‘Gender-confused kids pushed into lifelong health problems’, US Congress told

Trans-affirming procedures cause “irreversible physical changes” to gender-confused children, the US House of Representatives has been told.

In a hearing on ‘Ending Lawfare Against Whistleblowers Who Protect Children’, Dr Eithan Haim told the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government how he was threatened with up to ten years in prison for whistleblowing about Texas Children’s Hospital’s (TCH) ‘transgender programme’.

The surgeon reported that despite TCH’s claim that it had already ended such practices, gender-confused youngsters with “serious mental health issues” and autism were still being given cross-sex hormones and mastectomies up to June 2023, when such procedures were banned.

‘Destroying lives’

Dr Haim, the charges against whom were dropped earlier this year, said puberty blockers lead to “irreversible physical changes – sterility, altered bone development, permanent stunting of growth, and many more both known and unknown”.

He explained that at TCH, “We would take children to the operating room, and we would make them better. But in the same operating room they were taking them there and making them sick.

Could I call myself a doctor if I didn’t speak against it?

“They are destroying the lives of these children. They’re putting them down a road where they become a chronic medical patient that they can never come back from. Could I call myself a doctor if I didn’t speak against it?”

‘Fraud’

Dr Haim highlighted the hospital’s use of a guide from LGBT activist group Campaign for Southern Equality, which he claimed informs medics how to “commit medical fraud” by misleading insurance companies into providing cover for trans-affirming procedures.

Nurse Vanessa Sivadge, who also worked at the hospital, stated: “I discovered how Medicaid was being billed for transgender interventions in direct violation of Texas law. I also observed how TCH had misdiagnosed patients for the purpose of justifying those.

“Additionally, the hospital had changed medical records by listing the preferred ‘gender identity’ on the medical record instead of the birth sex, making fraudulent billing difficult to detect.”

Funding

In Canada, Prime Minister Mark Carney has stated that he will defend the “fundamental right” of healthcare for “all Canadians without exception”.

He made the comment during a press conference, in response to a question on the restriction of gender-affirming procedures.

Since 2016, the Canadian Government has spent over $250 million on LGBT initiatives. Last month, it announced C$1.4m in funding for four groups to “address barriers and facilitate systemic change by developing knowledge, tools, and support for 2SLGBTQI+ communities across Canada”