Our healthcare system is willingly mutilating the bodies of vulnerable, gender-confused people who are otherwise physically healthy but will never be so again once the procedures are finished.
That’s the reality of “gender-affirming care,” as plenty of men and women who have experienced this “care” for themselves have confirmed. The stories of de-transitioners are heartbreaking and infuriating all at once, and they should force us to wonder why every single person with even an ounce of authority isn’t demanding that we put a stop to medical sex-change treatments at once.
The reason you don’t hear such widespread condemnation is quite simple: There’s a profit to be made from sex-change surgeries and hormone treatments. A lot of money, in fact, according to one of the medical professionals responsible for opening up a gender clinic in Vanderbilt University’s hospital.
Dr. Shayne Taylor helped launch Vanderbilt’s gender clinic in 2018 and admitted in a lecture delivered that same year that sex-change treatments were very profitable. She noted that insurance carriers are required under Obamacare to cover “medical expenses for trans folks” and bragged that every gender-confused woman who wishes to undergo “top surgery,” otherwise known as a double mastectomy, can bring in $40,000. “Bottom surgery” is also lucrative, she said, citing an estimate (which she believes is a “gross underestimate) that each vaginoplasty brings in $20,000 — not including the patient’s hospital stay, post-op care, anesthesia, etc. A patient who simply wishes to be on a routine hormonal treatment plan can bring in “several thousand dollars,” she continued.
“This actually makes money for the hospital,” Taylor added, saying she knows of one clinic that funds itself completely from performing phalloplasties, the creation of a fake penis, on women.
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We need to be upfront about what this is: medical malpractice. These procedures are experimental and irreversible and often have severe long-term effects on the patient’s physical and mental health. These treatments aren’t “caring,” as transgender activists like to claim — they’re inhumane and exploitative, and the only reason the medical community has decided to go along with this is because they know, as Taylor acknowledged, that “gender-affirming care” is a “moneymaker.”
Someday the full extent of the damage gender ideology has wrought will be made clear. But for many of the young men and women who undergo chemical and physical treatment thinking that it will cure them of the social and mental anxieties with which they struggle, it will be too late. And it will be the fault of the medical professionals who abandoned their oath to do no harm as soon as the zeros started adding up.
Kaylee McGhee White is the deputy editor of Restoring America for the Washington Examiner and a visiting fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum.
