The number of Australian adolescents referred to pediatric gender clinics has &#8220;skyrocketed&#8221; in recent years, according to a Daily Telegraph <a href="https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/number-of-australian-children-being-treated-for-gender-dysphoria-revealed/news-story/9d753eea9ff6155b05df9342d1b0a759" target="_blank" rel="noopener">investigation</a>.
New data from a Freedom of Information (FOI) request found that 2,067 minors were enrolled in public adolescent gender clinics in 2021, representing an 880% increase from 2014 when 211 minors were enrolled. The actual number of minors receiving treatment for gender dysphoria in Australia is estimated to be much higher, as this figure does not include children treated in private practice.
Puberty blocker prescriptions in Australia peaked in 2019, with 624 minors receiving the drug, up 12,380% from 2014 when only 5 children were prescribed blockers. This number reduced to 198 in 2021, which the Daily Telegraph speculated was &#8220;possibly due to COVID lockdowns.&#8221; 
In 2021, 204 adolescents were prescribed cross-sex hormones from pediatric gender clinics, a 656% rise from the 27 minors prescribed hormones in 2014.
Dr. Dianna Kenny, an Australian psychologist and retired professor of psychology at the University of Sydney, said the data obtained from the FOI request was likely a &#8220;gross underestimate&#8221; of the number of minors who are being socially and medically transitioned in Australia.
“These numbers show a trend and that is upwards,” said Dr. Kenny. “They don’t include figures from the private sector, where there’s been an explosion of private practitioners prescribing puberty blockers or cross sex hormones.”
Victoria and Queensland, both densely populated states in Australia, have seen the highest growth in pediatric gender clinic referrals. In 2021, 1,120 children were enrolled in public clinics in Victoria, and 635 in Queensland. 
Dr. Kenny has been an outspoken critic of &#8220;gender-affirming&#8221; care, which <a href="https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/142/4/e20182162/37381/Ensuring-Comprehensive-Care-and-Support-for">discourages</a> medical professionals from questioning a minor’s self-reported transgender identity or exploring possible underlying factors that may be causing their dysphoria. She believes social media has led to the explosion of adolescent females adopting a transgender identity. 
In a recent <a href="https://youtu.be/sZbEsaJMvRU" target="_blank" rel="noopener">episode</a> of the YouTube podcast &#8220;TERF Talk Down Under,&#8221; Dr. Kenny equated surgically removing the breasts of teenage girls to medical malpractice.
Philip Morris, the president of the National Association of Practicing Psychiatrists, has <a href="https://youtu.be/iEU00Ks1Qms" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> for a &#8220;proper inquiry&#8221; into how to treat Australian children with gender dysphoria.
“The magnitude of the effects on a young person’s life, especially children and adolescents, is huge,” Dr. Morris said. “It involves ongoing medical treatment for the rest of their lives, loss of their fertility and sexual responsiveness. It’s absolutely essential to have a proper strategy as is happening in the UK, Sweden and Finland.”
After conducting systematic reviews of the evidence for the use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones in treating pediatric gender dysphoria, health authorities in <a href="https://segm.org/segm-summary-sweden-prioritizes-therapy-curbs-hormones-for-gender-dysphoric-youth" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sweden</a>, <a href="https://genderreport.ca/finland-strict-guidelines-for-treating-gender-dysphoria/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Finland</a>, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/englands-national-health-service-abandons-gender-affirming-model-of-care" target="_blank" rel="noopener">England</a> have decided to abandon the “gender-affirming” model, finding the costs far outweigh the benefits.
Eloise Brook, a <a href="https://joy.org.au/wordforword/2015/06/call-me-eloise-trans-activist-eloise-brook/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">transgender activist</a> and board member of The Gender Centre in Sydney, revealed the clinic saw 347 children with gender dysphoria in 2021-2022, and believes the number will only increase.
&#8220;Because of the science we provided the appropriate care,&#8221; Brook said. &#8220;We are a frontline service. We help families, hold them together and make sure their kids stay alive.&#8221;
Brook, citing the debunked &#8220;<a href="https://www.realityslaststand.com/p/pediatric-gender-medicine-and-the" target="_blank" rel="noopener">affirm-or-suicide</a>&#8221; narrative, said that failing to affirm a child&#8217;s chosen identity will drive them to commit suicide. 
&#8220;Anything else is utterly unacceptable and barbaric,&#8221; said Brook. &#8220;This disingenuous argument that trans kids are not trans, it kills these kids.”
Brook is a strong proponent of the affirmative approach, which is also recommended by The Australian Professional Association for Trans Health (AusPATH), an offshoot of the World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH), an organization <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-declaration-launches-opposition-to-leading-transgender-health-association" target="_blank" rel="noopener">denounced</a> internationally by medical and mental health professionals for its “adherence to ideological views unsupported by evidence, its exclusion of ethical concerns, and its mischaracterization of basic science.”

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New Data Reveals Pediatric Gender Clinic Referrals In Australia Have ‘Skyrocketed’

Australia

Health

Puberty blockers

Social Issues

Transgender

transgender surgery

Syringe with Pills Background

What Pediatric Gender Clinics Have In Common With Opioid ‘Pill Mills’

Opioid Crisis

Readers Pass

U.S.

Canadian financial corporation TD Bank quietly donated half a million dollars to a program earlier this year that conducts so-called &#8220;gender-affirming&#8221; irreversible procedures on minors.
According to a May 2022 <a href="https://stories.td.com/ca/en/article/pediatric-gender-diversity-program" target="_blank" rel="noopener">newsletter</a>, the financial institution funded $500,000 through Canada&#8217;s Children&#8217;s Hospital Foundations to support &#8220;gender transitions&#8221; through the McMaster Pediatric Gender Diversity Program, which provides medical and mental health services for &#8220;trans and gender diverse youth&#8221; at the McMaster Children&#8217;s Hospital in Hamilton, Ontario.
&#8220;We are aware that adolescent physical and mental health remains a pressing issue,&#8221; Sarah Colley, community relations manager for TD, said. &#8220;That&#8217;s why we are so pleased to provide support to the McMaster Pediatric Gender Diversity Program through the TD Ready Commitment.&#8221;
Current laws do not have an age of consent required for gender reassignment surgery, according to a report by True North.
&#8220;There is no general age of consent to treatment or counseling,&#8221; Canadian Mental Health Association <a href="https://ontario.cmha.ca/documents/mental-health-services-for-gender-diverse-and-sexual-minority-youth/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">writes</a>. &#8220;Instead, the issue depends on whether the young person is capable of consenting.&#8221;
In a True North <a href="https://tnc.news/2022/06/26/aaron-kimberly-transition-oped/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">op-ed</a>, Aaron Kimberly, a transexual man and mental health nurse, wrote that misinformation drives transgender people into transition.
&#8220;You would think that today&#8217;s gender revolution would make things easier on kids like me, who are now often identified as trans. In fact, I did transition when I was 33 and, though it did help me feel more congruent, that decision was largely based on misinformation,&#8221; Kimberly wrote.
According to the website, the program &#8220;aims to provide medical and mental health services to trans and gender diverse youth as part of a comprehensive program that includes adolescent medicine&#8221; and endocrinology — a practice that transgender individuals require to administer hormone treatments such as puberty blockers and testosterone injections.
Other services include &#8220;complete medical referrals and legal referrals such as changing gender markers and a person&#8217;s legal name on identification.&#8221;
TD Bank—one of the ten largest banks in the United States—established the program In 2016 when the demand for transitioning children had not reached the levels seen today. However, program officials say that when the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020, it began receiving three to four weekly referrals.
Funding for the program will provide so-called care to 30 children under 18 to undergo &#8220;gender-affirming&#8221; services each year, adding to the 60 to 70 minors the program treats yearly.
Now, the number of minors seeking out such services has reached approximately 150 on the waitlist, who reportedly have to wait an estimated time of 24 months to receive an initial assessment.
Dr. Rosheen Grady, a pediatrician and adolescent medicine specialist at the children&#8217;s hospital, said in the newsletter she had encountered a parent whose child was &#8220;drowning in depression&#8221; before finding the program.
Grady&#8217;s statement shows that the child entered the program as male and left as female.
&#8220;They realized they have a daughter now, and they&#8217;re grateful for the resources and support that the program provided to them,&#8221; Grady said. &#8220;It can be so rewarding to hear that.&#8221;
Grady believes intervening in the lives of &#8220;gender-diverse&#8221; adolescents could &#8220;help support youths to be their healthiest selves.&#8221;

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TD Bank Quietly Donated $500,000 To ‘Gender Affirming’ Procedures For Minors

Canada

Gender Identity

A detransitioner is suing a social worker, therapist, and their respective clinics in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/oregon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Oregon</a> for overlooking her mental health challenges and fast-tracking her &#8220;non-binary&#8221; double mastectomy surgery.
Camille Kiefel, 32, represented by <a href="https://jacksonbonelaw.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jackson Bone LLP</a>, announced a lawsuit last week against the health professionals who approved the surgery to have her breasts removed after only two brief Zoom meetings. Kiefel came to regret the double mastectomy she had in August 2020 in the years that followed, calling the procedure a result of an &#8220;abhorrent misdiagnosis.&#8221;
&#8220;I was 30 and at the end of my rope when I transitioned,&#8221; Kiefel testified at a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-florida-board-of-medicine-votes-to-ban-pediatric-gender-affirming-care" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hearing</a> on the efficacy of pediatric medical transition held by the Florida Boards of Medicine. &#8220;At the time I believed I was nonbinary, I struggled with severe mental illness and suicidal ideation.&#8221;
Kiefel is suing social worker Amy Ruff and mental health therapist Mara Burmeister, as well as their respective Portland-based gender clinics — Brave Space Oregon and the Quest Center for Integrative Health.
After a 40-minute video call with Burmeister in July 2020, following a one-hour Zoom session with Ruff in May, both &#8220;experts&#8221; wrote a letter of recommendation for Kiefel to undergo chest reconstruction surgery, the complaint reads.
The 13 page complaint alleges that the defendants &#8220;transgressed the bounds of socially tolerable conduct by abusing their positions of trust and authority&#8221; by facilitating &#8220;unnecessary, irreversible treatment&#8221; without consideration of Kiefel&#8217;s mental health issues.
Kiefel told The Daily Wire that after a traumatic childhood event, she felt discomfort with her breasts and hips, and began to dress androgynously as &#8220;a form of escapism,&#8221; she said.
&#8220;I had a trauma history: when I was in sixth grade my best friend had been raped by her brother,&#8221; Kiefel <a href="https://youtu.be/RWVxsZf7ntw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> at the Florida Board of Medicine meeting. &#8220;Being a girl meant I was more vulnerable, so I started to present as more masculine. This should have been a red flag, yet within months of requesting top surgery, it was performed on me.&#8221;
Kiefel was introduced to gender identity ideology in 2010, while she pursued a women&#8217;s studies minor in college, and in 2016, began to identify as &#8220;nonbinary&#8221; after seeing a &#8220;gender-affirming&#8221; therapist. She spent much of her childhood suffering from anxiety and depression, which persisted into adulthood and led to suicidal ideation.
In 2020, she began to feel that having her breasts removed would eliminate her mental and emotional distress. The request was granted in just a few months time after making the initial inquiry, despite the fact that she never took testosterone or believed herself to be transgender.
The complaint states that even though Kiefel&#8217;s desire for chest reconstruction was &#8220;based on &#8216;individual identity&#8217; described as &#8216;Absence of femininity&#8217; and desire for a &#8216;more androgynous&#8217; look,&#8221; her care team proceeded with the &#8220;life-altering, physically damaging, irreversible&#8221; operation.
The complaint alleges that Burmeister &#8220;failed to conduct an individualized, comprehensive mental health assessment&#8221; and ought to have known Kiefel was a &#8220;high-risk candidate for regretting or not benefitting from undergoing a double mastectomy for the purpose of &#8216;gender affirmation.’” Additionally, Burmeister&#8217;s referral letter was &#8220;based on cut-and-pasted boilerplate diagnostic criteria&#8221; that failed to account for Kiefel&#8217;s individual needs.
Defendant Ruff &#8220;breached her duty of care&#8221; by violating the standards of care applicable to Licensed Clinical Social Workers in the State of Oregon, failing to provide Kiefel with &#8220;accurate, complete information about the risks of having a double mastectomy ostensibly to relieve or alleviate mental health or emotional distress.&#8221;
Kiefel found the inspiration for a &#8220;nonbinary top surgery&#8221; when she came across the Gender Confirmation Center (GCC) website, which she claimed to believe was a &#8220;legitimate&#8221; source of information at the time. The founder of GCC, Dr. Scott Mosser, has performed &#8220;over two thousand top surgeries&#8221; on girls and women, including several 13 year olds, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/there-is-no-youngest-age-at-all-california-doctor-admits-to-performing-affirming-surgeries-on-transgender-children-as-young-as-13" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to a leaked video in August.
Kiefel says that since she started putting more emphasis on taking care of her physical health, the anxiety and depression that led to her rejection of womanhood resolved. Now she is left with feeling distress over her body after her double mastectomy.
In the complaint, filed with Oregon State Courts, Kiefel details her anguish &#8220;living with a permanently scarred, disfigured, and physically painful or discomfiting chest, and deep feelings of regret over unnecessarily and permanently losing her choice ever to breastfeed a child.&#8221; She now has fears and anxiety over finding a life partner that will be &#8220;sexually and romantically attracted to a woman without breasts.&#8221;
As a result of her mistreatment, she feels deeply distrustful of western medicine. “I don&#8217;t really want anything to do with conventional doctors anymore after my experiences,&#8221; said Kiefel, who as of late has gravitated towards alternative medicine.
Looking back, Kiefel recalled how, even with a diagnosis of ADHD, she had to &#8220;jump through hoops&#8221; to get her stimulant medication because it&#8217;s a controlled substance with safeguarding in place &#8220;to prevent the wrong people from getting access to it.&#8221; She questions why gender medicine is not subjected to the same safeguarding measures.
Kiefel now believes she was misled in her Women&#8217;s Studies courses, especially pertaining to gender identity ideology. &#8220;It&#8217;s treated as truth, but it&#8217;s just a theory,&#8221; she said. She recalls when her women&#8217;s studies professors attributed all of the world&#8217;s ills to sexism. &#8220;One of my professors implied that [women] were depressed because of sexism,&#8221; Kiefel recalls.
“People who are struggling mentally and physically can get wrapped up in these ideologies because our current solutions aren&#8217;t working for people,&#8221; she added.
Now, Kiefel is interested in advocacy work for detransitioners, including helping them overcome their emotional distress through physical health. &#8220;I just don&#8217;t want what happened to me to happen to someone else,&#8221; she said.
The complaint calls for a jury trial and seeks up to $850,000 in damages, alleging the defendants &#8220;abused their positions of professional trust and authority with intent to cause, or with reckless disregard,&#8221; caused Kiefel to &#8220;suffer extreme, excruciating, severe emotional distress.&#8221;
The Women&#8217;s Liberation Front (WoLF), a feminist advocacy legal network, is helping to finance Kiefel&#8217;s lawsuit, and created a <a href="https://womensliberationfront.org/supporting-detrans-women" target="_blank" rel="noopener">webpage</a> for those interested in donating to support her litigation.

Detransitioner Announces Lawsuit Against Oregon Gender Clinics For Expediting Surgery

Oregon

Portland

Today, I am going to give <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-41-is-the-government-laundering-money-dave-chappelle-on-snl-man-de-transitions-from-korean-woman-to-british-man-aoc-is-a-victim-again">my thoughts on British influencer Oli London</a> — a man who transitioned to a Korean woman earlier this year but is now transitioning back to being a British man after becoming a Christian.
Is he just doing all of this for attention? Or will some good come out of it?
London is 32 years-old and he was embroiled in a controversy after he identified as transracial earlier this year.
Now, in my opinion, if you can be transgender, I don&#8217;t see why you couldn&#8217;t be transracial. It makes perfect sense to me.
If we&#8217;re pretending that there&#8217;s no such thing as objective reality, why can&#8217;t Oli London, who is a white male, say, “Actually, I&#8217;m Korean. That&#8217;s what I feel like on the inside and nothing else matters.”
Well, he did that for about six months before he realized it was a lie and it was wrong.
He spoke to Tucker Carlson about this entire ordeal last Friday night. The conversation is worth listening to.
“So why did you decide to become a Korean woman? Who told you that was possible? Carlson asked.
“So obviously I&#8217;ve had a difficult time with my gender identity struggles,” London noted. “I was never happy with how I looked. So I started changing. I started dressing as a Korean woman, and I realized that was a big mistake. And I just want to be a boy. But, you know, is it any wonder people like me and young people want to change their gender when we have that normalization of this in our schools In this country?”
London went on to detail some of what it is like for kids in the U.K.
“Children are taught from a young age — from the age of five in some cases — that it&#8217;s OK to change their gender, it&#8217;s OK to, you know, wear a skirt. It&#8217;s OK for a boy to use gender-neutral toilets when it puts girls at risk,” he added. “This is the new norm. And schools are teaching about toxic masculinity – that eroding the alpha male, the alpha straight male has been eroded.”
He also warned that a “radical ideology” is teaching kids to “idolize weak men like Harry Styles, weak politicians like Beto O’Rourke.”
“Why is this happening?” he pleaded. “You know, and is it any wonder people like me fall victim to this that I had all this surgery?”
The influencer noted that he is “grateful” that he found God and was able to escape.
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So here&#8217;s the thing: Everything that Oli London is saying is correct. It&#8217;s music to my ears.
It&#8217;s obviously a lot of the work that we do here at The Daily Wire in trying to expose this nefarious agenda on our children.
But, if I&#8217;m being honest — I don&#8217;t exactly like Oli London&#8217;s character arc. I don&#8217;t like that he goes from somebody, completely unknown, just some British guy, then decides, “I&#8217;m going to be a Korean woman.”
He gets all of this work done, gets tons of attention and sponsorships and followers, becomes an influencer, and then six months later completely changes his mind and is now on &#8216;Tucker Carlson Tonight&#8217; — the biggest show in the United States.
My personal opinion is what Oli London was saying is true, but it also seems like Oli London just wants attention.
That&#8217;s my honest opinion. Why? Because he was unknown, and Oli wanted attention. It seems he fell victim to social media likes and clicks and saw that if you just pretended you were gender dysphoric or pretended you wanted to become a woman, then you could get attention.
And he got that attention, right?
He went through all these procedures. People loved him. He was a transracial influencer and got tons of headlines.
Then perhaps Oli London realized, “You know what? I&#8217;m doing this for attention. I don&#8217;t really want to be like this. How about I transition and that will make another splash into the conservative circles?”
And that&#8217;s exactly what he got. Attention.
And so this goes back to an earlier episode where we discussed your psychological immune system. People are becoming more and more desperate online to get clicks.
They&#8217;re willing to do that even if it means going under the knife. They&#8217;re also willing to do that if it means rejecting all the procedures that you got.
Based on everything, I do not think that Oli London is a stable individual. That said, I do think having the discussion on &#8216;Tucker Carlson Tonight&#8217; will do more good than it does harm.

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The British Influencer Who ‘Transitioned’ To A Korean Woman And Back In Six Months

Candace Owens

World

A new <a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/article-abstract/2797439" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study</a> of nationwide hospital databases found that at least 1,130 adolescents between 2016 and 2019 received “gender-affirming” chest surgeries in the U.S.
The study, published in JAMA Pediatrics, saw a 389% increase in adolescents (ages 12-17) obtaining chest surgeries from 2016 to 2019. An overwhelming majority (1,114) of the adolescents seeking this surgery were female (98.6%), and just 16 were male (1.4%).
“To our knowledge, this study is the largest investigation to date of gender-affirming chest reconstruction in a pediatric population,” the paper’s authors wrote, who are each affiliated with Vanderbilt University Medical Center. “The results demonstrate substantial increases in gender-affirming chest reconstruction for adolescents.”
But <a href="https://twitter.com/LeorSapir" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Leor Sapir</a>, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/floridas-reason-and-compassion-on-gender-medicine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">believes</a> the study significantly underestimates the number of adolescents who have received gender-related chest surgeries, as it only contains hospital-based data and not private surgery centers. The data was collected from the Nationwide Ambulatory Surgery Sample (NASS), an out-patient hospital surgery database in the United States.
“JAMA included only procedures performed in hospitals, not by plastic surgeons in private settings,” said Sapir. “Because these procedures yield around $10,000 per patient, many mastectomies take place outside of hospitals in surgery centers owned by plastic surgeons themselves.”
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The ages of the pediatric patients ranged from 12 to 17, with 42 (5.5%) of the recipients between 12 and 14, 131 (16%) aged 15, 291 (34.5%) aged 16, and 365 (44%) aged 17.
Race and ethnicity were collected from hospital records only in 2019, the authors note. The vast majority of patients were white (77.9%), followed by Hispanics (12.2%), blacks (2.7%), Asian or Pacific Islanders (2.5%), and Native Americans (0.5%). About 4% were categorized as &#8220;other race.&#8221;
The median total charges for chest reconstruction were $29,886 ($21,285–$45,147), a number that was adjusted for inflation, the authors note. Most of the chest surgeries (61.1%) were covered by private health insurance, 16.5% used public health insurance including Medicaid, 15.8% paid out of pocket, and 6.7% indicated “other.”
Most adolescents included in the analysis lived in a densely populated area, with 68% living in a county with over one million residents, 21.9% lived in a moderately densely populated area, and only 9.8% lived in a county with less than a quarter million residents. Over half of those who obtained chest surgeries had a family annual income of over $82,000.
Psychiatric comorbidities for patients were listed, which included anxiety (21.1%) and depression (16.2%), but this is likely a significant underestimate since these numbers were much lower than the <a href="https://www.endocrine.org/news-and-advocacy/news-room/2020/transgender-teens-have-high-rates-of-depression-suicidal-thoughts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">high rates</a> of depression typically seen among trans-identified teens. It is therefore likely that mental health data in the hospital database were not comprehensive.
In July, the same four authors, with the addition of two others, published a separate <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35863009/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study</a> on adults who received “gender-affirming” chest reconstruction surgeries. Their results, also using NASS outpatient hospital data, found that 21,293 individuals obtained chest surgeries between 2016 and 2019, a 143.2% increase. The large majority of chest surgeries were performed on female patients, with 82.1% receiving double mastectomies; 27.9% of trans-identifying males received breast augmentations.

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New Data Emerges Of 1,100+ Adolescent ‘Gender Affirming’ Mastectomies

New Data Emerges Of 1,100+ Adolescent 'Gender Affirming' Mastectomies

Medical Research

Vanderbilt University

Chloe Cole, a detransitioned 18-year-old woman, announced her intent on Thursday to sue the hospital and affiliated medical group that facilitated her medical transition as a minor.
According to the press release, Cole, represented by the <a href="https://www.dhillonlaw.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dhillon Law Group</a> and <a href="https://www.limandri.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LiMandri &amp; Jonna LLP</a>, in conjunction with the <a href="https://libertycenter.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Center for American Liberty</a>, sent a letter of intent to sue the Permanente Medical Group, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals who &#8220;performed, supervised, and/or advised transgender hormone therapy and surgical intervention for Chloe Cole when she was between 13-17 years old.&#8221; They will also be seeking &#8220;punitive damages based on the evidence of malice, oppression and fraud.&#8221;
“My teenage life has been the culmination of excruciating pain, regret, and most importantly injustice,” Cole said. “I have been emotionally and physically damaged and stunted by so-called medical professionals in my most important developmental period. I was butchered by an institution that we trust more than anything else in our lives.&#8221;
The letter of intent to sue outlines the &#8220;experimental nature&#8221; and &#8220;off-label use&#8221; of the puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and double mastectomy surgery offered to Cole, which lack long-term studies to support their use in gender medicine, and alleges that the treatments amount to &#8220;medical experimentation.&#8221;
The letter finds that Kaiser &#8220;coerced&#8221; Cole and her parents into medical transition by &#8220;falsely informing&#8221; them that her gender dysphoria would not resolve on its own, despite considerable evidence that contradicts this claim, which was withheld from Cole and her family.
&#8220;Chloe and her parents were never informed of the high rate of desistance for children diagnosed with gender dysphoria,&#8221; the letter stated. &#8220;Also, they were never informed of the high probability that Chloe’s gender dysphoria would resolve as an adult without hormone or surgical treatment.&#8221;
Indeed, current <a href="http://www.sexologytoday.org/2016/01/do-trans-kids-stay-trans-when-they-grow_99.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">evidence</a> indicates that roughly 60–90% of children who identify as transgender but do not socially or medically transition will no longer identify as transgender in adulthood.
The letter states that Cole&#8217;s doctors informed her parents that their daughter was at a high risk for suicide if they did not proceed with social and medical transition, despite the fact that Cole had &#8220;no significant indications of suicide or severe depression.&#8221;
Cole was never offered an alternative to medical transition, the letter delineated. In fact, the much more appropriate option of psychiatric treatment, including a &#8220;watchful waiting&#8221; approach, or an attempt to treat underlying psychological conditions, was never recommended to Cole or her family.
The letter continues by alleging that the &#8220;informed consent&#8221; doctors obtained from Cole for both hormones and surgery failed to exhaustively list the risks and side effects associated with the treatments, and questions whether &#8220;it is even possible to give such consent as a minor and at such a critical time in her life and development.&#8221;
&#8220;This radical, off-label, and inadequately studied course of chemical and surgical &#8216;treatment&#8217; for Chloe’s mental condition amounted to medical experimentation on Chloe,&#8221; the letter charges. &#8220;These experimental procedures are very dangerous, especially to young patients, but also very lucrative to the Defendants.&#8221;
Cole made the public announcement alongside her lawyer, Harmeet Dhillon, on the Fox News program “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”
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“The medical system shouldn’t dictate the future of young children’s lives,&#8221; said Dhillon. &#8220;Through this legal action, we will hold the ‘professionals’ involved accountable for their deliberate choices to mutilate children and financially benefit from it without regard to the human tragedies they created. We will break the cycle of them breaking America’s children before it’s too late.”
Kaiser Permanente expressly <a href="https://mydoctor.kaiserpermanente.org/ncal/structured-content/#/Treatment_Types_of_Transgender_Top_Surgery_-_Plastic_Surgery.xml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">follows</a> the World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH) guidelines for surgery, an organization <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-declaration-launches-opposition-to-leading-transgender-health-association" target="_blank" rel="noopener">denounced</a> internationally by medical and mental health professionals for its “adherence to ideological views unsupported by evidence, its exclusion of ethical concerns, and its mischaracterization of basic science.”
Kaiser&#8217;s website includes pseudoscientific <a href="https://mydoctor.kaiserpermanente.org/ncal/structured-content/#/Health_Topic_Understanding_Gender_Identity_-_Transgender_Health_Pediatrics.xml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">guidance</a> on &#8220;sex assigned at birth,&#8221; the idea that doctors arbitrarily dictate a person’s biological sex rather than observe and record it, and &#8220;gender identity,&#8221; a concept for which no scientific <a href="https://twitter.com/NeuroSGS/status/1549324206437011458?s=20&amp;t=-gjlcU2sKngr0FGHf-zqTw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">evidence</a> exists.
Thousands of minors like Cole have sought medical transition on the ill advice of mental health and medical professionals in recent years. According to an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-insurance-data-reveals-shocking-number-of-minors-obtained-transgender-surgeries" target="_blank" rel="noopener">analysis</a> of insurance claims by Reuters, 17,683 children began puberty-blockers or hormones between 2017 to 2021. A recent <a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/article-abstract/2797439" target="_blank" rel="noopener">journal</a> estimated 1,130 reconstructive chest surgeries were performed on adolescents aged 12 to 17 from 2016 to 2019. Both of these estimates were likely significant undercounts, as the former relied solely on insurance claims, and the latter on hospital-based databases excluding private surgery centers.
&#8220;What is worse is that I am not alone in my pain,&#8221; said Cole. &#8220;I will ensure that the blood and tears of detransitioners like me will not be in vain. It is impossible for me to recoup what I have lost, but I will fight to ensure that no other children will be harmed at the hands of these liars and mutilators.”
The Center for American Liberty is hosting a <a href="https://libertycenter.org/cases/chloe/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">webpage</a> where the public can donate to help support Cole&#8217;s case or contact lawyers to inquire about pursuing legal action of their own.

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Detransitioner Chloe Cole Announces Intent To Sue Kaiser Permanente For ‘Experimental’ Hormones And Surgery

Detransitioner Chloe Cole Announces Intent To Sue Kaiser Permanente For 'Experimental' Hormones And Surgery

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A key witness who testified on behalf of pediatric &#8220;gender-affirming&#8221; care in the Florida joint medical board committee made a series of false and misleading claims, according to a global group of medical professionals.
The Florida Boards of Medicine and Osteopathic Medicine held a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-florida-board-of-medicine-votes-to-ban-pediatric-gender-affirming-care" target="_blank" rel="noopener">joint meeting</a> last month to evaluate the evidence for &#8220;gender-affirming&#8221; care for minors in the state, hearing expert testimony from medical doctors both for and against the practice. Dr. Meredithe McNamara, who testified in favor of the controversial protocol, was fact-checked by an international group of more than 100 clinicians and researchers called the Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine (<a href="https://segm.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SEGM</a>).
&#8220;Last week, child and adolescent physician Dr. McNamara pledged in front of Florida’s Medical Board to provide a &#8216;truthful account&#8217; of pediatric gender medicine,&#8221; said SEGM in a <a href="https://twitter.com/segm_ebm/status/1590182979086987264" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweet thread</a> on Tuesday. &#8220;She then falsely claimed that a key evidence report the Board relied on was invalid, as it was written by a &#8216;dentist.'&#8221;
McNamara, who treats patients aged 11-25 at Yale School of Medicine and is a frequent<a href="https://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(22)00503-1/fulltext"> promoter</a> of so-called &#8220;gender-affirming care&#8221; for &#8220;gender-diverse youth,&#8221; attempted to discredit a key <a href="https://ahca.myflorida.com/letkidsbekids/docs/AHCA_GAPMS_June_2022_Report.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">evidence report</a> during her testimony by insisting the lead author was “a dentist” and therefore unqualified.
What McNamara failed to mention, as SEGM pointed out, is that while lead author <a href="https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=u_9uLEoAAAAJ&amp;hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Romina Brignardello-Petersen</a> does hold a Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS), she also has a Ph.D. in Clinical Epidemiology and Health Care Research and has published more than 140 peer-reviewed publications on evidence evaluation and clinical practice guideline methods and teaches at a leading center in systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines development. 
&#8220;When misrepresenting the authors&#8217; credentials didn’t work to discredit the FL analysis, McNamara changed tactics,&#8221; said SEGM. &#8220;She asserted that the reason the analysis was invalid [is] because it was done by a Canadian team who &#8216;violated&#8217; the U.S. standards. This, too, is demonstrably false.&#8221;
The &#8220;violated standards,&#8221; SEGM explained, referred to a misrepresentation of the type of analysis commissioned by Florida. State officials commissioned an &#8220;overview of systematic reviews,&#8221; which is &#8220;an evaluation and synthesis of the already existing systematic reviews,&#8221; according to SEGM. McNamara, either knowingly or mistakenly, attempted to discredit a different type of evaluation called a &#8220;systematic review of evidence,&#8221; which SEGM explained is not the same thing.
&#8220;The purportedly violated &#8216;standards&#8217; don&#8217;t apply to the type of review FL commissioned because it was not a  &#8216;systematic review of evidence,'&#8221; said SEGM. &#8220;Further, the author of the analysis is a methodologist with significant &#8216;pertinent clinical content area expertise&#8217; which she disclosed.&#8221;
The conclusion of Florida&#8217;s analysis, finding that the evidence for both benefits and risks is of low quality, echoes the conclusions of every systematic review to date, including <a href="https://segm.org/segm-summary-sweden-prioritizes-therapy-curbs-hormones-for-gender-dysphoric-youth" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sweden</a>,<a href="https://genderreport.ca/finland-strict-guidelines-for-treating-gender-dysphoria/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Finland</a>, and, most recently, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/englands-national-health-service-abandons-gender-affirming-model-of-care" target="_blank" rel="noopener">England</a>. Health authorities in all three European countries have abandoned the “gender-affirming” model, finding that the costs outweigh the benefits.
McNamara ​conceded that the evidence grading was of low quality but insisted that using the term “low quality” was intended to scare &#8220;nonexperts.&#8221; She then used the example of &#8220;low quality evidence&#8221; that led to a &#8220;strong&#8221; recommendation to eat fruit to combat childhood obesity. SEGM explained that this comparison is deceptive because the treatment regime of eating more fruits and vegetables is not associated with health risks, while &#8220;gender-affirming&#8221; care is associated with significant health risks, including sterility and osteopenia.   
&#8220;Low quality evidence can also result in a strong &#8216;recommendation AGAINST&#8217; when the treatment is associated with severe risks,&#8221; said SEGM. &#8220;Puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones have a different risk profile than apples and carrots.&#8221;
McNamara made other &#8220;questionable&#8221; claims during her testimony, such as that pediatric double mastectomy surgeries were as rare as genital surgeries, assuring the Board that she had never encountered a minor patient who wanted or received a mastectomy.
Left-leaning news outlet Reuters <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-insurance-data-reveals-shocking-number-of-minors-obtained-transgender-surgeries" target="_blank" rel="noopener">analyzed</a> insurance claims in a <a href="https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-transyouth-data/?scrolltoken=P9HGXzjK8qvkZvGpRKlFxz0dNvrKUKlTsD8XIZ-TvHxVBKM0OM_Y0MbekaXfg0bCsOsIpQ4rKmijQUByYgAqHsBKfFq9kVU-PjIdxDB0i4PTNUWJKh_I_QKY1uoz8kpq__dSLFjtUjnirlN5eHEtj2VjCmn7e5gzapFQQT_enPgIV3vXqYM-SoeLMWsnvEEG0iMa6UMYcYeF7dHMpIzorx8Mlce8QhiWy7xZ8enSqg.eyJraWQiOiIzIn0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> last month, finding that between 2019 to 2021, at least 776 mastectomies and 56 genital surgeries were performed on teens with a gender dysphoria diagnosis ages 13 to 17 in the United States. Reuters said this data is a “significant undercount” because it only includes procedures covered by health insurance classified under a diagnosis of gender dysphoria. 
A recent <a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/article-abstract/2797439" target="_blank" rel="noopener">journal</a> estimated 1,130 reconstructive chest surgeries were performed on adolescents from 2016 to 2019 using ambulatory surgery data. The adolescents&#8217; ages ranged from 12 to 17, with a median age of 16 and 98.6% being female.   
&#8220;McNamara’s testimony pleased the crowd but did not impress the Medical Board,&#8221; said SEGM. &#8220;Her inability to articulate how one conducts differential diagnosis or determines medical necessity of surgery (beyond a teen&#8217;s wish), revealed the &#8216;Wild West&#8217; state of US pediatric gender medicine.&#8220;
Ultimately the Florida boards of medicine found the evidence to support the use of pediatric &#8220;gender-affirming&#8221; care lacking and voted 6-3 to prohibit minors from accessing puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and gender-related surgeries statewide, ​​making it the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/florida-medical-boards-vote-to-ban-medical-transition-for-minors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">first ban</a> in the country instituted by a state medical board.
&#8220;Dr. McNamara is entitled to her opinion on the Florida Boards&#8217; of Medicine decision to curb gender transition of minors,&#8221; said SEGM. &#8220;What she is not entitled to is her own version of facts. Sadly, misrepresenting facts has become a go-to tactic for many in the field of gender medicine.&#8221;
&#8220;What&#8217;s unclear is why the Endocrine Society, the AAP, and WPATH—the three pillars of pediatric gender affirmation worldwide—failed to show up to defend their work,&#8221; poised SEGM.

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Pro-Pediatric Gender Transition Doc Gets Slammed By Medical Professionals For ‘False Claims’

Pro-Pediatric Gender Transition Doc Gets Slammed By Medical Professionals For 'False Claims'

Florida

Tennessee lawmakers have filed a bill to ban the controversial practice of pediatric medical gender transition in the state. 
Tennessee Majority Leaders William Lamberth and Jack Johnson, both Republicans, introduced the Protecting Children from Gender Mutilation Act on Wednesday, November 9, which would effectively bar doctors from prescribing puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and performing gender-related surgeries on minors for the purpose of medical transition. It would also allow patients and their families to sue for damages and let the courts impose an additional $25,000 penalty for each violation.
“This bill is about protecting children,&#8221; said Johnson. &#8220;Under no circumstances should minors be allowed to undergo irreversible elective procedures to mutilate body parts and intentionally harm their reproductive systems. This practice comes with lifelong health complications that children are not capable of understanding.&#8221;
The Republican leaders committed to writing the bill in September after Daily Wire host Matt Walsh released a viral video of a doctor at a Nashville university hospital referring to gender-transition procedures as &#8220;huge money makers.&#8221; 
Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-vanderbilt-pediatric-gender-clinic-pausing-transgender-surgeries-on-minors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">paused</a>” all gender transition surgeries on children in October after Tennessee State representatives sent a letter to VUMC officials, urging them to “halt all permanent gender transitioning surgeries on minor children.”
The reporting on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hospitals-clinics-are-promoting-services-to-gender-nonconforming-kids-here-are-47-of-them" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pediatric gender clinics</a> and &#8220;gender-affirming&#8221; care, which effectively puts children in the driver’s seat to dictate the terms of their own sex change, has raised nationwide awareness and serious ethical concerns about the medications offered and procedures performed on minors.
None of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-medical-groups-get-the-science-wrong-on-pediatric-gender-affirming-care" target="_blank" rel="noopener">U.S.-based organizations</a> that endorse “gender-affirming” care have done systematic reviews of the evidence, while arguably more “progressive” European countries like <a href="https://segm.org/segm-summary-sweden-prioritizes-therapy-curbs-hormones-for-gender-dysphoric-youth" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sweden</a>, <a href="https://genderreport.ca/finland-strict-guidelines-for-treating-gender-dysphoria/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Finland</a>, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/englands-national-health-service-abandons-gender-affirming-model-of-care" target="_blank" rel="noopener">England</a> have. After reviewing the evidence for the use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones in treating pediatric gender dysphoria, health authorities in all three countries have decided to abandon the “gender-affirming” model, finding the costs outweigh the benefits.
Florida additionally <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/florida-medical-boards-vote-to-ban-medical-transition-for-minors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">approved a rule</a> last week prohibiting minors from receiving gender transition surgeries, puberty blockers, and cross-sex hormones, making it the first ban in the country instituted by a state medical board.
“Interfering or destroying the healthy, normal reproductive organs of a child for the purpose of altering their appearance is profoundly unethical and morally wrong,” Lamberth said. “Tennesseans across our state have demanded an immediate call to action.&#8221; 
&#8220;Through the passage of House Bill 1/Senate Bill 1, Tennessee will protect vulnerable children who cannot give informed consent for adult decisions they aren’t ready for,” Lamberth added.
The Protecting Children from Gender Mutilation Act would also create a private right of action, allowing a minor or the parent of a minor who sustained injuries due to medical transition to sue for damages. Additionally, it would enable a child to bring a civil cause of action against a parent if that parent helped to facilitate their child&#8217;s medical transition.
The bill would allow courts to impose a $25,000 penalty per violation and the state attorney general to bring an action against a healthcare provider for knowingly violating the law within 20 years of the offense. The proposed bill would require the state attorney general to establish a process for reporting violations of the law.
The bill makes an exception for providing hormones and/or surgeries for children born with chromosomal anomalies or congenital defects that result in developmental sex conditions. The 113th Tennessee General Assembly is scheduled to convene on January 10, 2023.

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Tennessee Introduces Legislation To Ban Trans Treatments For Minors

Tennessee

While economic issues have remained the focal point of Republican messaging for the 2022 <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/2022-midterms" target="_blank" rel="noopener">midterm elections</a>, many GOP candidates have vowed to safeguard children from radical gender theory and irreversible medical transition procedures.
Despite the emerging <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/poll-nearly-80-of-voters-oppose-transgender-procedures-on-minors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">data</a> that Americans are reluctant to cosign onto medically transitioning minors, President Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-slammed-over-trans-remarks-democrats-are-officially-and-proudly-pro-mutilation-for-minors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">doubled down</a> on allowing minors full access to medical interventions last month. Biden took aim at Republican-led efforts to limit access to puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and gender transition surgeries for minors, calling them &#8220;immoral.&#8221;
Blake Masters, a GOP Senate candidate hoping to replace Democrat Mark Kelly in Arizona, took to Twitter in August to voice his <a href="https://twitter.com/bgmasters/status/1561868855453949952?s=20&amp;t=h5jI40XeT-XN1kWEvhJ2fA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opposition</a>.
&#8220;The Biden Administration pushing &#8216;gender-affirming care&#8217; for children — including genital surgery and puberty blockers — is truly dystopian,&#8221; Masters opined. &#8220;And Senator Mark Kelly going along with it? Refusing to speak up and protect our kids? Pathetic,&#8221; said Masters, taking a dig at his opponent.
Kelly is a <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/393/cosponsors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">co-sponsor</a> of the Equality Act, which would explicitly add sexual orientation and &#8220;gender identity&#8221; to federal nondiscrimination laws. While on the outset, this may sound like an advancement of civil rights, the inclusion of the pseudoscientific concept of “gender identity” <a href="https://www.realityslaststand.com/p/the-dangerous-denial-of-sex">raises</a> serious human-rights concerns for vulnerable groups including women, homosexuals, and children. Masters shared a commercial on social media imploring voters to reject Kelly over his stance on medically transitioning children.
Debate has heated up over the past year regarding transgender issues, such as men in women&#8217;s sports, inappropriate material about sex and gender being introduced to kids in schools, and especially the controversial medical protocol known as &#8220;gender-affirming&#8221; care, which <a href="https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/142/4/e20182162/37381/Ensuring-Comprehensive-Care-and-Support-for" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discourages</a> medical professionals from questioning a minor’s self-reported transgender identity or exploring possible underlying factors that may be causing their dysphoria.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has emerged as an advocate for children with a new <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/8731" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bill</a> called the Protect Children’s Innocence Act. The bill aims to shield minors from accessing the permanent, body- and life-altering medical treatments they may later come to regret.
Greene invited 18-year-old detransitioner Chloe Cole to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/detransitioner-chloe-cole-gives-powerful-testimony-against-gender-affirming-care-at-white-house" target="_blank" rel="noopener">speak</a> in front of the U.S. Capitol in support of the bill in September. Cole gave a powerful testimony about the “gender affirming” model of care that led to her irreversible medical transition as an adolescent.
“How did we get to the point where nearly every pediatric institution in the country considers it best practice to remove the healthy breast tissue of children while administering drugs typically used to chemically castrate high-risk sex offenders?” Cole said of the widespread acceptance of radical gender theory in medicine driving “gender affirming care,” which effectively puts children in the driver’s seat to dictate the terms of their own sex change. 
The standard protocol for gender affirmation is administering puberty blockers, followed by cross-sex hormones, and then surgery, if desired. Proponents generally argue that parental approval should not be a requirement and reject medical “gatekeeping.”
In the Florida governor&#8217;s race, Governor Ron DeSantis is up against Democratic challenger and former governor Charlie Crist. In the Florida U.S. Senate race, incumbent Sen. Marco Rubio is being challenged by Democrat Val Demings.
Florida&#8217;s Board of Medicine and Board of Osteopathic Medicine both <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/florida-medical-boards-vote-to-ban-medical-transition-for-minors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">approved a rule</a> on Friday to prohibit minors in the state from receiving gender transition surgeries, puberty blockers, and cross-sex hormones, the first ban in the country instituted by a state medical board.
Earlier this year, the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration finalized a rule that barred Medicaid recipients from covering the same elective gender-related treatments.
DeSantis also signed a bill earlier this year called the Parental Rights in Education Act, erroneously dubbed the &#8220;Don&#8217;t Say Gay&#8221; law, that bans public school teachers from providing instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity in kindergarten through third grade.
In April, Alabama GOP Governor Kay Ivey signed legislation that would make it a felony for medical professionals to provide transition-related care to people under 19. A federal judge blocked portions of the bill from taking effect in May.
In May, Rubio <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2022/05/26/same-left-that-freaks-out-over-ivermectin-wants-to-pump-kids-full-of-transgender-hormones/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">penned</a> an article in The Federalist criticizing Democrats for their adoption of pediatric &#8220;gender-affirming&#8221; care, despite a lack of medical evidence to support its use. &#8220;We need to have a higher standard when administering life-altering drugs to children,&#8221; wrote Rubio.
Rubio also introduced a bill in May called &#8220;<a href="https://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/131598cb-65b2-44ad-b0a1-39874f47706b/490E6C8D4E0CE016FAA802229B49D368.ott22132.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Tax Breaks for Radical Corporate Activism Act</a>,&#8221; which would prohibit employers from deducting expenses related to “gender-affirming&#8221; care for children of their employees.
Tudor Dixon, the Republican running for governor in Michigan, recently unveiled a legislative proposal that would prohibit biological males from playing on girls&#8217; school sports teams. The Republican Governors Association also released several ads critical of Kansas’ Democrat governor for vetoing bills to ban biological male athletes from girls’ and women’s sports.
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) released an ad criticizing her Democratic opponent, Annie Andrews, for supporting gender pseudoscience.
Other states that have passed or introduced measures to prohibit gender transition treatments for minors include Alabama, Arkansas, Texas, and Arizona.

Protect Children’s Innocence Act

Protecting Children From Transgender Treatments Is On The Ballot For Midterm Elections

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A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/florida" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Florida</a> rule passed Friday that prohibits minors from receiving puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and gender-related surgeries.
On October 28, Florida’s Boards of Medicine and Osteopathic Medicine held a legislative meeting that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-florida-board-of-medicine-votes-to-ban-pediatric-gender-affirming-care" target="_blank" rel="noopener">proposed the rule</a> to ban medical transition treatments for those under the age of 18 after hearing from expert testimony and public comment. On November 4, a second meeting was held where the committee voted on the rule, which passed, and is currently set to take effect after a 21-day public comment period.
“The chief point of agreement among all of the experts — and I must emphasize this — is that there is a pressing need for additional, high-quality clinical research,” said Dr. David A. Diamond, a radiation oncologist and the chair of the board.
Florida now joins the medical authorities of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-medical-groups-get-the-science-wrong-on-pediatric-gender-affirming-care" target="_blank" rel="noopener">several European countries</a> including Norway, Finland, Sweden, and the U.K. in concluding that the evidence of so-called “gender affirming” care, which includes puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries, is very poor and the risks are real. Once the rule goes into effect, it will be the first ban in the country of &#8220;gender-affirming&#8221; care for minors instituted by a state medical board.
The committee cited the poor quality of evidence to support the use of &#8220;gender-affirming&#8221; medical interventions in minors, suggesting instead that psychotherapy would be a more appropriate treatment for adolescents who have recently adopted a trans-identity.
The board voted 6-3 to adopt a <a href="https://ww10.doh.state.fl.us/pub/medicine/Agenda_Info/Public_Information/Public_Books/2022/November/11042022_JointFB_Publicbook.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">new standard of care</a> that will prohibit doctors from prescribing puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, or performing gender-related surgeries until patients are 18. Doctors who disobey the new rule risk losing their medical licenses.
The rule includes a grandfather clause that permits individuals already receiving these treatments to continue. For new patients, the Board of Osteopathic Medicine voted to allow exceptional cases if they participated in an Institutional Review Board-approved clinical trial. However, the Board of Medicine voted against the exception.

Florida Medical Boards Vote To Ban Medical Transition For Minors

A new poll found that more than 70% of American voters in the 2022 <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/2022-midterms" target="_blank" rel="noopener">midterm elections</a> are not likely to vote for a candidate who supports allowing minors to undergo gender transition procedures.
According to the <a href="https://www.thetrafalgargroup.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/COSA-Support-Full-Report-1102.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">survey</a>, nearly 80% of independent voters and 43% of Democrats join Republicans in opposing candidates who support allowing minors to medically transition. 
“As with so many other election 2022 issues, the far left has gone too far in pushing unrestricted Transgender procedures for any child at nearly any age without any restrictions,&#8221; Mark Meckler, President of the Convention of States, said in a press release. &#8220;Voters–most of whom are parents–know that this policy goes wildly beyond common sense in a country where we restrict entertainment, alcohol use, medications, driving, voting, and even criminal sentencing for minors.&#8221; 
The national survey, conducted by the Convention of States Action in partnership with The Trafalgar Group, polled more than 1,000 likely voters in late October. The voter profile consisted of 39.3% Democrat voters, 35.6% Republicans, and 25.1% independents or unaffiliated voters. 
When asked if they were &#8220;more or less likely to vote for a candidate in the 2022 midterms elections who supports allowing underage minors to use puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and undergo sex- change surgeries,&#8221; the poll found that 63.3% of respondents said they were “not likely at all” and 9.4% say they were “somewhat less likely.”
79.2% of independent or unaffiliated voters, who can swing elections, say they are not likely to vote for a candidate in the 2022 midterm election who supports allowing minors to undergo medical transition, with 70.8% saying they were &#8220;not likely at all,&#8221; and 8.4% saying they were &#8220;somewhat less likely.&#8221; 
42.7% of Democratic voters said they likely wouldn&#8217;t vote for a candidate who endorses the medical transition of minors, with 26.2% responding that they were &#8220;not likely at all&#8221; and 16.5% saying they &#8220;somewhat less likely&#8221; to vote for such a candidate.
The overwhelming majority of Republican voters—96.5%—are not likely to vote for a candidate who supports allowing minors to undergo gender transition procedures, with 93.2% saying that they were “not likely at all” and 3.3% saying they were “somewhat less likely.” 
&#8220;Average Americans, regardless of party, have a sense that things are out of control and there are no adults in the room,” Meckler said. “When the autopsy is done on this coming midterm election, experts will find that unrestricted wokeness has had a major impact on voting decisions. Citizens expect responsible, common-sense policies on issues, and politicians so focused on pandering can’t see this and will pay the price.”
91% of Hispanics, 72.8% of Asians, 87% of black voters, 67.1% of white voters, and 86.5% of respondents of unspecified ethnicity all indicated that they were not likely to vote for a candidate in the 2022 midterm election who supports allowing minors to obtain puberty-blocking drugs, cross-sex hormones, and undergo gender-related surgeries.
The medical transition of minors is a contentious issue, and current polling indicates that it will play a significant role in determining the outcome of the 2022 midterm elections. President Biden recently doubled down on allowing minors full access to medical interventions in a video interview with transgender TikToker Dylan Mulvaney last month. 
Medical organizations in the U.S. that endorse the “gender affirming” model of care <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-medical-groups-get-the-science-wrong-on-pediatric-gender-affirming-care" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lack evidence</a> to substantiate the medical treatment of trans-identified minors and depart from a growing international consensus.
None of these U.S.-based organizations have done systematic reviews of the evidence, while arguably more leftist European countries like <a href="https://segm.org/segm-summary-sweden-prioritizes-therapy-curbs-hormones-for-gender-dysphoric-youth" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sweden</a>, <a href="https://genderreport.ca/finland-strict-guidelines-for-treating-gender-dysphoria/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Finland</a>, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/englands-national-health-service-abandons-gender-affirming-model-of-care" target="_blank" rel="noopener">England</a> have. After reviewing the evidence for the use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones in treating pediatric gender dysphoria, health authorities in all three countries have decided to abandon the “gender-affirming” model, finding the costs outweigh the benefits.
Another <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-poll-predicts-disaster-for-democrats-a-week-before-midterms" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recent poll</a> found that more than 80% of American voters believe that Republicans will win control of one or both chambers of Congress after the midterm elections.
Additional polling from October found that nearly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/poll-majority-of-american-voters-say-transgender-movements-targeting-of-underage-minors-has-gone-too-far" target="_blank" rel="noopener">75%</a> of American voters with an opinion on the issue believe that the transgender movement has “gone too far” by encouraging underage minors to use drugs and surgeries to appear like the opposite sex. Another <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/poll-nearly-80-of-voters-oppose-transgender-procedures-on-minors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recent poll</a> found that nearly 80% of American voters believe minors should be required to wait until they are adults to pursue transgender procedures.

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Large Majority Of Americans Say They Won’t Vote For Candidates Who Support Transgender Procedures For Youth: Poll

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