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.

Expert raises concerns about bias and unreliable results due to subjective data 

The National Institute of Mental Health awarded an Ohio State University professor $3.6 million to study the effects of “microaggressions” on “bisexual” and “pansexual” youth.

OSU Professor Christina Dyar and her co-investigators received the five-year grant to fund the project titled “Bisexual Adolescents’ and Young Adults’ Risk for Depression and Suicidal Ideation,” according to a news release from the Ohio State University College of Nursing.

Read more in The College Fix.

A bill before the Colorado state legislature would require a deceased person’s gender identity be recorded on their certificate of death under penalty of a fine and/or jail time for anyone who “knowingly and willfully violates” the measure, which one critic told Fox News was an “insane” effort that compels speech.

Under the proposed law – sponsored by Democratic state Reps. Karen McCormick and Kyle Brown and state Sen. Mike Weissman – if a document memorializing the decedent’s gender identity is presented, the individual completing the death certificate must record the decedent’s sex based on that identity. If this is thwarted in any way, the penalty is a class 2 misdemeanor, which in Colorado is punishable by up to 120 days in jail and/or a fine of up to $750.

“The state registrar must also amend the certificate of death to reflect a legal name change if the appropriate legal name change documentation is submitted to the state registrar,” the bill states. 

Read more in Fox News.

(The Center Square) – Last month, President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning medical providers from performing gender reassignment or affirming procedures, such as mastectomies or prescribing puberty blockers, to individuals below the age of 19. In response, many medical centers and hospitals have since suspended those services.

Meanwhile, some states such as Washington have filed lawsuits against the EO, while California has threatened legal action against medical providers who discontinue those services.

Nevertheless, a senior fellow with a nationwide nonprofit that has investigated the practice of youth gender reassignment procedures says the EO indicates that it’s “a fever that is breaking.”

Read more in The Center Square.

California attorney general Rob Bonta accused Children’s Hospital Los Angeles of illegal discrimination over its decision to halt sex-changes for kids—a necessary move to protect its bottom line after President Donald Trump issued an executive order barring federal funds from going to hospitals that provide such interventions.

The Jan. 28 order declared that the federal government won’t “fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called ‘transition’ of a child from one sex to another.” It threatens to withhold federal money from hospitals that provide puberty blockers, hormone therapy, or surgical procedures to transgender youth under the age of 19.

The contradicting demands from Trump and Bonta puts Children’s Hospital Los Angeles in an especially tight bind since it receives significant funding from Medicaid.

Read more in the Washington Free Beacon.

(The Center Square) – Washington Attorney General Nick Brown has filed a multi-state lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s executive order banning gender reassignment procedures, such as mastectomies and puberty blockers, on children.

Trump’s EO states that “it is the policy of the United States that it will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called ‘transition’ of a child from one sex to another, and it will rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures.”

Brown argued at a Feb. 7 news conference that the EO was not only “disgusting,” but it was illegal for violating the Fifth and Tenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

Read more in The Center Square.