USC Professor’s Youth-Focused Gender Transitioning Clinic Shutting Down
The Center for Transyouth Health and Development is “based at the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles.”
Every clinic that transitions children should be shut down. It’s amazing that there are still places doing this.
The College Fix reports:
USC professor’s gender transitioning clinic shuts down amid Trump administration pressure
The controversial Los Angeles-based Center for Transyouth Health and Development — one of the largest medical gender transitioning programs in the country — is shuttering its youth-focused treatment program this week.
The center’s youth-focused gender services will cease July 22 after spending its last existing weeks “actively assisting with patient navigation and seeking to identify potential alternative providers for our patients and their families,” officials stated in a news release.
The center, based at the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, was run by Johanna Olson-Kennedy, a professor of clinical pediatrics with the Keck School of Medicine at USC.
The decision was made to close down after a “thorough legal and financial assessment,” according to a statement provided to The College Fix.
The Los Angeles Times reported center officials were concerned about mounting pressure from the Trump administration, which published an executive order earlier this year calling such treatments “chemical and surgical mutilation.”
The center confirmed the report to The Fix: “Over the past several months, President Trump’s executive orders, proposed federal legislation and rulemaking, growing economic uncertainty, and California’s deepening budget crisis, have made the situation even more dire.”
The closure comes as the University of Pennsylvania’s medical system also ends its practice of removing “healthy testicles, breasts, and other organs from kids who have gender dysphoria,” as The College Fix previously reported.
The Los Angeles center’s leader, Professor Olsen-Kennedy, has garnered controversy. After research found gender-transition drugs did not improve the mental health of recipients, she tried to bury the results.
“In October, the New York Times revealed that she’d chosen not to share findings from a taxpayer-funded study on puberty blockers. In December, Olson-Kennedy was sued by a former patient of hers who received a double mastectomy at age 14 with the good doctor’s sign-off,” Heterodox at USC reported.
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Comments
Shutting down but who is going to jail for experimental child mutilation?
Justice moves so slowly these days that maybe it’s time to double statutes of limitations.
Why not prison?
Basically every child who was mutilated is now eligible for a multimillion dollar settlement from malpractice claims against the doctors and institutions that aggressively and profitably exploited them. It will probably take a couple of more years to play out, but after a few big payouts the plaintiff attorneys will be saturating every media outlet with enticements to cash in, and that will be the end of this whole sorry debacle.