Catholic healthcare system plays outsized role in transgender surgery, drugs for kids: database


America’s fourth-largest Catholic healthcare system performed so-called gender affirming surgeries on 81 children and prescribed puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones to 113 over the past five years, according to a national database launched Tuesday by Do No Harm, which fights identity politics in “medical education, research and clinical practice.”

Still, the outsized role in the surgeries – including such procedures as vaginoplasty, breast removal and the sterilization of minors – played by the system, the Washington state-based Providence Health and Services, which owns 51 hospitals and 1,000 clinics in seven western states from Alaska to Texas, is one of the less touted findings from Do No Harm’s research.

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