{"id":2249293,"date":"2024-05-21T08:26:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T12:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-health-centers-at-seattle-public-schools-offer-gender-affirming-hormone-therapy-to-children\/"},"modified":"2024-05-21T08:35:56","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T12:35:56","slug":"exclusive-health-centers-at-seattle-public-schools-offer-gender-affirming-hormone-therapy-to-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-health-centers-at-seattle-public-schools-offer-gender-affirming-hormone-therapy-to-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Seattle Public Schools Health Centers Provide Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy for Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-health-centers-at-seattle-public-schools-offer-gender-affirming-hormone-therapy-to-children%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2249293&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A healthcare organization in \u2063Seattle public schools now offers &#8220;gender-affirming&#8221; hormone treatment to children, as\u200c revealed \u200dthrough obtained emails. \u2063Neighborcare Health, operating clinics in the district,\u200c announced this\u2063 service\u2063 expansion in January 2023. This\u2062 initiative, part of\u200b a comprehensive gender-affirming\u200b care\u200d program, requires parental consent for hormone therapy in a pilot\u2062 program.\u2064 The controversial decision aims to provide \u200bwhat it considers &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-democrats-defeat-bid-to-protect-abortion-survivors\/\" title=\"Senate Democrats Defeat Bid to Protect Abortion Survivors\">life-saving care<\/a>&#8221; to transgender and non-binary students.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>A healthcare organization that operates clinics inside Seattle public schools says it can now offer \u201cgender-affirming\u201d hormone treatment to children, emails from a health center program manager reveal.<\/p>\n<p>Emails obtained by The Daily Wire reveal that Neighborcare Health, a healthcare organization that runs clinics in middle and elementary schools in the Seattle Public Schools district, announced in January 2023 that hormone treatments were now included in the \u201cgender-affirming care\u201d it could offer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Neighborcare Health team wanted to share an exciting new update to our School-based Health Center services,\u201d the email from a Program Manager for Neighborcare Health, which was obtained by Parents Defending Education through a public records request, reads. \u201cOur program will begin offering comprehensive, evidence-based, gender-affirming care services to our students and families who need them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The change meant that the group could now give hormone treatments to children, it explained. \u201cWhile our School-based Health Centers have long offered a continuum of gender-affirming care services including supportive student counseling, promotion of social identity, and health education, this step will allow us to begin offering families access to important medical interventions including hormone treatments,\u201d it states.<\/p>\n<p>The offerings mark one of the boldest efforts to create what Manhattan Institute Fellow Leor Sapir has <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LeorSapir\/status\/1561733046507917318\">dubbed<\/a> the \u201cschool-to-clinic pipeline\u201d whereby young school children are encouraged to undergo irreversible medical interventions that seek to change their sex.<\/p>\n<p>Neighborcare, which runs 14 different <a href=\"https:\/\/neighborcare.org\/services\/school-based\/\">school-based clinics<\/a> in Seattle Public Schools and Vashon Island School District, states that its mission is to\u00a0\u201chelp students do better in school by working to address health concerns, prevent serious illness, and promote healthy lifestyles.\u201d The clinic does not, however, openly admit to providing so<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-doj-warns-states-ags-feds-back-gender-affirming-care-rights-for-transgender-children\/\" title=\"Biden\u2019s DOJ Warns States\u2019 AGs: Feds Back \u2019Gender-Affirming Care\u2019 Rights for \u2018Transgender\u2019 Children\u00a0\">-called \u201cgender-affirming care<\/a>,\u201d which is conspicuously absent from its \u201cservices offered\u201d list despite announcing that it would begin offering\u00a0hormone therapies at some of its school-based clinics over a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>The company official stated in the email that its foray into hormone treatment for children would initially be to a pilot program and that the administration of the irreversible drugs would only occur with parental approval.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese services will be a small pilot available to students and families within the existing schools we serve,\u201d the email went on to state, also noting that hormone therapy will only be administered to those who have the approval of parents or legal guardians.<\/p>\n<p>The company defended its decision to offer cross-sex hormone therapy to children in a comment to The Daily Wire, claiming that it was a form of \u201clife-saving care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGender-affirming care in its many forms represents life-saving care for many of the youth and their families who choose it,\u201d spokeswoman Mary Schilder told The Daily Wire. \u201cNeighborcare Health offers care for transgender and non-binary students that align with best practices defined by regional and national pediatric care authorities and is aimed at meeting needs expressed by the students and families we serve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rhyen Staley, a researcher for Parents Defending Education, which obtained the documents through a public records request, called the administration of irreversible treatments to children in schools \u201cunconscionable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is deeply concerning that the institutions Americans have traditionally trusted with keeping children healthy and safe are now giving them access to harmful medical practices,\u201d Rhyen Staley, a researcher for Parents Defending Education, told The Daily Wire. \u201cIt is unconscionable that this is happening within the K-12 school setting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A separate email from an unidentified individual working in public health for Seattle and King County flagged the Neighborcare Health email to people associated with the Seattle Children\u2019s Hospital and Seattle Schools.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know many of you are already providing different levels of care and support for your students around gender and I simply wanted to share this,\u201d the email states, before pointing out that \u201cthere is the possibility of media interest\u201d in the program.<\/p>\n<p>Though medical institutions that turn a profit by administering irreversible <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/very-complicated-dr-rachel-levine-dodges-sen-pauls-issue-about-sex-adjustments-for-children\/\" title=\"\u2018Very Complicated\u2019: Dr. Rachel Levine Dodges Sen. Paul\u2019s Issue About Sex Adjustments For Children\">cross-sex hormones<\/a> to children claim that transgender medical interventions are \u201clife-saving,\u201d European countries to the left of the United States have recently restricted the use of puberty blockers and hormone therapy. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20230208-sweden-puts-brakes-on-treatments-for-trans-minors\">Sweden<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/03\/13\/uk\/england-nhs-puberty-blockers-trans-children-intl-gbr\/index.html\">England<\/a> have both taken steps to limit the availability of medical interventions that seek to change the sex of patients. The Scandinavian country stopped hormone therapy for minors with few exceptions while England\u2019s National Health Service stopped prescribing puberty blockers.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the most vocal advocates in favor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/while-other-countries-strike-the-brakes-on-transitioning-kids-america-is-hitting-the-gas\/\" title=\"While Other Countries Strike The Brakes On Transitioning Kids, America Is Hitting the Gas\">administering puberty blockers<\/a> and cross-sex hormones to children actually receive funding from the very same <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/pfizer-sponsored-group-pushing-child-transgenderism-profits-from-puberty-blockers-hormone-therapy\">pharmaceutical companies<\/a> that manufacture the drugs that are given to children suffering from gender dysphoria, Daily Wire investigations have revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle Public Schools, which did not respond to a request for comment, has pushed medical gender transitions more blatantly than perhaps any other school district, but it is far from the only one to encourage children to undergo irreversible medical interventions intended to modify one\u2019s sex.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/exclusive-how-one-of-americas-largest-school-districts-became-a-pipeline-for-a-trans-youth-clinic\">revealed<\/a> that the Los Angeles Unified School District reached out to a transgender youth clinic at the Children\u2019s Hospital of Los Angeles after staff found out that a student was considering going on testosterone therapy. The district, which frequently pushes transgenderism on students through its lesson plans, book readings, and spirit day celebrations, had just recently hosted members of the Children\u2019s Hospital of Los Angeles to advertise the transgender clinic\u2019s offerings to parents.<\/p>\n<p>Conservative journalist and activist Chris Rufo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/article\/unholy-alliance\">revealed<\/a> that public schools in Chicago teamed up with the Lurie Children\u2019s Hospital of Chicago to promote pro-transgender curriculum and \u201cgender-affirming\u201d books aimed at children.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle Public Schools Health Centers Now Provide Gender-Affirming Hormone Treatment to Children as Emails Show Neighborcare Health, a Clinic Operator in the District, is Offering the Service<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":503,"featured_media":2249294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/05\/Untitled-design-107-e1716222068944.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2249293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/05\/Untitled-design-107-e1716222068944.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/503"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2249293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2249294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2249293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2249293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2249293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}