Research from Harvard found that gender-affirming surgeries for minors are rare — and usually involve chest reduction for cisgender boys.Rae DengSept. 4, 2026As cited by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, a database from anti-trans group Do No Harm proves that from 2019 to 2023, more than 5,500 minors in the United States had sex change surgeries.An August 2026 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services report claimed that "watchdog analyses tracking" had determined more than 5,500 minors had undergone "sex change surgeries" from 2019 to 2023.The "watchdog analyses tracking" references an anti-LGBTQ+ group that inflated the data by counting a vast number of procedures entirely unrelated to "sex change surgeries," including hair removal, surgical removal of excess eyelid skin and bladder drainage. These procedures were counted in the "sex change surgery" statistic as long as the patient had a gender dysphoria diagnosis or a psychiatric condition related to crossdressing (which is different from being trans). As with any other person's healthcare, there are many reasons why a trans person may need these procedures that have nothing to do with being trans.Credible data indicates that gender-affirming surgeries are rarely performed on minors, and most minors who receive them are not actually trans, but cisgender boys getting chest reductions. A peer-reviewed study from Harvard University researchers in 2024 determined that in 2019, only 85 trans minors received gender-affirming surgery and most of them were age 15 to 17. The Harvard study found no gender-affirming surgeries conducted on children under 12.
Surprise, surprise... they lied!
And this is what they say about the doctors...
A child who undergoes a sex rejecting procedure can become a patient for life.A disturbing new Trump administration report details the financial incentives that HHS says pushed clinics to take advantage of some of the country’s most vulnerable children.“There was a tremendous financial incentive for these clinics and these practitioners to produce what we call captive patients.”
And their conclusion:
The bottom lineThe data HHS cited in its report comes from an anti-LGBTQ+ group that used faulty analysis to inflate data on gender-affirming surgeries among trans minors.It's more accurate to say that from 2019 to 2023, more than 5,500 minors, many of whom had a gender dysphoria diagnosis at one point in time, received various procedures for any number of medical reasons, the vast majority of which were unrelated to being trans.Peer-reviewed research suggests that gender-affirming surgeries among minors are incredibly rare and usually involve cisgender boys undergoing chest reductions.
The report is a good example of the saying "If you can t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull."
KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation) reports on the harm Trump vendetta on the trans community...
HHS Report: “Wolves in White Coats: How Doctors and Hospitals Pushed and Profited from the Fraud of “Gender Medicine,” August 12, 2026.Purpose: Much of the report focuses on what HHS calls “fraudulent billing practices” relating to gender-affirming care.. Through various tables HHS identifies over 100 providers it believes have questionable billing claims related to gender-affirming care. Beyond the concerns it raises about billing the report content is wide ranging. It states gender-affirming care providers may offer this care as a way to generate revenue, that they do so to create a “captive patient” audience, describes Biden administration civil rights actions as efforts “to impose, unilaterally, gender ideology,” criticizes medical associations supportive of and/or providing guidance around gender affirming care, and promotes the stories of people who have detransitioned and parents who opposed access to gender-affirming care.Implications: The billing and coding data provided in the report has already been used to support other administration actions. It is the basis of a letter HHS Sec. Kennedy sent to the OIG seeking investigations of providers (see separate entry).The report fosters misinformation in several domains. It is unlikely that providers are offering gender affirming care for the purposes of generating revenue given the small share of transgender people in the U.S. and relatively low cost of interventions (as described in the report). The report also appears to conflate the cost of medications with revenue generated by prescribers. It suggests the Biden administration’s efforts to improve civil rights protections for LGBTQ people promoted gender affirming care. It uses select sketches of individuals who have detransitioned to promote the notion that “activists and providers have tried to force children to undergo potentially life-altering interventions” when in fact detransitioning is quite rare.The report could be used to build a basis for further administration actions aimed at limiting gender affirming care and may also serve to intimidate named providers.HHS Report: “Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology?”, August 2026.Purpose: HHS issued this commissioned report with the stated aim of “examining the psychology behind strong support for radical gender ideology and left-wing authoritarianism.” It finds “gender ideology may function as an ideological accelerant” and leads to legitimizing violence.Implications: This HHS commissioned report seeks to align support for transgender people generally, that is beyond support for access to medical care, with “left-wing authoritarianism” and potentially violence. Despite this aim, the report states that “violence connected to gender ideology remains largely undocumented in the academic literature.”The survey includes use of a new tool to measure support for transgender people asking questions drawn from guidance from major medical associations. There is no mention in the report of this scale being validated. The questions sought to measure the endorsement of consensus positions not related to gender-affirming medical care. Questions generally focused on beliefs around support for transgender people’s gender identities and gender exploration. The study found that people who scored higher on this measure (i.e., those who are more likely to agree with the guidance) were also more likely to hold “racialized” “authoritarian” left-wing views, and more likely to say political violence could be justified in certain cases.Efforts to challenge major medical association guidance may represent an aim to erode public support for these organizations and align with other actions (see above) seeking to harm the credibility of these organizations. Further, the report could be used as a basis for the administration’s continued efforts to target these organizations and/or erode support for transgender people and their access to care. The report may also align with other efforts by the administration to suggesting there is a relationship between supporting transgender people and violence.The instrument developed does not appear to be a probability survey raising questions about representativeness of the report’s findings. The report suggests that correlated findings are casual, which is not supported by the analysis, and it does not appear to have been peer reviewed.
This is all part of an effort by the Trump administration to deny proper medical treatment to a minority for political gain.
Federal officials referred around 150 healthcare organizations for investigation into allegations of fraud.Mother JonesMadison PaulyAugust 18, 2026Just two days after finalizing a regulation to make sure trans kids from low-income families can’t afford puberty blockers or hormone therapy, the Trump administration has loosed another salvo in its bitter war against transgender people’s healthcare. On Thursday, the Department of Health and Human Services published a report—authored largely by employees of right-wing advocacy groups—alleging that some hospitals are using incorrect codes to bill insurance for pediatric gender-affirming care. The report paints transgender healthcare as motivated by profit rather than medical necessity, calling the billing codes “potentially fraudulent.”In a social media video, Vice President JD Vance announced he was referring roughly 150 healthcare organizations listed in the report to the Department of Justice for criminal investigation. The list includes over a dozen major children’s hospitals, pharmacies including Walgreens, and small doctors offices and clinics. Standing at Vance’s side, HHS Secretary RFK Jr. added that he, too, was referring the providers for investigation by his department’s inspector general.
They also call the report a hatch job!
Yet advocates of transgender healthcare describe the HHS report released Thursday as part of a larger effort to shut down care. “This report is part of a broader pattern from this administration: Using the power of government to attack science and target health care providers instead of helping families get the care they need,” says Kellan Baker, senior advisor for health policy at the Movement Advancement Project. “It’s an intimidation campaign,” adds Jennifer Levi, the director of transgender and queer rights at GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders, pointing to ways the report might show up in future legal cases.
This all is to justify Trump's pogrom on the trans community!
