Medical Expert Urges CDC to Acknowledge Gender Detransitioners

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Earlier this month, a medical expert urged the Centers for Disease Control to update its medical codes to acknowledge gender detransitioners.

The CDC’s current medical diagnostic code system only includes a code for “personal history of sex reassignment.” That makes it possible to collect data on the number of people who have undergone sex-change procedures, but it is difficult to know how many of those people later detransitioned.

In recent years, men and women have come forward with chilling testimony about how they were rushed through gender transition as children. Since then, many of them have detransitioned and no longer suffer from gender dysphoria.

On September 10, Do No Harm’s Medical Director Dr. Kurt Miceli gave a presentation at the CDC’s semiannual conference urging the CDC to establish diagnosis codes for detransitioners as well.

These diagnostic codes would help medical experts track how many people detransition after undergoing sex-change procedures, and they could shed light on the long-term consequences of sex-reassignment surgery.

Do No Harm made headlines last year with its “Stop The Harm” report analyzing gender transition data from across the country. The report used data from commercial insurance, Medicaid, Medicare, and VA claims to determine how many children in America have been subjected to sex-change procedures.

Do No Harm’s data for Arkansas reveals that from 2019 to 2023, 41 children were treated as “sex-change patients” in the state.

Of those children, the report found three underwent sex-change surgeries at UAMS. Another 38 received puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones from various facilities across the state.

The report also reveals that from 2019 to 2023, doctors and hospitals in Arkansas wrote 234 prescriptions for children to be given puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.

Right now, Family Council is not aware of any public health data showing how many of these children have detransitioned.

In 2021, Arkansas passed the Save Adolescents From Experimentation (SAFE) Act prohibiting doctors from performing sex-change surgeries on children or giving them puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. The SAFE Act was the first law of its kind in America. This good law spent four years tied up in federal court, but the Eighth Circuit finally upheld it as constitutional in August. Today the SAFE Act is in full effect and protecting children in Arkansas. That’s something to celebrate.

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Hospitals Continue to Halt Sex-Change Procedures on Children as Policies Take Hold

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News outlets report that clinics around the country continue to stop performing sex-change procedures on children in the wake of new state and federal policies.

To date, more than half of state legislatures have enacted laws protecting children from puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and sex-change surgeries, and the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that these types of laws are constitutional.

As a result, major children’s hospitals around the country have stopped performing sex-change procedures on kids.

In recent years, men and women have come forward with chilling testimony about how they were rushed through gender transition as children, and experts have revealed how the medical “consensus” in support of performing transgender procedures on children was largely manufactured by pro-LGBT organizations.

Public health officials and experts in the U.K., Sweden, Finland, and elsewhere have found that science does not support giving puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to kids.

We now know that sex-change procedures, puberty blockers, and cross-sex hormones can leave children permanently scarred, sterilized, and at risk of serious health conditions.

In 2021, Arkansas passed the Save Adolescents From Experimentation (SAFE) Act prohibiting doctors from performing sex-change surgeries on children or giving them puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. The SAFE Act was the first law of its kind in America. It has been upheld in court and is protecting children in Arkansas right now.

In January, President Trump issued an executive order prohibiting federal funding from being used for sex-change procedures on kids — including puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and sex-change surgeries.

Medical institutions and facilities that receive federal research or education grants must “end the chemical and surgical mutilation of children” immediately, under the order.

Earlier this summer, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a public inquiry into whether U.S. doctors and clinics may have deceived parents and children about the risks of these procedures. The U.S. Department of Justice issued subpoenas to doctors and medical facilities involved in performing sex-change procedures on minors. The DOJ also has asked Congress to enact legislation protecting children from these procedures, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has proposed a federal rule to help put a stop to them as well.

All of this is really good news for children in our country.

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Justice Department Asks Congress to Protect Children from Sex-Change Procedures

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Last week the U.S. Department of Justice sent a proposal to Congress that would protect children from sex-change procedures.

The federal Victims of Chemical or Surgical Mutilation Act would generally prevent doctors, hospitals, and clinics from performing sex-change surgeries on children or giving them puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones.

In a press release, the DOJ said,

“The Department of Justice has heard from far too many families who have been devastated by mutilative medical procedures that fly in the face of basic biology,” said Attorney General Pamela Bondi. “While we continue our ongoing legal battle to protect children, we appreciate our colleagues in Congress who are working diligently alongside us to end these abusive procedures once and for all.”

The federal legislation would track with an executive order President Trump issued earlier this year.

In 2021, Arkansas became the first state in the nation to pass a law protecting children from sex-change procedures. The Save Adolescents From Experimentation (SAFE) Act prohibits doctors from performing sex-change surgeries or giving puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to minors. That law was recently upheld in federal court. Since 2021, other states have enacted similar laws. A federal measure like the Victims of Chemical or Surgical Mutilation Act could help protect children nationwide.

Over the past five years, it has become clear that the medical “consensus” regarding transgender procedures on children was largely manufactured by pro-LGBT activists.

Men and women have come forward with chilling testimony about how they were rushed through gender transitions as children without knowing the procedures’ risks, consequences, and alternatives.

Sex-change procedures, puberty blockers, and cross-sex hormones can leave children permanently scarred, sterilized, and at risk of serious health conditions.

Public health experts in the U.S., the U.K., Sweden, Finland, and other nations have found that science simply does not support giving puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to kids.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently announced a public inquiry into whether U.S. doctors and clinics may have deceived parents and children about the risks of these procedures, and the U.S. Department of Justice has subpoenaed doctors and medical facilities involved in performing sex-change procedures on minors.

A federal measure protecting children from sex-change procedures isn’t just good policy—it’s common sense, and it’s long overdue.

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