<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-hampshire" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New Hampshire</a> authorities found the body of a 20-year-old female who had been reported missing after disappearing during a mountain hike in zero-degree temperatures last weekend.
Emily Sotelo, a sophomore biochemistry and chemical biology major at Tennessee&#8217;s Vanderbilt University, returned home to visit family for Thanksgiving break in Westford, Massachusetts.
New Hampshire Fish and Game Law Enforcement Division and Operation Game Thief Capt. Michael Eastman told <a href="https://www.wsmv.com/2022/11/23/body-vanderbilt-student-found-new-hampshire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">local media</a> Sotelo&#8217;s mother dropped her off for a solo hike around 4:30 a.m. Sunday morning at Lafayette Place Campground in Franconia, New Hampshire, with the intent of hiking Mount Lafayette, Haystack, and Flume in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.
By Sunday afternoon, Sotelo&#8217;s mother reported to authorities her daughter did not arrive at the meeting location they had arranged, about seven to eight miles from where her body was found.
&#8220;Her mother watched her go up the trail,&#8221; Eastman said. &#8220;Her mother was going to meet her further down the hiking route to meet her for food and provisions, but she did not arrive.&#8221;
New Hampshire Fish and Game Law Enforcement Division and Operation Game Thief dispatched search and rescue teams Sunday night.
The Pemigewasset Valley Search and Rescue Team, which coordinated the initial search and rescue efforts, said in a statement, according to <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/20-year-hiker-missing-subzero-temperatures-2-days/story?id=93791048" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ABC News</a>, that the &#8220;temperature along the ridge [where she was hiking was] about zero, [and] 30 to 40 mph winds [made] the chill factor -30 degrees. The elevation of the mountain range is more than 5,000 feet at its highest parts.&#8221;
The rescue teams, which included 60 ground searchers and air support, spent the next two days looking for Sotelo until locating foot tracks and items belonging to the hiker on Tuesday afternoon at the headwaters of Lafayette Brook, which is a little more than three miles from the start of the trail where she was dropped off.
&#8220;It is strenuous to be up there,&#8221; Eastman told local media. &#8220;We have people coming down that can hardly walk by the time they get to the bottom.&#8221;
Authorities found Sotelo&#8217;s body next to the Brook, where she may have stopped after veering off the trail due to the harsh elements, on Wednesday morning — the same day she turned 20 years old.
Sotelo had previously hiked and enrolled herself in survival courses. However, authorities said she had only worn a jacket, exercise pants, and sneakers before leaving on her hike, which likely led to her death in the below-freezing temperatures and snow blowing up to 60 miles per hour.
Officials have not revealed a cause of death. However, the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department examiner confirmed there was no evidence of foul play.
&#8220;The biggest lessons learned in a tragedy like this is when you&#8217;re hiking in New Hampshire, especially in the White Mountains, be prepared for the unexpected,&#8221; Fish and Game Department Major David Walsh told <a href="https://www.wmur.com/article/lost-hiker-body-found-franconia-notch-112322/42052999#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">local media</a>, adding to be prepared with knowledge of the weather conditions, wear protective gear, and have food and water on hand.
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Conservation officers in New Hampshire looking for this overdue hiker, who hasn&#39;t been seen since yesterday morning. Her name is Emily Sotelo. <a href="https://t.co/YtcOg9Xuwe">pic.twitter.com/YtcOg9Xuwe</a>
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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

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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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Chest reconstruction surgeries performed on minors across the United States increased by approximately 400% during a three-year span, according to a new <a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2797439?guestAccessKey=a85ea7b3-150e-42d8-b9b0-34000f2d681e">report</a>.
The Journal of the American Medical Association, an international peer-reviewed general medical journal, published that researchers from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, reported that 1130 chest mutilating surgeries were performed on children younger than 18 years old from 2016 to 2019.
Of those encounters, 1114 were mastectomies, while 16 were augmentation mammaplasties — bringing the annual number of child mutilations during the reported years to a 389% increase.
&#8220;To our knowledge, this study is the largest investigation to date of gender-affirming chest reconstruction in a pediatric population,&#8221; the study noted. &#8220;The results demonstrate substantial increases in gender-affirming chest reconstruction for adolescents.&#8221;
The report noted, “reconstructive genital surgery is typically not performed in adolescents, but masculinizing chest reconstruction (e.g., mastectomy) and feminizing chest reconstruction (e.g., augmentation mammaplasty) may be performed in outpatient and ambulatory surgery settings.”
According to the report, some of the children who underwent the surgeries during the study had psychiatric conditions, such as anxiety and depression. And about 20% of the children were using so-called gender-affirming hormone therapies.
Daily Wire host Matt Walsh recently obtained footage showing a Vanderbilt doctor emphasizing the money such surgeries can bring in. “Chest reconstruction” surgeries — which can be performed on minors — can generate $40,000, and “female-to-male bottom surgeries” can produce $100,000. Another Vanderbilt doctor called religious objections “problematic” and said that medical professionals who refuse to perform such surgeries should face “consequences.”
Video and archived webpages from the medical center detail a doctor’s promotion of the “big money maker” transgender therapies and surgeries and apparent threats against medical professionals who dare object for religious reasons.
“It’s a lot of money,” VUMC Clinic for Transgender Health’s Dr. Shayne Sebold Taylor said at one Medicine Grand Rounds lecture, the video reveals. “These surgeries make a lot of money.”
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tennessee-looking-at-child-gender-transition-legislation-after-vanderbilt-transgender-videos-released/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vanderbilt Pediatric Gender Clinic</a> has since agreed to pause all gender transition surgeries on minors, but insiders with the clinic told The Daily Wire they fear transgender surgeries on minors would eventually resume unless laws were established banning such operations.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) recently sent a letter to the Federal Drug Administration calling for an investigation of the pharmaceutical companies conducting clinical trials using puberty blockers on children.
Blackburn has joined other Tennessee officials in calling for an investigation into Vanderbilt University Medical in the wake of Walsh’s reporting.
“It is just very sad that we would hear from medical professionals as they were putting profit in front of children,” Blackburn told The Daily Wire.
A recent report from Grand View Research said the industry surrounding transgender surgeries saw a $1.9 billion valuation last year and is forecast to expand at a compound annual growth rate of more than 11%, bringing the industry to $5 billion by the end of the decade.
Studies indicate that as many as 90% of young people who claim a transgender identity but are not encouraged to socially or medically transition will no longer call themselves transgender in adulthood.
According to the JAMA Pediatrics study, at least 35 state legislatures have introduced more than 100 bills that limit or prohibit access to “medically necessary gender-affirming care for transgender and gender-diverse youth, resulting in poor mental and physical health outcomes,” adding approximately 300,000 adolescents between 13 and 17 years of age identify as transgender.
Ben Zeisloft and Amanda Prestigiacomo contributed to this report.

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Adolescent Chest Reconstruction Surgeries Increase Nearly 400% in US: Report

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After insiders at <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/vanderbilt-university" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vanderbilt University Medical Center</a> told The Daily Wire that they fear transgender surgeries on minors would eventually resume, host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/matt-walsh" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Matt Walsh</a> affirmed why states need to create laws to ban such practices.
Walsh said during an interview Wednesday with Fox News host Tucker Carlson that places like Vanderbilt have become a &#8220;hub&#8221; for the sexual mutilation of children, which recently stopped the procedures following a videotape uncovered by The Daily Wire host exposing the practices. However, a recent report from three sources at the institution said the moment the public relieves pressure — the &#8220;liberal-led&#8221; university would continue to push them through.
&#8220;They will if they can get away with it, which is why we can&#8217;t rely on these institutions to police themselves,&#8221; Walsh said.
Walsh called on lawmakers to create legislation prohibiting doctors from performing procedures classified as so-called “gender-affirming care.”
&#8220;There have to be laws now — and I think most Americans, when they hear about this, are shocked to find out that there aren&#8217;t already laws banning doctors from doing cosmetic double mastectomies on teenage girls or sterilizing and castrating kids.&#8221;
United States Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine has recently made headlines after slamming laws that would dictate when children could begin receiving &#8220;a range of medical treatments and evaluations … of people who are transgender and transgender youth.&#8221;
&#8220;And we do not need state laws and actions that dictate principles of transgender medical care by us pediatric experts,&#8221; Levine <a href="https://newschannel9.com/news/nation-world/rachel-levine-slams-laws-dictating-when-children-can-begin-transgender-medical-therapies-biden-administration-trans-lgbtq" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
However, Levine has faced backlash from medical professionals that have challenged the idea that &#8220;treatments and evaluations&#8221; like puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones are medically necessary and safe for minors.
Florida&#8217;s Department of Health has stated that conducting those procedures on minors lacked &#8220;conclusive evidence&#8221; and could lead to potential &#8220;long-term, irreversible effects.&#8221;
Puberty blockers, known as gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) substances, received a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fda-officials-warn-of-brain-swelling-vision-loss-in-minors-using-puberty-blockers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">warning</a> from U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials earlier this year, saying the drug could cause brain swelling, loss of vision, and serious risks for children being injected with the hormone.
Officials said a plausible association between using puberty blockers and pseudotumor cerebri, which displays symptoms similar to a brain tumor, was identified in six young girls between the ages of five and 12. Symptoms in the patients included visual disturbances, headaches, and vomiting. Other effects GnRH agonists caused were an increase in blood pressure, brain swelling, and abducens neuropathy.
Institutions like Vanderbilt would be free to resume gender surgeries on children if a law weren&#8217;t in place.
But Walsh has charged supporters to fight for the protection of children&#8217;s health, to call on state legislators to implement laws and guardrails preventing institutions from performing irreversible procedures.
&#8220;The fact that Vanderbilt was even willing to put a pause on these procedures is an example of pressure from the Right, causing a left-wing institution to cave at least temporarily, which is significant in its own right,&#8221; Walsh said. &#8220;But of course, we&#8217;re not going to just rely on them to continue on their own.&#8221;
On Friday, Walsh is hosting the &#8220;Rally to End Child Mutilation&#8221; in Nashville, Tennessee, at the state Capitol. Speakers will include Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), state Senator Jack Johnson, and state Rep. William Lamberth. Former congresswoman, Democratic Party member, and presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard has also recently joined the list of speakers for Friday&#8217;s rally.
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‘We Can’t Rely On These Institutions To Police Themselves’: Matt Walsh Affirms Why Nation Needs Laws Banning Castrating Children

Matt Walsh Affirms Why Nation Needs Laws Banning Castrating Children

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Some employees at a top Tennessee hospital were relieved to learn last week it will freeze transgender surgeries on minors, but told The Daily Wire only a law can ensure the practice, which can include the removal of a minor girls’ breasts, ends for good. 
Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) suspended pediatric gender surgeries under pressure from state lawmakers. But three medical professionals who work or have worked at VUMC, all speaking on the condition of anonymity, were skeptical the pause would become permanent. 
“Vanderbilt is a liberal-led institution, and anytime anybody lets pressure off they’ll continue to push these types of procedures,” one source told The Daily Wire. 
“It won’t stop until it’s banned by law in this state,” a second source said. 
Last month, the footage shared by The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh of a VUMC doctor referring to irreversible transgender surgeries as “huge money makers” prompted the sources to come forward. Each source said they were extremely uncomfortable with transgender surgeries on minors being performed at the hospital, and that many of their colleagues were as well, but feared retaliation from the hospital if they were to speak up with their name. 
“Many of us…aren’t okay with what is happening,” a third source said. 
In a statement announcing the pause, VUMC said they’ve performed double mastectomy surgeries on girls “at least 16 years of age” on “an average of 5 per year” since their pediatric gender clinic’s inception in 2018. But a source told The Daily Wire that they have first-hand knowledge that at least 10 minors have received double-mastectomies this year — double what VUMC says is their average.
The Daily Wire has not been able to independently confirm these figures. 
VUMC also recently released a statement saying its policies do “allow employees to decline to participate in care they find morally objectionable” and do not allow for discrimination against them — a statement one of the sources took issue with. 
“I was never asked,” the medical professional said of the hospital’s response. “I was never offered an opt out.”
VUMC’s gender-affirmation model aligns with the “standard of care” deployed by pediatric gender clinics across the country. The standards <a href="https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/142/4/e20182162/37381/Ensuring-Comprehensive-Care-and-Support-for" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discourage</a> medical professionals from questioning a minor’s self-reported transgender identity or exploring possible underlying factors that may be causing their dysphoria. 
VUMC’s pediatric gender clinic is one of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/google-removes-gender-clinic-map-citing-harassment-violation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hundreds</a> that have opened up in North America in recent years to meet the growing demand of teens seeking gender-related procedures. A recent Reuters <a href="https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-transyouth-data/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">investigation</a> found that between 2019-2021, at least 776 mastectomies were performed in the U.S. on patients ages 13 to 17 who identified as transgender, likely a “significant undercount” since the review only examined insurance claims. 
“We’re creating a bigger problem by ‘affirming’ instead of treating the root of the problem: why someone feels gender dysphoric to begin with,” a source said. “I dont know of any other diagnosis where we affirm instead of treat. We don’t affirm dementia patients of their belief that it’s really the 1940s and we don’t affirm schizophrenic patients of their belief that they’re being spied on.” 
When it comes to genital surgeries, such as vaginoplasty, which can be performed on 18-year-olds, the source expressed the opinion, “complications seem to be the rule, not the exception.”
Walsh also shared video of Vanderbilt health law expert Dr. Ellen Wright Clayton saying objections to gender surgery for religious or other reasons should have “consequences.”
“I just want you to take home that saying that you’re not going to do something because of your religious beliefs is not without consequences and it should not be without consequences,” Wright Clayton said at a 2019 lecture, titled, “Gender Confirmation Surgery: Anesthesia, Surgical and Ethical Considerations.”
“If you don’t want to do this kind of work, don’t work at Vanderbilt,” Wright Clayton added.
A source who attended the lecture told The Daily Wire they felt threatened when Wright Clayton said there should be consequences. Another source recalled, “I just remember thinking, ‘how dare you.’ I’ve done everything I should do and there’s this woman up here telling me that if I disagree with this, that I should go somewhere else or get fired.”
“It was shocking that nobody in the administration or in the department challenged that.”
The source said a lot of people complained about what happened. “But they complained anonymously because they’re afraid of blowback,” the source said. “There’s a lot of people uncomfortable with it. But if it makes a lot of money, they’re going to go for it,” the source opined. “I applaud Matt Walsh and the team there. I hope they don’t let this go.”

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Vanderbilt Insiders Fear Transgender Surgeries On Minors Will Resume

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Daily Wire host and documentarian <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/the-matt-walsh-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Matt Walsh</a> isn’t just talking about major issues. He’s taking action.
Following his exposé on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/vanderbilt-university" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vanderbilt</a> University Medical Center’s (VUMC) transgender treatment on minors, Walsh announced Friday that he will be holding a rally at the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tennessee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tennessee</a> state capitol in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nashville" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nashville</a> to push for the end of &#8220;child mutilation&#8221; in the state.
“Join us on October 21 at the state capitol as we rally to end child mutilation across the state,” Walsh tweeted. “We are going to put a stop to gender ideology’s assault on our children. Come and be a part of the movement.”
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Walsh will speak at the event, which starts at 4 p.m. on October 21, and more speakers will be announced soon. The bestselling author also encouraged his followers to <a href="https://tickets.dailywire.com/rally" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reserve a free ticket</a> to the rally to “send a message to the entire nation that radical experimentation is not ‘medical care’ as the left has claimed—it is child mutilation, and Americans will not allow it to continue.”
Last week, a groundswell of lawmakers <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tn-house-gop-formally-requests-vanderbilt-medical-halt-gender-surgeries-on-minors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">demanded an investigation</a> into the Nashville pediatric gender clinic after shocking videos showed a Vanderbilt doctor calling certain transgender surgeries “huge money makers.” A health law expert also called conscientious objections to transgender surgeries “problematic.”
Tennessee Republican Governor Bill Lee&#8217;s office also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tennessee-looking-at-child-gender-transition-legislation-after-vanderbilt-transgender-videos-released" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> he is in contact with state lawmakers about legislation regarding transgender care for minors.
“We should not allow permanent, life altering decisions that hurt children, like we saw on display at VUMC. The Governor is in communication with Leader Johnson and Leader Lamberth about legislative solutions, and we look forward to working with them and many other Tennesseans who are passionate about protecting children,” Casey Sellers, a spokeswoman for the governor, said in a statement to The Daily Wire.
The clinic performs “gender-affirming” double mastectomies on minor girls and offers puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for minors as well, according to Walsh.
In one video uncovered by Walsh, a Vanderbilt doctor affiliated with the adult transgender clinic, but not the pediatric one, can be seen emphasizing the dollar signs around gender surgery.
“It’s a lot of money. These surgeries make a lot of money,” VUMC Clinic for Transgender Health’s Dr. Shayne Sebold Taylor said.
Taylor said that “gender-affirming” double mastectomies could bring in $40,000, and a female-to-male phalloplasty could bring in upwards of $100,000.
Another doctor said that objecting to gender surgery for religious or other reasons should have “consequences.”
“I just want you to take home that saying that you’re not going to do something because of your religious beliefs is not without consequences and it should not be without consequences,” said Vanderbilt health law expert and pediatrician Dr. Ellen Wright Clayton.
“If you don’t want to do this kind of work, don’t work at Vanderbilt,” Clayton added.
Mairead Elordi contributed to this report.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tennessee">Tennessee</a> House Republicans on Wednesday formally requested that Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), which offers adult transgender and pediatric transgender surgeries, immediately halt <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/gender">gender</a> surgeries on children.
In a letter signed by 62 state House members, Republican Rep. Jason Zachary said he and his colleagues are &#8220;alarmed&#8221; by reports about the &#8220;surgical mutilations of minor children&#8221; at VUMC&#8217;s Pediatric Transgender Clinic.
&#8220;The Vanderbilt Pediatric Transgender Clinic&#8217;s practices qualify as nothing less than abuse,&#8221; the letter stated.
&#8220;We, the elected representative body of the state of Tennessee, ask members of the VUMC Board of Directors to take immediate action by halting all permanent gender transitioning surgeries being performed on minor children,&#8221; the lawmakers wrote.
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The letter also requested that VUMC honor all &#8220;conscientious objectors&#8221; who refuse to participate in the surgeries due to their religious beliefs.
“Tennesseans across our state have demanded a swift response and a call to action. We agree that these revelations require the legislature to act immediately,” the letter stated.
Last week, a groundswell of lawmakers demanded an investigation into the Nashville pediatric gender clinic after shocking videos showed a Vanderbilt doctor calling certain transgender surgeries “huge money makers.&#8221; A health law expert also called conscientious objections to transgender surgeries “problematic.”
The clinic performs “gender-affirming” double mastectomies on minor girls and offers puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for minors as well, according to an expose from The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh.
In one video uncovered by Walsh, a Vanderbilt doctor affiliated with the adult transgender clinic, but not the pediatric one, can be seen emphasizing the dollar signs around gender surgery.
“It’s a lot of money. These surgeries make a lot of money,” VUMC Clinic for Transgender Health’s Dr. Shayne Sebold Taylor said.
Taylor said that “gender-affirming” double mastectomies could bring in $40,000, and a female-to-male phalloplasty could bring in upwards of $100,000.
Another doctor says that objecting to gender surgery for religious or other reasons should have “consequences.”
“I just want you to take home that saying that you’re not going to do something because of your religious beliefs is not without consequences and it should not be without consequences,” said Vanderbilt health law expert and pediatrician Dr. Ellen Wright Clayton.
“If you don’t want to do this kind of work, don’t work at Vanderbilt,” Clayton added.
Zachary, who represents the Knoxville area, said Wednesday that he finds the hospital&#8217;s apparent desire to profit from gender surgeries concerning.
“It is deeply troubling that Vanderbilt University Medical Center appears to be motivated by profits in its practice of recommending such radical and life-altering surgery for minors,” Zachary said Wednesday.
“We expect Vanderbilt’s Board of Directors to simply do what is right by choosing to protect the well-being and health of vulnerable children,” he added.
Last week, the governor and state lawmakers <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tennessee-looking-at-child-gender-transition-legislation-after-vanderbilt-transgender-videos-released">said</a> they were also discussing legislative solutions. Republican Governor Bill Lee’s office said he is in contact with the state’s top lawmakers about potential legislation.
“We should not allow permanent, life altering decisions that hurt children, like we saw on display at VUMC. The Governor is in communication with Leader Johnson and Leader Lamberth about legislative solutions, and we look forward to working with them and many other Tennesseans who are passionate about protecting children,” Casey Sellers, a spokeswoman for the governor, told The Daily Wire last week in a statement.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tennessee">Tennessee</a> lawmakers are revisiting the possibility of legislation to crack down on child gender <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender">transitions</a> after the release of multiple videos related to Vanderbilt Medical Center&#8217;s so-called gender-affirming care.
The governor and state lawmakers said this week that they are discussing legislative solutions after video footage showed a doctor calling certain transgender surgeries “huge money makers” and a health law expert saying conscientious objections to the surgeries are “problematic.”
This week, a groundswell of lawmakers demanded an investigation into the Pediatric Transgender Clinic, one of two transgender clinics at the medical center, after an exposé on transgender surgeries from Daily Wire host Matt Walsh. The other clinic is for adults.
On Wednesday, Walsh <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1572684341070757893">said</a> he had met with state Rep. William Lamberth (R-TN) and state Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson (R-TN) to discuss a potential bill. &#8220;We are working on a bill to shut down Vanderbilt’s child gender transition program and ban the practice in the state. Tennesseans do not want this barbarism in our state. We will put a stop to it,&#8221; Walsh tweeted.
Governor Bill Lee&#8217;s (R-TN) office said he is in contact with the state&#8217;s top lawmakers about potential legislation as well.
“We should not allow permanent, life altering decisions that hurt children, like we saw on display at VUMC. The Governor is in communication with Leader Johnson and Leader Lamberth about legislative solutions, and we look forward to working with them and many other Tennesseans who are passionate about protecting children,&#8221; Casey Sellers, a spokeswoman for the governor, said in a statement to The Daily Wire.
The pediatric gender clinic at VUMC performs “gender-affirming” double mastectomies on minor girls and offers puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for minors as well, Walsh <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/wave-of-lawmakers-demanding-investigation-into-vanderbilt-pediatric-gender-clinic">noted</a>.
In one video uncovered by Walsh, a Vanderbilt doctor affiliated with the adult transgender clinic, but not the pediatric one, can be seen emphasizing the dollar signs around gender surgery.
“It’s a lot of money. These surgeries make a lot of money,” VUMC Clinic for Transgender Health’s Dr. Shayne Sebold Taylor said in one video.
Taylor said that “gender-affirming” double mastectomies could bring in $40,000, and a female-to-male phalloplasty could bring in upwards of $100,000.
Another doctor associated with the hospital says that objecting to gender surgery for religious or other reasons should have “consequences.”
“I just want you to take home that saying that you’re not going to do something because of your religious beliefs is not without consequences and it should not be without consequences,” said Vanderbilt health law expert and pediatrician Dr. Ellen Wright Clayton.
“If you don’t want to do this kind of work, don’t work at Vanderbilt,” Clayton added.
Earlier this year, <a href="https://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/112/Bill/SB2696.pdf">a bill</a> that would have banned gender surgeries, puberty blockers, and cross-sex hormones for minors died in the Tennessee legislature after it failed to garner enough Republican support.
The ill-fated Youth Health Protection Act was sponsored by state Sen. Janice Bowling (R).
Another <a href="https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/Default.aspx?BillNumber=SB0126">bill</a> that made it into law last year banned cross-sex hormones for prepubescent children. However, cross-sex hormones are not commonly prescribed to prepubescent gender-dysphoric youth, who would be more likely to receive a prescription for puberty blockers.
Bowling described last year&#8217;s bill as &#8220;worse than nothing&#8221; since, in her view, it tacitly approved cross-sex hormones for older children.
&#8220;It was a smoke and mirror bill. In the appearance of preventing something, it actually tacitly enabled something,&#8221; she told The Daily Wire.
Tennessee does have a <a href="https://law.justia.com/codes/tennessee/2010/title-39/chapter-13/part-1/39-13-110">law</a> on the books prohibiting female genital mutilation, a practice common in some ethnic communities, but it is unlikely that the law would ever be interpreted to apply to gender surgery.

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Two GOP senators are pressing the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fda" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FDA</a> to provide data on the effects of a puberty-inhibiting drug recently warned about by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fda-officials-warn-of-brain-swelling-vision-loss-in-minors-using-puberty-blockers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">some</a> medical experts.
GOP Sens. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/marsha-blackburn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marsha Blackburn</a> of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tennessee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tennessee</a> and Cynthia Lummis of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/wyoming" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wyoming</a> wrote a <a href="https://www.blackburn.senate.gov/services/files/7EDEB96F-2EE4-440A-A274-9DB860C8FE49" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to FDA Commissioner Robert Califf on Thursday about the side-effects of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonists, which are used to treat minors with early-onset puberty, as well as stave off the normal pubescent development of minors who may be considering sex-reassignment surgery.
The FDA added a warning to the use of GnRH agonists in July over reported cases of <a href="https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/pseudotumor-cerebri/symptoms-causes/syc-20354031#:~:text=Pseudotumor%20cerebri%20(SOO%2Ddoe%2D,those%20of%20a%20brain%20tumor." target="_blank" rel="noopener">pseudotumor cerebri</a>, a condition that mimics the symptoms of a brain tumor but has no obvious source. GnRH agonists are <a href="https://publications.aap.org/aapnews/news/20636/Risk-of-pseudotumor-cerebri-added-to-labeling-for?autologincheck=redirected" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found</a> in drugs such as Lupron Depot-Ped, Fensolvi, Synarel, Supprelin LA, and Triptodur.
The senators noted that while GnRH agonists are approved for use by patients with developmental disorders such as central precocious puberty (CPP), which makes a child experience puberty younger than normal, the drug is not approved for gender dysphoric or transgender treatment. According to a <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7497424/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study</a> published in the National Library of Medicine, GnRH is recommended for initial treatments of minors struggling with gender dysphoria.
“[T]he off-label use of GnRH agonists in connection with diagnoses of gender dysphoria or the provision of transgender care is, by definition, intended to suppress the normal biological processes of puberty beyond the normal age of onset. Given that such off-label use deliberately delays and alters normal development, We are deeply concerned that it could result in significant short-term and long-term risks and adverse effects on adolescent patients,” the senators wrote.
“Our concern has been heightened by reports of increased off-label use of GnRH agonists in connection with transgender care,” they added. They then requested trial studies, cases of negative side-effects, and other information on use of GnRH agonists.
Blackburn and Lummis’ letter comes days after Daily Wire host Matt Walsh posted <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/huge-money-maker-video-reveals-vanderbilts-shocking-gender-care-threats-against-dissenting-doctors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shocking videos</a> of a doctor at a Transgender Clinic at Vanderbilt University Medical promoting transgender surgeries as a “big money maker.” The doctor who made the comments works with adult patients.
The medical center has also detailed transgender surgeries and treatments available for minors. Video from the Vanderbilt Psychiatry YouTube channel reveals the medical center “explicitly [admits] that they will give and have given irreversible hormone drugs to children as young as 13,” Walsh <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gov-bill-lee-calls-for-investigation-of-vanderbilts-pediatric-transgender-clinic-following-matt-walsh-bombshell" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>.
The university released a statement after Walsh’s report claiming that reports of its transgender care “misrepresented facts.”
“We have been and will continue to be committed to providing family-centered care to all adolescents in compliance with state law and in line with professional practice standards and guidance established by medical specialty societies,” the statement said.
Blackburn has joined other Tennessee officials in calling for an investigation into Vanderbilt University Medical in the wake of Walsh’s reporting.
“Using children for profit and political gain is deeply disturbing. Experts agree that there have not been enough clinical trials conducted to prove the safety and effectiveness of using these drugs on kids,” Blackburn said in a statement. “These drugs have not been approved for treating children experiencing gender dysphoria, but the left insists on experimenting on these children anyway.”
Zach Jewell contributed to this report.

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Tucker Carlson used his opening monologue Wednesday night to report on Matt Walsh’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gov-bill-lee-calls-for-investigation-of-vanderbilts-pediatric-transgender-clinic-following-matt-walsh-bombshell" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revelation</a> about Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), and later interviewed The Daily Wire host about his findings on the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/huge-money-maker-video-reveals-vanderbilts-shocking-gender-care-threats-against-dissenting-doctors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hospital’s</a> transgender “care.”
Walsh revealed in one video Tuesday that a VUMC doctor openly discussed how lucrative transgender surgeries are for the hospital. In another video, a different doctor said medical professionals who object to performing the procedures should face consequences.
“We know this for a fact … that Vanderbilt, they perform double mastectomies on minor girls, on children, they chemically castrate children, they give them irreversible hormone drugs, and change their bodies permanently,” Walsh told the Fox News host.
Walsh then said that this kind of stuff is happening “all across the country, in every single state.”
“One of the reasons it’s allowed to keep happening is because people don’t know about it because they&#8217;re not talking about it,” Walsh commented. “And I think for a lot of Americans, people just walking down the street, it’s unthinkable. They can’t imagine this sort of thing is actually happening.”
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Carlson then named all of the board of directors for VUMC and called on them to “act immediately” to stop transgender treatments on minors. Following Walsh’s revelation, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/wave-of-lawmakers-demanding-investigation-into-vanderbilt-pediatric-gender-clinic" target="_blank" rel="noopener">multiple lawmakers</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gov-bill-lee-calls-for-investigation-of-vanderbilts-pediatric-transgender-clinic-following-matt-walsh-bombshell" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Governor Bill Lee</a> (R-TN) called for an investigation of the Pediatric Transgender Clinic at VUMC.
Dr. Shayne Sebold Taylor, who works with VUMC Clinic for Transgender Health, which is separate from pediatrics, admitted in one live-streamed video, “These surgeries are labor intensive, they require a lot of follow-ups, they require a lot of our time, and they make money,” she emphasized. “They make money for the hospital.” Taylor does not work with pediatric patients.
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Vanderbilt opened its trans clinic in 2018. During a lecture the same year, Dr. Shayne Taylor explained how she convinced Nashville to get into the gender transition game. She emphasized that it&#39;s a &quot;big money maker,&quot; especially because the surgeries require a lot of &quot;follow ups&quot; <a href="https://t.co/zedM7HBCBe">pic.twitter.com/zedM7HBCBe</a>
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At another Medicine Grand Rounds lecture, Vanderbilt health law expert Ellen Wright Clayton suggested that objecting to transgender surgeries was problematic.
“If you are going to assert conscientious objection, you have to realize that that is problematic,” Clayton said. “You are doing something to another person, and you are not paying the cost for your belief. I think that is a … real issue.”
Clayton said conscientious objectors would be “accommodated,” but said these people have to find someone else to carry out such surgeries for them. “I just want you to take home that saying that you’re not going to do something because of your conscientious — because of your religious beliefs, is not without consequences, and should not be without consequences,” she stressed.
“We are given an enormous — if you don’t want to do this kind of work, don’t work at Vanderbilt,” she said.
VUMC released a statement Wednesday claiming to be victims of posts that “misrepresent facts.”
“We have been and will continue to be committed to providing family-centered care to all adolescents in compliance with state law and in line with professional practice standards and guidance established by medical specialty societies,” the statement said.
The medical center seemed to acknowledge it provides highly controversial transgender treatment to minors, but said “VUMC requires parental consent to treat a minor patient” and “never refuses parental involvement in the care of transgender youth who are under age 18.”
“Our policies allow employees to decline to participate in care they find morally objectionable, and do not permit discrimination against employees who choose to do so,” the statement continued. “This includes employees whose personal or religious beliefs do not support gender-affirming care for transgender persons.”

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