{"id":2353578,"date":"2024-10-11T07:54:02","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T11:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/data-u-s-hospitals-transitioned-nearly-6000-kids-in-2019-2023\/"},"modified":"2024-10-11T07:57:54","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T11:57:54","slug":"data-u-s-hospitals-transitioned-nearly-6000-kids-in-2019-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/data-u-s-hospitals-transitioned-nearly-6000-kids-in-2019-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Data: U.S. Hospitals Transitioned Nearly 6,000 Kids In 2019-2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Fdata-u-s-hospitals-transitioned-nearly-6000-kids-in-2019-2023%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=2353578&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>Recent\u2064 data reveals that\u2062 U.S. hospitals conducted at\u200c least\u2064 5,747 \u200csurgeries on minors to alter \u2063their gender \u200bbetween 2019 and 2023. This\u2064 information came from a database published by the advocacy\u200c group Do No \u200bHarm, which also \u2064indicated\u2064 that 13,994 children received other transgender treatments such as puberty \u2064blockers and <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> during this period. Most of these\u2064 procedures were carried out on \u200cgirls aged 12 \u200bto 17, generating over $119 million in revenue for medical practitioners.<\/p>\n<p>In a \u200brecent event held by \u200bthe Catholic Medical Association (CMA), young adults who had undergone transition only to regret their\u200d decisions were\u200b invited\u2063 to share their experiences\u2014marking \u2062the first time such \u200cnarratives were presented at a \u2064major medical conference. This event highlighted the\u200b serious \u2064emotional and physical harm done to some individuals by\u2064 transgender medical treatments, indicating a growing\u200b divide within \u2064the medical \u200bcommunity on how to address\u2062 gender dysphoria in youth.<\/p>\n<p>While the CMA has taken steps to listen to these detransitioners, other major organizations like the American Academy of Pediatrics \u2063(AAP) have rejected similar proposals\u2064 to include these voices \u200din \u2062their discussions. Critics, including pediatrician Patrick Hunter,\u2064 have expressed concern over the medical profession&#8217;s reluctance to acknowledge\u2064 the negative consequences of sex-transition procedures and the importance of adhering to \u200cthe principle of &#8220;first, do no harm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Notably, many European countries have begun to restrict gender-affirming treatments for minors due to evidence\u2062 showing potential \u200charm, whereas American medical organizations\u200d largely continue to\u200d support these\u200b practices. Some \u200bU.S.-based\u2064 medical groups, \u200dhowever,\u2063 advocate against gender\u200d surgery, emphasizing \u200dthe need\u2062 for \u2062a more balanced and \u2064cautious approach to\u200c treating gender dysphoria.\u2063 The ongoing debate within the medical community raises questions about patient \u2062safety and informed consent surrounding transgender interventions.  <\/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<div>\n<p>New data shows U.S. hospitals performed at least 5,747 gender-disfiguring surgeries on minors between 2019 and 2023, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/stoptheharmdatabase.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a database<\/a> released by Do No Harm, an advocacy group of medical professionals. The data also show 13,994 American children received other transgender treatments, such as puberty-blocking and opposite-sex hormones, in those four years.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the children receiving such procedures were girls between the ages of 12 and 17, the database indicates. Medical practitioners made more than $119 million from the procedures, the data says.<\/p>\n<p>This week, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/detransitioners-booted-from-american-academy-of-pediatrics-conference\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">kicked out<\/a> of its vendor hall four young Americans who returned to affirming their given sex after experiencing transgender medicine. A similar group of &ldquo;desisters&rdquo; met a warm welcome last month in Orlando, Florida, at the Catholic Medical Association&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cathmed.org\/events\/annual-educational-conference\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Annual Educational Conference<\/a>. That medical conference hosted 750 medical practitioners from around the nation and featured a panel of detransitioned young adults.<\/p>\n<p>At the CMA event, seven young adults who were permanently injured by sex-transition procedures publicly explained the harm these treatments cause. These young adults were given a voice at a U.S. annual medical conference for the first time, to inform and educate health practitioners about the irreparable harm caused by &ldquo;gender medicine.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;CMA&rsquo;s decision to invite detransitioners to speak at this year&rsquo;s conference signals a deepening in the divisions in the medical community about how to best address gender distress in young people,&rdquo; a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cathmed.org\/resources\/detransitioners-invited-to-address-medical-conference-for-the-first-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> CMA press release notes<\/a>. &ldquo;It also shows the commitment by CMA leaders to recognize and provide care to those harmed by these common practices.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Particularly in American &ldquo;gender medicine,&rdquo; negative and harmful effects have been ignored, and at times suppressed, by some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/60-minutes-runs-explosive-segment-featuring-young-transgender-individuals-who-decided-to-reverse-course\/\" title=\"60 Minutes Runs Explosive Segment Featuring Young Transgender Individuals Who Decided To Reverse Course\">major medical organizations<\/a>, said Tim Millea, MD, the chairman of CMA&rsquo;s Conscience Rights Protection Task Force. He said this contradicts the long-held scientific tradition of allowing &ldquo;ideas to be discussed and debated in an open, honest and transparent manner.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<h2>&lsquo;Medicine&rsquo;s Ability to Harm Is Nearly Limitless&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>Pediatrician Patrick Hunter, a Florida Board of Medicine member, organized the panel. He said he was aiming to &ldquo;bring to light to the harm that is being done, and to improve the overall care for trans-identified youth.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;No one should want what is happening to these youth and young adults,&rdquo; Hunter said. &ldquo;The fact that harm and regret is happening should not be tolerated by our profession. The lack of concern and the unwillingness to acknowledge it should concern everyone in the medical profession.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>One detransitioner, Prisha Mosley, told CMA attendees she was <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/03\/15\/why-teen-girl-who-became-a-trans-man-is-now-a-woman-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">manipulated by activists<\/a> and therapists into accepting testosterone injections and a double mastectomy as a minor.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It is important for doctors to learn how to stop the damage and to try and heal what&rsquo;s been done. It is wrong for the very profession who hurt detransitioners to also routinely turn us away,&rdquo; she said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cathmed.org\/resources\/detransitioners-invited-to-address-medical-conference-for-the-first-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in the CMA&rsquo;s press release about the event<\/a>. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m grateful for any medical professional who is willing to listen.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Hunter said he has heard from nearly 100 youth who regret their transitions, and found the panelists&rsquo; stories &ldquo;very painful.&rdquo; &ldquo;Medicine&rsquo;s ability to harm is nearly limitless, while the ability to cure does have limitations,&rdquo; Hunter said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is why the principle of &lsquo;First, do not harm&rsquo; is sound and universally accepted,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;It acknowledges our need for humility, our need to know where our limits lie, and when we should and should not act.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<h2>Refusing to Acknowledge Detransitioners<\/h2>\n<p>Hunter said he proposed the panel to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doctors-dispute-rachel-levines-claim-that-there-is-no-argument-about-gender-affirming-care-among-medical-professionals\/\" title=\"Doctor\u2019s Dispute Rachel Levine\u2019s Claim That There \u201cIs No Argument\u201d About Gender-Affirming Care Among Medical Professionals\">multiple medical organizations<\/a>, encouraging more groups to hear detransitioners speak. Both the AAP and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) rejected the proposal, he said, matching the <a href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/56a45d683b0be33df885def6\/t\/65e6daabe13bf54cc3c829f3\/1709628077018\/U_WPATHExcerpts.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH) stance<\/a> of ignoring detransitioners. WPATH&rsquo;s leadership has said that recognizing these patients is &ldquo;considered off limits for many in our community.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Patients are being harmed by sex transition. That cannot be disputed,&rdquo; Hunter said. &ldquo;Medical evidence fails to show that patients will reliably benefit. If the medical profession will not recognize and learn from those that are being harmed, we are failing as professionals, but more importantly we are failing the patients that are being harmed. The medical profession has lost its way.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Stop the Harm Database highlights a &ldquo;dirty dozen&rdquo; of the U.S. hospitals that perform the most sex-disfigurement surgeries on minors. They are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Children&rsquo;s Hospital of Philadelphia<\/li>\n<li>Connecticut Children&rsquo;s Medical Center<\/li>\n<li>Children&rsquo;s Minnesota<\/li>\n<li>Seattle Children&rsquo;s<\/li>\n<li>Children&rsquo;s Hospital Los Angeles<\/li>\n<li>Boston Children&rsquo;s Hospital<\/li>\n<li>Rady Children&rsquo;s Hospital<\/li>\n<li>Children&rsquo;s National Medical Center<\/li>\n<li>UCSF Benioff Children&rsquo;s Hospital Oakland<\/li>\n<li>Children&rsquo;s Hospital Colorado<\/li>\n<li>UPMC Children&rsquo;s Hospital of Pittsburgh<\/li>\n<li>Cincinnati Children&rsquo;s Hospital Medical Center<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The database also lists the employers of the U.S. doctors who billed the most for performing child mutilation surgeries from 2019 to 2023. The top-billing doctor for child sex surgeries in that timeframe worked at Boston Children&rsquo;s hospital, and charged more than $5 million for the procedures.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;California, one of the first states to declare itself a &lsquo;sanctuary state&rsquo; 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,&rdquo; Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/health\/other\/over-5-700-children-in-5-year-period-had-gender-surgeries-most-from-5-liberal-states-watchdog\/ar-AA1rXOCC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> on the Do No Harm data.<\/p>\n<h2>Warring Medical Organizations<\/h2>\n<p>Many European countries have curtailed or halted gender medicine interventions in approximately the last year, based on experience and research demonstrating its serious damage to children. Yet most American medical organizations have remained staunch advocates, dismissing well-documented risks and complications associated with puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and transgender surgeries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/06\/13\/health-care-workers-urge-end-to-transgender-surgeries-for-kids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The United Kingdom&rsquo;s release of the Cass Review in April<\/a> and leaked WPATH files indicating that organization pushes medicine without informed consent sent clear messages about transgender medicine that American medical organizations such as the AMA and the AAP have largely dismissed or ignored. They are ignoring &ldquo;objective and evidence-based data,&rdquo; Millea said.<\/p>\n<p>Still, some U.S. medical organizations do oppose gender mutilation, including the American College of Pediatricians, Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, American College of Family Medicine, and the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. The <a href=\"https:\/\/doctorsprotectingchildren.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;Doctors Protecting Children Declaration,&rdquo;<\/a> published by ACPEDS, represents thousands of health care workers who want such practices ended.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;A number of cases have been and will continue to be filed in courts around the country, challenging the federal and state mandates for transgender interventions and the freedom of medical professionals to challenge these methods and refuse to participate in them,&rdquo; Millea said.<\/p>\n<p>The CMA will support court cases to halt this harm in medicine, joining other organizations&rsquo; challenges in the form of amicus briefs, and if necessary, serving as plaintiffs, Millea said.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, state <a href=\"https:\/\/donoharmmedicine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/2024-09-24_AAPs_Compliance_with_State_Consumer_Protection_Laws.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">attorneys general sent a letter to the AAP president<\/a> demanding the AAP defend its support of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgical interventions for minors with gender dysphoria. The attorney generals requested a thorough explanation of this non-evidence-based policy by October 8.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I heard from many attendees that the panel discussion was the most important thing they heard all week, and maybe at any conference,&rdquo; Hunter said. &ldquo;The medical profession cannot remain silent any longer. We must take action and speak out. We must seek regulation of the profession so that evidence-based, ethical, and effective care is provided for trans-identified youth. We must return medicine to its roots where we care for the individual, and not use the patient to make money, or forward social or political agendas.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Ashley Bateman is a policy writer for The Heartland Institute and blogger for Ascension Press. Her work has been featured in The Washington Times, The Daily Caller, The New York Post, The American Thinker and numerous other publications. She previously worked as an adjunct scholar for The Lexington Institute and as editor, writer and photographer for The Warner Weekly, a publication for the American military community in Bamberg, Germany.     Ashley is a board member at a Catholic homeschool cooperative in Virginia. She homeschools her four incredible children along with her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/virginia-democrats-vote-for-allowing-babies-who-survive-abortions-to-die-without-care\/\" title=\"Virginia Democrats Vote For Allowing Babies Who Survive Abortions To Die Without Care\">brilliant engineer\/scientist husband<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. hospitals conducted 5,747 gender surgeries on minors from 2019-2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":638,"featured_media":2353579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/chloe-cole-podcast.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[42792,38048,33394,42791,42790],"class_list":["post-2353578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-2019-2023","tag-child-healthcare","tag-data-analysis","tag-transition-statistics","tag-u-s-hospitals"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/chloe-cole-podcast.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353578","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\/638"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2353578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2353579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2353578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2353578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2353578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}