Docs Knew Gender Science Was ‘Shoddy,’ But Pushed Chemical Sex Changes On Kids Anyway
Private emails from leaders of an influential transgender medical organization expose how ideology and consensus, rather than science, has undergirded the explosive growth of the child sex-change industry. The emails were revealed under Freedom of Information laws.
As their gender clinic boomed with patients, University of California San Francisco (UCSF) medical directors Maddie Deutsch and Stephen Rosenthal acknowledged behind the scenes that research supporting child sex-changes was “shoddy” and fueling “predatory practices,” emails show.
Deutsch and Rosenthal are leaders in the field of gender medicine and co-authors of the World Professional Association of Transgender Health’s (WPATH) highly influential medical guidance, the Standards of Care version 8 (SOC 8), which is used to inform clinical practice in healthcare systems worldwide. Rosenthal co-founded the UCSF Child and Adolescent Gender Center (CAGC) which had a “major backlog” of 230 new patients on waiting list in the fall of 2022, records show. Rosenthal said the staff’s capacity was “maxed out” and a colleague noted “the need far outpaces the access to care for gender diverse youth,” emails show.
When the Daily Caller News Foundation’s public record requests for Deutsch and Rosenthal’s emails were denied by the University of California in the fall of 2023, Judicial Watch, a government watchdog organization, filed a lawsuit challenging the denial and gained access to the records.
As a result of Judicial Watch’s lawsuit, UCSF released 2,491 pages of emails. Among the revelations is that UCSF gave puberty blockers to children as young as nine. Puberty blockers are not approved by the Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of gender dysphoria. (Read more from “Docs Knew Gender Science Was ‘Shoddy,’ But Pushed Chemical Sex Changes On Kids Anyway” HERE)
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