Faith Under Fire: A followup on Do No Harm's database on gender treatments - 01/02/25

Beth Serio - "Do No Harm" Medicine

Faith Under Fire from Family Life News

There were 813 children and underaged teens in Pennsylvania who received surgical or hormonal treatments to alter their gender. Another 1100 New York minors were also treated with what advocates refer to as "gender-affirming care". Opponents have described such medical interventions as dangerous or unnecessary and as "mutilation of children".

An advocacy group called "Do No Harm" Medicine has reviewed four years of insurance payments and funds from government sources which paid for the chemical and surgical treatments of minors. Family Life News interviewed Beth Serio as they were announces results of this nationwide research in November. 

Now, in this follow-up interview, Serio talks more about the social, financial and emotional issues which surround gender disphoria and the signficant growth in gender-related treatments in for-profit and non-profit medical entities.

The database is searchable by state and by community. It highlights how often each children's hospital -- and every other facility -- carried out the removal of body parts or the introduction of cross-gender hormones. It is available at the links below:

• National: Stop The Harm Database
• New York
  
• Pennsylvania

For further information:

• Do No Harm has released a digital information campaign, calling out Children's Hospital of Philadelphia as the #1 purveyor of these treatments on minor children, among all children's hospitals in the U.S.
• Additional news about the Stop The Harm database, by the Pennsylvania Family Institute and by Do No Harm
• Actions in Washington State and Washington D.C. to maximize the number of minors who get surgical or hormonal treatments before th upcoming change of the presidency.

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