New Do No Harm Report Exposes Colorado’s Sex-Rejecting Medical Pipeline

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH: August 10, 2026 — Today, Do No Harm released a new report exposing the wide-ranging scope of Colorado’s institutional support for sex-rejecting procedures for minors, including the use of public funds to market sex-rejecting services and resources to minors.

The report, titled “The Colorado ‘Gender-Affirming’ Pipeline,” exposes how Colorado medical, academic, and advocacy networks have created a pipeline for sex-rejecting interventions for children. The findings are based on a review of several thousand pages obtained by Do No Harm through the Colorado Open Records Act.

“Something unsettling is happening in Colorado,” said Kurt Miceli, MD, chief medical officer at Do No Harm. “A publicly funded network of Colorado organizations is pushing resources that promote youth gender ideology on vulnerable children. Our report is a case study examining how the transgender industrial complex has pushed further and further into the lives of children, reaching even as far as school-based health centers in the state. Do No Harm urges Colorado leaders to prioritize evidence-based medicine and protect minors from a harmful ideology. Patients and families deserve medical care rooted in evidence, not ideology.”

Key Findings

• I Matter — a state-funded therapy program primarily for youth 18 years and under — recorded 469 encounters categorized as “gender-affirming care” (GAC) out of 12,896 total encounters between 2021 and 2024, including encounters involving children as young as five years old.
• Colorado spent $4.7 million on a marketing contract that included a social-media influencer campaign explicitly targeting minors ages 13–17, with talking points emphasizing that youth ages 12 and older could access services without parental consent.
• The University of Colorado School of Medicine hired faculty specifically to staff the TRUE Center, a pediatric gender clinic, at Children’s Hospital Colorado and to research cross-sex hormonal therapy in a pediatric setting, with 75 percent of one researcher’s salary funded by a National Institutes of Health career-development award.
• The University of Colorado School of Medicine is heavily influenced by pro-GAC political advocacy groups, resulting in a medical-school curriculum that singularly promotes and enables youth “transition.”
• The CU School of Public Health operated a program (Colorado’s Queer Youth Network) that pays “queer” youths ages 12–18 in rural Colorado $40 per session to participate in weekly virtual meetings. Participants are actively recruited from local LGBTQ+ events/groups that promote youth gender ideology and/or provide youth sex-rejecting “transition” resources.

Click here to read the report.

Do No Harm, established in April 2022, has rapidly gained recognition and made significant strides in its mission to safeguard healthcare from ideological threats. It has over 50,000 members, including doctors, nurses, physicians, and concerned citizens across all 50 states and 26 countries.