“The University of Michigan will stop providing ‘gender-affirming’ hormonal treatments and puberty blockers to minors, citing federal investigations and rising safety risks,” reports Campus Reform:
“The University of Michigan, including Michigan Medicine, is one of multiple institutions across the country that has received a federal subpoena as part of a criminal and civil investigation into gender-affirming care for minors,” the university said on Aug. 25.
“In light of that investigation, and given escalating external threats and risks, we will no longer provide gender affirming hormonal therapies and puberty blocker medications for minors,” the statement continued….
On July 9, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it sent upwards of 20 subpoenas to clinics and physicians who have performed transgender medical procedures on children.
“Medical professionals and organizations that mutilated children in the service of a warped ideology will be held accountable by this Department of Justice,” said Attorney General Pamela Bondi in a statement at the time…
Campus Reform has reported that the University of Michigan is not the first institution to cease such procedures for minors during the Trump administration.
In June, the University of Pennsylvania health system announced it would stop performing “gender-affirming” surgeries on minors, citing federal directives and a Trump executive order.
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,” reported 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.”
