Trans activists have drilled vulnerable children and their parents into believing there’s nothing wrong with being trans.
Children, they claim, were incorrectly “assigned” a sex at birth, or were simply born with the “wrong body” or go through the “wrong puberty.”
And any distress over birth sex experienced by young people, they assert, is due to the lack of “affirmation” of their true gender identity by their families.
The problem with that approach, the trans medical industry found, is that families can’t afford the costly drugs and surgeries required to have their children live out their delusion as the opposite sex.
An easy fix would be to have trans drugs and surgeries for minors covered by health insurance. But, how to get health insurance to pay for these expenses when a “diagnostic code” is required – all the while gender ideologues claim there is nothing at all to diagnose?
According to Leor Sapir, prominent expert in the field of pediatric gender medicine, the answer to gender medicine’s puzzle was health insurance fraud – a “widespread” practice, he says, and now one the Trump administration is addressing.
“A common form of potential billing fraud involves use of the diagnosis ‘Endocrine Disorder Not Otherwise Specified’ (E34.9 in the International Classification of Diseases handbook), instead of ‘Gender Identity Disorders’ (F64), for patients who do not have or are not being treated for endocrine disorders,” Sapir wrote Thursday in a column at City Journal.
The Trump administration launched its attack on so-called “gender-affirming care” for children and teens on January 28 with the executive order “Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation.”
The order directed the U.S. Department of Justice to “prioritize investigations and take appropriate action to end deception of consumers, fraud, and violations of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act by any entity that may be misleading the public about long-term side effects of chemical and surgical mutilation.”
The U.S. Department of Justice announced in July it had sent more than 20 subpoenas to gender medicine doctors and clinics that perform so-called “gender-affirming care” procedures on children. The investigations include issues of “healthcare fraud, false statements, and more,” the announcement said.
“Medical professionals and organizations that mutilated children in the service of a warped ideology will be held accountable by this Department of Justice,” Attorney General Pamela Bondi said in a statement.
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