“Gender Industry” Profits Millions While Mutilating Thousands of Children

• 13,994 children received puberty blockers, hormones, and/or mutilating surgeries.
• 5,747 mutilating gender surgeries were performed on children.
• 8,579 minors received hormones and puberty blockers.
• 62,682 puberty blocker and hormone prescriptions were written.

The total price tag for these procedures tallied up to $119,791,202.

Regarding the launch of the database, Do Not Harm Chairman Dr. Stanley Goldfarb statedits purpose is to “expose the dangers of experimental pediatric gender medicine and bring the practice to an end.”

“This first-of-its-kind project provides patients, families, and policymakers with a resource that reveals the pervasiveness of irreversible sex-change treatments for minors in America,” said Dr. Goldfarb. “While this data represents the tip of the iceberg, this is the first step in holding the medical establishment accountable for participating in, and often times promoting, predatory and unscientific medical interventions for vulnerable children.”

The Do No Harm group also published a list of the 12 “worst-offending” children’s hospitals promoting and performing these procedures. The “Dirty Dozen” list includes:

• The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
• Connecticut Children’s Medical Center
• Children’s Minnesota
• Seattle Children’s
• Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
• Boston Children’s Hospital
• Rady Children’s Hospital
• Children’s National Medical Center
• UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland
• Children’s Hospital Colorado
• UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
• Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

The group determined these 12 hospitals were the worst offenders based on a variety of factors, such as their community and legislative activism in favor of gender interventions, the number of prescriptions for puberty blockers and hormones written for minors, the severity of the procedures performed on children, and the cumulative amount of insurance claims billed for these interventions.

According to the database, the top billing hospitals were Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York billing more than $8.2 million and Boston Children’s Hospital billing more than $6.5 million.

The database also contains a detailed breakdown of each state and hospital where gender-related interventions were performed on children in the time period analyzed. The top states in both number of children mutilated and in total revenue for hospitals were California, New York, Oregon, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Washington. Specifically for California, with three hospitals on the “dirty dozen” list, the state recorded 1,359 mutilating surgeries and 725 minors prescribed puberty blockers and hormones – all at a cost of $28,877,427. New York recorded 616 mutilating surgeries and 580 prescribed puberty blockers and hormones – all at a cost of $18,973,072. While Massachusetts hospitals came in third in revenue with more than $10 million, both Oregon and Pennsylvania mutilated more patients than Massachusetts raking in over $7 million and $6 million, respectively.

Currently, at least 26 states ban some or all forms of gender mutilating procedures on children. These states are: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming. However, many of these restrictions did not yet exist in 2019 or 2020, meaning all 50 states at some point in the last five years allowed these procedures on children. 

Notably, out of the 26 states that now protect children, Texas, Indiana, and Florida hospitals had previously led these states in surgeries and prescriptions with a combined 1,091 patients and with a combined $11.5 million in revenue. Despite these laws drastically reducing harm to children in these states, Texas Children’s Hospital has recently fired two whistleblowers who claim the hospital is secretly continuing its Medicaid-funded gender surgery program on minors.

The 26 bans on these procedures stem from concerns about their negative long-term effects. The American College of Pediatricians lists potential side effects of puberty blockers as “osteoporosis, mood disorders, seizures, cognitive impairment and, when combined with cross-sex hormones, sterility.” The organization also noted that international medical associations have characterized puberty blockers as “experimental and dangerous” which can put youth at “increased risk of heart attacks, stroke, diabetes, blood clots and cancers across their lifespan.”

According to recent, peer-reviewed research published by the Heritage Foundation, U.S. states with easy access to puberty blockers and hormones for children actually have increased suicide rates. Additional data shows up to 88 percent of girls and up to 98 percent of boys with gender confusion “will desist” from gender confusion with age, especially with counseling. These findings and others have led the American College of Pediatricians, a 600-member national organization of health care professionals, to release a position statement stating they could not “condone” puberty blockers, hormone treatments, and mutilating surgeries on minors because there is no “long-term evidence” that they improve mental health.

Yet, the global “gender industry,” which continues to surgically mutilate children and adults while ignoring the research and data, is expected to grow into a $6.2 billion industry by 2030.

Liberty Counsel Founder and Chairman Mat Staver said, “Mutilating children for profit is criminal. It is biologically impossible to change one’s gender. The insanity of gender ideology and greed has made a mockery of the medical profession’s duty to ‘do no harm.’ There are only two genders, and the medical profession needs to return to sound science to treat mental health issues with proven psychiatric therapies to heal rather than harm.”