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A new national database maps gender-affirming care for minors, listing where children are getting puberty blockers, hormone replacement therapy and sex reassignment surgery — and calls out some of the nation’s most notorious providers.
Researchers were able to identify a total of 13,994 minors across the United States who received medical treatment for gender dysphoria over the course of four years. Shockingly, over 5,700 of those kids were operated on.
The searchable database from Do No Harm is called “Does My Hospital Transition Kids?” and launches today. It maps providers and hospitals which provide gender affirming care.
The database can be searched by state, or by specific facility if you’re wondering about your local hospital. In total, there are 225 children’s hospitals on the map.
Do No Harm, an advocacy group that represents medical professionals concerned about identity politics, gender ideology, and DEI practices in medicine, was able to aggregate their figures by scouring a selection of insurance claims filed nationwide between 2019 and 2023.
In all they found 5,747 unique patients receiving gender affirming surgery — whether it be a mastectomy or genital reassignment surgery — as well as 8,579 patients on puberty blockers and/or hormone replacement therapy. Overall, they counted more than 60,000 total prescriptions written.
In all, the cost of insurance claims submitted by the roughly 14,000 patients amounts to $119 million, according to the new website.
The researchers at Do No Harm opted to be as cautious as possible in counting cases, and say therefore the total numbers of patients and treatments are likely an underestimate. The data does not include patients covered by Kaiser Health Plans, the Veterans Association, charity payments, or self-pay, as Do No Harm says these forms of payment are not publicly reported or accessible.
“We’ve really been meticulous in trying to make sure that the data are as clear as possible and are as accurate as possible,” Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, the chairman of Do No Harm, said in a press conference about the database.
“If anything, we’re showing the lower limits of what’s going on… to be certain that we’re not overstating it one iota. We’re probably and almost certainly understating the nature of the problem.”
The database’s state-by-state breakdown reveals massive regional differences in transgender medical care.
They discovered more than $28 million total charges from more than 2,000 patients in California alone, and $10 million from 671 patients in Massachusetts.
Youth in Arizona, Florida, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington, and Wisconsin all exceeded $1 million in spending on gender affirming care.
Irreversible surgery was disproportionately performed in several states. 1,359 minors in California received surgical intervention, as did 357 in Oregon, 330 in Washington, 316 in Pennsylvania, and 300 in Massachusetts.
New York was among the states with the most gender-affirming care. 1,154 minor New Yorkers were sex change patients between 2019 and 2023.
580 received puberty blockers and/or hormone replacement therapy, and 616 had surgical interventions. The total cost of their medical treatment was just short of $19 million.
Activist Chloe Cole, who medically transitioned from female to male at age 13 and detransitioned back by age 16, says the database “proves the lies from the medical establishment and radical politicians who argue that cases like mine are rare.”
“The stats in this database represent thousands of kids who are being treated like guinea pigs for unproven, and sometimes dangerous, medical experiments,” Cole claimed in a statement shared with the Post.
The database also calls out what Do No Harm describes as their “dirty dozen,” the twelve hospital providers who processed the most claims during the four-year period when it comes to medicalizing transgender youth.
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) was ranked number one, followed by Connecticut Children’s Medical Center.
CHOP has an entire gender clinic dedicated to treating “children and teens up to age 21 who are gender non-conforming, gender expansive and transgender.” They’ve treated more than 3,000 patients, according to their website.
Other east-coast hospitals in the top twelve rankings, according to Do No Harm’s analysis, include Children’s National Medical Center in DC and UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh.
As public scrutiny of irreversible gender medical treatment mounts across the globe, the creators of the database hope it will serve as a tool to inform the public of the scale of the issue.
“Our goal is to provide insights to the public, healthcare providers, policymakers, and researchers to understand trends, optimize care, and influence health policy related to ‘gender affirming’ treatment for minors,” Do No Harm said in a statement about the database.
According to Dr. Erica Anderson, a psychologist who specializes in transgender youth, such exposés might already be making an impact in the world of transgender medicine.
“My impression is that the number of surgeries for minors is starting to go down,” she told The Post.
“There’s a growing general sense [within the care community] that there are going to be malpractice lawsuits forthcoming from young people who have had surgeries prematurely in their gender journey.”