Two More Hospitals Agree to Stop Performing Sex-Change Procedures on Children

The federal government is continuing to shut down gender clinics that perform dangerous, irreversible sex-change procedures on children.

Over the past 20 years, the number of children who identify as transgender has skyrocketed — especially among biological girls.

Many hospitals opened “gender clinics” that prescribed puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to kids or even performed sex-change surgeries on children. But since then, public health experts and policymakers in the U.S., the U.K., Sweden, Finland, and other nations have found that science simply does not support these “gender transitions.”

Now state and federal officials are taking serious steps to protect children and shutter these “gender clinics.”

On September 18, the U.S. Department of Justice announced New York University Langone Hospitals (NYU) and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) — two of the nation’s largest healthcare systems — have agreed to stop subjecting children to puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and sex-change surgeries. The agreement resolves federal investigations into the facilities.

This is really good news.

Puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and sex-change procedures carry serious risks — like infertility, sexual dysfunction, impaired bone density, and cardiovascular problems.

Today we know pro-LGBT activists and medical organizations spent years citing each other’s work in a circular pattern, manufacturing a fake consensus about performing sex-change surgeries on kids.

Investigators have alleged that some of the healthcare professionals who performed these procedures may have committed insurance fraud to improperly profit from what they were doing.

Whistleblowers have come forward to testify about how they were rushed through gender transitions as children without understanding the procedures’ risks, consequences, or alternatives.

Stories like these have prompted investigations and legal action against doctors and facilities that performed these procedures on children.

In 2021, Arkansas’ lawmakers passed the Save Adolescents From Experimentation (SAFE) Act. This good law generally prohibits doctors from performing sex-change procedures on children or giving them puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.

Arkansas was the first state in America to enact a law like the SAFE Act, but since 2021 lawmakers in more than half the country have passed similar legislation. Federal courts have upheld the SAFE Act and other state laws like it as constitutional.

Arkansans should be proud that their state has been a leader when it comes to protecting children from dangerous sex-change procedures.

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