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Wolves in White Coats

         Light is beginning to crack the darkness of the “transgender” ideology.  Deception and fear have been used to literally scare people into supporting the bizarre idea that someone can be trapped in the wrong body.  But a bold move by our government is helping to illuminate the truth behind this juggernaut of social justice.

         The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has just released a 64-page report entitled "Wolves in White Coats: How Doctors and Hospitals Pushed and Profited from the Fraud of 'Gender Medicine.” The report is based on a review of nationwide insurance claims dating from 2015 to 2025, where it was discovered that nearly $50 million was billed to both public and private insurers to cover the costs of puberty-blocking drugs given to patients from the ages of 9 to 17.  This coverage was deceptively hidden under amorphous codes like “Endocrine Disorder, Unspecified” with no mention of gender dysphoria.   239 puberty-blocker patients had their treatment billed under that code, generating more than $42 million in claims.

         The report also found that during the same timeframe, nearly $11 million was billed for puberty blockers, including to Medicaid and Medicare, for hundreds of patients between the ages of 13 and 17 with the diagnostic code of precocious puberty, a diagnosis that anyone 13 or older can’t have and where puberty blockers should not be given for this indication.

         The report also noted that non-specific codes like “Other Specified Endocrine Disorders” were also used, generating more than $2 million in coverage, while the code “Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome, Unspecified” generated more than $1 million in coverage.  Medicaid paid nearly $8 million of the endocrine-code claims, with smaller amounts through Medicare and other government programs.

         As a result of these reports of fraud, the Administration finalized a rule last week to end so-called “gender-affirming care” through Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).  Vice President Vance, who leads the White House's anti-fraud task force, referred the report to the Attorney General and requested a Justice Department investigation.

         The HHS report ends with this summation:

“The expansion of pediatric sex-rejecting procedures resulted from an interaction among financial incentives, potentially illegal billing practices, ideological and professional influences, federal policy, and inadequate oversight. The medical establishment and the government failed innocent children. This report exposes how these calculated financial and political efforts left children irreversibly harmed and abandoned at the very moments when they needed real support”.

         The “transgender” movement is wholly predicated on myths and money. Instead of offering minors who struggle in this area compassionate mental health services, it is far too often the case that “the experts” have supplied hormone blockers, sex-change surgeries and progressive ideology instead.  The discovery of these fraudulent billing practices just underscores the deception used to further the lie that you are “assigned your sex at birth” and you can change your DNA.  May this report help to protect vulnerable children in our culture.

         Those are my thoughts. I’m Janet Parshall.