The Highwire with Del Bigtree - LEADING TRANS YOUTH DOCTOR WITHHOLDS DAMNING STUDY

Episode Date: November 2, 2024

A prominent specialist in trans youth health in America has chosen not to publish a long-running study on effects of puberty blockers that lacked evidence of any improvement in the mental health of children. Are profitability and influence a factor in the decision to withhold a study that could prevent further harm to these children?Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-highwire-with-del-bigtree--3620606/support.

What I want to talk about with corporate media is the people in operating in corporate media, the anchors, the leads in those operations, a lot of them saw the writing on the wall. They saw what was coming. They saw the viewership plummeting to less than a coin toss and then 31%. And they made changes. So I want to talk about Megan Kelly for a second. Megan Kelly was with NBC News, Fox, lead anchor. And in 2017, she sat down to do, you know, as the history shows, a hit. hit piece on conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and really trying to catch him in a gotcha moment.

Well, that didn't work too well. It backfired a little bit. And here's the headline, one of them at the time that was created from that. NBC is under pressure to poll Megan Kelly's controversial Alex Jones interview. It backfired on her because Alex Jones actually released all their phone calls leading up to the interview and all the raw tapes before Megan Kelly could release her interview. But Megan Kelly did something interesting. She left NBC just a couple of years later.

She started her own organization that she owns. She has editorial control. The Megan Kelly Show, it's an independent organization, independent media. And it's interesting because she's doing some really great reporting. And on one of the topics that we've been reporting on for quite some time, she encapsulated it perfectly in just over a minute. Take a listen. Almost equally important.

Maybe as important is what we're doing to our children with this trans insanity. I mean, this is almost my single issue. We are chopping off the healthy body parts of young children without 100% we are doing that. Well, we are definitely doing that. Without any inquisition into what's happening. I don't know what's happening is about. I don't either. Pay attention because I'm about to give you a truth bomb.

Kids who are suffering from bullying or who have been sexually assaulted or who are going through normal puberty and feel uncomfortable in their bodies will say to their parents, I'm not sure. Maybe I'm gender confused. They will send them into a psychiatrist or psychologist who are told by our organizations, the American Psychiatry Association, and all the others that run their licensing, you must affirm. A firm is the only standard. And so the child gets told, you're right, you are secretly a boy or vice versa. And the child gets put on puberty blockers into cross-sex hormones,

which sterilize a child and deprive the child of any chance of sexual pleasure for the rest of his or her life. We're talking about 9, 10, 11-year-olds who cannot give informed consent. Then they have body parts chopped off by a medical establishment, and by parents who mean well but believe in these doctors, and they shouldn't, and when they inevitably get past the awkwardness of puberty or what have you, and they want to turn around and detransition, those who love bomb them on Reddit saying, come on in, the water's fine, abandon them, they are depressed,

they have changed their bodies forever in a way that is irreversible, and we are all sitting back saying, it's a remote issue. This remote issue is something we've covered on the show quite a bit. Let's pick up that story with the Cass report. This is Dr. Hillary Cass. She's a well-respected pediatrician in the U.K. And she was tasked to do a report to look at all of the science that underpins hormone blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgery for children. And she found that the science wasn't quite there.

So the NHS backed off all of this, and so did a lot of other countries. They had already backed off a lot of the Nordic countries at that time. But the United States has been an outlier. pushing full steam ahead for transitioning children. And so here in the U.S., I guess we're waiting for the science to be done, but we're going to have to wait a little longer because here in the New York Times, U.S. study on puberty blockers goes unpublished because of politics, doctor says. The leader of the long-running study said that the drugs did not improve mental health in children

with gender distress and that the finding might be weaponized by opponents of the care. So what are we talking about, puberty blockers? They looked at almost 100 kids. They followed these kids for nine years. There's almost $10 million put into this study. Some of that by the NIH, which means our taxpayer dollars are being funded in a study that won't be released because of politics. I thought it was about the science. But that's not the case.

So I don't know when this study is going to come out, but it's not coming out right now. But what is coming right now is independent organizations are taking the ball and really exposing an industry that is unscientific but makes a lot of money on the backs of these children by doing this. these surgeries and putting these kids on cross-puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. And here's one of the headlines that came out just recently. Over 5,700 American children had trans surgery before 2019 and 2023 medical group claims, treated like guinea pigs. And it goes on to say, researchers were able to identify a total of 13,994 minors across the United States who receive medical treatment for gender dysphoria over the course of four years. Shockingly, over 5,700 of those kids were operated on. And there's a group started by concerned citizens called

Stop the Harm. They have a website here. You can go and check out any of your states. And when you click on there, you don't look at policy to see where it's legal. They're actually looking at how much money is being made. And Stop the Harm has their own dirty dozen list. And that list consists of the hospitals that are the worst offending children's hospitals in promoting sex change treatments for minors. Number one, the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Chop. Very interesting. And then Connecticut, we have Minnesota, Seattle, Boston's Children's Hospital is down there at number six. But now let's go to how much money people are making. These are the top billing providers, which means the individual doctors. So let's look at number one, some random doctor, probably driving a

really nice car in Massachusetts. Boston Children's Hospital is making over $5 million by doing this type of work, I guess you want to call it. Another doctor at Mount Sinai, Beth Israel, over $4,500,000. And it goes on and on, multi-million dollars. So this is what we're looking at here. To talk about this being a cottage industry is saying that lightly. So we need to keep hitting on this because it's not about the children. It's not about their mental health. It's about an industry enriching what can only be called a hospital or medical industrial complex. And that is what's happening. Doctors are getting very rich off this, and they have an incentive to keep this conversation going.

And I know this is a hot-button topic for this presidential election coming up. But we're keeping an eye on this because this is about the health and well-being of the kids. And when you do this type of surgery, as Megan Kelly put it, very bluntly, these kids don't come back. Their fertility often does not come back. These surgeries are, the long-term effects of these surgeries is not known. And when they say guinea pigs, they truly, they truly mean that. This is what the experts in this field are saying. And this is why a lot of other countries have backed off on this.