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Thousands of sex-change operations were performed on trans-identified minors from 2019-2023 in the United States as several states have worked to prohibit the life-altering procedures, a new database shows.Do No Harm, which describes itself as a coalition of "physicians, nurses, medical students, patients, and policymakers focused on keeping identity politics out of medical education, research, and clinical practice," unveiled a new database documenting the incidence of gender transition procedures on minors with gender dysphoria Tuesday.The advocacy group found that a total of 13,994 minors underwent some form of "sex-change treatment" from 2019-2023, while a total of 5,747 sex-change surgeries were...

Taxpayers in Pennsylvania were billed more than $2.5 million via Medicaid to pay for “irreversible sex change interventions” on children between 2019 and 2023, according to the organization Do No Harm.The Philly Leader reported that Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania (CHOP) and UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh were both named to Do No Harm’s “Dirty Dozen” list, consisting of the “12 worst offending children’s hospitals promoting sex change treatments for minors.”The Stop the Harm database, which is a project of Do No Harm, reported that hospitals in the Keystone State saw 822 minors who were “sex change patients” including 316 surgery...

A report from the medical watchdog group Do No Harm shows that hospitals in the U.S. earned nearly $120 million in four years performing gender transition treatments on nearly 14,000 children under the age of 18 from 2019 to 2023.

As Madeline covered on Tuesday, Do No Harm, a healthcare watchdog, published a first-of-its-kind database exposing the major U.S. hospitals and their physicians that perform bodily mutilation procedures on minors and prescribe them chemically castrating drugs in the name of so-called "gender affirmation."Researchers at Do No Harm aggregated and analyzed thousands of insurance claims from across all 50 states, matching procedures and prescriptions with gender-related diagnostic codes to confirm cases of medical "transitioning." The shocking statistics revealed that nearly 14,000 children in the U.S. underwent some sort of "sex-change" medical intervention between 2019 and 2023, such as surgeries, puberty blockers,...

Much of the scrutiny on so-called gender affirming care in the U.S. was made possible by the American medical establishment's own public recordings of practitioners candidly discussing the gruesome and lucrative nature of surgeries, hormone therapy and the lifelong medical management they require, and how to overcome parental opposition to child transitions. Perhaps the most oft-cited authority promoting puberty blockers, which the Food and Drug Administration has known increase suicidality since 2017, belatedly ensured a vocal critic of the organization couldn't get further ammunition to stir up trouble at its annual conference last week in Orlando, where the featured speaker...

Fraud is a permanent part of life. There will always be people who seek illicit advantage by representing themselves as something they are not or promising to do something they don’t intend to do. No area of human life is immune: Financiers, doctors, teachers, car mechanics, plumbers, bridegrooms—there will always be frauds among them. So it’s puzzling when we are told that there is one area of human life where fraud can’t exist.Transgender activists tell us that if a man says he is a woman, we absolutely must believe him - always, without exception. Let’s be clear about what this...

Erin Brewer started identifying as a boy after she was sexually assaulted at the age of 6, which led to feelings of self-loathing that eventually resulted in her turning to pornography before she found peace through God and accepted His unending love. After the assault, Brewer wore her brother’s hand-me-downs and cut her hair short, thinking that if she were a boy, the violation would never have happened. Brewer’s dissociation from her own body often manifested in a strong sense of rage, and she would do things like beat her head with a brush when she saw herself in the...

CV NEWSFEED // California took custody of a Christian widow’s 14-year-old daughter to facilitate a “gender transition” against the mother’s will. In an interview with The Daily Signal, the mom detailed her and her daughter’s struggle with the state and with gender ideology. The widowed mother refused to let her teenage daughter make irreversible changes to her body, according to the story published by the Signal over the weekend. Due to her refusal, the state took custody of the child, placed her in foster care, and accused the parent of emotional abuse. The mother, who asked to remain anonymous, recounted...

A federal appeals court rejected an appeal by pro-transgender advocates, allowing Alabama to keep protecting children and youths from transgender advocates. The good news was matched by other events in Texas, Virginia, and Missouri where judges and university officials rejected demands from transgender advocates seeking to minimize the public’s recognition of the two male and female sexes. The United States 11th Circuit Court of Appeals released a divided 173-page decision in which ten out of 11 judges took part, according to the Alabama Reflector. In the decision from the court, there were five dissenting opinions and a concurrence written by...

A U.S. House Committee has launched a probe of the Biden-Harris administration after reports that the White House pressured the World Professional Association of Transgender Health, a leading professional nonprofit association, to remove the age limits for transgender surgeries and drugs for minors. Rep. Lisa McClain, R-Mich., chair of the Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services, sent a letter to HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra opening the probe, which requests all documentation and communication around the alleged “political interference” and whether HHS has pressured other medical groups to alter its guidance. Critics have raised concerns that those surgeries, which do...

A U.S. House Committee has launched a probe of the Biden-Harris administration after reports that the White House pressured the World Professional Association of Transgender Health, a leading professional nonprofit association, to remove the age limits for transgender surgeries and drugs for minors. Rep. Lisa McClain, R-Mich., chair of the Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services, sent a letter to HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra opening the probe, which requests all documentation and communication around the alleged “political interference” and whether HHS has pressured other medical groups to alter its guidance. Critics have raised concerns that those surgeries, which...

An appeals court panel has ruled that Florida can enforce a state law prohibiting doctors from performing cosmetic sex change surgeries or prescribing puberty blockers to minors younger than 18.In a 2-1 ruling issued Monday, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit decided to allow a Florida law passed in May 2023 to take effect as litigation continues.The majority concluded that they “believe the defendants have made a strong showing that they are likely to succeed on the merits,” reversing a lower court decision against the law.The panel majority rejected the claim that...

“Never again” wasn’t supposed to be just some throw-away virtue-signaling statement, but a sobering and intentional commitment to ensuring that the human experimentation, and crimes against humanity seen under the authority of the Third Reich, never again had to be written about in history books—but apparently only *some* of us got the memo. This week, the Manhattan Institute released a new report that detailed some very sickening findings: “Trans” surgeries are being performed on children under the age of 12, with hundreds of little girls already sacrificed on the agenda’s altar. . From a Fox News item by Melissa Rudy...

Hundreds of girls aged 12 and under have had 'top surgery' to remove their breasts in the US since 2017, data suggests. And more than 6,000 girls aged 13 to 18 had the 'gender-affirming' surgeries in that time, according to an analysis seen by DailyMail.com. High profile Democrats, including Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, had previously claimed sex change surgeries 'don't happen' on children. Researchers at the conservative Manhattan Institute think-tank carried out what they call the biggest ever analysis of transgender care for minors, reviewing more than 4 billion insurance claims from 155 million people between 2017 and 2023. Overall,...

This is appalling and so incredibly sad. The @ManhattanInst and @LeorSapir report: Based on national insurance database that from 2017-2023, there were 5,288 to 6,294 gender-transition double mastectomies in minors in the US. This includes 50-179 children who were 12.5 or younger at the time of the surgery. State bans… pic.twitter.com/axDGnkeOrx — Benjamin Ryan (@benryanwriter) August 12, 2024 This means thousands of young girls had perfectly health breasts removed, forever altering their bodies and their lives. What happens if they decide they're not trans? That happens not infrequently. Where do they go to get their bodies back? This is abhorrent....

A Colorado couple has sued a school and state officials after a counselor helped their 14-year-old daughter become a boy in class while keeping them in the dark. The parents, who are called John and Jane Doe in court papers, say Brighton High School, in the Denver suburbs, helped the anxious and depressed teen transition without notifying them. A counselor even connected the girl to a therapist, who was themselves trans, and suggested the girl take cross-sex hormones and have her breasts surgically removed.

For Cristina Hineman, the situation felt urgent: the 17-year-old needed treatment at Planned Parenthood, where she knew she wouldn’t be subjected to humiliating questions, or an unnecessary waiting period, or lectures, or prying about her certainty. But it wasn’t an abortion she sought. It was testosterone. Planned Parenthood was founded a century ago to promote birth control. Today, its nearly 600 clinics nationwide make it the largest single provider of abortion, contraception, reproductive care, and sex education in the U.S. It has also, in less than a decade, become the country’s leading provider of gender transition hormones for young adults,...

A 20-year-old woman has accused Planned Parenthood of rushing her into a gender transition when she was 18, leaving her with lifelong side effects. Cristina Hineman has filed a lawsuit against Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest single provider of abortion, contraception, reproductive care, and sex education. The organization has in recent years also become a leading provider of gender transition hormones for young adults, offering the service at more than 400 locations. At least 40,000 patients have gone to Planned Parenthood for hormone treatment this year. Hineman claims she was given a prescription for testosterone following a 30-minute consultation with...

In 2014, Susan Stryker, an MTF transgender Professor Emerita of Gender and Women’s Studies from the University of Arizona, published an essay entitled “My Words to Victor Frankenstein above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage.”* In it, Stryker declares, “I am a transsexual, and therefore I am a monster.” Stryker, identifies with the monster in Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein, whose war against his maker leaves a trail of carnage and death. Stryker seeks to detonate his “rage and revenge” against “the naturalized heterosexual order,” against “traditional family values,” and against the “hegemonic oppression” of God’s creation by sabotaging...

This is Part 2 of a multi-part investigative series.Part 1 investigated the Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League (SMYAL)'s trail of government grants, leading to SMYAL's taxpayer-funded LGBTQ youth program aimed at influencing kids as young as six-years-old to identify as "transgender." This sequel follows the next (un)natural step in childhood "gender-transitioning," providing a raw and intimately close peek under the hood of pediatric "gender care." Meet the physicians who practice it, the parents who willfully sacrifice their children on the altar of gender ideology, and the activists who marshal them there.WASHINGTON, DC — Pro tip: When medically mutilating your young...