Penna Dexter

The facet of the gender transition craze I have found most shocking is how easy it is for young people to get gender transition hormones and radical surgeries at clinics often operated out of mainstream medical facilities.

There were places in the U.S. to get these treatments — even for children. A shameful practice — unregulated — and done fairly quietly.

Then came the gender craze, fueled by woke school curricula, and online. Between 2017 and 2021 there was a massive uptick in gender dysphoria diagnoses for children ages 6 to 17. The Obama administration set the stage for more of these cases to be treated medically, pushing insurance providers to cover transgender-related medical procedures.

Why would major hospitals risk their reputations? For money, and because America’s major media organizations aren’t going to investigate or critique these programs. Now, independent outlets are stepping up.

The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh looked at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and found a robust gender transition program including pressure tactics against conscientious objectors and a “Buddies Program” in which trans activists accompany patients seeking treatment to make sure nothing deters them along the path to treatment. Doctors pushing for the gender program touted transition surgeries as “huge money makers.”

When Tennessee House Republicans saw Mr. Walsh’s evidence, they sought clarification from Vanderbilt Medical Center which says they’re “pausing” transition surgeries on minors, pending “review” of the program.

These gender clinics operate out of hospitals across the country. With an election looming we’re seeing more action from legislators. Oklahoma Kevin Stitt recently signed a bill that requires the University of Oklahoma Health Services to stop gender transition surgeries or forfeit $108 billion in COVID relief.

We’ve gotta wonder, where has the media been these 5 years as these programs developed? The Washington Stand’s Joshua Arnold points out that, “Among 1,300 staffers at the New York Times, not one can be bothered to investigate which hospitals are permanently sterilizing children.”

It’s a developing story.