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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...

... 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.

California has long been the most insurrectionist of the states. Some states promised sanctuary to illegal aliens. California promises to go after law enforcement if they follow the law and cooperate with federal immigration authorities. Now California Attorney General Rob Bonta, who hopes to succeed Gov. Gavin Newsom, is threatening hospitals that they must ignore Trump’s executive orders and go on sterilizing kids. California Attorney General Rob Bonta today reminded California hospitals and federally-funded healthcare providers of their ongoing obligation under California anti-discrimination law to provide gender affirming care amid confusion resulting from President Trump’s Office of Management and Budget...

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...

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...

President Donald Trump signed a broad executive order targeting transition-related medical care for minors Tuesday. The order, titled “Protecting Children From Chemical and Surgical Mutilation,” intends to restrict access to gender-affirming medical care — including puberty blockers, hormone therapy and surgery — for minors, which it defines as those younger than 19. It prohibits federal funding from covering such care for minors, restricts research and education grants to medical schools and hospitals, and directs the secretary of Health and Human Services to issue regulations to end such care for minors. The order also directs all federal agencies to rescind guidance...

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Policy and Purpose. Across the country today, medical professionals are maiming and sterilizing a growing number of impressionable children under the radical and false claim that adults can change a child’s sex through a series of irreversible medical interventions. This dangerous trend will be a stain on our Nation’s history, and it must end. Countless children soon regret that they have been mutilated and begin to grasp the horrifying tragedy that they will never...

The Department of Justice is still pursuing charges against a Texas doctor who exposed transgender operations on kids. He told The Federalist he could face jail time in just days and pled with President Donald​ Trump to stop the lawfare. “This case needs to be dropped with prejudice because this illegal application of HIPAA will destroy the medical profession,” the whistleblower, Eithan Haim, told The Federalist. “Not only that but the prosecutors and FBI agents involved need to be investigated for potential criminal abuse of power.”Haim, a Dallas-area doctor, exposed Texas Children’s Hospital in May 2023 for performing transgender procedures...

EXCLUSIVE: The Trump Administration has moved to dismiss the case of Dr. Eithan Haim, the heroic whistleblower who exposed the child sex-change program at Texas Children's Hospital.

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A transgender teen with cerebral palsy who went viral after posting about his breast-removal surgery has told DailyMail.com that he knew what he was doing and is happy with his choices. Micah LeRoy, 19, a University of Minnesota student, had a double mastectomy last month and shared footage about the procedure, and his painful but swift recovery, on Instagram. Those videos exploded on conservative social media on Thursday, with critics calling Micah a victim who should not have been greenlighted for a sex change because of his disability. But, speaking with DailyMail.com, Micah said he had a long history of...

The Redheaded libertarian @TRHLofficial When I learned the trans agenda targets gay, indigenous, fostered, lonely, autistic, & SA’d kids, that felt so evil, I couldn’t wrap my head around it. But now I’ve seen cases of transing severely incapacitated kids who already required lifelong care There is no ethical threshold. Billboard Chris 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @BillboardChris In 2015, California social worker Aydin Olson-Kennedy helped raise money for this girl with Down Syndrome to get her breasts cut off. Did she have cancer? No. This girl, named Sky, had been told she was really a boy. She was already on testosterone and had...

Politicians love to talk and heap cheap glory upon themselves. But what they don’t say is that voters will have to pay and pay for gruesome policy, like the forced sterilization of minor children through so-called “gender affirming” care. As other nations turn away from the leftist fetish practice and see America as a desperately sick culture, several U.S. states controlled by left-wing Democrats are pursuing the policy with a vengeance. Included among them are California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, Vermont and Washington. And Illinois, where Gov. J.B. Pritzker wants to be president, plans on...

One of the most insidious assertions of the pro-trans left is that those who oppose puberty blockers, wrong-sex hormones, and other pseudo-scientific medical interventions for trans-identifying youth have “blood on their hands.” This is because, such ideologues claim, children deprived of this purported “medical care” are more likely to kill themselves. The fallaciousness of such declarations, however, is becoming more evident in light of acknowledgments from some unlikely sources in the media and medical establishment.The Inflammatory Ideological Charge Regarding Trans Youth…The “blood on the hands” slander of the pro-trans left has become predictably commonplace in recent years. NBC earlier this...

Russian energy has continued to transit unimpeded through Ukrainian territory every day until now, with the taps being firmly closed on New Year’s Day. Zero Russian gas is flowing to European customers through Ukrainian pipelines for the first time in decades today, confirmation there was to be no last-minute deal to keep the route open, sending energy prices spiking on Tuesday. The route has seen billions of cubic feet of gas delivered since the end of the Cold War, and a five-year contract between Moscow and Kyiv governing the transit of gas continued to be observed, remarkably, right to the...

We're told that nobody is encouraging children to be transgender; that this generation of kids is suddenly coming to that realisation by itself. There’s an excellent article on the 4thwavenow website about how there is no historical precedent for the transgender child’s explosion into the early 21st century. Yet despite this, here zie is, in ever increasing number – and we need to have a careful look at the reasons behind that.

Trying to turn a physically healthy girl into a boy is arguably an abnegation of nature. So it is not surprising that doctors, psychologists and school officials resort to chicanery and badgering to foist irreversible medical procedures on confused kids who really are not afflicted with gender dysphoria but are often just suffering from a host of unrelated mental health issues.

How does the transgender ideology driving permanently body-altering “treatments” affect real people who regret their transitions? One detransitioner told her tragic story as a victim of the woke insanity prioritized over science and truly compassionate care. One theme among detransitioners is that they identified as transgender during a point in puberty when they were uncomfortable with their changing bodies. Instead of being encouraged to embrace their bodies, they were encouraged to believe that they should masquerade as the opposite sex and cut off body parts. Some of them were even told that they inevitably would commit suicide or experience other...

Breen, currently a student at University of California-Los Angeles, not only began taking puberty blockers at 12 and testosterone at 13; she then had “top surgery” — a double mastectomy — at 14.