Nearly 14,000 children underwent sex changes across the country from 2019 to 2023, according to a new database that tracks transgender children’s clinics.
Do No Harm, an association of medical professionals opposed to the politicization of medicine, this week launched “Stop The Harm,” a database that tracks “sex change treatments being performed on minors at healthcare facilities in the United States.” The group found that, from 2019 to 2023, at least 13,994 children underwent sex changes, for which doctors submitted charges of around $119 million. That is likely an underestimate, as the analysis could not account for claims from certain insurance companies or those who paid in cash.
The database tracks children’s hospitals and other providers that offer puberty blockers, cross sex hormones, and surgeries that seek to change the gender of children. Users can view lists of children’s hospitals that provide sex change operations on children in their state, also viewing the profiles of some of the worst-offending hospitals.
Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, for example, had 145 child sex change patients from 2019 to 2023, including 39 surgery patients. It also charged $274,000 for child sex change interventions. Oregon’s Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center had 267 child sex change patients and 223 surgery patients.
The report also highlights doctors who’ve billed the highest sums of money for sex change interventions on children. At Boston Children’s Hospital, one doctor billed a whopping $5.19 million for sex change interventions for children, the highest of any single provider.
Dr. Oren Ganor of Boston Children’s Hospital has been highlighted as an “affirming pediatric and adolescent medicine provider” by a transgender activist organization. Ganor “specializes in complex reconstructions, microsurgery, and gender-affirming surgeries” and is “deeply invested in clinical research, and aspires to use research to improve the field of gender-confirming surgery.” The Daily Wire asked Boston Children’s Hospital if it could identify Dr. Ganor as the individual who billed the sum, but did not receive a response.
One doctor at New York’s Mount Sinai Beth Israel billed $4.59 million for sex change interventions, while a doctor at Stanford doctor came in third after billing $4.15 million.
The site also highlights the “Dirty Dozen,” which Do No Harm calls the “worst-offending children’s hospitals promoting sex change treatments for minors.”
“To select our list, we identified each hospital and pediatric facility offering sex change treatments and considered a combination of factors to determine the institution’s engagement in performing and promoting sex change treatments on minors,” Do No Harm said. “We considered legislative activism, such as explicit policy statements and/or testimony in favor of legislation, in addition to community activism, such as promoting sex change treatments among local schools and youth groups.”
One of the hospitals on the list, Seattle Children’s, had 285 sex change patients from 2019 to 2023, including 50 surgery patients. The Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, meanwhile, recorded 265 sex change interventions from 2019 to 2023 including 165 surgery patients. It also billed nearly $1.75 million in charges for sex change interventions.
San Diego’s Rady Children’s Hospital and Children’s Hospital Colorado, which saw 136 and 120 patients, respectively, both made it onto the dirty dozen list as well.
The Daily Wire previously reported that the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles partnered with the Los Angeles Unified School District to promote sex change operations to parents of school children, with district personnel reaching out to the hospital to facilitate one student’s transition.
Sex change interventions for children have not been relegated to the coasts and traditionally left-wing states, however. In Nashville, Tennessee’s Vanderbilt University Medical Center recorded minor 33 sex change patients, including 22 surgery patients from 2019 to 2023, while Missouri’s St. Louis Children’s Hospital had 49 sex change patients during the same time frame.
Do No Harm performed its analysis with data from “commercial insurance providers, Medicaid, Medicare, and the Department of Veterans Affairs,” noting that the analysis excludes data from “internal Kaiser Permanente and internal Department of Veterans Affairs claims” and direct payments, indicating that the figures could undercount the number of sex change interventions performed on children and their associated costs.
