Database Exposes Hospitals That Provide ‘Gender-Affirming Care’

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A newly-created database called the Stop the Harm Database shows that 225 hospitals around the United States offer so-called “gender-affirming care” to minor children. Sadly, many of the hospitals listed in the database are New York hospitals.

“Gender-affirming care” is the term typically used by transgender advocates to describe treatments that either prevent the normal development of sexual characteristics or make a “transgender” person’s body look more like the body of a member of the opposite sex. “Gender-affirming care” can include puberty blockers, opposite-sex hormones, and so-called “sex reassignment surgery.”

According to The Daily Signal, almost 14,000 American children received some form of “gender-affirming care” between 2019 and 2023.[1] Nearly 6,000 of those children received “sex reassignment surgery.” These treatments and procedures have reportedly cost American families more than $119 million.[2] The Stop the Harm Database was created by a watchdog organization called Do No Harm; the organization has indicated that the database likely undercounts the actual number of minor patients subjected to “gender-affirming care.”

Here in New York, a total of 1,154 minors received “gender-affirming care” between 2019 and 2023. Of that number, 616 received “sex reassignment surgery.” The New York medical providers with the largest numbers of minor patients receiving “gender-affirming care” include Strong Memorial Hospital (229 patients), NYU Langone Health (New York University) (150 patients), and Mount Sinai Medical Center (116 patients). To see the full list of New York providers that have offered “gender-affirming care” to minors, please click here.

It is unacceptable for any medical provider to furnish “gender-affirming care” to minors. These treatments can have lifelong consequences, and children and teens are not mature enough to fully understand those consequences. In recent years, people known as detransitioners have expressed regret about the “gender-affirming care” they received. Furthermore, “gender-affirming care” fails to address and resolve the underlying mental health issues that cause gender dysphoria in the first place.

Kids with gender dysphoria need help, not “gender-affirming care.” If a young person suffers from gender dysphoria, the compassionate response is to help him to overcome that dysphoria and accept the body God has given him.

[1] The Daily Signal contends that the “gender-affirming care” referred to in the database is irreversible. While “sex reassignment surgery” and opposite-sex hormones have irreversible consequences, there is debate about whether puberty blockers are fully reversible. On the one hand, mainstream U.S. medical sources assert that patients who stop taking puberty blockers without pursuing other forms of “gender-affirming care” will experience normal puberty. On the other hand, multiple sources indicate that puberty blockers may have other consequences that are irreversible. Earlier this year, England’s National Health Service (NHS) stopped prescribing puberty blockers for youngsters with gender dysphoria due to concerns about their safety and effectiveness.

[2] Thankfully, at least 20 states have passed Help Not Harm laws that protect minors from being subjected to “gender-affirming care.”

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