“Harvard Medical School (HMS) recently postponed a $650 continuing education course on transgender health care after inquiries about the legality of waiving fees for transgender-identifying doctors while charging other medical professionals full price,” reports Campus Reform:
The university had previously advertised that its accredited virtual course, titled “Advancing Excellence in Transgender Health” was available at no cost to “transgender” and “gender diverse” doctors wishing to enroll…When National Review pressed Harvard about the practice, the school swiftly removed mention of the fee waivers from its website and announced the course had been “postponed.”
“The continuing education course ‘Advancing Excellence in Transgender Health: A Core Course for the Whole Care Team,’ which is offered and developed by the Fenway Institute, has been postponed and will be rescheduled for later this academic year,” Harvard said. ”HMS remains committed to ensuring that the courses we accredit comply with applicable laws.”
The three-day postgraduate program, originally scheduled for Oct. 24-26, was designed for doctors, nurses, psychologists, pharmacists, and social workers…Taught for 11 years, the workshop aimed to educate medical staff on standard care for transgender and gender-diverse patients, including adults, adolescents, and children. Before the postponement, all fee waivers had been awarded.
The University of Michigan recently halted transgender treatments for minors after receiving a federal subpoena.
As health and science reporter Benjamin Ryan noted, medical authorities in “UK, Sweden, Finland, and now Norway as well,” have recommended against “prescribing puberty blockers and hormones to trans-identifying minors.” Yet, in America, gender clinics have given teenagers double mastectomies and other sex-change operations in many states. The Biden administration promoted puberty blockers, even though the FDA said puberty blockers can cause brain swelling and permanent vision loss.
“Gender-affirming care” results in permanent and disfiguring changes. The number of “top surgeries” conducted on minors rose by 389% from 2016 to 2019. Between 2018 and 2023, states spent tens of million of dollars on “gender transition services” for kids — including puberty blockers, hormones, and sex-change surgeries.
At least 225 hospitals have provided irreversible transgender procedures to kids, and at least 6,000 kids have had transgender surgeries, according to insurance-claims data unearthed by the medical non-profit Do No Harm.
A gender transition can result in a lifetime of pain, discomfort, and medications, such as hormone therapy. As Britain’s National Health Service explains, hormones “need to be taken for the rest of your life, even if you have gender surgery.” An FDA official who supported giving minors puberty blockers conceded that they actually increase suicidality. Indeed, the “FDA knew ‘gender affirming’ puberty blockers increase ‘suicidality’ in 2017,” says Just the News.
95% of young transgender people on testosterone develop pelvic floor dysfunction; most have bowel issues and sexual dysfunction. As the Telegraph reported, “Around 87 per cent…had urinary symptoms such as incontinence, frequent toilet visits and bed-wetting, while 74 per cent had bowel issues including constipation or being unable to hold stools or wind in. Some 53 per cent suffered from sexual dysfunction…Almost half had an ‘orgasm disorder’, while a quarter suffered from pain during sexual intercourse.”
To overcome parents’ natural reluctance to subject their kids to this suffering, doctors who do sex changes often tell parents that they need to gender transition their kid to keep them from committing suicide, even though this isn’t true. One of America’s most prominent gender doctors, “Dr. Olson-Kennedy disclosed to how she speaks with parents of gender dysphoric patients: ‘We often ask parents, “Would you rather have a dead son than a live daughter?”‘”
One study found that sex changes massively increase suicide risks, rather than reducing them. “Gender-affirming surgery is significantly associated with elevated suicide attempt “risks,” according to that study in the Cureus Journal of Medical Science.
The lawyer challenging Tennessee’s ban on certain transgender treatments for minors, Chase Strangio, conceded to the Supreme Court that “completed suicide is thankfully and admittedly rare” among transgender youth, even those not given gender-affirming treatment, and that “there is no evidence…that this treatment reduces completed suicide.”
