Over 5,700 children in 5-year period had gender surgeries, most from 5 liberal states: watchdog

In a five-year span, thousands of minors had gender reassignment surgeries, puberty blockers or hormone treatments at a number of children's hospitals and medical facilities across the country, a medical watchdog is reporting via their new national database.

Do No Harm, a national advocacy group of medical professionals against "woke" hospital agendas, shared the database, called "Does My Hospital Transition Kids?", with Fox News Digital this week. In total, the group conservatively identified 5,747 minor patients who received sex-change surgery, and 13,994 received some sort of gender reassignment treatment between 2019 and 2023.

The data, de-identified to meet HIPAA compliance rules, shows nearly $120 million total in charges for treatments like sex change surgeries and hormone blockers.

"This is a very, very important issue, and it's a very important issue to get right," Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, Do No Harm's chairman, said in a press conference this week.

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"And I think, as you'll hear, we've really been meticulous in trying to make sure that the data are as clear as possible and are as accurate as possible. And because of that, you're going to find that, if anything, we're showing the lower limits of what's going on in this whole arena," he said.

"And to be certain that we're not overstating it one iota, we're probably, and almost certainly, understating the nature of the problem," he added.

Researchers analyzed insurance claims from private insurance companies, Medicaid and Medicare, excluding data from Kaiser, self-pay and charity care. They also profiled 68 children's hospitals across the country and identified what