Former Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. teed off on his former political party during Republican nominee Donald Trump&#8217;s rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, pinning many of the country&#8217;s problems on the Democrats.
Kennedy opened up by saying that the Democrat Party left him, not the other way around.
&#8220;It is not the party any more of Martin Luther King, of Robert Kennedy, of John Kennedy,&#8221; he said. &#8220;That was the party of peace. It was the party of constitutional rights, of civil rights, of freedom of speech. It was the party that wanted to protect and nurture the middle class.&#8221;
&#8220;It was the party that stood up to censorship, to surveillance, that stood up to the CIA, the military industrial complex, and it was the party that wanted to protect public health, and women&#8217;s sports,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;My uncle Ted Kennedy wrote Title IX, which protected women&#8217;s sports in college.&#8221;
He said that today&#8217;s Democrat Party is about &#8220;dismantling women&#8217;s sports by letting men play women&#8217;s sports.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s the party of Wall Street. It&#8217;s the party of Bill Gates, who just gave $50 million to Kamala Harris,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The Harris campaign is very proud that it received the endorsement of 50 former CIA agents and officers and of John Bolton and of Dick Cheney.&#8221;
&#8220;These are the people that are trying to undermine voting rights in this country by weaponizing the federal agencies against political candidates, including me and Donald Trump and all other political candidates,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;They can&#8217;t win an election. And instead of bringing in a candidate who wins the primaries, abolish the primaries, and then picked two candidates, anointed them, without receiving votes. We don&#8217;t even know how Kamala Harris received the nomination.&#8221;
He said that the Democrats were also the &#8220;party of Wall Street, of big banks, of big data, of big tech, of the military contractors and the parties of Big Pharma, big AG, big food, and big chemicals.&#8221;
&#8220;It is the party that&#8217;s given us the sickest children in the history of the world,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;When my uncle was president, 6% of Americans had chronic disease, and we spent zero on chronic disease in this country. Today, 60% of Americans have chronic disease. This is existential for our country. We&#8217;re spending $4.3 trillion a year, five times our military budget, 77% of American boys cannot qualify for military service because of chronic disease diagnoses.&#8221;
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The following is an edited transcript of an interview between Daily Wire editor-in-chief John Bickley and Texas Congressman Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) on a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/morning-wire/dan-crenshaw-s-crusade-against-ideological-persecution-saturday-extra" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Saturday Extra edition of Morning Wire</a>.
The Biden administration’s prosecution of a Texas doctor who blew the whistle on transgender procedures being conducted on children in the state has sparked accusations of political and ideological persecution. We spoke with U.S. congressman from the state of Texas, Republican Dan Crenshaw, about what actions he and his colleagues are taking on the issue of child transgender medical procedures and what they say is the weaponization of the federal government.
JOHN: Joining us now is Republican Congressman Dan Crenshaw of Texas. Congressman, thank you for coming on. Let&#8217;s start with the prosecution of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-doctor-blew-the-whistle-on-his-hospitals-transgender-clinic-now-the-feds-are-trying-to-ruin-his-life" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Eithan Haim</a>. He worked at the Texas Children&#8217;s Hospital in your district. He&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-the-doctor-at-the-center-of-latest-texas-childrens-hospital-scandal-built-an-alliance-with-transgender-activists?topStoryPosition=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">being prosecuted</a> after blowing the whistle on the hospital because it was continuing to perform transgender procedures on children, even after the Texas AG said that practice is dangerous. You believe this is a political prosecution. Why?
DAN: Well, I believe it&#8217;s political because it&#8217;s unusual for the DOJ and HHS to bring somebody up on criminal charges for HIPAA violations. And if you look at what they&#8217;re really charging him with, it&#8217;s a stretch to say it&#8217;s even a HIPAA violation. So they&#8217;re charging him for unlawful access to the database, but of course he has access to that database, to patient data. He did not release any personal information on those patients. He anonymized any data he released. So you have to squint really hard to see this as a HIPAA violation and to justify federal agents arresting him for doing this. This is the kind of thing where you might think Texas Children&#8217;s might have a civil case against him for it, and they would go to the courts as such, and there might be a fine involved, right? That&#8217;s what you would normally expect from this. But these are criminal charges being brought against him for accessing a database that he has perfectly lawful access to. Of course it&#8217;s political because this is such a politicized topic. This is the topic of affirmative transgender care on minors. It&#8217;s pretty contentious, I&#8217;ve noticed, because I&#8217;ve introduced legislation in the Congress and watched even my most moderate, reasonable Democrats throw their hands up like crazy people and argue with me that it should be okay to do a double mastectomy on a 12-year-old girl just because she thinks she&#8217;s a boy. So, hyper-politicized.
JOHN: We&#8217;ve seen the Biden administration prioritize this issue in a way that we&#8217;ve never seen another administration do. What do Republicans need to do if they want to counter the Democrat agenda on this?
DAN: Conservatives need to fight back against it. Now, in Texas, shortly after this whistleblower blew the whistle on Texas Children&#8217;s Hospital, Texas passed SB14, which prohibits this practice entirely. Then, there was no question. After that, I think it can be said that all the hospitals in Texas stopped doing these procedures because it was made in law. Prior to that – and what Dr. Haim was referencing when he blew the whistle – was an opinion from the Attorney General. So the Attorney General issued an opinion, which is a fairly normal thing to do, saying, look, we&#8217;ve looked into this, our interpretation of the laws based on child abuse laws says that you cannot do this practice. So, hospitals are taking a risk at that point if they move forward because they could be prosecuted by the Attorney General because he&#8217;s made it clear what the interpretation is of that law. And then again, shortly afterwards the law was made extremely clear: You cannot do this in Texas.
JOHN: Then we have the Title IX changes, which do directly address gender identity and make this something for all publicly funded educational programs.
DAN: Yes, I have a new daughter now, she&#8217;s nine-months-old and God help the people who try to put a boy in whatever sport she wants to play. There&#8217;s not enough wrath for them. We have to fight this and the public is on our side — the public is on our side on all of these issues. We saw a Washington Post survey some time ago that asked the public, ”Do you support puberty blockers or hormone therapy for minors for a gender transition?” They didn&#8217;t even ask about surgeries, by the way – just asked about those two things. 70% said no. This practice of affirmative gender care is being rolled back in Europe. They&#8217;re seeing how the data just doesn&#8217;t add up. The recent systematic review by Dr. Cass from the U.K. really was the final nail in the coffin on this practice. After reviewing all of the data and all of the studies and all of the methodology behind each study, it showed that this practice just doesn&#8217;t come with any benefits, but it does come with enormous risks. And that&#8217;s a really big problem. These are huge long-term physiological changes, and if we can&#8217;t even point to any benefits from doing them – well, then we&#8217;ve got a problem on our hands.
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JOHN: Indeed. I want to talk about some actions you&#8217;ve taken related to this. First, you sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and Health and Human Services Secretary Javier Becerra, demanding all documents regarding the prosecution of Haim. In the letter, you say the prosecutor did not even review the evidence before considering him a target. Is that true?
DAN: That&#8217;s true, as far as we know. That&#8217;s from Dr. Haim&#8217;s lawyers and I don&#8217;t think they would make that claim if they didn&#8217;t have some sort of proof. Again, showing how politicized this is. I mean, they see a case like this and they say, “Let&#8217;s go, let&#8217;s go! Boom, boom, boom.” And they start shooting in the air and hooping and hollering and driving off into the sunset. That&#8217;s yet another reason we think this is politicized. This kind of thing should not be done lightly.
JOHN: Do you expect AG Garland to actually cooperate? He&#8217;s been pretty uncooperative so far with Congress. Do you feel like he&#8217;s going to stonewall again?
DAN: Absolutely. I don&#8217;t expect real answers to this. They&#8217;re going to come back and claim — if they even bother to respond— that it&#8217;s an active investigation and that they can&#8217;t possibly share records or any information about it. I have another piece of legislation, which I think would be quite helpful in this. I&#8217;ve been urging the Speaker to take it up because it&#8217;s already passed out of our committee on energy, and my legislation would actually prohibit funding the children&#8217;s hospitals around the nation, specifically for Graduate Medical Education (GME), which basically funds their residencies. It&#8217;s a federal program that helps fund residencies and hospitals. A good program we all like, but I don&#8217;t think you should have access to that kind of federal money if you are engaging in child abuse and bullying parents into “transitioning” their kids. So, again, the public is well behind us on this. I want to have that debate on the floor and get that moving.
JOHN: And that would block funds from going to that program if you did that, if you promoted transgender treatments and procedures for children.
DAN: Right. Your access to that federal money would be contingent on whether or not you perform those kinds of procedures.
JOHN: Final question: We&#8217;ve seen quite a few seemingly political prosecutions by government agencies, against Donald Trump and many of his attorneys — John Eastman, Rudy Giuliani — and even peaceful pro-life objectors. What do you make of what Jim Jordan calls a “weaponized” government?
DAN: Well, look we even created a subcommittee on Jordan&#8217;s Judiciary Committee to deal with this called the Weaponization of Government Select Committee. Obviously it&#8217;s something we take seriously as Republicans, and we&#8217;re not crazy. I&#8217;m the first to call out my own side when people are overreacting or going down some rabbit holes they shouldn&#8217;t go down. But this isn&#8217;t really one of them. There is a list of these prosecutions and they are out of the ordinary. We obviously just talked about this one, which is just simply out of the ordinary. Anything wildly out of the ordinary in the court of law should be looked at with some skepticism and you should note that there might be political bias there. The charges against Trump – I still haven&#8217;t heard one real good lawyer actually come out and say, “No, these are actually real charges, somebody else might get charged with this kind of thing.” Nobody has said that. Everybody knows they&#8217;re bogus. And the list goes on and on, and it&#8217;s ironic because the Democrats are constantly wringing their hands and clutching their pearls — that were probably donated to them by rich people in Hollywood. And they&#8217;re constantly wringing their hands about the “threats to democracy.” Well, one of the greatest threats to democracy is the upending of the sanctity of our judicial system. And if you don&#8217;t believe you can get a fair shot in a court of law, you do start to lose your democracy. That&#8217;s a huge part of our social contract, of our nation&#8217;s fabric that holds us together. This idea that there&#8217;s due process, that if you make the right arguments and you show the right evidence that you can prevail. If that turns out not to be the case, you&#8217;ve got a very, very serious problem on your hands, just from a basic civics perspective.
JOHN: A very troubling prospect, no doubt. Congressman, thank you so much for joining us. 
DAN: Thanks for having me.
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Planned Parenthood performed more abortions in 2021 and 2022 despite a massive decrease in patients, according to its latest annual report.
The country&#8217;s largest abortion provider <a href="https://cdn.plannedparenthood.org/uploads/filer_public/ec/f4/ecf43d92-fcd2-4d11-b299-e67b5c3ac394/2024-ppfa-annualreport-c3-digital.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that it <a href="https://lozierinstitute.org/fact-sheet-planned-parenthoods-2022-23-annual-report/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">performed</a> 392,715 abortions in the fiscal year ending in fall 2022.
That total is more than 18,000, or 5% higher, than the number of abortions performed the previous year, according to an analysis by the Charlotte Lozier Institute. It&#8217;s also a 20% increase over the organization&#8217;s past 10 annual reports.
Abortions made up more than 97% of Planned Parenthood&#8217;s pregnancy resolution services. Prenatal care, miscarriage care, and adoption referrals made up the other less than 3%. All in all, the abortion provider performed 228 abortions for every adoption referral, a higher ratio than each of the past 10 years.
“Planned Parenthood’s business is abortion, abortion and more abortion,&#8221; said Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America.
&#8220;Their annual report shocks the conscience, showing that they ended nearly 393,000 American lives in a single year. This puts abortions performed by Planned Parenthood in the top four leading causes of death in the United States, after heart disease, cancer and COVID-19,&#8221; Dannenfelser said.
The annual reports “consistently provide solid evidence that Planned Parenthood continues to prioritize abortion,” said Michael New, a social scientist and senior associate scholar at the Charlotte Lozier Institute, which analyzed the report.
While abortions were spiking, Planned Parenthood was serving fewer patients.
The report shows a total of 2.05 million patients over this period, 80,000 fewer people than the previous year.
Since 2010, Planned Parenthood&#8217;s total services have plummeted 17%.
Prenatal services are down 80% since peaking in 2009, and contraceptive services are down 39%. Cancer prevention services, which include breast exams and pap tests, have declined by 71%.
Despite the decrease in patients and services, however, the abortion giant&#8217;s total revenue and taxpayer funding have climbed.
Planned Parenthood reported more than $2 billion in income in its latest annual report, an increase from the previous year.
Taxpayer funding has increased 43% since 2010, reaching $699.3 million in the latest report, nearly $2 million a day, and making up 34% of the organization&#8217;s total revenue.
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The abortion provider also experienced a huge 44% jump in private donations for a total of $997.5 million.
Planned Parenthood&#8217;s total revenue over expenses was $178.6 million.
Pregnant women who walk into Planned Parenthood are &#8220;sold an abortion&#8221; 97% of the time rather than &#8220;helped to keep their child,&#8221; and meanwhile the abortion provider&#8217;s political arm spends money lobbying the federal government against &#8220;commonsense policies like protecting babies born alive after failed abortions,&#8221; Dannenfelser said.

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A federal judge has blocked a Texas law that would require pornographic websites to verify users&#8217; ages and issue health warnings.
Judge David Ezra, a Reagan appointee, on Thursday ruled HB 1181 unconstitutional and <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txwd.1172751222/gov.uscourts.txwd.1172751222.36.0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">issued</a> a preliminary injunction against it, saying the law goes &#8220;far beyond the interest of protecting minors.&#8221;
The judge ruled the law is vague and would violate Texans&#8217; First Amendment rights.
&#8220;By verifying information through government identification, the law will allow the government to peer into the most intimate and personal aspects of people’s lives,&#8221; Ezra wrote in his ruling.
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&#8220;It runs the risk that the state can monitor when an adult views sexually explicit materials and what kind of websites they visit,&#8221; Ezra wrote. &#8220;In effect, the law risks forcing individuals to divulge specific details of their sexuality to the state government to gain access to certain speech.&#8221;
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&#8220;Such restrictions have a substantial chilling effect,&#8221; the judge wrote.
The law would have required websites with one-third pornographic content to post several “public health warnings” about the psychological dangers of pornography and verify users&#8217; ages with their ID or another method.
Adult websites would be required to warn users that pornography is &#8220;potentially biologically addictive, is proven to harm human brain development, desensitizes brain reward circuits, increases conditioned responses, and weakens brain function.&#8221;
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The adult sites would also have to post a mental health hotline number and inform users that pornography is associated with low self-esteem and body image, eating disorders, and emotional and mental illnesses. Finally, sites would have to alert users that consuming pornography increases the demand for prostitution and child exploitation.
“The disclosures state scientific findings as a matter of fact, when in reality, they range from heavily contested to unsupported by the evidence,” Ezra wrote in his ruling.
Companies that violate the law would face a $10,000 daily fine if it is “in the public interest.&#8221; If a child accesses sexual material, a company could face fines of up to $250,000 per violation.
The judge cited a 1999 decision by a federal appeals court striking down the Child Online Protection Act, which also tried to block minors from accessing adult content online. Ezra also cited a Supreme Court ruling that struck down the majority of the Communications Decency Act, a federal law that regulated online pornography.
The judge said the Texas law has other issues too.
Some social media companies where children can access pornography, such as Reddit, would slip past the restrictions because they are likely not composed of one-third sexual material, the judge&#8217;s ruling said. Meanwhile, websites with sex health information would be blocked for minors, the judge predicted.
Thursday&#8217;s ruling is a win for the Free Speech Coalition, an advocacy organization for the adult industry, which <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/federal-judge-strikes-texas-law-requiring-age-verification-102863573" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sued</a> to block the law last month. Also suing are several adult video companies, including a Romanian company, and an anonymous adult performer who has videos on Pornhub.
Texas is not the only state that has imposed age restrictions on pornographic sites.
A Louisiana law that took effect this year <a href="https://apnews.com/article/louisiana-porn-verification-age-law-84c1883da24512effe6ab206284b0540" target="_blank" rel="noopener">requires</a> pornography websites to verify users are at least 18 years old as well.

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Emergency room doctors and pediatricians are pleading for help with a flood of children and teenagers showing up at emergency rooms due to mental health issues.
A surge of mental health emergencies among children has overwhelmed emergency rooms, according to a joint <a href="https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/doi/10.1542/peds.2023-063255/193697/The-Management-of-Children-and-Youth-With?autologincheck=redirected" target="_blank" rel="noopener">paper</a> released Wednesday by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) and Emergency Nurses Association (ENA).
The children showing up in crisis are often suffering from emergencies related to anxiety, depression, and suicidal thoughts or attempts, the groups said.
&#8220;The ER has become a de facto referral center for all of these problems, and there&#8217;s too many of them for the emergency department to manage,&#8221; <a href="https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2023/08/17/emergency-rooms-mental-health-children/1861692214123/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> lead author Dr. Mohsen Saidinejad, who directs pediatric emergency medicine at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. Saidinejad is also a member of the AAP and ACEP committees on pediatric emergency medicine.
&#8220;That is not who we are as ER physicians. We are not mental health professionals. We cannot provide definitive care,&#8221; Saidinejad said.
About half a million children with mental or behavioral health problems show up at emergency rooms each year, according to the joint paper. That number was already rising before the pandemic, but the pandemic exacerbated the crisis, the physician groups said.
One issue emergency rooms encounter is that pediatric mental health crises tend to be very complex and require much longer hospital stays. The average pediatric mental health stay is 17 hours compared to an average five hours for all emergency room stays, according to the paper.
The pediatric mental emergency visits also drain &#8220;resources that would have been needed to run the normal medical operations of the ER, so that increases of length of stay for the other patients as well,&#8221; Saidinejad said.
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Another issue is that children who arrive at emergency rooms in crisis are less likely to get the follow-up care they need if they only go to an emergency room rather than a psychiatric crisis center or community mental health center, according to Saidinejad.
The physician groups are <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/emergency-room-doctors-beg-help-treating-children-mental-health-illnes-rcna99951" target="_blank" rel="noopener">calling</a> for several measures to address the crisis.
One measure is community-based teams that could respond to children in crisis at school, in doctors&#8217; offices, and even at their homes. Another measure is placing pediatric mental health professionals in emergency departments. Another aid the groups suggested is supporting emergency department staff with information about high-risk children, such as abuse victims and post-traumatic stress disorder.
The country&#8217;s mental health system needs to be expanded as well, the paper&#8217;s authors said.
There is only one mental health professional for every 124,000 children, and as many as 55% of all counties do not have even one psychiatric professional, Saidinejad <a href="https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2023/08/17/emergency-rooms-mental-health-children/1861692214123/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
Telehealth for children&#8217;s mental health could also help in treating children before they land in the emergency room, the authors said.
&#8220;We in the ER are basically a safety net. We can&#8217;t say no to anything. We have to accept whatever comes our way. And I think that is why everybody is referring these children to the ER,&#8221; Saidinejad said.

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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is funding research on the effects of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormone treatment on youth despite acknowledgment from the grantee that these medical interventions can result in sterility.
A <a href="https://defendinged.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/consent_forms-JOK.pdf">parent or guardian consent form</a> from Children&#8217;s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), titled “Pubertal Blockers for Minors in Early Adolescence,” states, “If your child starts puberty blockers in the earliest stages of puberty, and then goes on to gender affirming hormones, they will not develop sperm or eggs. This means that they will not be able to have biological children.”
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It goes on to read, “This is an important aspect of blocking puberty and progressing to hormones that you should understand prior to moving forward with puberty suppression.”  It adds that fertility can be maintained if a child takes puberty blockers but does not undergo cross-sex hormone therapy. <a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0243894">Two</a> different <a href="https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanchi/article/PIIS2352-4642(22)00254-1/fulltext#%20">studies</a>, however, have found that roughly 98% of children who take puberty blockers go on to take cross-sex hormone therapy. 
After the parent/guardian decides to proceed with pubertal blocker medication, the consent form requires the signature of both the parent/guardian and the child (patient).
Dr. Stanley Goldfarb is the director of an advocacy group called <a href="https://donoharmmedicine.org/about/">Do No Harm</a>, which seeks to &#8220;protect healthcare from a radical, divisive, and discriminatory ideology.&#8221; He criticized the idea of a minor possibly signing away their ability to reproduce.   
&#8220;Anyone who thinks a child reading this document will be able to give informed consent is engaging in a massive instance of self delusion,” Goldfarb told The Daily Wire. “Children simply cannot understand the impact of any of this on their bodies, and on their future.” 
The CHLA form echoes a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/irreversible-infertility-listed-as-risk-of-hormone-therapy-on-trans-clinic-waiver">waiver</a> from the University of Virginia Medical Center’s Children’s Hospital Transgender Youth Health that listed “irreversible infertility” as a potential side effect of cross-sex hormone therapy.
“It is unconscionable that a hospital would use children as guinea pigs at the behest of the federal government — offering families a paltry sum,” said Nicki Neily, founder and president of Parents Defending Education, a nonprofit on a mission to &#8220;reclaim our schools from activists imposing harmful agendas.&#8221;
“Polling has consistently found that a majority of Americans oppose these procedures. For the federal government to fund this research with tax dollars, despite such widespread opposition, is truly insult to injury,” she continued.
An NIH-funded <a href="https://reporter.nih.gov/search/OPTb_4f5-kOe2wU2YYzolA/project-details/10615754">study</a> at CHLA titled “The Impact of Early Medical Treatment in Transgender Youth” focuses on the use of transgender drugs on youth. It is led by <a href="https://www.chla.org/profile/johanna-olson-kennedy-md">Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy</a>, the Medical Director for The Center for Transyouth Health and Development at CHLA, which describes itself as the “largest transgender youth clinic in the United States.” The project, which <a href="https://taggs.hhs.gov/Detail/AwardDetail?arg_AwardNum=R01HD082554&amp;arg_ProgOfficeCode=50">began</a> in fiscal year 2015 but is still ongoing, <a href="https://reporter.nih.gov/search/OPTb_4f5-kOe2wU2YYzolA/project-details/10401756">boasts</a> that it “successfully recruited” two cohorts, consisting of “95 youth initiating pubertal suppression with gonadotropin releasing hormone analogs” as well as “316 youth initiating gender-affirming hormone (GAH) therapy (testosterone or estrogen).” It aims to &#8220;examine physiological and psychosocial effects of medical intervention for transgender and gender diverse (TGD) youth with gender dysphoria.&#8221;
Another form from CHLA obtained by Parents Defending Education reveals that patients were offered financial incentives to participate in the study. 
“In consideration of your time participating in this research, the study team would like to offer you payment,” it states before specifying that participants would receive $50 for each visit, totaling $400. 
It also adds, “you or a family member or friend you designate will receive reimbursement for parking and/or transportation, or be provided transportation as needed.”
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While CHLA is listed as the awardee organization, the study is carried out across four transgender youth clinics, including Boston Children’s Hospital, the University of California San Francisco Benioff Children’s Hospital, and the Ann and Robert Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.
The study <a href="https://taggs.hhs.gov/Detail/AwardDetail?arg_AwardNum=R01HD082554&amp;arg_ProgOfficeCode=50">received</a> $7,748,467 from 2015 to 2022 before securing another $963,441 in fiscal year 2023. The researchers note that the renewal would allow them to “evaluate the longer-term physiological and psychological impact of existing medical treatment protocols initiated in adolescence on youth with gender dysphoria for up to an additional 4 years.” They will attempt to “enhance the diversity and size of existing cohorts by enrolling additional youth of color (YOC) into both cohorts” as they continue the study. 
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While the researchers have stated that early results have shown &#8220;a positive trend regarding mental health response to gender affirming interventions,” a recent <a href="https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2206297">article</a> about the ongoing study reported “death by suicide occurred in 2 participants,” while 11 others experienced suicidal ideation.
Republican members of Congress responded to the deaths with a <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/05/09/exclusive-republicans-demand-answers-nih-transgender-youth-experiments-study-left-2-dead-others-sterilized/">letter</a> to NIH Acting Director Lawrence Tabak, citing “grave concerns” about the study while also pointing out that “the researchers admitted that they were not able to properly establish causality between the administration of cross-sex hormones and improved psychosocial functioning because their study lacked a control group.”
Meanwhile, the NIH is also giving more than $3.2 million to an effort from the Boston Children’s Hospital to produce a “trans health guide” that aims to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/republican-senators-blast-nih-for-3-million-grant-to-expand-medical-transitions-for-minors">expand access</a> to sex changes for minors.
Neither CHLA nor NIH responded to requests for comment.

Vials and Syringe

NIH Funds Study On Puberty Blockers, Hormones On Youth Despite Risk Of Sterilization

Boston Children's Hospital

Hospitals

Los Angeles

Advocates of so-called &#8220;gender affirming care&#8221; for children have sought to lower the minimum age for cross-sex hormone therapy, but waivers at a top Virginia clinic require parents to acknowledge a frightening list of potential permanent side effects.
The waivers from the University of Virginia (UVA) Medical Center, obtained exclusively by The Daily Wire, list the potentially harmful side effects of testosterone treatment and puberty blocker usage. The UVA Children’s Hospital <a href="https://childrens.uvahealth.com/services/transgender-youth-health">Transgender Youth Health</a> clinic offers “transgender youth health services for ages 11 to 25.”
“Testosterone therapy may cause transient infertility due to loss of ovulation or irreversible infertility due to ovarian tissue damage,” one warning from a document titled “Consent For Testosterone Therapy&#8221; reads. It goes on to suggest “banking eggs.”
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The form also states “I authorize Dr. __________, based upon my child’s treatment goals, to treat me/my child with testosterone for the purpose of gender transition.” 
The list of side effects points out that “this is an ‘off-label’ use of this medication &#8211; it has not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration.” Other potential side effects include high cholesterol, sleep apnea, and “increased risk of … yeast infections.” 
Another UVA Health consent form lists potential side effects for puberty blockers. “Bone density may be compromised if puberty blockers are used on a long-term basis,” it reads. The form also notes that, like cross-sex hormone therapy, puberty blockers are also used off-label for a non-FDA approved purpose.
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It also addresses fertility concerns, stating, “Although puberty blockers do not appear to have long-term effects on fertility, if someone intends to proceed directly to cross-sex hormones in the future … there may not be an opportunity to explore fertility preservation options.”
But despite the potential for permanent infertility and other side effects, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) announced <a href="https://apnews.com/article/gender-transition-treatment-guidelines-9dbe54f670a3a0f5f2831c2bf14f9bbb" target="_blank" rel="noopener">new guidelines</a> last year, which recommend that children as young as 14 should be able to receive cross-sex hormone treatments before <a href="https://www.economist.com/united-states/2022/09/22/new-standards-of-transgender-health-care-raise-eyebrows" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ditching the age limits</a> altogether just hours later in a &#8220;correction.&#8221;
Detransitioner <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/detransitioner-chloe-cole-gives-powerful-testimony-against-gender-affirming-care-at-white-house">Chloe Cole,</a> who began medically transitioning in California at just 13 years old, told The Daily Wire that the process to get puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones &#8220;was not very rigorous at all.&#8221;
&#8220;The diagnostic process and treatment were effectively led by me as the patient and I was never told to wait by my psychologists,&#8221; she noted.
&#8220;I began puberty blockers only about half a year after my dysphoria diagnosis. A month or so afterward, I was administered my first testosterone shot,&#8221; Cole, now 18, said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think fertility preservation options like IVF, egg storage etc. were presented to me, ever.&#8221;
&#8220;Many of the side effects listed in my forms were written in vague terms and most of the ones I&#8217;m experiencing today were not disclosed,&#8221; Cole stated.
Cole also explained that, after being told she was too young to be put on hormones by one endocrinologist, she was referred to a different endocrinologist who expressed no such concerns. She still deals with adverse effects of cross-sex hormone therapy, experiencing &#8220;difficulties with my libido, physiological arousal, sensation, and achieving orgasm,&#8221; as well as joint pain and urinary tract issues.
&#8220;It DEEPLY disgusts me that anybody under 18 is being allowed to pursue something so trivial that potentially could and WILL result in these things, and that the age of recommendation for these procedures is only being lowered.&#8221;
Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, the board chair of <a href="https://donoharmmedicine.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Do No Harm</a>, explained that many parents are coerced into signing waivers for so-called &#8220;gender affirming&#8221; medical interventions.
&#8220;Have they been told for example, that their children are at risk of suicide, if they don’t comply with his protocol?&#8221; Goldfarb said in a statement to The Daily Wire. &#8220;This form of coercion often underlies parents ‘willingness to pursue these treatments, even though the literature suggests that suicide is not a risk in these children above and beyond that associated with their underlying psychological disorders of depression, autism, or a history of sexual or other forms of abuse.&#8221;
He also addressed the approval process, noting, &#8220;I have encountered at least one gender clinic in Southern California that reports that they do not even require a letter from a therapist who asserts that the child is able to make a decision about gender transition in the absence of other substantial, psychological disorders.&#8221;
January Littlejohn, a parent advocate at Do No Harm, told The Daily Wire that &#8220;children and adolescents do not have the cognitive maturity to consent to cross sex cross hormones and their longterm consequences, yet all treatments are based on a child’s self-ID as &#8216;transgender.'&#8221;
&#8220;Where else in medicine do we &#8216;follow the child’s lead&#8217; toward irreversible medical treatments?&#8221; she added.
&#8220;Thorough assessments are not often occurring, and adolescents are being fast-tracked to a life-long medical pathway that will ultimately lead to sterilization and destruction of their future sexual functioning,&#8221; Littlejohn warned.
&#8220;Adolescents must be protected from the irreversible harms we are seeing from these dangerous experimental interventions,&#8221; she asserted.
Psychologist Erica Anderson <a href="https://apnews.com/article/gender-transition-treatment-guidelines-9dbe54f670a3a0f5f2831c2bf14f9bbb" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resigned</a> from her role as a board member of WPATH after witnessing “horror stories,” with families telling her “our child had 20 minutes with the doctor” before being offered cross-sex hormone therapy.
Meanwhile, detransitioners like <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/detransitioner-chloe-cole-announces-official-lawsuit-against-kaiser-permanente-for-medical-negligence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chloe Cole </a>and <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/06/16/they-were-experimenting-her-teen-detransitioner-sues-doctors-child-gender-transition/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kayla Lovdahl</a> are in the process of suing medical institutions that provided them with hormonal and surgical treatments intended to change their genders.
UVA Health did not respond to a request for comment.

Syringe and vial

‘Irreversible Infertility’ Listed As Risk Of Hormone Therapy On Trans Clinic Waiver

LGBT

University of Virginia

The director of an Oregon pediatric <a href="https://www.ohsu.edu/doernbecher/doernbecher-gender-services" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gender clinic</a> received thousands of dollars in 2018 from a pharmaceutical company that produces puberty blockers, data reviewed by The Daily Wire shows.
<a href="https://www.ohsu.edu/providers/kara-j-connelly-md">Kara Connelly</a>, the director of the <a href="https://www.ohsu.edu/doernbecher/doernbecher-gender-services">gender clinic</a> at Doernbecher Children’s Hospital in Portland, has received at least $3,114 from Endo Pharmaceuticals, data from the United States government’s <a href="https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/physician/839798" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Open Payments</a> transparency program reveals. 
Connelly received the sum across nine separate payments for consulting, travel, and lodging. Overall, she received $2,110 for consulting, $815 for travel and lodging, and $189 for food and beverages. Each of these payments occurred in 2018, the most recent year for which data is available. 
Open Payments data reveals that Connelly was compensated for consulting services<a href="https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/payment/2018/General/605954205" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> directly related to Supprelin LA</a>, a product of Endo Pharmaceuticals that is used off-label as a puberty blocker. The Food and Drug Administration has <a href="https://publications.aap.org/aapnews/news/20636/Risk-of-pseudotumor-cerebri-added-to-labeling-for?autologincheck=redirected" target="_blank" rel="noopener">warned</a> that Supprelin LA, which has a <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/02/24/808049526/hormone-blocker-sticker-shock-kids-drug-costs-8-times-more-than-one-for-adults" target="_blank" rel="noopener">list price</a> of $37,000, may carry the risk of causing brain swelling and permanent vision loss. 
An analysis by <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/doctors-prescribe-more-of-a-drug-if-they-receive-money-from-a-pharma-company-tied-to-it/amp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ProPublica</a> found that “doctors who received payments linked to specific drugs prescribed more of those drugs.” The report went on to add that &#8220;On average, across all drugs, providers who received payments specifically tied to a drug prescribed it 58% more than providers who did not receive payments.&#8221;
Franny White, a senior media relations specialist at Oregon Health and Science University, defended Connelly in a statement, saying the collaboration was done in compliance with ethics guidelines and state and federal regulations.
&#8220;As part of its mission to ensure the health and well-being of all patients, Oregon Health &amp; Science University collaborates with a variety of external entities. External collaboration is done in accordance with OHSU’s strict ethical guidelines as well as federal and state regulations. OHSU pediatrician Kara Connelly, M.D., briefly served as a consultant for Endo Pharmaceuticals in 2018, and has not done so since that time,&#8221; White said in a statement to the Daily Wire.
&#8220;OHSU proudly offers gender-affirming health care to patients of all ages,&#8221; White continued, adding that the hospital&#8217;s medical transition of minors &#8220;follows established, evidence-based medical standards, and are offered through a thoughtful, multidisciplinary process that involves both patients and their support systems.&#8221;
Connelly did not respond to a request for comment.
The Doernbecher Children’s Hospital explains that it offers “<a href="https://www.ohsu.edu/doernbecher/doernbecher-gender-services" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pubertal suppression,</a>” which, citing WPATH, it says “gives adolescents time to explore their gender,&#8221; noting that “some teens may go on to transition with hormone therapy or surgery.&#8221;
The hospital even produced an informational <a href="https://www.ohsu.edu/sites/default/files/2020-12/Gender-Clinic-Puberty-Blockers-Handout.pdf">guide on puberty blockers</a>, which refers not to men and women or boys and girls, but “people with testicles” and “people with ovaries.” It also explains that some of the most commonly used puberty blockers are Supprelin LA from Endo Pharmaceuticals and Lupron Depot, from pharmaceutical company AbbVie. 
Meanwhile, Connelly’s <a href="https://www.ohsu.edu/providers/kara-j-connelly-md">profile</a> on the hospital’s website lists the Pediatric Endocrine Society (PES) under “memberships and associations.” PES touts AbbVie’s drug Lupron and Endo Pharmaceuticals’ drug Supprelin LA in its <a href="https://pedsendo.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Pubertal-Suppression-for-Youth-with-Gender-Dysphoria.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">guide to pubertal suppression</a>.
Connelly is just one of numerous children’s gender clinic directors who have <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/health/2022/08/12/puberty-blocker-manufacturers-fund-pro-trans-doctors-medical-associations-activist-organization/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">received funds</a> from pharmaceutical companies that produce puberty blockers. 
<a href="https://www.breitbart.com/health/2022/07/25/puberty-blocker-manufacturer-gave-money-director-boston-childrens-transgender-clinic/">Jeremi Carswell</a>, the director of the Boston Children’s Hospital Gender Multispecialty Clinic, is one such doctor. She received $2,110 from Endo Pharmaceuticals in 2018 for consulting related to Supprelin LA and a total of $3,055 from the company, according to<a href="https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/physician/1167412" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Open Payments data</a>.
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An <a href="https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2020-08381-001" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> co-written by Carswell titled “Pubertal suppression for transgender youth and risk of suicidal ideation” had to be revised to note that Carswell “has received an advisory board stipend from Endo Pharmaceuticals.”
<a href="https://www.breitbart.com/health/2022/07/26/childrens-gender-clinic-founder-was-consultant-puberty-blocker-manufacturers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stephen Rosenthal</a>, the founder and director of the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital’s Child and Adolescent Gender Center as well as a former president of the Pediatric Endocrine Society, took a<a href="https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/physician/1004717" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> total of $16,637</a> from Endo Pharmaceuticals and AbbVie Pharmaceuticals between 2015 and 2018. 
Both<a href="https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/physician/183677" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Maja Marinkovic</a>, the <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/health/2022/07/26/puberty-blocker-company-paid-co-director-childrens-transgender-clinic/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">co-director</a> of the Rady Children’s Hospital of San Diego Center for Gender-Affirming Care, and<a href="https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/physician/1251744" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Joshua Safer</a>, the <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/health/2022/07/28/puberty-blocker-manufacturer-paid-director-mount-sinai-transgender-clinic-consulting/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">executive director</a> of the Mount Sinai Center for Transgender Surgery and Medicine, have taken thousands from Endo Pharmaceuticals for consulting services directly relating to the puberty-blocking drug.

Empty stretcher in a hospital with a Stethoscope

Oregon Child Transgender Clinic Director Took Thousands Of Dollars From Puberty Blocker Developer

Oregon Child Transgender Clinic Director Took Money From Puberty Blocker Developer

Big Pharma

Puberty blockers

De-stigmatizing obesity for kids may be the newest frontier of the fat acceptance movement.
At least, that’s the goal of author Virginia Sole-Smith. Her new book “Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture” advocates for parents learning to embrace their overweight children just the way they are. She also believes in letting kids eat whatever they want, including candy and sweets, without forcing them to try vegetables or enjoy balanced meals of traditionally healthy foods.
The author, who describes herself as an “anti-diet journalist,” spoke with <a href="https://www.thecut.com/article/interview-virginia-sole-smith-parenting-fatphobia.html#comments" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Cut</a> about some of her thoughts on kids and diet. In the article titled “What If You Weren’t Scared of Your Kid Being Fat?” Sole-Smith said that one of the most common questions parents ask is how often their kids should be able to eat certain foods. Using the example of ice cream, she gave her usual response. 
“There are seven days in a week. Your child can have ice cream seven days a week. There is no law against this,” she said, while insisting that if a parent inquired over their teenager asking for an entire box of Oreo cookies, her response would be, “Pour a glass of milk — so they can dunk them?”
The 41-year-old mother of two makes the argument that limiting certain foods just makes them more appealing to kids. Her approach assumes that children learn self-control by not having any rules at all, thereby making sugary treats less exciting. 
“Vegetables are the least important part of it to me,” she told the publication. “They have their whole lives to decide if they want to eat kale.” Sole-Smith also described some of the dinner rules at her house, which include, “No pressure/Listen to your body” and “You don’t have to earn dessert.”
Sole-Smith attempts to “debunk” the childhood obesity epidemic in the United States by arguing that society’s fear of fatness could be more detrimental than minors being overweight. “The real danger to a child in a larger body is how we treat them for having that body,” she writes in “Fat Talk.”
The fat acceptance activist’s arguments are similar to those made by individuals promoting “transgender rights” for children. They say that kids should be able to tell us who they are, no matter how young they are. But these adults seem to ignore the fact that they are meant to be the ones in charge.
Children learn eating habits from their parents. Parents and other trusted adults have traditionally served as guides to show children how to exist in the world. Minors literally don’t have the mental capacity to understand the long-term effects of eating cookies for dinner every night. That’s why there are age restrictions on certain activities, such as getting tattoos and purchasing alcohol. It’s also why up until now, most everyone agreed that parents should promote good eating habits for their children. 
Sole-Smith thinks kids should be running the show and that everyone should be more accepting of overweight people because ultimately, their mental health trumps the physical risks of being obese. 
Meanwhile, the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/childhood.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CDC</a> called childhood obesity a “serious problem” which leads to problems including “high blood pressure, high cholesterol, type 2 diabetes, breathing problems such as asthma and sleep apnea, and joint problems.” They reported that 19.7% of children aged 2 to 19 were classified as obese according to BMI charts. That’s 14.7 million children and adolescents who could face health problems due to their weight.
This week, Sole-Smith went on NPR’s “Fresh Air” podcast to promote her new book and further explain her pro-obesity stance. She said that the pursuit of weight loss is rooted in white supremacy.
“The thin ideal is definitely a white ideal. When we trace the history of modern diet culture, we really trace it back in the United States to the end of slavery,” Sole-Smith told host Tonya Mosley.
“Obviously, white supremacy is trying to maintain the power structure. So celebrating a thin white body as the ideal body is a way to ‘other’ and demonize black and brown bodies, bigger bodies, anyone who doesn’t fit into that norm. So this is really about maintaining systems of white supremacy and patriarchy.”
“If you can understand that, actually, by continuing to pursue thinness you are on some level, maintaining your complicity with white supremacy and patriarchy,” she continued.
Sole-Smith said that fat people are discriminated against in the same way that other minority groups experience “racism or other forms of bias.”
&#8220;We as a culture have really zeroed in on weight, because we think that&#8217;s the piece that we should be able to control. But not only do we not have very much control over weight, it also won&#8217;t fix anything else,&#8221; the author <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/04/25/1171112216/fat-talk-diet-culture-parenting-kids-virginia-sole-smith" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> NPR. &#8220;All it really ends up doing is pathologizing kids&#8217; bodies and giving parents extra pressure and extra guilt and these sort of unrealistic standards we can&#8217;t get to.&#8221;
The author used to write weight loss stories for women’s magazines such as Glamour. Her perspective on childhood diets changed after her one-month-old daughter experienced medical trauma and had to be put on a feeding tube.
Sole-Smith told The Cut that the ordeal led her to decide that “obsessing over it doesn’t fix it — it makes it worse.” Following that experience, the author decided to let her two children make their own nutrition choices. “It’s the power to say no, to be curious and try new things, and to decide when and how much they want to eat,” she explained of her approach.
As more and more people advocate for fat acceptance, it’s only a matter of time before activists decide that overweight kids existing on a diet of candy and soda should just be left to live as they please. Who are we to judge?

Cropped Image Of Tempted Boy Holding French Fries Packet

Fat Acceptance Activist Insists Childhood Obesity Isn’t A Problem After All — That’s Just White Supremacy

Fat Acceptance Activist Insists Childhood Obesity Isn't A Problem After All — That's Just White Supremacy

Books

Fat Acceptance

Food

Obesity

Woke Culture

The co-director at Boston Children&#8217;s Hospital&#8217;s Center for Gender Surgery co-wrote an article that declared a need for increasing training efforts for gender-affirming surgeries.
The center performs mastectomies on teenagers as young as 15; the hospital <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220812191705/https:/www.childrenshospital.org/programs/center-gender-surgery-program/eligibility-surgery" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admitted</a> on its website (later deleted) that 17-year-olds could receive vaginoplasties and 18-year-olds could receive phalloplasties or metoidioplasties (surgical creations of a penis for a female).
“Physicians who provide GAC [gender affirming care] will face a greater burden due to constraints in certain states and increasing demands for care,” plastic and reconstructive surgeon Oren Ganor, the co-director of the center, co-wrote in an <a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2801614" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> published in the March 14 edition of The Journal of the American Medical Association. “Especially as certain states work to criminalize GAC for adolescents, there will be an increased flux of patients traveling to seek care in states with more open legislation.”
“Although the legal landscape may be more favorable in these states, the capacity to treat these patients does not match the demand,” the co-authors continued. “How, then, can these states expand clinician capacity and improve competencies in treating transgender patients? The medical community can take several steps to improve capacity for this patient population. &#8230; With certain states restricting gender-affirming surgeries, residency programs in states with more favorable regulations must ensure they increase training efforts to accommodate increased caseloads of gender-affirming surgeries that will likely result.”
The co-authors cited “rampant transphobia in the U.S.,” claiming it “sometimes results in increased violence against transgender people plus intimidation and threats of violence against those who provide their care.”
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“It is important to recognize that for many gender-diverse young people, the decision to engage in gender-affirming care can be lifesaving and life-changing. Without this care, gender-diverse youth can experience severe distress, anxiety, and depression,” the hospital <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/boston-childrens-hospital-director-calls-drastic-increase-capacity-gender-surgeries-minors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News Digital.
“[A]ny decisions about gender-affirming care should be made after a rigorous evaluation process that involves a psychologist or social worker, a patient&#8217;s doctor and their parents or guardians.”
A hospital spokesperson clarified, “for surgical consultation, you must be 17 years of age and between 18 and 35 years of age at the time of surgery. We have since updated this to reflect the protocols for the practice, which we have always adhered to (no surgery under 18 years of age).”

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Boston Children’s Hospital Official: Expand Training For ‘Gender-Affirming’ Surgeries

A resident doctor who was training in family medicine not only had an alleged huge cache of child porn, but he also allegedly recorded children <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/03/15/doctor-bradford-ferrick-accused-of-possessing-child-porn/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">as young as 6 years old</a> using a camera hidden in a bracelet as he examined them.
Dr. Bradford David Ferrick, 32, of Amherst, Massachusetts, was ordered held without bail on Tuesday. He had been completing his medical residency at Baystate Franklin Family Medicine since last summer.
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Trainee family doctor, Dr Bradford David Ferrick, 32, is arrested &#39;after cops found huge trove of child porn and clips of him examining children he&#39;d secretly recorded on a BRACELET&#39; during search of his parents&#39; $1.1m mansion <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/childsexabusematerials?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#childsexabusematerials</a> <a href="https://t.co/Pq488wWs43">https://t.co/Pq488wWs43</a>
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“I can think of no greater fear as a parent or guardian than potential harm coming to your child. Today we allege that this doctor, who held a position of trust with access to children, maintained child sexual abuse material,” U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins stated.
The first incident that led to the discovery of Ferrick’s alleged depravity came when police in Winchester, where Ferrick’s parents live, reviewed three cyber tips from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children; those tips suggested a Google account was uploading child pornography. Files had been uploaded to an IP address in the Syracuse, New York, area; Ferrick was attending the University of New York Upstate Medical University there.
More tips reportedly found illicit material uploaded at an IP address connected to Ferrick’s parents’ home. Investigators searching the home found 61 electronic devices, including hidden camera systems and memory cards holding “thousands of images and videos” purportedly showing child pornography, The Boston Globe <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/03/15/metro/resident-doctor-accused-child-pornography-possession-ordered-held-without-bail-federal-court/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
The affidavit for Ferrick stated that he had purchased “numerous hidden camera devices.”
Federal investigators said they found a hidden camera in a bathroom of a house belonging to Ferrick’s relatives, who have two toddlers; the camera was designed to masquerade as a wall outlet. The box for the camera was found at Ferrick&#8217;s parents&#8217; house.
One recording of Ferrick reportedly showed him discussing a young boy’s genitals with the boy&#8217;s mother.
Federal authorities have created a <a href="https://forms.fbi.gov/seeking-victim-information-in-bradford-ferrick-investigation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">page</a> for people who think Ferrick may have targeted their children. The page lists five facilities where such an incident might have occurred: Upstate University Hospital, Upstate Galisano Children Hospital, Baystate Medical Center Department of  Family Medicine-Baystate Franklin Family Medicine, Baystate Medical Center Department of Pediatrics, and Baystate Medical Center Department of Emergency Medicine-Pediatric Emergency Medicine.
Chalonda James, speaking for Baystate Health, stated, “We cannot comment on pending criminal charges. Ferrick has been on unpaid administrative leave from Baystate Franklin Medical Center since mid-February. We are cooperating with law enforcement authorities as they proceed with their investigation.”

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Family Doctor Arrested For Child Porn, Allegedly Recorded Children With Camera Hidden In Bracelet

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