A national health-care watchdog group is out with new statistics on the number of so-called “gender transition” procedures being done at children’s hospitals. Do No Harm analyzed public insurance records to compile the number of children and teens who were treated using hormones, puberty blockers, and surgical procedures on sexual body parts. The organization also analyzed the amount of money paid by insurance companies to cover those costs. (Public funds such as Medicaid and state and federal government grants are also used for such purposes.)

Beth Serio of Do No Harm told us nearly 2,000 underage minors in New York and Pennsylvania were recipients of such procedures in the most recent reporting period. She talks about the exponential growth in this trend, the financial and philosophical motivations for medical providers and hospitals to recommend “gender affirming care”, and the complications which can result for patients and for the society.

Three PA/NY hospital systems are listed in their national Top Ten List for millions of dollars raked in to perform sex change treatments for minors: Mount Sinai, New York University, and Penn Medicine. Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, with 122 such patients, by far tops the list of providers described as what DNH describes as the “Dirty Dozen” in the United States.

These links provide more information about Do No Harm, which takes its name from the millenia-old medical motto:

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• DoNoHarmMedicine.org
  
• This latest research, headlined “Exposing the Child Trans Industry”
  
• Their Stop The Harm Database provides further information, plus an opportunity to look up your own local statistics.
  
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• The Pennsylvania Family Institute [ PAFamily.org ] has an in-depth analysis of the local implications of these national trends.
  

#FaithUnderFire  10/17/2024