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One day after the Supreme Court heard arguments over states’ ability to ban gender-affirming care for minors, a 20-year-old UCLA student sued two California doctors, saying they inappropriately rushed her “down a life-altering … and irreversibly damaging” gender transition beginning at age 12.

A 20-year-old woman who says she was forced her into a sex change at age 12 has taken action against a controversial transgender youth doctor. Clementine Breen filed a medical negligence lawsuit against Los Angeles-based doctor Johanna Olsen-Kennedy on Thursday, claiming she was rushed into irreversible treatment to become male beginning at age 12, which may have left her infertile. The contentious lawsuit also alleges Olsen-Kennedy - the medical director of the Center for Transyouth Health and Development at Children's Hospital in Los Angeles - administered Breen's care without performing psychological testing or monitoring her mental health and the side...

Federal prosecutors seek to silence Eithan Haim and his attorneys after they exposed major problems in the Biden Administration’s criminal targeting of the Dallas surgeon who blew the whistle on the mutilation of minors. Last week, federal prosecutors filed a Motion to Gag both Dr. Haim and the lawyers defending him against criminal charges the Department of Justice filed against the Texas physician in May 2024. The Biden Administration indicted Dr. Haim on spurious grounds after he leaked evidence a year earlier to journalist Christopher Rufo that the Texas Children’s Hospital was removing the healthy breasts and genitals of children....

People with HIV who need a kidney or liver transplant will be able to receive an organ from a donor with HIV under a new rule announced Tuesday by U.S. health officials. Previously, such transplants could be done only as part of research studies. The new rule, which takes effect Wednesday, is expected to shorten the wait for organs for all, regardless of HIV status, by increasing the pool of available organs. 'This rule removes unnecessary barriers to kidney and liver transplants, expanding the organ donor pool and improving outcomes for transplant recipients with HIV,' said U.S. Health and Human...

A father who has spent over half a decade and a nearly a million dollars to stop his young son from transitioning to a ‘girl’ against his (and allegedly his son’s) wishes has lost his most recent court case, resigning to the fact that his child will almost certainly be chemically castrated at the insistence of his ex-wife. He shared the sobering news on X: Four years ago, Jeff Younger was dealt a crippling blow by a Texas judge who ruled that his ex-wife, who has been actively trying to transition their child, was to be given sole medical, psychological,...

Bradley Manning, the U.S. Army private who was sentenced Aug. 21 to 35 years in a military prison for releasing highly sensitive U.S. military secrets, is seeking gender reassignment. Here’s how gender reassignment works: Converting male anatomy to female anatomy requires removing the penis, reshaping genital tissue to appear more female and constructing a vagina. An incision is made into the scrotum, and the flap of skin is pulled back. The testes are removed. People who have male-to-female gender-reassignment surgery retain a prostate. Following surgery, estrogen (a female hormone) will stimulate breast development, widen the hips, inhibit the growth of...

A Miami-based surgeon known for proudly advertising her business of maiming bodies in the name of “gender-affirming” care announced on social media that her surgery center is opening more dates for transgender operations to “accommodate” patients in light of President-elect Donald Trump winning the election and heading back into the White House in January. Dr. Sidhbh Gallagher, who specializes in transgender surgeries — from top surgery to labiaplasties and phalloplasties — answered a question from a patient on social media, who asked if she Gallagher is concerned about continuing transgender surgeries in the current political climate. “This is a great...

Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL) pledged to launch a campaign to boost radical sex change procedures in his state in response to Donald Trump’s landslide election. Pritzker used Transgender Awareness Week — November 12 to 19 — as a platform to showboat over the issue, Fox News reported. “This Transgender Awareness Week, I want you to know that I see you and have your back as governor,” Pritzker wrote on X. “Illinois has enshrined protections for gender-affirming care to meet this moment — and because of that, you will have a home here always.”

A federal appeals court has upheld an Indiana law banning the use of puberty blockers and hormones for transgender children under the age of 18, one of numerous such laws passed by Republican-controlled states. The 2-1 decision from the seventh US circuit court of appeals on Wednesday comes as the US supreme court prepares to hear a challenge to a similar law in Tennessee, which may ultimately determine whether all such state laws around the country can be enforced. The seventh circuit had already allowed the law to take effect in February while it considered the challenge by families of...

Paxton accuses Dr. M. Brett Cooper, an associate professor of pediatrics at UT Southwestern Medical Center who also practiced at Children's Medical Center Dallas, of prescribing various levels of testosterone cypionate to 15 patients between the ages of 14 and 17. Most patients listed in the lawsuit were between 16 and 17 years old. In the 34-page lawsuit filed in Collin County, Paxton calls Cooper a “scofflaw” and “radical gender activist” — a reprisal of similar labels he used in his first two lawsuits against Dr. May Lau of UT Southwestern and Dr. Hector Granados of El Paso. Paxton has...

WARNING! Disturbing images of failed 'top surgery' on young women/girls trying to 'transition' to look like men (BELOW).A YOUTUBE account, Buck Angel (a trans for the past 30 years), wants to get the word out to the young who are considering "gender affirming surgery." Many who experience severe complications and side effects. Buck is adamant that the young should not be given this kind of surgery, that they have a mental disorder (gender dysphoria) instead of a medical need.Buck's video includes a portion wherein a young girl with poor surgical results says 'we need to normalize' atypical scarring etc. Buck...

Podcaster and journalist Megyn Kelly stunned the audience during her appearance on Bill Maher's Real Time show on Friday night as she laid out the facts about children changing their sex. Audible gasps could be heard coming from the usually liberal audience members, with many seemingly recoiling in disgust. 'What we're doing to our children with this trans insanity. We are chopping off the healthy body parts of young children,' Kelly began, while the audience took in its collective breath.

A prominent doctor and trans rights advocate admitted she deliberately withheld publication of a $10 million taxpayer-funded study on the effect of puberty blockers on American children — after finding no evidence that they improve patients’ mental health. Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy told the New York Times that she believes the study would be “weaponized” by critics of transgender care for kids, and that the research could one day be used in court to argue “we shouldn’t use blockers.” Critics – including one of Olson-Kennedy’s fellow researchers on the study SNIP For the National Institutes of Health-funded study, researchers chose 95...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced a lawsuit against Dr. May Lau on Thursday, alleging that the physician provided prohibited "gender transition" hormones to over 20 adolescents in violation of a Republican-backed ban that took effect in Texas last year.

The Biden-Harris administration has been vigorously complicit in allowing gender ideology to infect America’s health care system.A Harris-Walz victory this November will all but guarantee that medical institutions and professionals committed to “do no harm” will be forced to participate in the gender delusion. And make no mistake about it: that means doing harm. The situation is already out of control. Whatever happens, more robust enforcement of conscience protections is needed to save our health care system from the gender mafia. Although many prominent medical associations embrace the medicalization of gender ideology, some nurses, doctors, and other health care workers...

Assessment based on activism, prescriptions for puberty blockers and 'procedures' on kids.. A new database has revealed the "Dirty Dozen," the 12 "worst-offending" hospitals in America for inflicting transgender agenda injuries on children. And Mat Staver, the chief of Liberty Counsel, which has battled the leftist, and unscientific, ideology that males can be turned into females and vice versa, said, "Mutilating children for profit is criminal. It is biologically impossible to change one's gender. "The insanity of gender ideology and greed has made a mockery of the medical profession's duty to 'do no harm.' There are only two genders, and...

Anewly released database of gender transition procedures on children reveals at least 418 patients in Illinois received such treatment since 2019. Billing to insurance companies totaled at least $644,000. The Stop The Harm Database from the national group Do No Harm analyzed billing codes from insurance companies in regards to gender transition and youth.

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.