‘Highly Profitable’: Pediatric Gender Clinics Are Opening All Across The Country

As many as 300 new pediatric gender clinics have opened in the US in recent decades amid skyrocketing rates of transgender identity among adolescents, according to the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine.

As transgender identity has become more common, pediatric gender clinics have sprung up across the country offering various medical services for people of the opposite sex to minors. individuals looking for medical transition The opposite sex can undergo a number of procedures including puberty blockers, cross-hormones, double mastectomies for women and mammoplasty for men, facial surgeries, and many other procedures on the genitals and reproductive system.

The Human Rights Campaign lists 60 pediatric gender clinics in its mapping project, which only includes “comprehensive multidisciplinary programs,” while the Gender Mapper places the number greater than 200 and the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine (SEGM) Dear more than 300. The number of clinics has skyrocketed in recent years, with some estimates placing the first pediatric gender clinic in the US. Opened as recently as 2007.

There are child gender clinics across the country, including in Republican-led cities and states that have spoken out about cracking down on gender transitions for minors: Florida, Wyoming, Kansas, Montana, and many southern states have multiple child gender clinics. pediatric gender, according to Gender Mapper.

vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, performed double mastectomies on minors, according to to a video unearthed by the Daily Wire in which a woman identified as Physician Assistant Shalyn Vanderbloemen said the procedure was available to 16- and 17-year-olds. The clinic also offers cross-sex hormones, which can permanently sterilize patients, to children as young as 13, according to DW.

dr Sidhbh Gallager, a Miami-based plastic surgeon, performs 40 “superior surgeries” a month, and one or two of them are on a minor, according to The New York Times. She said most of the minor patients were at least 15 years old, but that she performed the procedure on 13- and 14-year-olds.

Kaiser Permanente Oakland, a California hospital, performed 70 “superior surgeries” in 2019 on teens ages 13 to 18; had only done five in 2013, according to a to study.

“The number of pediatric gender clinics has increased dramatically over the last two decades, just as the number of youth who identify as trans has increased by more than 4,000% over the same period,” said Joseph Burgo, a clinical psychologist with based in California and consultant to Genspect. he told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “It is natural to assume that the medical profession has increased supply in response to demand for its services. Like most professionals, physicians and surgeons also seek to maximize their income, and as Dr. Shayne Taylor reported to her audience at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, gender medicine is highly profitable.” (RELATED: Yes, Doctors Are Performing Sex Change Surgeries on Children)

Burgo was referring to a newly discovered video of Taylor bragging about the profit opportunity that medical treatments for people of the opposite sex presented to Vanderbilt Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

“It’s a lot of money. These surgeries make a lot of money,” he said. “So a female-to-male chest reconstruction could bring in $40,000. generate several thousand dollars without requiring many visits and tests. In fact, it generates money for the hospital.”

Double mastectomies, referred to by activists as “superior surgery,” are more readily offered to minors than other cross-sex surgeries, and many clinics openly advertise them to adolescent patients. Gallagher publicly accepted to perform the procedure on a 13-year-old and a 14-year-old suffering from extreme chest distress, and the procedure has been offered to minors by notable institutions including Boston Children’s Hospital.

“Honestly, I can’t think of another field where volume has exploded like that,” Dr. Karen Yokoo, a retired plastic surgeon from Kaiser Permanente Oakland, said recently. saying the NYT about the rapid rise in double mastectomies for gender-disrupted teen girls.

Advocates and medical professionals who support childhood transitions argue that they alleviate the mental anguish and depression associated with gender dysphoria, or the sense of incongruence between gender identity and biological sex, often minimizing the problem for children who grow up and regret irreversible procedures.

Vanderbilt opened her trans clinic in 2018. During a conference the same year, Dr. Shayne Taylor explained how she convinced Nashville to get in on the gender transition game. She emphasized that it is a “big money maker,” especially since the surgeries require a lot of “follow-ups.” pic.twitter.com/zedM7HBCBe

—Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) September 20, 2022

Puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones have drawn much less public attention and outrage than gender-related surgeries, despite the serious health risks they pose. Puberty blockers cost about $1,200 a month, and an implant costs between $4,500 and $18,000. according to to PBS.

puberty blockersif taken at the earliest stage of puberty, it will permanently affect sexual function and prevent the patient from experiencing an orgasm, according to transgender activist and surgeon Marci Bowers. After blockers, patients can switch to cross-sex hormones, which they can cause permanent infertility.

Genital surgeries between the sexes, euphemistically referred to as “butt surgeries,” are rare overall and are particularly rare in minors, although there is no federal law prohibiting them and they have occurred in several cases. More than half of the surgeons who perform vaginoplasty (the surgical reversal of the penis to mimic a vagina) have performed the surgery on patients under the age of 18, according to to the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund.

“Throughout society, but especially in educational settings, gender identity ideology has spread and successfully defined trans identities to include virtually any deviation from rigid and stereotypical gender norms, leading to a large number of unconventional youth under the trans umbrella,” Burgo told the DCNF. “And then the World Professional Association for Transgender Health has consistently advocated for the medicalization of youth who identify as trans, thereby fueling demand for services that the medical profession has stepped up to provide.” .

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