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Adolescent gender clinics closing down in the US

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RoyalCorgi · 25/09/2026 08:31

According to the NY Times

"At least six major hospitals across the country have recently agreed to stop providing gender-transition treatment to adolescents to end a wide-ranging Justice Department investigation into potential legal violations related to billing practices and consumer fraud.

"The <a class="break-all" href="https://archive.is/o/i8egd/www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/us/detransition-transgender-clinic.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">wave of settlements includes <a class="break-all" href="https://archive.is/o/i8egd/www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/nyregion/transgender-adolescents-nyu-langone-trump.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">hospitals in New York, Pennsylvania and Connecticut, states that have been supportive of access to the treatments. The hospitals have agreed to pay fines, and several will provide free medical care to former patients who wish to treat side effects or to 'detransition.'"

Archive link because it's behind a paywall.

https://archive.is/i8egd

There's also an article in The Federalist that says that "some of the doctors who practiced in those hospital-based facilities have moved to their own privately managed operations, continuing to perform the same types of mutilating surgeries and hormonal interventions."

Interesting times.

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ArabellaScott · 25/09/2026 19:52

MarcTheGenderSkeptic · 25/09/2026 19:27

Whom are these "anti trans voters to die out"?
You mean the vast and increasing majority opposed to the main tenets of TRA, that kids can be medicalized, men can enter women's sports and enforced pronouns/ideas like TWAW.
This is 70% of the population in US as well as here, likely higher in reality
That's an <awful> lot of people who have to die out so you can win your argument. Not including all those young people who are more and more seeing how crazy this all is.

Its not an argument, its a fantasy.

TheywontletmehavethenameIwant · 25/09/2026 21:16

It's the old bigoted dinosaur troupe again, the only people standing in the way of Utopia are the old farts. They're so focused on us they haven't noticed that the generation that's coming up behind them thinks they're the boring old one's only Gen A thinks they're loonies not Dino's.

Hoardasurass · 25/09/2026 22:44

Bobbymoore123 · 25/09/2026 16:33

Sure, one day.
Demographic polling makes it pretty clear that this is inevitable unless people become more transphobic as they age, once the current generation of anti-trans voters age out of the population, even with the rise of the far right populism among young men.

Understanding the importance of sex and the harms of gender ideology especially when it comes to childhood transition is not transphobia its simply common sense, using critical thinking and the life experience we have gained.
Oh and yes people do get more conservative as they age and women in particular become much more concerned about people harming women and children when they become mothers. So i wouldn't expect the direction of travel to change especially when you consider that the fad is almost over amongst the youngest generation.
When everyone from your teacher through government to your mum is trans being trans is no longer cool and edgy its mainstream whereas being a sex realists is cool and will remain so until the ideology is dead and buried

Deafnotdumb · 25/09/2026 22:57

I've got Gen A kids and it's the subject of eye rolling at school. Trans is one step away from cringe for them. I also suspect we'll be seeing the costs of transition become more obvious as people age and the impact of cross-sex hormones bites home on their bodies.

Cailin66 · 25/09/2026 23:18

MarcTheGenderSkeptic · 25/09/2026 19:31

She may be the one person in this whole sorry societal misfire that made me absolutely hate them.
Plenty of prominent people in this industry only talk the talk.
She walked the walk.

As an Irish person I’m horrified about that pair in America. Like it’s unbelievable to do that. Money obviously. Nothing else. Plus they can bank and run.

Equally odious is the Irish ‘chappy’ running his own private UK clinic. Can’t name him, obviously, as this is a UK website, he gets mentioned the odd time in Irish media…

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