Healthcare

Vanderbilt University ‘pausing gender affirmation surgeries’ for minors following leaked video

Published

8 months ago

October 10, 2022

Vanderbilt University Medical Center [VUMC] is putting a halt on all ‘gender affirmation surgery’ on underage patients pending a review sparked by a leaked video.

Last month conservative activist Matt Walsh released a video from 2018 in which Dr Shayne Taylor – an LGBTQ specialist at the hospital – brags that transgender surgeries are ‘huge money makers’ for the hospital.

Dr. Taylor says in the video how the hospital was driven to perform such procedures because of its money-making potential:

“Some of our VUMC financial folks in October of 2016 put down some costs of how much money we think each patient would bring in” said Taylor. “And this is only including top surgery, this isn’t including any bottom surgery, and it’s a lot of money.”

Walsh’s report into VUMC’s trans program also found the hospital “drugs, chemically castrates and performs double mastectomies on minors.”

In another video, a University staff member states the hospital “has given irreversible hormone drugs to children as young as 13.”

As a result of the circulating videos and report, a Tennessee lawmaker called to investigate the hospital after the gender altering surgeries the hospital were said to ‘chemically castrate’ minors for financial gain.

Saving face, VUMC announced it would be halting the transgender surgeries, but claimed it was doing so only pending review of ‘new recommendations’ from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health [WPATH].

“On September 6, 2022, WPATH [World Professional Association for Transgender Health] published a new version of its recommendations to health care professionals for treatment of transgender persons, known as SOC-8,” the hospital wrote in a statement to lawmakers.

“In light of these new recommendations, and as part of completing our internal clinical review of SOC-8 guidance in patients under 18, we will be seeking advice from local and national clinical experts…

…We are pausing gender affirmation surgeries on patients under age 18 while we complete this review, which may take several months.”

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China

National Institutes of Health renews ‘bat coronavirus’ research funding

Published

2 weeks ago

May 9, 2023

Sara Carter Staff

Have we not learned our lesson? The now infamous National Institutes of Health has renewed a grant to EcoHealth Alliance for research on the “risk of bat coronavirus spillover emergence.” The news is shocking to many due to multiple agencies of the U.S. government supporting the lab leak theory of Covid’s origin.

“Zoonotic coronaviruses (CoVs) represent a significant threat to global health, as demonstrated by the emergence of SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2,” a press release read. “Bats were identified as the wildlife reservoirs of SARS-CoV by EcoHealth Alliance, and since then, we have published hundreds of novel SARS-related CoV (SARSr-CoV) sequences from wildlife in China and across Southeast Asia.”

In order to “ease” concerns and some objections, the press release noted on-the-ground work under the auspices of this new grant will not be conducted in China. The study is specific to southern China, but the “renewed work will involve collaboration only between EcoHealth Alliance and the Duke-National University of Singapore Medical School.”

All “recombinant virus culture or infection experiments” will also be removed from the research process. The press release assured that the research would not be “gain of function,” which involves extracting viruses from animals and engineering them in a lab to make them more transmissible or dangerous to humans.

The Biden administration has been supportive. National Review reports:

In February, national-security council communications coordinator John Kirby said the Biden administration supports gain-of-function research despite the potential risks as long as that it is pursued in a safe and transparent manner.

“[The president] believes that [the research is] important to help prevent future pandemics, which means he understands that there has to be legitimate scientific research into . . . the potential sources of pandemics so that we understand [them] and so we can prevent them from happening,” Kirby said.

However, let’s not forget:

in February, FBI director Christopher Wray told Fox News that Covid likely escaped from a laboratory in China, issuing the first public opinion of the sort from the agency on the origins of the virus.

“The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan,” Wray said. “Here you are talking about a potential leak from a Chinese government-controlled lab.”