Watchdogs Launch Ad Campaign Exposing Hospitals with Worst Child Sex-Change Programs Caroline Downey
Two nonprofits involved in parental rights activism launched a six-figure media campaign exposing hospitals across the country with particularly egregious child sex change programs.
The organizations, the American Parents Coalition (APC) and Consumers Research, are targeting Children’s Minnesota, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C.
Featured on the StopTheHarm Database’s “Dirty Dozen,” these facilities have administered high numbers of gender-transition procedures and hormone therapy to minors. For example, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital has had 396 total sex-change patients, including 27 children who received surgery, according to the database. For those kids, 3,551 prescriptions were written, with $799,044 in submitted charges to insurance companies by providers or pharmacies.
APC will deploy mobile billboards at the hospitals noting the number of children harmed by these interventions. The hospitals will also be highlighted via targeted digital advertising in the cities where they’re located. A new website from APC, StoptheDocs.com, calls out specific gender practitioners at the hospitals, such as Dr. Nadia Downshen at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Gender and Sexuality Development Program.
Nonprofit Do No Harm found that between January 2019 and December 2023, 13,994 children received gender-transition treatments, with 5,747 undergoing sex-change surgeries and 8,579 getting hormones and puberty blockers. A majority of the body-modification procedures were conducted on minors around the age of 15.
“Parents deserve to know the truth about the irreversible damage these hospitals are doing to children through gender interventions right in their own backyards,” APC executive director Alleigh Marré said in a statement to National Review. “Sex-change surgeries, puberty blockers, and cross-sex hormones are not treatments – they are interventions that create lifelong patients and customers. Hospitals are allowing activists and politics to cloud the indisputable data showing the risks and damage associated with these procedures.”
Consumers’ Research’s campaign targets business executives who sit on the boards of the hospitals via letters, mobile billboards placed outside corporate offices, and targeted digital advertising to warn the public about their behavior.
A “Woke Alert” will also be sent to thousands of subscribers, outlining how these executives have been complicit in the hospitals conducting experimental, life-altering, and often permanent gender procedures on kids. Consumers’ Research has created a microsite, CorporateCreeps.com, where consumers can see which companies are allowing their employees to serve on these hospital boards.
For example, the Chief Legal Officer at Proctor & Gamble, Susan Street Whaley, is on the board of Cincinnati Children’s. The CEO of Costco, Ron Vachris, is on the board of Seattle Children’s Hospital, which has performed 296 child sex change procedures according to the database.
“Corporate executives are allowing children to be victimized, and consumers need to know about it,” Consumers’ Research executive director Will Hild said in a statement to National Review. “While serving as a member of the board of directors of these hospitals, each of the eight executives named by Consumers’ Research has allowed hundreds of children to be subjected to dangerous, irreversible sex-change procedures on their watch. To see popular American brands like Costco and Kroger connected to the victimization of minors is both tragic and unconscionable.”
Their joint media project comes as Republicans are on the verge of securing a trifecta in Washington, having already won the White House and the Senate while teetering on the edge of a House majority. Many lawmakers who won seats vocally opposed child sex-change procedures and transgender-identifying men in women’s sports. Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz took heat on the campaign trail for signing a bill in April 2023 that made his state a sanctuary for child sex-changes. The bill promoted tourism for such interventions in defiance of states that restrict them.
On December 4, the Supreme Court is expected to hear oral arguments on whether states can ban gender interventions on minors. The high-profile case United States v. Skrmetti is a challenge to 2023 Tennessee law that outlaws gender transition procedures for those under 18. The plaintiffs include three transgender-identifying teenagers and their parents, in addition to the Biden administration which joined the case under a law that allows the government to intervene in private cases alleging equal protection violations.
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