LGBT ideologues have turned pediatric centers into temples for defiling America’s children. Parents must take them back.

The transgender fad has now become embedded in America’s medical community where it is causing irreversible harm to vulnerable children.

America’s largest children’s hospital, Ohio’s Nationwide Children’s Hospital (NCH), is at the forefront of the chemical castration of children and other harmful transgender ideologies. NCH’s pamphlet on puberty blockers indicates that these medications will stop female children from growing breasts or menstruating and cause boys to cease developing facial hair or voice changes. This “hospital” goes on to falsely report that the impacts of puberty blockers can be reversed, and these chemicals can improve mental health and quality of life.

Yet under the drugs’ risk warnings it is indicated that they may cause emotional instability and to “monitor for worsening psychiatric symptoms during treatment.” Long-term risks remain unknown.

NCH advises parents to use “human” milk for babies—but says the term “breast” milk should not be used because “the genderfication of this term may have a negative connotation for transmasculine individuals who refer to that area of their body as their ‘chest’.”

What planet are they living on?

Another prominent hospital, Virginia’s Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters (CHKD), provides training for their staff using the “Safe Zone” program—trainings cast as “opportunities to learn about LGBTQ+ identities, gender and sexuality, and examine prejudice, assumptions, and privilege.”

One Safe Zone program resource (soulforce.org) claims “we are Queer people reclaiming our spirits from weaponized religion” and “learn more about Christian Supremacy and what it takes to sabotage it.”

Another resource guide distributed by CHKD pushes an organization called Advocates for Youth (AFY). AFY, funded by Warren Buffett via the Susan Thompson Buffet Foundation, teaches K-6 schoolchildren to practice “mutual masturbation,” “bathing together,” and how to wear a condom for anal sex. CHKD further profits from the gender ideology craze: Dr Charungundla “offers a wide spectrum of facial masculinization/feminization surgical procedures for youth over age 13.”

The UVA Children’s Hospital in Charlottesville, Virginia, provides transgender youth services for ages 11–25. Their services include puberty blockers that delay sex-related physical changes, cross-sex hormones like testosterone and estrogen, and referrals for gender-affirming surgeries. UVA promises to provide the perfect chest binder for children and gender-affirming voice modification and training.

It isn’t just pediatric hospitals that are promoting this debauchery. The Virginia Department of Health (VDH), funded by taxpayer dollars, has its own Transgender Health Services Coordinator responsible for creating the “Virginia Transgender Resource & Referral List.” Among the hundreds of leftist resources offered is the Children’s Hospital of Richmond whose physicians will provide primary care services for children including hormone therapy, puberty blockers, and menstrual suppression.

The VDH resource list also uses tax dollars to push “He, She, Ze and We,” an organization that promotes drag queens reading to children during a “dragstravaganza.”

If this is happening in Virginia, imagine the madness in California!

A Social Disease Causing Irreversible Damage

The U.K.’s National Health Service (NHS) recently found a sharp increase in the number of referrals for gender identity services. In 2011–12 there were 250 referrals to such services; by 2021–22 there were over 5,000.

The study also found a significant increase in gender dysphoria referrals for biological females and children with neurodiversity, mental health problems, and risky behaviors.

Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria (ROGD) is a new term used to identify the social contagion of gender dysphoria. A recent study found that the number of American children ages 13–17 years old identifying as transgender doubled in five years from 0.7 percent to 1.4 percent, or about 300,000 children.

Another ROGD children’s study published in 2023 found that 57 percent had prior mental health issues and 73 percent had a stressful event which led to the disorder. Things only got worse for their mental health after transitioning, according to the researchers.

The American College of Pediatricians discovered that the temporary use of the puberty blocker Lupron has been associated with “many serious permanent side effects including osteoporosis, mood disorders, seizures, cognitive impairment and, when combined with cross-sex hormones, sterility.”

Still, these degenerate drug companies and hospitals continue to profit from the mutilation of children using lies to conceal the damage these drugs inflict. The Boston Children’s Hospital continues to advertise these “treatments” as “completely reversible” and will not cause any “permanent changes.”

Taking Action

Children under 18 in this nation cannot vote, sign a contract, get a tattoo, or purchase a lottery ticket. Yet many physicians will agree to perform life-altering, irreversible physical transformations of a child’s body and mind.

Since ROGD is a recent phenomenon, the harm being caused by these physicians may not be fully known for years. However, de-transitioner Chloe Cole is a brave and intelligent young lady who is fighting back. Chloe had mental health problems and symptoms of autism around the age of 13. At age 15 she was encouraged by doctors to take puberty blockers and was given a double mastectomy. She has filed a first of its kind lawsuit against the providers who mutilated her when she was a minor.

Another individual fighting back is Scott Newgent, featured in Matt Walsh’s What is a Woman documentary. Scott attempted medical transition from woman to man and has since suffered debilitating, life-long medical complications. Scott is speaking up to let the world know that it is impossible to change genders and any attempt to do so will cause irreversible harm.

Other nations are leading the way to bring back sanity on this topic. The U.K.’s NHS has issued recent guidance that gender dysphoria is often a phase and the use of puberty blockers and sex-changing hormones should be restricted. The Norwegian Healthcare Investigation Board has recommended that hormone therapy and gender-reassignment surgery for minors be restricted to only the research setting due to factors that “could potentially lead to harm for patients.”

The American public needs to join in support of people like Scott Newgent and Chloe Cole to protect the vulnerable from the dangers of radical gender ideology. Voters also need to demand that legislators implement protections in America to protect children from long-term physical mutilation.

Victoria Manning is the vice president of Students First VA and an elected member of the Virginia Beach School Board