How the Human Rights Campaign’s Healthcare Equality Index Infects Pediatric Hospitals with Gender Ideology

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), along with its charity branch, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, is an LGBTQ+ advocacy organization that takes extreme positions on pediatric sex trait modifications, advocating full force for so-called “gender-affirming care” for minors. It has successfully infiltrated pediatric hospitals through its Healthcare Equality Index (HEI), a scorecard for measuring hospitals’ compliance with various tenets of gender ideology. Forty-one children’s hospitals, in addition to several pediatric facilities embedded in larger health systems, have voluntarily sought the HRC’s approval through participation in the 2024 HEI, fulfilling criteria that entrenched gender ideology throughout their institutions. Hospitals that care for children should neither promote a political ideology nor take cues from the HRC on the care of children with gender dysphoria. Given the increased public awareness of the dangers of pediatric gender transition, directing the public’s attention to the HEI should pressure children’s hospitals, at a minimum, to disassociate from the HRC and reverse the policies and initiatives they implemented to achieve their HEI score. It’s time for hospitals to sever ties with the HRC and the harmful ideology it evangelizes.

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