By The Daily Wire (World News) | Created at 2024-11-19 18:45:07 | Updated at 2024-11-24 08:00:35
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Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is one of the top offenders in the United States when it comes to irreversible sex change procedures for children, according to a digital campaign launching Tuesday.
The hospital, known as “CHOP,” boasts that it is the first United States hospital devoted exclusively to the care of children. It has programs devoted to helping children explore and attempt to change their gender — and according to the advocacy group Do No Harm, the hospital is “leading the nation” in offering “life-altering sex related interventions for minors.”
Do No Harm is targeting CHOP with a new digital campaign that will make Philadelphia parents aware of the hospital’s devotion to gender ideology. The campaign also includes a video that discusses how much money CHOP has made from child transgender interventions and urges the hospital itself to “stop the harm.”
“Our campaign shines a light on CHOP and Admiral Levine’s collusion that helped shape Pennsylvania into one of the nation’s most prolific promoters of sex change treatments for children,” Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, the chairman of Do No Harm, told The Daily Wire. “By embracing experimental and irreversible sex changes for minors, CHOP has violated its primary duty to do no harm and to provide the highest medical care.”
“We hope to provide patients and families with the resources they need to learn the truth about CHOP’s politicization of medicine enabled by powerful ideologues like Admiral Levine and former Governor Tom Wolf,” he added.
The video notes that in 2008, CHOP started a progressive health policy think tank that ultimately became the CHOP Gender Clinic, and in 2015, former Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf appointed a man who identifies as a woman, now Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary Rachel Levine, as the general physician for Pennsylvania.
“Together, Wolf and Levine engaged activists across the state, empowering CHOP to continue its self-proclaimed gender care for minors, even visiting schools for weekly referrals,” the video warns. “The reality? Children were prescribed puberty blockers and underwent sex change surgeries. CHOP’s actions have since altered hundreds of children’s and family lives forever.”
It continues: “CHOP went so far as to train their staff to hide information about children’s perceived gender identity and coerce parents into supporting these irreversible sex changes while Levine was successful in securing millions in taxpayer dollars to cover the costs.”
According to the Do No Harm’s data, CHOP has written 768 prescriptions for children “undergoing sex-related interventions,” administered hormones and puberty blockers to 117 patients, and performed sex-change surgeries on five minors, forever altering these children’s bodies and lives. The hospital has submitted $230,784 in total submitted charges.
CHOP is not the only hospital in Pennsylvania that is focused on these types of interventions for children. Do No Harm’s database notes that Penn State Children’s Hospital has had 10 minor sex change surgery patients, and the UPMC CHildren’s Hospital of Pittsburgh has had four.
Throughout the state, many more patients are accessing so-called “gender-affirming care.” According to Do No Harm, the state has had 814 total sex change patients, and over $5 million in total submitted charges.
CHOP did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
