Massachusetts child sex change patients surge since 2020
Boston Children's Hospital preferred choice
Boston Children’s Hospital is the number one overall choice for the surging number of child sex change patients in Massachusetts, according to a new study released by the Stop the Harm Database. Massachusetts had 72 unique child sex change patients in 2021, 264 in 2022 and 222 in 2023. Child sex change patients underwent “gender-affirming” surgical procedures or hormone/puberty blocker therapy.
Boston Children’s Hospital, the “first major program in the U.S. to focus on gender-diverse and transgender adolescents” performed “gender-affirming” surgical procedures on a 159 children in the five years covered by the study from 2019-2023. 148 child patients were prescribed puberty blockers or received gender-affirming hormone therapy over the same time period at Boston Children’s.
Cooley Dickinson Hospital of Northampton appears to be the second most common hospital for child sex change patients, almost exclusively for hormone/puberty blocker therapy and prescriptions.
The lowest number of unique child sex change patients statewide was in the pandemic year of 2020.
In the summer of 2022 Boston Children’s Hospital was the focus of national media attention when videos from the hospital’s own social media channels began to spread widely over the internet, including this video posted by Libs of TikTok.
In September 2023, a Westfield woman pleaded guilty in federal court to “making a false bomb threat and one count of intentionally conveying false or misleading information that a bomb was on the way to Boston Children’s Hospital” in August 2022.
The Stop the Harm Database was “constructed the database by analyzing thousands of insurance claims from hospitals and healthcare facilities. Do No Harm also examined the websites and publicly available information for each of the profiled children’s hospitals to determine which services they offer.”
Stop the Harm also cross-references well known procedure codes and national drug codes commonly used in “gender-affirming care.”
According to the Boston Children’s website: “The Gender Multispecialty Service (GeMS) at Boston Children’s Hospital is committed to providing the highest level of individualized, safe, and affirmative care to gender-diverse and transgender individuals and their families. Founded in 2007, GeMS was the first major program in the U.S. to focus on gender-diverse and transgender adolescents. Since that time, we have expanded our program to welcome patients from ages 3 to 25.”
“The GeMS program is actively engaged in research with the hope that it will ultimately benefit the children, adolescents, young adults, and families with whom we work. We have received funding for our research form the National Institutes of Health and collaborate with many other gender centers throughout the United States.”