https://www.nationalreview.com/news/watchdogs-launch-ad-campaign-exposing-hospitals-with-worst-child-sex-change-programs/
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.”