Taxpayers Paying Millions for Child Medical Mutilation

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ORLANDO, FL – As the “gender surgery industry” in the United States is expected to grow to $5 billion by 2030, many states are giving the industry tens of millions in taxpayer dollars to reimburse hospitals for harmful puberty blockers, hormone treatments, and mutilating surgeries administered on children. Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles reviewed the Medicaid policies for all 50 states and found that at least 25 states were using taxpayer money to cover gender surgeries in February 2021. As of November 2023, at least 26 states allow their Medicaid insurance programs for low-income families to cover medically mutilating procedures on minors.

For instance, in Pennsylvania, a new report shows that more than $20 million from the state’s Medicaid program has been used to reimburse children’s hospitals for these often-irreversible procedures since 2015. Through a Right-To-Know request to the state, the Pennsylvania Family Institute discovered public funding for these procedures increased from about $60,000 in 2015 to more than $5 million in 2022. The data indicates the state is increasing its funding for “gender transition” procedures every year and is paying “nearly $14,000 per day” to mutilate children. Currently, three Pennsylvania hospitals are offering these procedures, including the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and Penn State Health Children’s Hospital.

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