read the article. These are stats from public health records.
Over 5,700 children in 5-year period had gender surgeries, most from 5 liberal states: watchdog
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Correct. I don’t get people focusing on the number as if that matters. There are “rare” surgeries used to save people’s lives. If you think they’re good surgeries, then you should support expanding access to them.The number should be 0
People in TLR are attempting to juelz mentally vulnerable children getting mutilated and undergoing irreversible hormone therapy because the party they voted for supports it
the numbers are increasing, so why are you focused on the number if you’re against the surgeries?I'm not cool with children getting these gender surgeries. Once your over 18(preferably 21), do what you want with your body.
That number is too low to be alarmed, though.
thenatural
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Why haven't you answered my question? Or are you going to deflect like a bored housewife with nothing else to do with their time besides whine and complain about something that they won't take any action on.
Should there be ANY?
Aint my kids why would I care?
The majority of medical professionals, psychologists, sociologists, etc. agree that some sort of gender affirming care is the proper step for many children. You people are the one claiming they are wrong. How about YOU make the case why no child, even with parental and professional approval, should ever have these medicines or procedures. No child should get hormone treatments because you think ... what exactly do you think? You think it's bad? Based on what?
Hip-Hop-Bulls
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Most of the coli are far left dudes that's been Democrat all they life because that's black tradition to vote for them no matter what. They don't see anything wrong with this demonic shyt growing and influencing their children in the schools, media, etc. As long as THEIR children are good, it's "who cares"...
in what case should you do mastectomies on underaged “trans” kids?
It’s not demonic. It’s literally just a fake issue.
Until we have more data… we don’t know how many of those kids had surgery because their genitals were malformed. I also suspect the vast majority of that number didn’t even have surgery since the stat included hormone therapy along with surgeries.
DetroitEWarren
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Hormone Therapy is just meds that start to change your body to become more similar to the opposite sex right?
I gotta pause simply based on any type of participation in this thread. This is not a topic I give a single fukk about, and you shouldn't either. Every kid to EVER get Hormone Therapy or surgery in America had it approved by their parent, meaning the parent knew their kid was gay and are aware of their interests and their desire to change sex.
Id bet any of you nikkas a Million dollars that not a single kid under the age of 15 has EVER gotten hormone treatment or surgery without the permission of a parent.
Me, personally, IDGAF about this shyt AT ALL.
It's literally the least of my concerns in this world. It's not dangerous, it's not a threat to anyone's well being, it's not a problem for any person on this Earth except fakkit nikkas that been lying to themselves about liking women.
Why are you so obsessed with trans people?
Over 5,700 children in 5-year period had gender surgeries, most from 5 liberal states: watchdog
A national database reveals more than 5,700 minors underwent gender reassignment surgeries or treatments from 2019-2023, totaling nearly $120 million in charges.www.foxnews.com
Over 5,700 children in 5-year period had gender surgeries, most from 5 liberal states: watchdog
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California, Oregon and Washington are the top 3 states for gender surgeries for minors, reports medical watchdog Do No Harm
October 9, 2024 10:40am EDT
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In a five-year span, thousands of minors had gender reassignment surgeries, puberty blockers or hormone treatments at a number of children's hospitals and medical facilities across the country, a medical watchdog is reporting via their new national database.
Do No Harm, a national advocacy group of medical professionals against "woke" hospital agendas, shared the database, called "Does My Hospital Transition Kids?", with Fox News Digital this week. In total, the group conservatively identified 5,747 minor patients who received sex-change surgery, and 13,994 received some sort of gender reassignment treatment between 2019 and 2023.
The data, de-identified to meet HIPAA compliance rules, shows nearly $120 million total in charges for treatments like sex change surgeries and hormone blockers.
"This is a very, very important issue, and it's a very important issue to get right," Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, Do No Harm's chairman, said in a press conference this week.
Chloe Cole spoke to the Independent Women's Forum about doctors who seem unwilling to help her detransition from gender reassignment surgery. (Fox News Digital)
"And I think, as you'll hear, we've really been meticulous in trying to make sure that the data are as clear as possible and are as accurate as possible. And because of that, you're going to find that, if anything, we're showing the lower limits of what's going on in this whole arena," he said.
"And to be certain that we're not overstating it one iota, we're probably, and almost certainly, understating the nature of the problem," he added.
Researchers analyzed insurance claims from private insurance companies, Medicaid and Medicare, excluding data from Kaiser, self-pay and charity care. They also profiled 68 children's hospitals across the country and identified what they called the "Dirty Dozen" institutions, which is a "list of the 12 worst-offending children’s hospitals promoting sex change treatments for minors," according to the new website.
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) was identified as number one, followed by the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, Children’s Minnesota, Seattle Children’s, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Boston Children’s Hospital, Rady Children’s Hospital, Children’s National Medical Center, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland, Children’s Hospital Colorado, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.
According to the data, there are massive differences state by state, particularly in more liberal areas.
In California, charges exceeded $28 million from over 2,000 minor patients, while Massachusetts saw around $10 million in expenses from 671 minor patients. New York also had one of the highest rates of transgender treatments for young people, with 1,154 minor patients undergoing sex changes between 2019 and 2023.
California, one of the first states to declare itself a "sanctuary state" for transgender procedures, also had the most irreversible surgeries, with 1,359 minors undergoing surgical procedures, followed by Oregon with 357, Washington with 330, Pennsylvania with 316 and Massachusetts with 300.
"Adults can do as they wish, but we feel very strongly that the science behind using these treatments in children is extraordinarily flawed and suggests that children are being harmed in that sense. One of the important issues is to develop some quantitative notion of what's really happening in this arena," Goldfarb said. "And there are lots of myths that are out there, lots of ideas that this is a rare event, lots of ideas that this is localized to just a few places."
Activist and detransitioner Chloe Cole, who underwent a double mastectomy at 15 years old and put on puberty blockers and testosterone at age 13, said the new database "proves the lies from the medical establishment and radical politicians who argue that cases like mine are rare."
"The stats in this database represent thousands of kids who are being treated like Guinea pigs for unproven, and sometimes dangerous, medical experiments. I hope politicians and parents alike use this database to see where these treatments are happening and protect their children from being rushed into irreversible, life-altering treatments," Cole said in a statement provided to Fox News Digital.
Some of the listed hospitals' board members have openly advocated for transgender youth care over the years. CHOP also has a specific Gender and Sexuality Development Program department, which "supports children and teens up to age 21 who are gender nonconforming, gender expansive and transgender," according to its website.
Madeline Bell, president and chief operating officer of CHOP, affirmed at the time of the department's launch in 2014 the hospital's commitment to providing "culturally competent and affirming healthcare" to LGBT patients and their families.
"This is a tremendous honor that reflects CHOP’s dedication to provide culturally competent and affirming healthcare to our LGBT patients and families," Bell stated
In June 2019, president of the American Board of Pediatrics, Dr. David Nichols, emphasized the increasing need for "specialized healthcare" for the growing transgender youth population during the release of the 30th edition of the "KIDS COUNT Data Book," published by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. This annual report provides a comprehensive review of child well-being in the U.S.
"We have a growing transgender youth population that is receiving healthcare, and the pediatric community has had to adapt to that with clinics and programs to care for these kids. This was not something that existed 30 years ago when ‘KIDS COUNT’ first started," Nichols said.
Pressure from conservative politicians and activists has been mounting in recent years against medical providers who conduct transgender surgical procedures on children. Last month, a group of attorneys general across the country demanded that the American Academy of Pediatrics rescind its support for transgender procedures – such as puberty blockers and surgeries – on children.
The database is just another tool to "expose the dangers of experimental pediatric gender medicine and bring the practice to an end," Do No Harm stated in a news release.
Biden admin official pressured medical experts to nix age limit guidelines for transgender surgery: court doc
In another excerpt, a WPATH member recounts a conversation Levine’s chief of staff, Sarah Boateng, and notes that “She wonders if the specific ages can be taken out” on the proposed guidelines. …
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Biden admin official pressured medical experts to nix age limit guidelines for transgender surgery: court doc
Victor NavaA top Biden administration health official successfully pressured an international group of medical experts to do away with age limit guidelines for transgender procedures, including gender-changing surgery, for minors, an unsealed court document shows.
Adm. Rachel Levine, the assistant secretary for health at the Department of Health and Human Services, feared that the World Professional Association for Transgender Health’s late 2021 draft guidelines would make it difficult for American transgender youth to obtain access to the procedures, according to email excerpts between WPATH members included in an Alabama court filing.
WPATH guidance recommended age minimums of 14 for hormone treatment, 15 for mastectomies, 16 for breast augmentation and 17 for genital surgeries.
Adm. Rachel Levine, the assistant secretary for health at the Department of Health and Human Services, pressured an international group of medical experts to do away with age limit guidelines for transgender procedures. AP
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“Apparently the situation in the USA is terrible and [Levine] and the Biden administration worried that having ages in the document will make matters worse,” the health group member continued.
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In another excerpt, a WPATH member recounts a conversation Levine’s chief of staff, Sarah Boateng, and notes that “She wonders if the specific ages can be taken out” on the proposed guidelines.
WPATH appears to have caved to the Biden administration’s pressure.
WPATH guidance recommended age minimums of 14 for hormone treatment, 15 for mastectomies, 16 for breast augmentation and 17 for genital surgeries. AP
“[W]e heard your [Levine’s] comments regarding the minimal age criteria for transgender healthcare adolescents; the potential negative outcome of these minimal ages as recommendations in the US …. Consequently, we have changes to the SOC 8 in this respect,” an email from a WPATH member, apparently sent to Levine, stated.
The international group “capitulated and removed the text in violation of its own process despite the preference of its own committee members to retain the age limits” after the pressure campaign, Cantor stated in the filing.
WPATH’s eighth edition of its standards of care, released in September 2022, had no age minimums for transgender procedures, according to the New York Times.
The Post has reached out to HHS and WPATH for comment.