Children’s hospitals continue medical mutilation despite Trump order
A Daily Caller investigation has found that children’s hospitals across the country continue to medically mutilate minors despite President Donald Trump’s executive order threatening funding for institutions that provide such procedures for youths.
Immediately upon taking office in January, Trump ordered the federal government to withhold funds from any institution that administers puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, or transgender surgeries to minors. Ethical doctors call these procedures medical mutilation because they cause irreversible sterility, anorgasmia, and other permanent harms. Gender activists, however, refer to these interventions as “gender-affirming care.”
According to the investigation, the following hospitals continue to provide medical mutilation procedures to minors: Akron Children’s Hospital, Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, Bay State Medical Center, Boston Medical Center, Brown University, Cedars Sinai, Children’s Hospital Colorado, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Children’s Hospital of Minnesota, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cleveland Clinic, Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, Duke Health, Grady Health, Henry Ford Health, Johns Hopkins, Maine Medical Center, MetroHealth, Montefiore Medical Center, Mount Sinai, New York University Langone, Northwell Hospital, Oregon Health & Science University, Rady Children’s Hospital – San Diego, Stanford University, University of California San Francisco, University of Florida, University of Illinois, University of Kansas, University of Maryland, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, University of Rochester, University of Utah, University of Vermont Children’s Hospital, University of Washington, and Whitman Walker Health.
“For the top surgery [mastectomies], it looks like we are seeing patients 14 years of age and older,” a University of Minnesota Health employee confirmed.
“From what I’ve heard of, nothing has changed with what our providers provide,” said an employee at Boston Medical Center.
When asked if it is still providing “gender-affirming care,” a Bay State Medical Center worker said, “I haven’t heard anything different.”
Children’s Hospital Colorado apparently stopped providing medical mutilation interventions in response to Trump’s order but then resumed doing so upon hearing that the order is being challenged in court.
“You have reached the True Center for Gender Diversity at Children’s Hospital Colorado,” a recorded voicemail message at Children’s Hospital Colorado said. “As a result of Colorado Attorney General joining the federal lawsuit filed in the state of Washington to block the executive order, Children’s Hospital Colorado will resume gender-affirming medical care, including puberty-blocking and hormone-based care.”
The battle over medical mutilation
Operatives on the Left have been fighting aggressively to protect medical mutilation. Last month, Biden-appointed US District Judge Brendan Hurson issued a preliminary injunction against the executive order, falsely claiming that transgender people are at higher risk of suicide.
“This is a population with an extremely higher rate for suicide, poverty, unemployment, drug addiction,” Hurson said, claiming it would be “horribly dangerous for anyone, for any care, but particularly for this extremely vulnerable population” to stop medically mutilating children.
Gender activists like Judge Hurson base their support for medical mutilation on the debunked claim that gender dysphoric children who do not undergo such procedures are at higher risk of suicide. However, as many as 99% of children who are said to have gender dysphoria grow out of the condition. According to The Cass Review, the largest independent review of “gender-affirming care” to date, gender dysphoric kids are at no more risk of suicide than other children who suffer from mental health conditions.
The nation is awaiting a decision from the US Supreme Court this summer in United States v. Skrmetti, a pivotal case that will determine whether states can ban mutilative procedures for children.
In December, Senator Roger “Doc” Marshall (R-KS) introduced a bill aimed at stopping medical providers from subjecting children to medical mutilation procedures. The Safeguarding The Overall Protection of Minors (STOP) Act would make it illegal for doctors and hospitals to administer puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones to children and would prohibit medical providers from performing genital surgeries and double mastectomies on kids for “gender identity” purposes.
