A new national database maps gender-affirming care for young children, listing where children take blocks of puberty, hormone replacement therapy and gender reassignment surgery – and calls out some of the most well-known providers in the nation.
Researchers were able to identify a total of 13,994 minors across the United States who received medical treatment for gender dysphoria over a four-year period. Amazingly, more than 5,700 of these children were operated on.
The searchable database from Do No Harm is called “Does My Hospital Transition Kids?” and launched today. It maps providers and hospitals that provide gender-affirming care.
The database can be searched by state, or by specific facility if you are thinking of a local hospital. In total, there are 225 children’s hospitals on the map.
Do No Harm, an advocacy group representing medical professionals concerned about identity politics, gender ideology, and DEI practices in medicine, was able to collect the numbers by looking at a selection of insurance claims filed across the country between 2019 and 2023.
In all, they found 5,747 unique patients who received gender-affirming surgery – whether it was mastectomy or genital reassignment surgery – as well as 8,579 patients on puberty blockers and/or hormone replacement therapy. Overall, they counted more than 60,000 total written recipes.
In all, the cost of insurance claims filed by about 14,000 patients is about $119 million, according to a new website.
The researchers at Do No Harm chose to be as careful as possible in counting cases, and therefore the total number of patients and treatments may be underestimated. The data does not include patients covered by Kaiser Health Plans, Veterans Associations, charity payments, or self-pay, because Do No Harm says those forms of payment are not reported or publicly accessible.
“We have really been meticulous in trying to make sure that the data is as clear as possible and as accurate as possible,” Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, chairman of Do No Harm, spoke at a press conference about the database.
“If anything, we’re showing the lower limit of what’s going on … to make sure we’re not overstating one iota. We may and almost certainly are underestimating the nature of the problem.
A country breakdown of the database reveals wide regional disparities in transgender medical care.
They found more than $28 million in total costs from more than 2,000 patients in California, and $10 million from 671 patients in Massachusetts.
Youth in Arizona, Florida, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington, and Wisconsin all exceeded $1 million in spending on gender affirming treatment.
Irreversible operations are carried out disproportionately in some countries. 1,359 minors in California received surgical intervention, as did 357 in Oregon, 330 in Washington, 316 in Pennsylvania, and 300 in Massachusetts.
New York is one of the states with the most gender-affirming treatment. 1,154 young New Yorkers became transgender patients between 2019 and 2023.
580 received puberty blockers and/or hormone replacement therapy, and 616 had surgical intervention. The total cost of medical treatment was only $19 million.
Activist Chloe Cole, who medically transitioned from female to male at age 13 and back again at 16, said the database “proves the lies of the medical establishment and radical politicians who argue that cases like mine are rare.”
“The statistics in this database represent thousands of children treated like guinea pigs for unproven, and sometimes dangerous, medical experiments,” Cole said in a statement shared with the Post.
The database also names what Do No Harm describes as the “dirty dozen,” the dozen hospital providers that processed the most claims over the past four years when it came to the medical care of transgender youth.
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) was ranked number one, followed by Connecticut Children’s Medical Center.
CHOP has an all-gender clinic dedicated to treating “gender-nonconforming, gender-broad and transgender children and adolescents up to age 21.” He has treated more than 3,000 patients, according to his website.
Other east coast hospitals in the top twelve, according to Do No Harm’s analysis, include Children’s National Medical Center in DC and UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh.
As public scrutiny of irrevocably gendered medical care increases around the world, the database’s creators hope it will serve as a tool to inform the public about the scale of the problem.
“Our goal is to provide insights for the public, health care providers, policy makers, and researchers to understand trends, optimize care, and influence health policy related to ‘gender-affirming’ care for minors,” Do No Harm said in a statement about the database. . .
According to Dr. Erica Anderson, a psychologist who specializes in transgender youth, said the exposé could have an impact on the world of transgender medicine.
“My impression is that the number of surgeries for young children is starting to decrease,” he told The Post.
“There is a growing general sense (in the care community) that there will be malpractice lawsuits from young people who have undergone premature surgery on their gender journey.”
