By Megan Brock
A medical watchdog organization is calling on hospitals to cut ties with a transgender activist group that awards healthcare systems for promoting gender ideology and child sex-changes.
Do No Harm released a 36-page report on Aug. 14 titled, “How The Human Rights Campaign’s Healthcare Equality Index Infects Pediatric Hospitals With Gender Ideology,” outlining how the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) influences hospitals to adopt ideologically driven policies such as requiring leadership to undergo LGBTQ+ training, asking patients if their “gender identity” differs from their sex and offering employees insurance coverage for child sex-change interventions, such as puberty blockers. (RELATED: Trans Activist Group Pressuring Corporations To Cover Child Sex Change Drugs In Insurance Plans)
“It is time to expose and root out the Human Rights Campaign’s vast influence over healthcare systems. Our report sheds light on how the HRC weaponized its so-called ‘Healthcare Equality Index’ to pressure pediatric hospitals into chemically and surgically castrating children,” Dr. Kurt Miceli, Medical Director at Do No Harm and co-author of the report, told the DCNF.
“By capitulating to the HRC’s political scheme, hospitals have utterly betrayed patients, especially children struggling with gender dysphoria. If health systems care about providing high-quality pediatric care, then they should distance themselves from the HRC and its Index,” Miceli said. “Medical professionals must learn the truth about pediatric gender medicine and dare to speak out against the harmful model imposed by the HRC and other ideologues.”
The report details how the multi-million dollar organization and its “charity branch,” the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, are pushing gender ideology into children’s hospitals through their Healthcare Equality Index (HEI), a scorecard that judges medical institutions based on how they incorporate and promote gender ideology. (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Damning Report Urges Trump Admin To Do More To Stop ‘Dangerous Trans Agenda’)
“The HEI itself measures hospitals’ adherence to the tenets of gender ideology, by evaluating healthcare facilities’ policies and practices within five major categories,” states the report.
Hospitals can achieve a perfect score of 100 according to how they meet criteria set by the HRC, such as offering “transgender-specific clinical services,” which creates “great pressure” for children’s hospitals to create child sex-change clinics, according to the report.
“Hospitals are to offer transgender-specific clinical services and promote a multidisciplinary gender clinic that is distinct from a general LGBTQ+ clinic. This criterion alone places great pressure on the 41 participating pediatric hospitals to start a transgender program, if they have not done so already,” states the report.
Another criteria of the HEI is that hospitals must encourage staff to participate in HRC approved gender ideology training. In one of the HRC approved trainings, the presenter recommends that hospital staff ask children as young as three about their “gender identity.”
“Some kids feel like a girl, some kids feel like a boy, some kids feel like something else. What do you feel like? There is no right or wrong answer,” states the presenter in the HRC approved training, according to the report.
The presenter in the HRC approved training notes its ideal to ask these questions without parents in the room, according to the report.
“That is a very appropriate and helpful question to ask all pediatric patients. Of course, you want to make sure that you’re asking these questions ideally without the parent or guardian in the room initially so that you get an unfiltered answer,” states the training according to the report.
In 2024, 41 pediatric hospitals voluntarily participated in the HEI with 20 receiving a perfect score of 100, a distinction Do No Harm says should be viewed as cautionary to the public.
“All children’s hospitals that participate in the Healthcare Equality Index with a score of 100 communicate publicly and proudly that they will perform all manner of interventions for the purpose of pediatric medical transition, and they will not tolerate dissenting voices. Our children’s hospitals clearly need to do better,” states the report.
“A perfect score on the HEI is anything but perfect.”
The report ends with a call to action for healthcare providers and a reminder that “detangling” the influence of HRC from children’s hospitals is a critical step in protecting children from the harms of gender ideology.
“The roots of gender ideology run deep and wide, carefully and thoroughly watered and fertilized by the champions of pediatric gender transition, the Human Rights Campaign, and their allies. They will not concede defeat. Each of those tangled roots entrenched in our institutions, particularly our healthcare systems, must be exposed and permanently removed,” states the report.
Do No Harm called on all hospital employees of “all levels”—from the CEO to healthcare workers—to reject and speak out against “trainings and policies” that promote gender ideology, noting that the “quiet majority must raise its voice.”
“It is time for courage. Employees of all levels employed at HEI institutions caring for children need to speak out against the trainings and policies that HRC brought in to promote gender ideology. Now is not the time to ‘go along to get along.’ The quiet majority must raise its voice,” states the report. “Courage is contagious, and there is strength in numbers.”
The HRC did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
Gender-affirming care” leads to permanent and disfiguring changes. To overcome parents’ natural reluctance to subject their kids to this suffering, doctors who do sex changes often falsely tell parents that they need to gender-transition their kid to keep them from committing suicide, even though that’s not true. One of America’s most prominent gender doctor, “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?”’” But one study found that sex changes massively increase suicide risks, rather than reducing them. Indeed, the “FDA knew ‘gender affirming’ puberty blockers increase ‘suicidality’ in 2017,” reported Just the News. The transgender lawyer challenging Tennessee’s restrictions on 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.”
Transgender treatments have significant side effects. A recent study shows 95% of young biological women on testosterone developed pelvic floor dysfunction. As the London Telegraph reports, “Around 87 per cent of the participants 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.”
A study by an advocate of gender-affirming care found no improvement in mental health from puberty blockers.
