Shock: When the totalitarian left and its Democrat-Media Party vanguard insisted to you that hardly any children ever have their body parts cut off as part of the Trans Agenda of Joy, they were lying.
At least 5,747 children underwent gender transition surgeries in the US from 2019 to 2023, according to insurance data obtained by the medical watchdog group Do No Harm.
The data relies on insurance claims and therefore excludes surgeries paid for out-of-pocket and those performed at institutions which don't report claims, meaning it significantly underestimates the prevalence of these surgeries. Nonetheless, it reveals an enormous industry and undermines activists' claims that such surgeries for minors are exceedingly rare.
Covered surgeries include mastectomies, breast construction, facial surgeries, and genital surgeries. Only two states, Alaska and Wyoming, had zero insurance claims filed for paediatric gender surgeries from 2019 to 2023, and even these states had patients receiving puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones under the age of 18, as did every other US state.
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A 2022 Reuters report, which also relied on insurance data, found that gender-affirming mastectomies and breast construction surgeries performed on children aged 13-17 increased from 238 in 2019 to 282 in 2021. At the same time, there was a steep increase in the prescription of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones and a surge in gender dysphoria diagnoses, Reuters found. But the new data from Do No Harm reveals that the industry is larger than previously known, and it's quickly growing despite state-level restrictions. The reported surgeries brought in more than $108 million during the five year period.
Oh, Reuters, never change, you filthy f***ing communist liars.
Laurel Duggan
@laureldugg
Thousands of children have undergone transgender surgeries in the US.
The industry is far larger than previously known, bringing in well over $100M, based on insurance claims analyzed by @donoharm
Big Chop is greasing a lot of palms.
Wait -- fellated? Does she know something we don't?
And -- digitally?
Kelly weighed in on how the media covers the state of the American woman, Kamala Harris' lack of humility, the "stooge" host of the raunchy podcast, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff's ungentlemanly activities with a nanny and a woman on the street in France, and much more.
"This is so infuriating," Kelly said. "What bothers me is the hypocrisy of it. They want you to end that podcast thinking Kamala Harris is the one who will protect women, who cares about women, and none of these issues is even brought up. The whole thing is designed to make Trump the devil and Harris the savior of women's rights, and it's infuriating."
More:
MEGYN KELLY: I want to start today with the total abandonment of American women. Honestly, this press corps couldn't give two craps about the actual state of American women today. What they care about is that you can kill a baby in utero. Beyond that, they have absolutely no use for women. That's where I want to start today, after what I've witnessed this weekend around Kamala Harris and her absurd media behavior. Now, currently, the media is enjoying a round of 'girl boss' moments. Have you checked anything on the web today? It's all about what a girl boss Kamala Harris is as a result of her decision to appear on the podcast Call Her Daddy, which normally traffics in shows entitled quote, "F Me with a Dildo." Not kidding. But this weekend, it decided that presidential politics may, in fact, be their thing. It isn't. It was an utter fail.
Okay, here's the real problem, though: Not one of those media enablers has reported on the story that we may be about to put a woman abuser in the White House as "first gentleman." Doug Emhoff, the husband of Kamala Harris, has been accused of assaulting his ex girlfriend, not 30 years ago but 12 years ago in front of a red carpet gala on the street in France in 2012 right before he met Kamala Harris. And not a single one of these same guffawing media outlets has written one word about it. We discussed this in detail on Friday's show. Now we understand that Ms Harris sat for this particular interview the day prior to the Daily Mail report breaking the news of Emhoff's alleged assault. Fair enough. The host did not know, but Kamala Harris almost certainly did. And listen to her go on that podcast and talk about what a champion of women Harris is.
Much more at the link, including video and full transcript. Kelly spends some time knocking Sarah Huckabee-Sanders for noting that Kamala Harris is childless, which seems to offend her, or at least she thinks it's bad politics.
Might be. But I'm all done with speech patrolling my own side. The left is openly calling for assassinations and a racial caste system, and they never speech patrol their violent, raging lunatics. In fact, they turn over whole newsrooms to them.
Philip Melanchthon Wegmann
@PhilipWegmann
On Ben Shapiro show, Trump slams press for its handling of Doug Emhoff allegations that the Second Gentlemen slapped an ex-girlfriend, "if that were me it'd be the greatest story in the last five years."
Leftwing stooge and Unfunny TV Clown John Oliver notes that the Walz-Vance debate was civil, and then, reversing eight years of unceasing political propaganda about Muh Civility, asks "Why do manners even matter?"
If you don't want to hear from the non-American John Oliver about American politics, I'm sure you'll want to know who noted nasty bitch Ellen DeGeneres demands you vote for, to prove that you "love" her.
Kamala Harris has had to grapple with how much daylight to put between her and President Joe Biden -- something that came up again during her high-profile appearance on "The View" on Tuesday.
Asked whether there is anything she would have done differently than Biden over the past four years, Harris demurred.
"There is not a thing that comes to mind in terms of -- and I've been a part of most of the decisions that have had impact," she said, going on to talk about the administration's work capping the cost of insulin at $35 for Medicare recipients.
She appeared to backtrack on that answer later in the show.
"You asked me what is the difference between Joe Biden and me -- that will be one of the differences. I'm going to have a Republican in my Cabinet," she said, reiterating a pledge she made during a CNN interview in August.
LOL. Mitt Romney? Liz Cheney?
How much to lean into or away from her role in the Biden administration is an issue that has dogged Harris since she ascended to the top of the ticket this summer. Her Tuesday comments underscore the challenge that has followed her on the trail as she both tries to take credit for the administration's successes, like on drug prices, while distancing herself from Biden's unpopularity.
His "unpopularity"? Notice they got specific when praising Biden's alleged successes -- "drug prices" -- but then get vague about what is causing this "unpopularity."
The Afghan disaster? Hyperinflation? An economy in recession? The border now erased? Rampant crime enabled by foreign invaders and the Democrats' attack on law and order and the police?
Who can say why Biden is unpopular.
If he weren't white, they'd just say it's Because Racism -- as they did with Obama.
Privately, campaign aides granted anonymity to discuss her thinking say Harris has resisted overtly leaning into her differences with Biden on the campaign trail because of her sense of loyalty to him.
You know, Jake Tapper used to try to get me to carry his spin, anonymously. I refused to do it. I told him "If you're blaming the leak of the CNN debate questions on Donna Brazille, then say so openly. Don't sneakily blame her and get your twitter 'friends' to spread that secretly on your behalf."
However, I did see "conservatives" falling over themselves to repeat Jake Tapper's sneaky, "clean hands" hits on Donna Brazille.
I think if someone wants to say something, they should say it, and I do not respect people in the media, on either side, repeating these "secret anonymous tips" to spare political actors (and media figures) the pain of having to sign their names to a statement.
Everything with the Shallow Throat campaign is "campaign aides anonymously leaking." If the media really wants to force her to take questions and commit herself to answers, they can stop transmitting these anonymous whispers from campaign aides and tell her: "If Kamala wants us to print that, she has to say it herself."
But they don't want to hamper her cynical strategy of saying nothing and letting her campaign aides make promises that Kamala will not honor, so they allow her to do this.
This mentally-demented lunatic has only two modes: calling for people to be imprisoned, deported, or shot, or bragging about which whorish "news" women he's stuck his nasty dick into.
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