In an astonishing prime-time moment, Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed left viewers stunned Monday night after attempting to equate routine, health-promoting male circumcision with irreversible gender surgeries for minors.
Appearing on Fox News’ “Jesse Watters Primetime,&#8221; the leftist candidate found himself backed into a corner when host Watters grilled him on whether he supported sex-change operations for kids.
Rather than giving a straight answer, El-Sayed launched into a libertarian-sounding defense of medical freedom, insisting that “the government shouldn&#8217;t tell you what kind of health care you should have.” But when Watters cut through the political jargon and asked El-Sayed point-blank if it&#8217;s okay for a parent to &#8220;slash his kid&#8217;s ding-a-ling off,&#8221; El-Sayed took a bizarre personal turn, asking the prime-time host if he was circumcised.
When Watters fired back that &#8220;circumcision is different than castration,&#8221; El-Sayed doubled down on the shocking comparison, snapping, “I&#8217;m just saying that, yes, circumcision is surgery on a kid&#8217;s ding-a-ling. So if you really want to bring that up, you can. I just think you guys are really selective about how you want to talk about these things.”
Watters fired back, “That&#8217;s wacky. Abdul, Michigan&#8217;s not going for that. That is sick stuff.”
El-Sayed’s jaw-dropping attempt to blur the lines between a simple, widely accepted preventive procedure and radical gender surgery completely ignores decades of mainstream medical science. Male circumcision is a routine health measure backed by overwhelming evidence from major medical authorities like the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
&#8220;After comparing himself to Jesus, El-Sayed compares castrating a child to circumcision. 2 for 2 on comparisons that make him look like an absolute insane person,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/abigailmarone/status/2092101178477756739?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2092101178477756739%7Ctwgr%5Ea6d5d3c4e2021d26eff7245f850b32a2577227de%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.dailywire.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost.php%3Fpost%3D1164593action%3Dedit">said</a> former White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson.
El-Sayed has advocated for life-altering gender procedures on children and for boys to compete in girls&#8217; sports.
&#8220;Let the kids play. Trans rights are human rights,&#8221; he said in one unearthed clip.
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Unearthed clip shows Abdul El-Sayed DEFENDING the g*nital mutilation of children and PROMOTING boys invading girls&#8217; sports.
&#8220;Let the kids play. Trans rights are human rights.&#8221;
Don’t let this radical anywhere near office <a href="https://t.co/ymLWeawz7t">pic.twitter.com/ymLWeawz7t</a>
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While multiple <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-butchers-and-liars-were-murderously-wrong-suicide-risk-skyrockets-following-gender-affirmation-surgery-new-study-shows">studies</a> have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/here-are-my-ten-takeaways-from-the-hhs-pediatric-gender-medicine-review">shown</a> the dangers of gender procedures on children, three landmark randomized controlled trials in <a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0020298">South Africa</a>, <a href="https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(07)60312-2/abstract">Kenya</a>, and <a href="https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(07)60313-4/abstract">Uganda</a> showed that male circumcision reduces the risk of female-to-male HIV transmission by a staggering 50% to 60%. Removing the foreskin eliminates a concentration of vulnerable target cells and creates a thicker keratinized surface that resists viral penetration.
Circumcision cuts the acquisition of high-risk Human Papillomavirus (HPV) by 30% to 35% — drastically lowering the risk of penile cancer in men and cervical cancer in their female partners. Infant male circumcision reduces the risk of urinary tract infections during a baby&#8217;s first year by 80% to 90%. The procedure permanently eliminates painful anatomical issues like phimosis and balanitis.
Comparing a proven medical safeguard that protects men and their partners from life-threatening diseases to the surgical removal of healthy reproductive organs shows just how insane leftist candidates can be.

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An Arizona doctor running for Congress on a platform championing “universal healthcare” voted against a law to protect kids from transgender surgeries. 
Amish Shah, a former emergency room doctor, consistently voted against proposals aimed at shielding kids from the impacts of transgender ideology during his time as a lawmaker in the state house. Shah, who emphasizes his medical credentials on the campaign trail, has <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/09/16/us-news/arizona-democrat-backed-universal-single-payer-health-care-in-resurfaced-clip/">called</a> for a single-payer, fully government-funded healthcare system. 
While in the state House, Shah <a href="https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/BillOverview?SessionID=130">voted against</a> a 2022 bill banning doctors from performing transgender surgeries on kids. These surgeries <a href="https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/2R/laws/0104.pdf">included</a> removing the breasts of girls who identify as boys and surgeries crafting fake genitals for gender-confused children. Despite opposition from Democrats, Governor Doug Ducey signed the measure into law in March 2022. 
Shah twice voted against bills to keep males out of female sports, including a 2022 measure that became law. Additionally, he did not support a proposal to ensure that males cannot use female bathrooms at schools. 
The scrutiny on Shah’s pro-trans stance comes as Democrats across the country have struggled after Republicans successfully campaigned on the issue during the 2024 presidential election. Some Democrats have received <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trans-activists-tell-dem-candidate-shut-up-and-listen-to-his-face?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trans+Activists+Tell+Dem+Candidate+%E2%80%98Shut+Up+And+Listen%E2%80%99+To+His+Face">verbal lashings</a> from leftist constituents for moderating on the issue, and others have avoided the issue altogether. 
At the same time as Shah is on the ballot, Arizona voters will have the opportunity to approve a <a href="https://www.azleg.gov/alispdfs/council/2026BallotMeasures/HCR2003%20-%2057th%202nd.pdf">ballot measure</a> that would strengthen current law to keep males off female sports teams and ensure privacy for females in locker rooms and restrooms. 
Shah’s Republican opponent in the race is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-nfl-kicker-backed-by-trump-wins-gop-primary">Jay Feely</a>, a former kicker for the Arizona Cardinals whose platform includes keeping men out of women’s sports. Both men are running to replace outgoing Republican Rep. David Schweikert, who mounted an unsuccessful run for governor. Schweikert won the district, which covers large swaths of Maricopa County, by four points in 2024, and Democrats are targeting it as one of the seats they would like to flip.
Shah’s voting record on transgender issues has drawn criticism from Republicans. 
&#8220;Socialist Amish Shah showed off his far-Left beliefs as a state legislator,” National Republican Congressional Committee spokesman Ben Petersen told The Daily Wire. “Socialist Shah proved he&#8217;s too extreme for Arizona and voters will reject his radical, out of touch agenda.”
During his time in the legislature, Shah <a href="https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/56leg/2R/bills/HB2736P.pdf">introduced</a> a proposal to ban so-called “conversion therapy” and to make gender identity and sexual preference protected classes. Conversion therapy bans broadly prohibit counselors from pushing gender-confused kids to feel comfortable in their bodies. 
Shortly after introducing the measure, Shah <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f21-C7kS1k">said</a> that he hoped he could “continue to be a great advocate for our state, our district, and the LGBT community.”
Shah’s platform does not mention how he would vote on transgender issues, but it does highlight his support for abortion. It boasts of his 100% “pro-choice voting record” and calls for Congress to pass a law guaranteeing the right to end the life of an unborn child. 
The Arizona Democrat previously criticized America’s health care system for being “based on the free market,” saying “there’s a lot of things that are wrong with that.”
“No other industrialized country or first-world country offers health care through a free market because it’s not really a system,” he <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/09/16/us-news/arizona-democrat-backed-universal-single-payer-health-care-in-resurfaced-clip/">said</a> in May 2019 at an event with the Phoenix Democratic Socialists of America and the Progressive Democrats of America. To “take the problem and fix it, we need universal, single-payer Medicare for All throughout this country,&#8221; he added.
His campaign website <a href="https://www.amishforarizona.com/issues">describes</a> him as a &#8220;proven champion for universal healthcare.&#8221;

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Vice President JD Vance&#8217;s Fraud Task Force is referring a number of hospitals and clinics to the Justice Department and the HHS Inspector General for possible violations of federal law.
Those hospitals have billed millions of dollars in insurance claims for puberty blockers for children, according to a new Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) report. Now the Trump administration is investigating.
HHS released &#8220;Wolves in White Coats: How Doctors and Hospitals Pushed and Profited from the Fraud of &#8216;Gender Medicine'&#8221; on Thursday morning. The report examines insurance coding, financial incentives, and the &#8220;provision&#8221; of transgender medical procedures for minors, including puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries.
It&#8217;s the first time in history that HHS examined the financial incentives behind the pediatric gender medicine industry that has exploded over the last decade, leaving many young people mentally and physically harmed in its wake.
Over 225 hospitals and health systems established pediatric gender programs across the country, the report found. Between 2015 and 2025, there were approximately $50 million in insurance claims for puberty blockers that were billed using the endocrine disorder diagnostic code E34.9 — a billable code used when a patient has a hormone problem.
&#8220;These allegations are crazy, and they demand investigation,&#8221; Vance said in a video obtained exclusively by The Daily Wire. &#8220;When children may have been harmed, and families misled, it’s on those of us in power to find the truth and to seek justice for kids who were harmed by these doctors.”
&#8220;Using this code in place of a gender-related diagnosis (e.g., gender identity disorder, F64.0) violates CMS guidelines for the simple reason that gender dysphoria is not an endocrine disorder, since it exhibits no hormonal abnormalities,&#8221; the report states. &#8220;In fact, the only endocrine disorders these patients have are the ones created by their doctors through the use of sex-rejecting interventions. Yet it appears that healthcare providers are misusing this code.&#8221;
The report cites a 2016 study titled “Identifying the Transgender Population in the Medicare Program&#8221; in which CMS’s Office of Minority Health states that &#8220;proxy diagnosis codes are being substituted for gender dysphoria.&#8221; In the methods section, the authors explain how they included the code for Unspecified Endocrine Disorder because it is “frequently used by the transgender community to combat the perceived stigma of a GID diagnosis.&#8221;
Doctors and practitioners of &#8220;pediatric gender care&#8221; have been using this code to bill insurance claims for children for whom they prescribe &#8220;gender-affirming&#8221; puberty blockers, or prescription medication that stops a child&#8217;s puberty. While transgender advocates claim that halting a child&#8217;s puberty helps them feel more comfortable in their body before they begin testosterone or estrogen treatments or undergo transgender surgeries, critics argue that the puberty blockers carry significant risks to the child&#8217;s fertility, bone density, and more.
The new HHS report also found that hospitals and clinics billed nearly $11 million in claims for patients between the ages of 13 and 17 using a diagnosis code for precocious puberty (E30.1). That finding also signals to HHS and the task force that there should be additional review of insurance coding practices.
“The findings raise serious questions about what families were told, what insurers were told, and how these procedures were billed,&#8221; HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in the video message obtained by The Daily Wire.
&#8220;HHS will follow the evidence, protect taxpayers, and hold accountable anyone who broke the law or violated the trust of patients and families,&#8221; he vowed in a statement issued Thursday. &#8220;Under President Trump’s leadership, we are restoring transparency and integrity to American medicine.”
HHS&#8217; report offers recommendations on how to strengthen oversight of insurance coding practices and make sure that billing practices flagged as potentially improper are thoroughly reviewed.
It was compiled by a number of top gender experts and researchers who have been outspoken on pediatric gender practices under the Biden administration, including Eithan Haim, a doctor targeted by the former administration for speaking out against transgender medical practices in Texas, Quentin Van Meter, a board-certified pediatric endocrinologist with 46 years of continuous clinical experience, Aaron Baer, president of the Center for Christian Virtue, Victoria Coley of the Independent Women’s Forum, May Mailman, the director of the Independent Women’s Law Center, and Rachel Morrison of the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
&#8220;The research and first-hand stories in this report demonstrates potential large-scale fraud, and a critical need for more accountability and rigorous oversight of the medical providers, insurers, advocacy organizations, and government agencies that not only allowed, but often encouraged it,&#8221; the report concludes. &#8220;Because of the dangerous combination of ideology and financial incentives, we believe the potential fraud exposed in this report is only the tip of the iceberg.&#8221;
Assistant Secretary for Health, Admiral Brian Christine, has been outspoken in his desire to end the promotion of transgender procedures for kids, describing such procedures as &#8220;sex-denying,&#8221; and emphasizing the harm that puberty blockers, hormones, and surgeries cause to these confused young people.
“Our responsibility as healthcare professionals, first and foremost, is to do no harm,&#8221; he said on Thursday. &#8220;As HHS’ commissioned report Wolves in White Coats details, the medical establishment created what the report describes as ‘captive patients,’ placing vulnerable children on a path toward potentially lifelong medical interventions.&#8221;
Christine vowed that HHS is committed to protecting kids from these procedures, as well as &#8220;following the evidence, and restoring trust in American medicine.&#8221;

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A far-Left candidate who infamously wore a pro-trans shirt emblazoned with a knife coasted to an easy victory in Minnesota’s Democratic Senate primary on Tuesday night. 
Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan defeated Rep. Angie Craig (D-MN) in the race to replace outgoing Democratic Senator Tina Smith. Flanagan, who took 59% of the vote to Craig’s 39%, will face former NFL sideline reporter Michele Tafoya, who won the Republican primary. 
“For months now, I have been telling you that this campaign was about the many versus the money. Well, guess what? The many just won,” Flanagan said during her victory speech. “And we are not about to give Donald Trump another loyal soldier like Michelle Tafoya to take his orders and do his bidding.”
Flanagan’s win was another boost for the far-Left wing of the Democratic Party, which has seen recent wins across the country in states like New York and Michigan. The occasionally <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meet-minnesotas-hijab-wearing-childrens-gender-surgery-advocate-whos-running-for-u-s-senate?utm_source=chatgpt.com">hijab-wearing</a> Flanagan aggressively supports transgender procedures for kids, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/minnesota-dem-goes-on-unhinged-rant-defending-somalis-from-trump?utm_source=chatgpt.com">called</a> Minnesota’s Somali population the “fabric of the state,” and promised to “rip ICE apart&#8221; during her victory speech. 
During the campaign, Flanagan lashed out at Craig for voting for the &#8220;Laken Riley Act,&#8221; a law that would require federal officials to arrest illegal immigrants who are charged with theft-related crimes in the United States. The bill was proposed after an illegal immigrant with previous theft charges murdered 22-year-old Georgia nursing student Laken Riley.
As lieutenant governor, Flanagan backed an executive order from Democratic Governor Tim Walz protecting so-called “gender-affirming care” in Minnesota. During the signing ceremony, she wore a shirt with a picture of a knife and the words “Protect Trans Kids.&#8221;
“Let’s be clear: this is life-affirming and life-saving health care,” she <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/leftist-minnesota-just-gave-state-power-to-take-kids-away-if-parents-dont-approve-gender-surgery?utm_source=chatgpt.com">said</a>. “When our children tell us who they are, it is our job as grown-ups to listen and to believe them. That’s what it means to be a good parent.”
Tafoya, who has won multiple Emmy awards while appearing as a sideline reporter for ABC, NBC, and ESPN, won the GOP nomination with 52% of the vote. She defeated former Navy SEAL Adam Schwarze and ex-NBA player Royce White. 
“Minnesota is in play. We have a real opportunity to flip this Senate seat and defeat far-left socialist Democrats in November,” Tafoya said on Tuesday as voting started. “Let’s get it done, Minnesota.”
Tafoya’s campaign has been focused on targeting fraud, supporting law enforcement, keeping men out of women’s sports, and supporting voter ID.

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The Trump administration <a href="https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/press-releases/cms-ends-federal-medicaid-chip-funding-sex-rejecting-procedures-children-youth" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> Tuesday that a final rule barring federal Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) funds from being used to pay for transgender medical interventions for minors, including puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries.
“Today, we are ending federal taxpayer funding for sex-rejecting procedures on children,” Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said. “These interventions carry serious risks and can cause irreversible harm. The federal government will no longer use Medicaid and CHIP dollars to fund procedures that fail to meet the evidentiary standard our children deserve.”
President Donald Trump celebrated the decision Tuesday, saying his administration would no longer force taxpayers to finance “barbaric surgeries and practices” on children. 
“Just think about all of the young, innocent, and perhaps confused children who will be spared!” Trump wrote on <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/117078967972327386">Truth Social</a>.
Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz said the policy is intended to protect children from experimental and potentially irreversible medical interventions. 
“Children deserve our protection, not experimental interventions that pose serious risks and convey no proven benefits,” Oz said. “By cutting off federal funds for these sex-rejecting procedures, we’re following the science, saving taxpayer dollars, and, most importantly, protecting children from potentially irreversible harm so they can truly flourish.”
CMS said its decision followed a review of national and international research conducted by HHS that identified what the agency described as significant evidence gaps and safety concerns.
CMS said the procedures can carry potentially permanent consequences, including infertility, impaired sexual function, diminished bone density, altered brain development, and other lasting physiological effects.
The agency also pointed to the United Kingdom’s Cass Review, a comprehensive examination of medical treatment for transgender-identifying children, as evidence of international scrutiny surrounding the treatments.  
The new rule includes a taper-off period for minors already receiving hormone therapy. Federal Medicaid and CHIP funding will remain available for up to six months after the rule takes effect to allow patients to safely get off hormone treatment.
The rule does not affect Medicaid or CHIP coverage for mental health services, which CMS said will continue to be covered under existing federal requirements.
Trump tied the policy to the upcoming midterm elections.
“Please remember this when you are casting your vote in the Midterm Elections in November,” he wrote.
CMS said Tuesday’s action is specifically focused on the use of federal taxpayer dollars. 
“The Trump Administration is drawing a clear line: America’s children will not be subjected to life-altering interventions on the taxpayer’s dime without reliable evidence of safety and clinical benefit,” HHS Press Secretary Emily Hilliard said.
The rule is set to take effect October 13, putting the federal funding restrictions in place less than a month before the November midterm elections.

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The World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH) is the world’s preeminent transgender medical organization and a leading force in the push for minors to receive transgender medical interventions, including sex-change surgeries. The group&#8217;s medical guidance, called the Standards of Care Version 8, informs clinical practice, insurance policy, and government regulations throughout the United States.
Systematic reviews and legal investigation have shown the SOC-8 to be built on faulty methodology and politicized science. The Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against WPATH in June 2026, stating the organization has “misled parents and children about the medical consensus and medical necessity, as well as the safety and effectiveness” of child sex-change interventions.
WPATH members receive access to a member-only<a href="https://wpath.org/membership/membership-information/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> forum</a> that discusses various topics related to transgender medicine and policy. Through a public records request The Daily Wire uncovered almost 250 pages of messages from WPATH&#8217;s member-only forum written between June 2024 and November 2024. The messages offer a glimpse into the organization&#8217;s cultural reach and challenge some of its public-facing recommendations. 
This is the second article in The Daily Wire&#8217;s investigative series on the uncovered WPATH messages. You can read part one <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trans-surgeon-admits-some-patients-may-not-maintain-their-vagina-due-to-brutal-complications?author=Megan+Brock&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=3&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Inside+WPATH%3A+Trans+Surgeon+Admits+Patients+May+Experience+Painful+Complications">here</a>.
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Members of the world’s leading transgender medical organization admitted protocols were needed to help transgender patients “detransition” back to their real sex while publicly recommending children receive sex-change surgery.
In a private online forum, members of the World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH) asked for advice on treating the complex medical needs of patients wanting to return or &#8220;detransition&#8221; to their real sex after undergoing sex-change surgeries such as vaginoplasty, breast augmentation, double mastectomy, hysterectomy, and oophorectomy. WPATH members acknowledged in the forum the brutalized bodies of detransitioners needed specialized care and these struggling patients were often forsaken by the medical community which gave them their scars.
“Curious if anyone or any institutions have protocols or policies related to ‘de-transition’ &#8211; either request to reverse any gender-affirming surgeries or put people back on prior hormonal state,” wrote Dr. Christopher Terndrup, the <a href="https://medicine.vumc.org/divisions/general-internal-medicine-public-health/education/lgbtq-healthcare-fellowship" target="_blank" rel="noopener">associate director</a> of the LGBTQ+ Healthcare Fellowship Program at Vanderbilt Health, in a message thread titled “De-transition Protocols/Policies.”
<div id="attachment_1143623" style="width: 677px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1143623" class="wp-image-1143623 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/WPATH4-1-667x576.jpg" alt="" width="667" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/WPATH4-1-667x576.jpg 667w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/WPATH4-1-300x259.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/WPATH4-1-768x664.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/WPATH4-1.jpg 875w" sizes=" (max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px" />A screenshot of a message obtained through a public record request by The Daily Wire.</div>
Several WPATH members responded and expressed a need for formalized detransition protocols, writing that a lack of medical guidance left detransitioners feeling &#8220;ignored&#8221; as they try to reclaim their broken bodies.
“We really need the clinical pathways. People will ask how to go off testosterone or how to restart testosterone and I’ve asked various MDs and gotten different responses. Often, folks who are choosing to detransition feel like they have to do this all on their own,” wrote a psychologist. “When folks restart testosterone there can be mood shifts as well. When people alter their hormones, a lot of regret arises about choices they have made and it seems like it&#8217;s helpful to offer patients a non-regret focused frame — ie, that they are embracing who they are at this moment and taking positive steps to embody themselves, etc.”
Members suggested creating a specific group to develop medical guidance for detransitioners and noted transgender patients should receive psychological therapy for a period of time before undergoing any identity changes.
“I still think that we should be developing protocols to handle this regardless of how many detransitioners there are,” wrote a psychologist. “I think it&#8217;s important.”
Dr. Kurt Miceli, chief medical officer at Do No Harm, told The Daily Wire there is an &#8220;undeniable need&#8221; for detransitioner medical protocols.
&#8220;There is a critical and undeniable need for detransitioner protocols — a reality acknowledged even by WPATH’s own members. Yet this is the same organization that has ignored systematic review upon systematic review as it promotes harmful and irreversible sex-rejecting procedures for minors,&#8221; Miceli told The Daily Wire. &#8220;This contradiction cannot be brushed aside: it exposes a fundamental inconsistency in which life-altering interventions are championed for minors on the one hand while the reality of those who later seek to reverse them has unfortunately been minimized and gone unaddressed.&#8221;
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In the Standards of Care Version 8, WPATH recommends that children have access to irreversible sex-change surgeries without any <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trans-identifying-biden-official-allegedly-behind-push-to-ditch-age-guidelines-for-transgender-procedures-docs-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">age minimums</a>. The group calls the choice to detransition &#8220;proportionally rare&#8221; but tells healthcare providers they &#8220;should be prepared to support adolescents who detransition&#8221; without providing formal protocols to accomplish this.
&#8220;We have limited ability to know in advance the ways in which a child’s gender identity and expressions may evolve over time and whether or why detransition,&#8221; the standards read.
In a separate post, a physician&#8217;s assistant asked for insight on managing the estrogen needs of a young woman who had her breasts, uterus, and ovaries removed while she self-identified as a &#8220;trans male.&#8221;
“The patient more recently has been experiencing an evolution/shift in gender identity as genderfluid/feminine learning, wanting to detransition,” wrote the physician&#8217;s assistant in the thread titled “DETRANSITION: Optimal estrogen therapy for patient detransitioning.”
&#8220;This is a complex case with much more to it and I will not be able to go in depth here, but I did want to ask the group specifically your thoughts/experience with detransition and optimal dosing of estrogen for such a patient.&#8221;
The young woman was in her 20s and wanted to detransition. But because she had no ovaries, her young body could not produce the needed estrogen and was in a surgically induced post-menopausal state.
Miceli told The Daily Wire that without external estrogen replacement therapy, the patient is at risk of developing osteoporosis, cardiovascular disease, and other health complications.
&#8220;Hormone therapy becomes a lifelong medical requirement following this irreversible procedure,&#8221; he said. &#8220;This reality makes the development of detransition protocols all the more essential, ensuring that hormone management is guided by clinically appropriate, evidence‑based standards rather than left to an ad hoc practice.&#8221;
The post brought out strong opinions on detransitioning on the forum thread. One member called on WPATH to “take a leadership role” in researching the “phenomenon of detransition.&#8221;
Marci Bowers, a highly influential transgender surgeon and former president of WPATH, called the patient’s situation “tragic” and wrote that one of WPATH’s great challenges was to “help patients sort through their gender diverse feelings&#8221; before receiving &#8220;irreversible treatment.&#8221;
“If ever there was a challenge to the WPATH professional community, it is to help patients sort through their gender diverse feelings prior to undergoing irreversible treatment. Though there can always be a silver lining, cases like this seem tragic,” wrote Bowers. “I don&#8217;t feel that greater caution or limits are what are required but rather, brakes, hypothetical questioning, I&#8217;m not entirely sure. How can we do better for our patients in avoiding these rare outcomes?”
One WPATH member disagreed that the situation was tragic, writing, “sometimes, like many things in life, people need to go ‘too far’ before they realize where they want to be.”
The physician assistant who asked for help later noted the young woman wanting to detransition had &#8220;severe dysphoria dating back to childhood&#8221; and was thoroughly evaluated before having surgery to remove her reproductive organs. She noted in the future it might be helpful to educate young transgender patients seeking sex-change surgery on the “potential benefit” of keeping their ovaries, “just in case.”
&#8220;They had ongoing support from a comprehensive mental health team and family. They were very much identifying as a trans man most of their life with severe dysphoria, depression, and suicidality,&#8221; wrote the physician&#8217;s assistant. “There is nothing I think anyone in our team could have done differently to prevent this or &#8216;do better.&#8217; I&#8217;m not sure if we have any data or idea of how gender identity might evolve or change over time, but that seems to be what is happening at least with this patient over time.&#8221;
<div id="attachment_1142893" style="width: 452px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1142893" class="wp-image-1142893 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/WPATH14-442x576.jpg" alt="" width="442" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/WPATH14-442x576.jpg 442w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/WPATH14-230x300.jpg 230w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/WPATH14-768x1001.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/WPATH14-1179x1536.jpg 1179w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/WPATH14.jpg 1432w" sizes=" (max-width: 442px) 100vw, 442px" />A screenshot of a message obtained through a public record request by The Daily Wire.</div>
Miceli said these messages reveal the &#8220;profound tragedy&#8221; detransitioners face after undergoing irreversible gender transition treatments.
&#8220;Dr. Bowers&#8217; comments within the WPATH Member Forum acknowledge a truth the organization does not confront publicly: the profound tragedy faced by individuals who seek to detransition after irreversible sex‑rejecting surgeries. In fact, WPATH has systematically downplayed and obscured this reality by minimizing detransition and framing regret as rare,&#8221; Miceli told The Daily Wire. &#8220;These interventions create lifelong anatomical changes and permanent dependence on exogenous hormones, effectively placing patients in chronic medical care.&#8221;
Bowers declined to provide a comment to The Daily Wire. WPATH and Vanderbilt Health did not respond to The Daily Wire&#8217;s request for comment.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trans-surgeon-admits-some-patients-may-not-maintain-their-vagina-due-to-brutal-complications?author=Megan+Brock&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=3&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Inside+WPATH%3A+Trans+Surgeon+Admits+Patients+May+Experience+Painful+Complications">INSIDE WPATH PART ONE: Trans Surgeon Admits Patients May Experience Painful Complications</a>

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Inside WPATH: Trans Org Admits Need For Detransitioner Protocols While Pushing Child Sex-Changes

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The World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH) is the world’s preeminent transgender medical organization and a leading force in the push for minors to receive transgender medical interventions, including sex-change surgeries. The group&#8217;s medical guidance, called the Standards of Care Version 8, informs clinical practice, insurance policy, and government regulations throughout the United States.
Systematic reviews and legal investigation have shown the SOC-8 to be built on faulty methodology and politicized science. The Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against WPATH in June 2026, stating the organization has “misled parents and children about the medical consensus and medical necessity, as well as the safety and effectiveness” of child sex-change interventions.
WPATH members receive access to a member-only<a href="https://wpath.org/membership/membership-information/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> forum</a> that discusses various topics related to transgender medicine and policy. Through a public records request The Daily Wire uncovered almost 250 pages of messages from WPATH&#8217;s member-only forum written between June 2024 and November 2024. The messages offer a glimpse into the organization&#8217;s cultural reach and challenge some of its public-facing recommendations. 
This is the first article in The Daily Wire&#8217;s investigative series on the uncovered WPATH messages. 
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A pioneering transgender surgeon acknowledged that genital surgeries leave patients with painful complications and a burdensome recovery process many cannot cope with.
Members of the World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH) discussed the pain and complications of vaginoplasty, a genital sex-change surgery, in an online member forum in the summer of 2024. <a href="https://wpath.org/about/ec-bod/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marci Bowers</a>, a transgender surgeon and Immediate <a href="https://wpath.org/about/ec-bod/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Past-President</a> of WPATH, wrote in a message that some patients don&#8217;t want to &#8220;maintain their vagina&#8221; due to &#8220;pain and discharge&#8221; after surgery.
&#8220;Just because someone does not wish to maintain their vagina because of pain and discharge, jumping to regret should not be our first response,” wrote Bowers.
<a href="https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/expert-qa/vaginoplasty-for-gender-affirmation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vaginoplasty</a> is a procedure that involves removing a penis, scrotum, and testicles, and using the genital tissue to surgically construct a vagina. If the patient doesn’t have enough genital tissue to complete the procedure, surgeons may borrow tissue from the <a href="https://www.stilleraesthetics.com/our-services/colovaginoplasty" target="_blank" rel="noopener">colon</a>. WPATH calls the final product a &#8220;<a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4058296/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">neovagina</a>,&#8221; which is a large wound that requires lifelong dilatation to prevent <a href="https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/vaginal-stenosis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">vaginal stenosis</a>, a condition where scar tissue in the vagina hardens and narrows.
&#8220;Vaginal Stenosis after vaginoplasty with symptoms and no desire to keep canal&#8221; was the subject of a WPATH forum message thread obtained by The Daily Wire through a public record request.
“I have been seeing quite a few patients recently who after vaginoplasty stop dilating and do not desire to keep the canal,” wrote a nurse practitioner to start the thread. “They have come to see me with symptoms of pelvic pain, accompanied by bleeding and discharge for a few weeks before symptoms resolve.”
A physical therapist replied to the message that pain and bleeding after vaginoplasty surgery are “very common.”
“Regarding the issue of pain, it is very common in many cases, especially during the first three months, due to the surgery itself and the muscle tension it generates, as well as bleeding and secretions,” wrote the WPATH member. “Bleeding can be due to the operation itself since they have internal wounds that will expel a bloody fluid or slight bleeding during dilations.”
<div id="attachment_1140619" style="width: 950px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1140619" class="wp-image-1140619 size-full" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/WPATH-3.jpg" alt="" width="940" height="482" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/WPATH-3.jpg 940w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/WPATH-3-300x154.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/WPATH-3-768x394.jpg 768w" sizes=" (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px" />Screenshot of a WPATH member forum message obtained by The Daily Wire through a FOIA request.</div>
Patients are typically recommended to dilate for <a href="https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/expert-qa/vaginoplasty-for-gender-affirmation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">30 to 60 minutes</a> at least 3-4 times a day during the initial post-operative period, a painful time commitment. Bowers suggested the pain and effort needed to keep the genital wound flexible might not be “worth the time” for some patients.
&#8220;Dilation is crucial but not for everyone,&#8221; wrote Bowers. &#8220;For some, it just isn&#8217;t worth the time expended or the pain experienced, if that is the case at all. Or sexual situations can change.&#8221;
A social worker asked if patients expressed “any desire to de-transition” when deciding to stop dilating after surgery. Bowers responded that the “first response” of members should not be to assume a patient has regretted their sex-change surgery if they no longer wish to &#8220;maintain their vagina.&#8221;
Patients who don’t follow dilation recommendations risk losing the ability to experience penetrative sex because the surgically created vaginal canal will lose flexibility without dilation. A psychologist, who described himself as a “post-op trans woman,” responded to Bowers with his personal experience of stopping dilation after genital surgery.
<div id="attachment_1142813" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1142813" class="wp-image-1142813 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/wpath8-1024x353.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="353" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/wpath8-1024x353.jpg 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/wpath8-300x104.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/wpath8-768x265.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/wpath8.jpg 1026w" sizes=" (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" />A screenshot of a message obtained through a public record request by The Daily Wire.</div>
“I’m speaking largely from experience, as a post-op trans woman who stopped dilating after a certain point and is completely fine with that. I have various friends and clients who have reached a similar point,” wrote the psychologist. “It has nothing to do with regret, I’m so happy to have my body as it is. It’s entirely about how I choose to use the body I have. It’s still good to have the (narrow) vaginal canal that I have, but because I don’t engage in penetrative sex I’ve felt no need to maintain dilation.”
WPATH does not recommend any minimum age minor patients should meet before receiving vaginoplasty surgery in its medical guidance, <a style="font-size: 16px;" href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/26895269.2022.2100644" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Standards of Care version 8</a>. The only time-connected guardrail WPATH provides in the guidelines is that minors should receive 12 months of cross-sex hormones before undergoing the permanent sex-change surgery, with some exceptions. The Federal Trade Commission <a href="https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2026/06/ftc-states-sue-world-professional-association-transgender-health-over-deceptive-claims-regarding-treatment-children" target="_blank" rel="noopener">alleged</a> WPATH had misled the public regarding the safety and necessity of pediatric transgender medical interventions, including vaginoplasty, in a June 2026 <a href="https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/WPATH-Complaint-Redacted.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawsuit</a> it filed against WPATH.
“It is inherently harmful and unsafe to surgically remove a child’s healthy and functioning genitals,” states the lawsuit. “Nevertheless, WPATH deems it ‘medically necessary’ for treating dissatisfaction with or distress about sex traits.&#8221;
Bowers&#8217; name appears in the lawsuit 18 times, and Bowers is described as advocating for males to receive vaginoplasty surgery as minors because they have the parental support needed to endure the brutal post-operative dilation schedule.
“Some transition doctors, including Dr. Bowers, believe performing the surgery while the boy is a minor still living with his parents is preferable, rather than when the boy is living in a communal setting with limited privacy,” states the FTC lawsuit. “This is in part due to the brutality of the procedure. Recovery from vaginoplasty requires the patient to ‘dilate’ the new wound 3-4 times daily for months so that it does not heal.”
<div id="attachment_1140621" style="width: 968px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1140621" class="wp-image-1140621 size-full" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/WPATH.jpg" alt="" width="958" height="570" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/WPATH.jpg 958w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/WPATH-300x178.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/07/WPATH-768x457.jpg 768w" sizes=" (max-width: 958px) 100vw, 958px" />Screenshot of a WPATH member forum message obtained by The Daily Wire through a FOIA request.</div>
The FTC lawsuit alleges Bowers made more than a million dollars in 2023 “mostly from performing transition surgeries.”
In a separate WPATH forum thread, <a href="https://www.childrens.com/doctor-profile/laura-elizabeth-kuper" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Laura Kuper</a>, a psychologist at <a href="https://www.childrens.com/doctor-profile/laura-elizabeth-kuper" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Children’s Health</a> in Dallas and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220215063252/https:/www.wpath.org/media/cms/Documents/SOC%20v8/SOC8%20Full%20Contributor%20List%20-%20FINAL%20UPDATED%202222.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">co-author</a> of WPATH’s &#8220;nonbinary&#8221; chapter in the Standards of Care, asked peers to recommend “US-based surgeons” with expertise in performing vaginoplasty on patients who had early pubertal suppression in a September 2024 message. Giving young males puberty blockers stops the growth of male genital tissue and makes it more difficult to perform a vaginoplasty surgery.
One doctor said pubertal suppression prevents “the growth of the vagina,” during a private WPATH symposium in September 2022, according to<a href="https://dailycallernewsfoundation.org/2024/01/16/exclusive-top-pediatric-doctors-admit-in-unearthed-video-that-child-sex-changes-are-way-more-invasive-than-advertised/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> reporting</a> from The Daily Caller.
Bowers responded that the surgeries “are not easy” and require “experience and technical skill.”
“Laura — as you may be aware, limited skin is a severe limitation for those with early puberty blocked, both cosmetically and for attaining depth,” Bowers wrote. “These cases are not easy, and I would state that a critical combination of experience and technical skill is required, meaning the list of qualified surgeons is not large. We have performed approximately 100 of these procedures thus far with approximately 15 each summer. There are also several excellent surgeons in excellent institutions which may have similar numbers.”
Kuper was a pediatric psychologist at the now-shut-down Children&#8217;s Health GENder Education and Care, Interdisciplinary Support clinic. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a February 2026 <a href="https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/attorney-general-ken-paxton-files-landmark-lawsuit-against-childrens-health-and-dallas-area-doctor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawsuit</a> against Children&#8217;s Health that alleges gender-affirming practitioners subverted Texas state law and continued <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/texas-attorney-general-says-radical-doctor-broke-the-law-to-give-minors-sex-rejection-interventions?author=Megan+Brock&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=37&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Texas+Attorney+General+Says+Radical+Doctor+Broke+The+Law+To+Give+Minors+Sex-Rejection+Interventions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">providing minors</a> with sex-change medical interventions after the state&#8217;s ban went into effect on September 1, 2023.
Other messages acknowledge that transgender voice surgeries, which seek to make an individual&#8217;s voice sound more like the opposite sex, are “not usually effective” and have uncertain outcomes.  
“Voice is one of the hardest things to achieve primarily because surgical options are not usually effective,” wrote a WPATH member in the forum. 
“If your patient chose to pursue surgery, they would need to accept the science and physics behind the intention of the procedures as well as the unknowns in terms of outcome,” wrote an ears, nose, and throat doctor.   
In the SOC-8, WPATH lists “voice therapy and/or surgery” as a “medically necessary gender-affirming” medical intervention. Transgender voice surgeries are explicitly covered by some <a href="https://www.hca.wa.gov/free-or-low-cost-health-care/i-need-medical-dental-or-vision-care/transhealth-program">state</a> <a href="https://www.oregon.gov/oha/hsd/ohp/pages/gender-affirming-care.aspx">insurance</a> plans. 
WPATH did not respond to The Daily Wire&#8217;s requests for comment. Dr. Bowers declined to provide a comment to The Daily Wire. The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Children&#8217;s Health did not respond to The Daily Wire&#8217;s requests to obtain a comment from Laura Kuper.

(ga) — MARCIBOWERS–TRINIDAD, COLORADO, JUNE 6, 2007– Dr. Marci Bowers performs the transgender operation on Courtney Ridley in the Trinida’s Mount San Rafael Hospital to the tunes of Jimmy Buffet, Pink Floyd and others during the three-hour surgery. In

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Every birthday is a celebration of life. It reminds us that every child is born with inherent dignity, immeasurable worth, and a future full of possibility. On July 27, as <a href="https://chloecoleofficial.com/">Chloe Cole</a> celebrated another birthday, Congress has a chance to ensure no child endures the irreversible harm that changed the course of her life.
Before we are ever faced with a decision, before we ever choose a path, we enter this world with a body that is uniquely ours. We are not mistakes to be corrected. We are not problems to be solved. Every child deserves the chance to grow, develop, and discover who they are without being subjected to irreversible medical interventions that can alter the course of their entire life.
Chloe&#8217;s birthday is more than a personal milestone. It represents an opportunity for Congress to protect America’s children from medicalized harm. Children deserve compassion and careful care, not permanent medical decisions they cannot fully understand and may regret later. Physicians are trained to exercise the greatest caution when evidence is limited, and risks are irreversible. As lawmakers, we have a responsibility to ensure our policies reflect that same restraint.
For far too long, vulnerable children struggling with questions about their identity were told that puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and irreversible medical interventions were the answer.
At just 12 years old, Chloe decided that she wanted to become a boy. Physicians gave her puberty blockers and testosterone at 13, and she underwent a double mastectomy at 15. But by the age of 16, she deeply regretted this decision and wished it had never been presented to her as an option. By speaking candidly about the harm she endured, Chloe has given a voice to countless children who were misled by a medical system that too often places woke ideology, politics, or profit above patient well-being. Her story, along with those of many others, makes clear that Congress can no longer afford to remain silent.
Before I was a Congressman, I was a doctor. Every day, I walked into my practice with the same objective: to care for every patient and understand the responsibility that comes with practicing medicine. The foundation of medicine must always be evidence, caution, and the principle of doing no harm, especially when treating children.
That is why I introduced the <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/5483">Chloe Cole Act</a>.
The Chloe Cole Act places protections around minors by giving children and parents a path to hold medical professionals accountable when they have been harmed. Children deserve time to grow, and parents deserve honesty and transparency. This means medical professionals must be held to the highest standard when making decisions that affect a child’s future.
Over the last decade and a half, we have witnessed the rapid expansion of a medical industry built around transgender interventions for minors. Too many families have been told that these irreversible treatments are the only answer, while concerns about long-term impacts, accountability, and informed consent have been ignored. Parents who asked questions were frequently dismissed, and voices urging caution were sidelined.
Today, more young people, like Chloe, are courageously speaking out about the lifelong consequences of these barbaric interventions. Congress should not ignore them, either. The fact that we have to ask ourselves whether vulnerable children are being protected, or whether the industry is rushing children into life-altering treatments before they are capable of fully understanding their lifelong consequences, is insanity.
President Donald Trump’s January 2025 executive order, “<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/protecting-children-from-chemical-and-surgical-mutilation/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation</a>,” called on lawmakers to pursue protections and accountability for children harmed by these practices. The Chloe Cole Act advances that mission by putting children and families first.
Chloe Cole is one of the bravest young women I have ever met. Earlier this year, I was honored to welcome her as my guest at the State of the Union address. Standing in the Capitol, Chloe represented thousands of families who believe children deserve protection, caution, and a medical system that puts their well-being above ideology or financial incentives. Chloe took a painful chapter of her life and turned it into a mission to protect others. She has shown extraordinary courage by sharing her story and advocating for children who do not yet have a voice.
The best birthday gift Congress can give Chloe is not an empty statement, but real action.
With the Chloe Cole Act advancing through the legislative process following the House Judiciary Committee markup, Congress has a historic opportunity to protect America’s children and ensure no family experiences the regret and pain Chloe has described. Every child is born with dignity, value, and purpose. Our responsibility is to protect that promise.
In honor of Chloe’s birthday, Congress should honor her courage by passing the Chloe Cole Act and putting the safety of America’s children first.
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Congressman Bob Onder is a physician and represents Missouri’s 3rd Congressional District.

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The <a href="https://pcusa.org/news-storytelling/news/2026/6/3/ga227s-gender-and-sexuality-justice-committee-consider-wide-swath-proposals-many-related-healthcare">Presbyterian Church USA</a> (PCUSA) voted last week to support access to &#8220;all medically necessary, evidence-based gender-affirming healthcare&#8221; for all individuals, including minors.
Presented by the <a href="https://www.cherokeepresbytery.org/">Cherokee Presbytery</a> during the 227th General Assembly, the overture builds on the PCUSA’s existing non-discrimination policy regarding gender identity and sexual orientation by declaring support for access to “gender-affirming healthcare.” The organization views the <a href="https://www.kff.org/lgbtq/gender-affirming-care-policy-tracker/">27 states</a> banning or limiting youth’s access to life-altering gender procedures as banning “healthcare for minors.” 
The Cherokee Presbytery presented the overture: “Declare that the PCUSA supports all individuals, including minors, to have access to all medically necessary, evidence-based gender-affirming healthcare.”
<a href="https://www.christianpost.com/news/pcusa-declares-support-for-trans-surgeries-for-kids.html">Rev. Olivia Lane</a>, moderator of the 227th General Assembly’s Gender and Sexuality Justice Committee, explained that the committee removed the phrase “including minors” from the final text due to concerns that it would be “weaponized to cause further harm to the very children it named.” 
Lane clarified that “all individuals means exactly that. All, without exception, without qualification, and without age limit.”
The “rationale” behind Cherokee Presbytery’s overture states that there are roughly 1.6 million transgender individuals aged 13 and older in the United States. 
“As of April 2024, 38%, or 113,900 trans youth aged 13-17 are living in the 24 states that have passed bans on gender-affirming care,” the <a href="https://myga.pc-biz.org/search/3001421">rationale said</a>. 
The rationale asserted that these statistics do not include the “thousands of pre-teen youths who could benefit from hormone blockers to prevent these individuals from going through the ‘wrong’ puberty” — a statement that contradicts <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2019%3A3-5&amp;version=CSB">multiple </a><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20139%3A13&amp;version=CSBA">passages</a> in the Bible.
“Gender-affirming care is age-appropriate care that is medically necessary and evidence based for the well-being of many transgender, non-binary, and gender-expansive people who experience symptoms of gender dysphoria or distress that result from having one’s gender identity not match their sex assigned at birth,” according to the rationale.
However, the argument that transgender surgeries are medically necessary or help patients has been <a href="https://www.heritage.org/gender/commentary/sex-reassignment-doesnt-work-here-the-evidence">proven false</a> for <a href="https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2020/02/60143/">some time</a>. <a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0016885">One study</a> found that “sex-reassigned persons,” in comparison to those maintaining their biological sex, had higher rates of suicide, higher suicide attempts, and increased need for psychiatric inpatient care.

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A Major Church’s Vote On Transgender Mutilation Of Kids Is Dividing Christians

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One of the nation’s top medical schools runs a program for future doctors to learn how to remove healthy body parts and construct fake genitals for gender confused adults. 
The University of Kansas Medical Center <a href="https://www.kumc.edu/school-of-medicine/academics/departments/plastic-burn-and-wound-surgery/academics/adult-comprehensive-gender-care-and-surgery-fellowship.html">offers</a> an “Adult Comprehensive Gender Care and Surgery” fellowship for medical professionals to obtain a “comprehensive experience in all clinical and academic aspects of adult gender care.” Through the program, fellows become members of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), a radical organization that has faced accusations of manipulating science for political purposes. 
The fellowship was flagged in a report shared with The Daily Wire by <a href="http://criticalrace.org/">CriticalRace.org</a>, an organization that monitors activist ideology in higher education. The report looked at how top medical schools and their medical wings promote transgender ideology through programs, initiatives, and medical care. 
“I think this report is a warning alarm being sounded that both the federal government and state governments need to pay attention to what&#8217;s actually happening,” William Jacobson, a professor at Cornell University and the founder of CriticalRace.org, told The Daily Wire. “While adults have broad power to consent to things, you cannot consent to unsound medical practices, or at least, that is not an excuse for the unsound practices.”
Fellows at the University of Kansas Medical Center, which receives millions in federal and state level funding, will be taught how to perform a vaginoplasty, a procedure where a pseudo-vagina is created on a male, oftentimes using skin from the penis. Another procedure is phalloplasty, when a fake penis is created using skin removed from other parts of the body. 
Additionally, the medical center will sponsor fellowship participants to become members of WPATH, an organization accused of twisting science to hide uncomfortable details about transgender procedures. Fellows will attend WPATH’s annual symposium. WPATH is one of the largest advocates of transgender procedures for kids. 
The fellowship at the University of Kansas Medical Center will also cover training in performing transgender chest and face surgeries, genital reconstruction surgery, “body contouring,” and other procedures like surgeries to remove a woman’s uterus. Non-surgical aspects of the fellowship involve learning about “voice/speech training,” and “social work/fertility preservation.”
In 2023, the University of Kansas Health System reported it had over 190 cases related to gender surgery. 
The University of Kansas Medical Center declined to comment.
Republicans in Kansas have moved to protect kids from transgender procedures, overriding a veto from Democratic Governor Laura Kelly. That cut off funding for any gender procedures on minors and banned doctors from doing the procedures on kids. 
The University of Kansas Medical Center was not the lone school scrutinized in CriticalRace.org’s report. Kemberlee Kaye, the managing editor of CriticalRace.org said that researchers found “a surprising number” of educational institutions that “were engaging in the sexual mutilation surgery.”
“I think the entire issue is egregious and troubling, quite frankly, and the fact that our medical schools are willingly engaging in this and promoting it,” Kaye told The Daily Wire. “These kinds of reports illuminate how deeply this pernicious ideology is entrenched in our institutions, whether it&#8217;s just the higher education programs or medical schools.”
The report found links to transgender ideology at other top institutions like the University of New Mexico and the Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center. 
The Wexner Medical Center <a href="https://wexnermedical.osu.edu/gender-affirming-care">says</a> that it is “one of only a few academic health centers in the country to offer bottom gender-affirming surgery.” 
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It details procedures such as carving up a person’s forehead or jaw to appear more masculine or feminine. 
“The forehead has been regarded as the most gender-defining region of the face. Cis-females tend to have lower hairlines, flat to smooth forehead contour with eyebrows that sit above the orbital rims, while cis-males are recognized by longer foreheads commonly combined with frequent hair-loss patterns,” the medical center says on its website. 
The University of New Mexico is another taxpayer-funded university that offers “gender affirming care” through its Student Health and Counseling office. The office boasts that it “offers gender affirming hormone therapy, referrals for gender affirming surgery and voice therapy, non-estrogen contraception (including LARC) for transmen/nonbinary people for pregnancy prevention if appropriate” and “routine screenings for cervical/breast/prostate cancer for people with these parts.”
The University of Arizona’s Campus Health department has a “LGBTQ+ Clinic” that <a href="https://health.arizona.edu/lgbtq-health">helps</a> gender-confused students obtain cross-sex hormones, makes transgender surgery referrals, and provides other “trans support.” 
Additionally, the university takes credit for ensuring that the student health insurance plan covers “access to medically necessary, gender-affirming health care.”
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“This access to care is a crucial element to the health, academic success, and retention of transgender-identified students,” the university says. 
While many red states have advanced protections for kids from transgender procedures, some lawmakers at the state and national level have started to push for all funding and support for transgender procedures on adults to be cut off. Republicans in South Carolina recently moved to ban all public funding for transgender procedures. Shortly after, the Medical University of South Carolina ended its transgender program at all levels. 
In other states, entities like Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Tennessee have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/after-boasting-about-40k-trans-surgeries-vanderbilt-reverses-course">shuttered</a> transgender programs. 
Kaye told The Daily Wire that federal and state lawmakers across the country need to take a closer look at what kinds of programs state funded medical institutions support and promote.

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The Texas Supreme Court last week revived a young woman&#8217;s case against medical professionals who put her on the path to have her body irreversibly damaged in the name of transgender healthcare, paving the way for similar lawsuits.
The unanimous ruling allows Soren Aldaco to continue her medical malpractice suit against her former therapist and Three Oaks Counseling. Her suit states that the defendants breached their fiduciary duties and that their medical interventions led to Aldaco’s “permanent disfigurement and profound psychological scarring.” Aldaco is seeking upwards of $1 million in damages.
Aldaco&#8217;s win is notable because the court agreed that the statute of limitations was more complex than the transgender medical industry argues. While the statute of limitations would have prevented Aldaco from suing after she was injured, the court agreed that lawsuits can continue in cases where a minor is put on a path to medical transition.
Aldaco, an activist who suffered greatly from a medical gender procedure, is no longer &#8220;timed out&#8221; of suing those who harmed her. The ruling could set a precedent for other detransitioners and puts the transgender medical industry on notice.
Independent Women&#8217;s Forum said the ruling &#8220;establishes a renewed lens for determining when the statute of limitations begins in cases involving minors who later allege harm from medical providers who facilitated irreversible &#8216;gender-transition&#8217; interventions.&#8221;
“Today the Texas Supreme Court unanimously ruled that my case deserves to be heard, and that providers implicated in harming vulnerable patients can’t twist the statute of limitations to escape accountability,&#8221; Aldaco said in a statement issued Monday. &#8220;This ruling is a watershed moment.&#8221;
&#8220;The Court’s opinion is already sending shockwaves far beyond Texas,&#8221; she added. &#8220;The direct impact will be felt here at home — but providers across the country, and federally, will now think twice about their responsibility to patients. And patients will see, through the model established here in Texas, that they deserve to be protected and taken seriously.”
Aldaco began identifying as transgender around 11 and was started on hormone replacement therapy at age 17, as outlined by Kelsey Bolar, a senior policy analyst at Independent Women’s Forum. At 19, Aldaco underwent surgery to remove her healthy breasts and, just two weeks later, ended up alone in an emergency room for eight hours as doctors reopened her wounds from the double mastectomy.
“At the time, I thought I was going to die,” Aldaco told Independent Women’s Forum. “I just remember being on zero pain meds at the time.”
“Her traumatic medical complications opened her eyes to the ills of so-called ‘gender-affirming care,’ which she said enabled her to believe hormones and surgery could provide her with the sense of self she craved growing up,” Bolar said of Aldaco. “Detransitioned and now working to heal from her ordeal through mindfulness, Soren has become a vocal critic of the ‘enabling’ she sees happening within the gender medical industry.”
The ruling comes on the heels of another high-profile victory for a detransitioner. Fox Varian received $2 million following a verdict in New York in January. Her case centered around the removal of her healthy breasts at age 16 for reasons of supposed transgender care.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/no-one-has-a-right-to-sterilize-a-child-two-detransitioners-sue-doctors-over-medical-interventions">‘No One Has A Right To Sterilize A Child’: Two Detransitioners Sue Doctors Over Medical Interventions</a>

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Texas

A pro-union bill making its way through Congress with Republican support faces opposition from Christian business leaders who argue it could be used to advance a pro-abortion and transgender agenda without the consent of workers or employers.
The <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/5408/text" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Faster Labor Contracts Act</a>, which passed the House last week with support from 210 Democrats and 20 Republicans, stipulates that either side in a labor dispute may request federal mediation after a 90 day period. If an agreement is not reached within 30 days of federal mediation, the conflict goes to a 3-person arbitration panel that is then empowered to impose labor contracts that can be binding on the parties for up to two years.
The Senate version of the bill is sponsored by outspoken social conservative Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) who says that the bill will help workers assert their rights against woke corporations. But according to the Christian Employers Alliance, the bill could have significant <a href="https://x.com/JoinCEANow/status/2064348783203508259" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ramifications</a> for religious workers and employees.
The organization, which successfully <a href="https://adflegal.org/case/christian-employers-alliance-v-us-equal-employment-opportunity-commission-i/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defeated</a> a Biden-era mandate for employers to pay for transgender procedures, sent a letter to House lawmakers last week urging them to oppose the measure. They say that the bill would allow arbiters to embed woke provisions into binding contracts without final consent from workers or employers.
“Christian employers are increasingly concerned that collective bargaining agreements are being used to advance provisions involving abortion coverage, gender-transition procedures, DEI mandates, pronoun policies, and other ideological requirements that directly implicate matters of conscience and religious belief,” Christian Employers Alliance President Margaret Iuculano told lawmakers in a letter obtained by The Daily Wire.
Iuculano told The Daily Wire that her organization is not opposed to the measure because it directly mandates any of the policies in question, but because of the binding arbitration provision that kicks in after 120 days if the two sides can&#8217;t make an agreement.
&#8220;Because the legislation relies on binding arbitration to impose first contracts when negotiations fail, provisions of this nature could become part of an arbitrator-imposed agreement without the consent of either the employer or the employees,&#8221; she told The Daily Wire. &#8220;For Christian employers, that raises serious concerns about religious liberty, conscience protections, healthcare freedom, and the ability of faith-based organizations to govern their workplaces consistent with their sincerely held beliefs.&#8221;
A Hawley spokesman told The Daily Wire that these objections were “absurd” and a way for big business to target the proposal.
“These absurd allegations about a strong bill to protect working people just show that giant corporations are desperate to kill legislation that would help American workers while they invest billions in DEI insanity,” a Hawley spokesman said. “Senator Hawley’s bill aims to put a shot clock on labor negotiations to stop corporations like Amazon from dragging their feet after workers win a vote to unionize fair and square.”
Hawley’s spokesman said that existing federal law protected religious employers.
“Federal law already shields religious employers, and under this bill any third-party arbitrators are mutually chosen by the bargaining parties, not by the government,” the spokesman said.
The terms imposed by the bill would allow the union and the employer to select one representative for arbitration. They would then have an opportunity to select a third arbitrator agreed to by both sides. If they can not agree on a third party within 14 days, the federal government would put in place the third person.
The Senate version is cosponsored by Republican Senators Roger Marshall (KS) and Bernie Moreno (Ohio) alongside 14 Democratic lawmakers.
Opponents of the bill argue that unions have historically promoted left-wing social policies, policies that could be imposed during the arbitration process.
For example, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, one of the unions supporting the legislation, once <a href="https://teamster.org/2019/11/teamsters-lgbtq-caucus-holds-annual-meeting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">promoted</a> a “Pride at Work” guidance <a href="https://teamster.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/caucuslgbtqprideatwork.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">document</a> steeped in transgender ideology that features the so-called “gender-bread person.”
The document features a section called “Five Reasons LGBTQ Working People Need a Union,” including that “people in unions help ensure LGBTQ working people have their healthcare needs met,” including “gender confirmation surgery.”
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Some affiliate groups, such as the Teamsters Local 117 in Washington, proudly <a href="https://www.teamsters117.org/abortion_rights_are_worker_rights" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declare</a> that “abortion rights are worker rights.”
“In America today, I cannot think of a single healthcare procedure that elected officials have used the legislative process to take choice away from men. Abortion rights are worker’s rights. The labor movement must take a critical stand and continue the fight for equal access to healthcare for all its members,” the union said after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
Kara Deniz, the assistant director of communications for the Teamsters, argued that complaints about abortion and transgender funding were attempts by companies to &#8220;misdirect&#8221; about the legislation.
&#8220;This is a complete misdirection to basically facilitate their goal to try to stampede and block a bill that is having tremendous bipartisan support. Republicans and Democrats are supporting this bill,&#8221; she told The Daily Wire. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think they even have those concerns. To be quite honest, I think that these &#8216;concerns&#8217; are being brought up on behalf of the corporations.&#8221;
Deniz said the goal of the Teamsters was to cut down on the lengthy negotiating process and would not impact the issues of abortion or transgenderism.
&#8220;I think it&#8217;s very unchristian to stand in the way of such legislation when it&#8217;s going to help people afford to live, and afford to be able to have a contract, and to not get hurt and injured on the job and be unsafe for 460 plus days because the employer refuses to give a contract,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I think that&#8217;s incredibly unchristian.&#8221;
The AFL-CIO, the largest federation of unions in the United States, has created model collective bargaining language demanding healthcare coverage for abortion and transgender procedures, including from out-of-state providers.
“All health plans offered to bargaining unit members shall cover comprehensive sexual and reproductive health care services, including contraceptives, abortion services (procedural and pharmaceutical), and gender-affirming care,” the <a href="https://aflcio.org/sites/default/files/2022-09/Abortion%20Model%20CBA%20Language.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">model language</a> says.
Similarly, the Service Employees International Union has called for local unions to bargain for so-called trans-inclusive healthcare.
Thomas Beck, a labor lawyer who previously served on the Federal Labor Relations Authority, said that the worries of organizations like the Christian Employers Alliance are legitimate.
“I think it&#8217;s absolutely a concern,” he told The Daily Wire, noting the track record of unions pushing for abortion and transgender coverage. “They&#8217;re all proudly staking out these very progressive positions on some of the highest profile social issues of our time. And essentially they&#8217;re making it clear that they want to argue for these protections in collective bargaining agreements.”
Beck believes that arbitrators would see abortion coverage or transgender procedure coverage as an easy win to hand unions and that the end result of the legislation would lead to a binding government regulation imposed via arbitration.
Vinnie Vernuccio, the president of the Institute for the American Worker, said one problem with the legislation is that union members did not get a final vote on the labor contract with it went to arbitration.
“It&#8217;s going a bridge way too far to say the remedy for contract negotiations taking too long is to invite government bureaucrats and take away the ability of workers to vote on a contract,” he told The Daily Wire.
Hawley’s spokesman said the broader objections to the bill were a cloak for woke corporations to oppose worker-friendly legislation. The spokesman noted that employers get to be part of the process in selecting the representatives to oversee arbitration.
“It’s ironic that some of the biggest opponents of this legislation also promote the trans flag on their websites. Senator Hawley is fighting for the American worker, rather than the same Big Business who stands with the radical left to push woke, transgender ideology,” the spokesman said.
When asked about concerns with the bill, Reagan McCarthy, a spokeswoman for Moreno, told The Daily Wire that the senator was “proud to be a part of the legislative effort to protect working families. Working class Americans helped elect President Trump, and Republicans must be the party of workers, not Wall Street.”
Some corporations have moved to push for abortion coverage without union pressure. Corporate giants like Amazon, Apple, and JPMorgan all came forward after the Roe decision and announced that they would pay for women to travel to end the life of their unborn child.
Before passing, the proposal likely would have to go before the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) committee, which could be an uphill battle with Republican control of the committee. It would also need to pick up around ten more Republican supporters to get past the filibuster and would need President Donald Trump&#8217;s signature.

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