Hospitals conducting transgender procedures on children supported by billions in taxpayer dollars

Nonprofit hospitals responsible for performing thousands of sex change operations on children have been raking in billions of dollars in public funding every year, a Washington Examiner review of public records has found.

The Washington Examiner identified 15 hospitals performing a considerable number of transgender surgeries and prescribing large quantities of “gender-affirming” hormones using a Do No Harm database that compiles insurance claims to provide detailed information about the activities of hospitals. Collectively, the hospitals brought in over $1 billion in government grants during the most recent year for which tax disclosures are available. 

Though some of the grants doled out by the federal government to these healthcare providers do explicitly concern transgender medical care, most do not. That said, the massive amount of federal dollars flowing into these hospital systems every year provides the Trump administration with significant leverage to pressure them into ceasing transgender operations on minors.

Read more in the Washington Examiner.