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In the U.S. the Wild West of gender medicine healthcare is decentralized and geographically sprawling, so it s difficult to keep track. But today, Do No Harm, a medical watchdog, is hoping to help fix that with the launch of their Stop The Harm database. 

The database compiles medical insurance claims related to gender-affirming care for minors aged 17.5 and younger across all 50 states. They weren t able to include patients who aren t insured or anyone insured by Kaiser, a major provider on the West Coast, which does not make its data public.

The estimates are conservative, but these numbers show that in the U.S., between 2019 and 2023, at least:

• 13,944 minors were given gender-affirming puberty blockers, hormones, and surgeries. 

• 5,747 minors underwent gender-affirming facial, breast, and genital surgeries. 

• 8,579 minors were prescribed cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers. And those nearly 9,000 youths received a total of 62,682 prescriptions. To be clear, that s more than seven separate prescriptions per patient.

This amounts to a total of $119,791,202 in charges that private insurance companies and public Medicare/Medicaid funds a.k.a. your taxes were billed by gender-affirming clinicians over a four-year period. 

via www.thefp.com

Yikes. That’s a lot of kids.