North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D), left, and Vice President Kamala Harris (D) | Facebook / X
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D), left, and Vice President Kamala Harris (D) | Facebook / X
Taxpayers spent more than $3,000 for “irreversible sex change interventions” on children in North Carolina via managed Medicaid between the years 2019 and 2023.
That’s according to a national database released today of hospitals and medical facilities “administering irreversible sex change interventions on children in the United States” by the organization Do No Harm.
The database shows that hospitals in North Carolina saw 232 minors who were “sex change patients,” including 58 total surgery patients. These hospitals administered “hormone and puberty blockers” to 176 total children and wrote 1186 prescriptions. In all, it totaled $465,240 in total submitted charges.
Nine of these interventions were paid for by the managed Medicaid program for a total of $3,013.75 in taxpayer funding.
Do No Harm said the database “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 represents sources including “claims clearinghouses, data aggregators, payors, health systems, CMS, and multiple open data sources,” according to Do No Harm, and includes data from commercial insurance, Medicaid, Medicare, and VA claims.”
The Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center in Charlotte was in the top ten most submitted charges among North Carolina hospitals, according to the database. The hospital saw 11 “sex change” patients, who were children, from 2019 to 2023, including 4 surgery patients and 7 total “hormone and puberty blocker” patients. There were 19 total prescriptions written. In all, it amounted to $16,025 in total submitted charges.
Founded in 1903, the Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center is located in Charlotte, NC. The hospital provides care in several specialized areas such as cardiology, neurology, oncology, and pediatrics and maternity care. The original hospital joined with Carolina Medicorp Inc. of Winston-Salem in 1997 combine to create Novant Health. The hospital has an educational partnership with students the UNC School of Medicine.
The issue of taxpayer funding of these procedures has gained national attention as Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris, who is in a dead heat with former President Donald Trump, has openly advocated for "transgender" surgeries for illegal immigrants and prisoners.
In 2017, then-President Trump rescinded an Obama-era "guidance" to public schools to allow "transgender" students to use the bathrooms of their choice. Obama had threatened "to withhold funding for schools that did not comply" with his guidance — a move that was undone by Trump. North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) vetoed legislation in 2023 that would have limited transgender participation in sports, limited classroom instruction about gender identity and sexuality and banned hormone therapy, puberty blockers, and genital mutilation surgeries to anyone under 18 from being provided by medical professionals, according to AP news.
Cooper also signed an executive order in August of 2019 forbidding North Carolina's state health department from using taxpayer dollars to pay for conversion therapy of minors. The order prohibits funds managed by executive branch agencies from covering therapy for minors, including money from both state and federal funding for the state’s Medicaid program and NC Health Choice insurance for children from low- and middle-income families.
Chloe Cole, a senior fellow at Do No Harm, said the database “proves the lies from the medical establishment and radical politicians who argue that cases like mine are rare.”
A 20-year-old woman who said that she had “gender dysphoria” was given “puberty blockers,” testosterone and had a double mastectomy at age 12, Cole has since “de-transitioned” and supports bans on the chemical castration of minors.
“The stats in this database represent thousands of kids who are being treated like Guinea pigs for unproven, and sometimes dangerous, medical experiments,” said Cole. “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.”
Nationally, 13,994 children received sex change-related treatments between 2019 and 2023, according to Do No Harm’s database. This includes 5,747 sex change surgeries performed on children, and 62,682 hormone and puberty blockers prescriptions written for 8,579 pediatric patients.
“At least $119,791,202 made from sex change treatments performed on minors,” reported the organization.
Which North Carolina Hospitals are Performing these "Irreversible Sex Change Interventions"?
Source: StoptheHarmDatabase.com
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