers Morgan Uncensored. She stated that the mRNA injections were developed to target those at high risk of severe illness....

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson 🚨BREAKING: Judge Brendan Hurson, appointed by Biden, has blocked President Trump’s ban on transgender surgeries for minors. These people are sick. From Nick Sortor 3:04 PM · Feb 13, 2025

... on current minor patients even after Trump issued an EO banning funding for "gender-affirming care" on minors. They should be stripped of their funding immediately.

A 2020 STAT analysis found more than two-thirds of Congress receiving a check from pharmaceutical companies that year. More recent data from Open Secrets likewise confirms that a large majority of leaders serving in the U.S. Congress and Senate receive significant contributions from pharmaceutical or health products companies, averaging $45,000 and $47,000 for Republicans and Democrats in the House of Representatives, respectively — and $50,000 and $69,000 for Republicans and Democrats in the Senate.

A Los Angeles health clinic says it’s losing federal funding as a result of President Donald Trump’s executive orders targeting transgender people. St. John’s Community Health, one of the largest free and reduced-cost providers in Los Angeles, reported that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday terminated a $1.6 million grant that was supposed to support its transgender health and social services program.

Following President Donald Trump’s executive order protecting children from irreversible gender procedures, hospitals across the country have started canceling appointments or ceasing their transgender programs for children.“It’s already having its intended effect — preventing children from being maimed and sterilized by adults perpetuating a radical, false claim that they can somehow change a child’s sex,” the White House said in a Monday release. “Hospitals around the country are taking action to downsize or eliminate their so-called ‘gender-affirming care’ programs.”“President Trump will always protect American children,” the White House added. “Promises made, promises kept – again.”In New York, NYU Langone Health...

Oregon Health & Science University, one of the country’s leading providers of gender-affirming care for transgender people, says it expects no interruption in those services despite a recent federal order aiming to limit such treatments — for now, at least. . . . . The institution’s Transgender Health Program provides a range of gender-affirming medical services, including hormone therapy and surgery, and serves more than 6,000 adult and pediatric patients.“As of now, nothing has changed about the care OHSU provides,” Sara Hottman, a spokesperson for the university, wrote in an email. “OHSU is evaluating the potential impacts of the executive...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation hearings for Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) have seen some of some of the harshest questioning of any of President Trump’s cabinet nominees by D.C. hardliners. One upside to the acrimony is that Kennedy’s harshest critics and defenders of the status quo are now being publicly revealed as the lawmakers to whom the pharmaceutical industry has donated the most money. A Midwestern Doctor @MidwesternDoc The hostility @RobertKennedyJr experienced at his hearing was directly proportional to how much Pharma money each Senator received. In fact, each of them simply repeated the same attacks we...

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) introduced a bill Wednesday to allow children harmed by transgender procedures to sue the doctors and hospitals that carried out the operations.Hawley’s bill would enable individuals to sue the pediatric gender clinics and doctors who gave them cross-sex hormones or performed transgender surgery on them as minors. The legislation comes after President Donald Trump signed an executive order blocking federal funding for any hospital that performs such procedures. “Our children should no longer suffer from irreversible and dangerous child mutilation procedures, which the Biden administration enabled and promoted,” Hawley said. “I welcome President Trump’s strong action...