Thirty-five minor patients in Alabama underwent so-called gender-affirming care procedures or homone/puberty blocker therapy, according to a new national study released on Tuesday that tracked the procedures from 2019 to 2023.
The database was developed by Do No Harm, a national non-profit representing physicians, nurses, medical students, patients, and policymakers focused on keeping identity politics out of medical education, research, and clinical practice.
According to Do No Harm, Alabama healthcare providers received 35 child sex change patients, wrote 206 prescriptions for puberty blockers or gender-affirming hormones, and billed insurance companies $154,471 for transgender-related surgeries and prescriptions.
In April 2022, Gov. Kay Ivey signed VCAP (SB184) into law, which prohibits doctors in Alabama from performing transgender operations or prescribing cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers to individuals under 19. Left-wing groups are currently suing the state of Alabama to try to get the law overturned.
The Stop the Harm Database can be found at StopTheHarmDatabase.com and catalogs pediatric sex change-related services, including surgeries, cross-sex hormones, and puberty blockers, at U.S.-based medical facilities between 2019 and 2023. The data is searchable by state and facility.
"With the launch of the Stop the Harm Database, Do No Harm is building on our mission to expose the dangers of experimental pediatric gender medicine and bring the practice to an end," said Do No Harm chairman Dr. Stanley Goldfarb. "This first-of-its-kind project provides patients, families, and policymakers with a resource that reveals the pervasiveness of irreversible sex-change treatments for minors in America. While this data represents the tip of the iceberg, this is the first step in holding the medical establishment accountable for participating in, and often times promoting, predatory and unscientific medical interventions for vulnerable children."
Additionally, the Stop the Harm Database profiles the most prolific institutions and providers engaged in these dangerous and unsupported interventions.
"This new project from Do No Harm proves the lies from the medical establishment and radical politicians who argue that cases like mine are rare," said Do No Harm senior fellow and patient advocate Chloe Cole. "The stats in this database represent thousands of kids who are being treated like Guinea pigs for unproven, and sometimes dangerous, medical experiments. I hope politicians and parents alike use this database to see where these treatments are happening and protect their children from being rushed into irreversible, life-altering treatments."
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