Two of the nation’s worst-offending hospitals are Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
(HARRISBURG, PA – October 22, 2024) Pennsylvania Family Institute stood with medical watchdog Do No Harm at a press conference in Harrisburg alongside many state lawmakers in helping to expose what children’s hospitals are subjecting thousands of minors to with regard to so-called “sex reassignment” surgeries, drugs, and procedures.
Do No Harm released an online database, found at StopTheHarmDatabase.com, which catalogs pediatric sex change-related services, including surgeries, cross-sex hormones, and puberty blockers, at U.S.-based medical facilities between 2019 and 2023. The data is searchable by state and facility.
“Now, parents, policymakers, and concerned citizens alike can search for their local children’s hospital and find out whether they are performing harmful medical procedures on minors…These numbers are just scratching the surface of how widespread these practices truly are.” states Do No Harm.
This new research found:
Key National Findings (2019 to 2023):
- 13,994 children received “sex change” related treatments
- 5,747 “sex change” surgeries performed on children
- 62,682 hormone and puberty blockers prescriptions written for 8,579 pediatric patients.
- At least $119,791,202 made from “sex change” treatments performed on minors
Key Pennsylvania Findings (2019 to 2023):
- 822 child “sex change” patients.
- 316 child “sex change” surgery patients
- 518 child hormone and puberty blocker patients
- 3,469 prescriptions written for child cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers.
- More than $6 million in claims for irreversible sex-related interventions for minors.
“Several children’s hospitals in Pennsylvania are some of the worst offenders of these harmful interventions,” says Dan Bartkowiak with Pennsylvania Family Institute. “Two of the top 12 worst offending hospitals in Do No Harm’s database are from Pennsylvania: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (#1) and UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh (#11).”
“This is one of the worst medical scandals in history. What this industry is doing is not health care. It’s harming children. While we should find ways to show compassion to students in grade school that face challenges like gender dysphoria, treating any student as a guinea pig with experiments like puberty-blocking drugs and removing healthy body parts is not in any child’s best interests,” added Bartkowiak
“It is impossible for a child to fully understand and consent to life-altering treatment and this kind of intervention,” stated PA State Rep. Bryan Cutler (R-Lancaster) at today’s press conference.
Chloe Cole, who was put on the so-called “sex change” track with puberty blockers at age 13 and had a double mastectomy at just age 15, is one of thousands of children harmed by these experiments. “It destroyed me. It destroyed parts of my body. It destroyed my health…No kid can consent to this.”
“We don’t allow minors to buy cigarettes or alcohol for a reason,” expressed PA State Senator Judy Ward at today’s press conference. “How much longer do we wait before we step up and do something? How many more children will be butchered and allowed to make a decision that they may regret the rest of their life?”
Additional coverage of the StopTheHarmDatabase.com release earlier this month:
- “Medical providers stand to earn a windfall from children’s gender-transition procedures, which helps explain why the industry has endorsed the most aggressive treatments for gender dysphoria. That’s our conclusion after looking at transgender medical interventions — puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries — performed on minors at children’s hospitals and affiliated health systems between 2019 and 2023.” Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, Chairman, Do No Harm (National Review)
- “In a five-year span, thousands of minors had gender reassignment surgeries, puberty blockers or hormone treatments at a number of children’s hospitals and medical facilities across the country, a medical watchdog is reporting via their new national database.” (Fox News)
- “Dr. Roy Eappen, an esteemed endocrinologist and senior fellow at Do No Harm who has spent over three decades treating patients, told Blaze News, “A lot of the activists in this field say things like, ‘No children are getting these kinds of treatments, or there are very, very few.'” Eappen emphasized that the data say otherwise — and now the American public can see the offenders listed and victims tallied for themselves, all in one place.
- “Some children, like de-transitioner Chloe Cole, undergo irreversible, life-altering “gender-affirming” surgery as minors and live to regret it as adults. Many children who believe they are “transgender” but have not undergone surgery have received puberty blockers and hormone treatments. On Tuesday, medical watchdog organization Do No Harm (DNH) launched a first-of-its-kind database revealing the medical facilities that are providing this type of egregious care to children in the United States. This database is called DoesMyHospitalTransitionKids.com” (Townhall)
- “It’s a common lie in the trans industry in America that these procedures are very highly reversible, that there’s no long-term effects. We know that’s simply not the case, especially for children who are taking the hormones for a longer period of time. Some of them can have a sterilizing effect on children, especially when taken for a lengthy period of time.” Beth Serio, Do No Harm (Daily Signal)
