The FBI is now investigating three hospitals in Colorado, California, and Massachusetts for defying President Trump's executive orders on transgender surgeries for minors, as well as for ignoring 18 USC § 116, which outlaws female genital mutilation. These are, of course, life-changing, irreversible, sterilizing, and will likely erase any possible normal or satisfying sex life for those kids in adulthood.
Attorney General Pam Bondi has committed to stopping these surgeries.
The FBI has initiated criminal investigations of three children's hospitals after commitments from Attorney General Pam Bondi that the Trump administration would enforce federal statutes outlawing female genital mutilation to protect children from often irreversible sex-change surgeries.
The investigations target providers who work at Boston Children’s Hospital, Children’s Hospital Colorado and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, according to a source familiar with the investigation who spoke to Fox News Digital on the condition of anonymity. These hospitals have been among some of the foremost providers of sex change procedures for minors in America over the last several years, according to the source.
These are children who can not give informed consent for any other procedure, including a tooth extraction; they cannot buy a beer, sign a contract, join the military, or carry a gun, because they are children and lack the mental and emotional judgment to make these kinds of decisions. But these three hospitals, it seems, are willing to conduct procedures that can only be described as debilitating and life-altering, and not for the better.
Upon taking office, President Trump acted quickly to put a stop to this:
Just days after taking office, President Donald Trump issued an executive order directing all federal agencies to work toward terminating the ability for children under 18 to receive "irreversible medical interventions" as a treatment for gender dysphoria. Part of that effort included Attorney General Bondi issuing a memorandum several weeks later, directing Justice Department personnel to enforce 18 U.S.C. § 116, which is a federal statute that makes female genital mutilation against the law.
18 U.S.C. § 116 states in part:
(a) Except as provided in subsection (b), whoever, in any circumstance described in subsection (d), knowingly—
(1) performs, attempts to perform, or conspires to perform female genital mutilation on another person who has not attained the age of 18 years;
(2) being the parent, guardian, or caretaker of a person who has not attained the age of 18 years facilitates or consents to the female genital mutilation of such person; or
(3) transports a person who has not attained the age of 18 years for the purpose of the performance of female genital mutilation on such person,
shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both.
Note that the statute specifies female genital mutilation. But the real angle which these amateur Doctors Moreau might seize on is this:
(b) A surgical operation is not a violation of this section if the operation is—
(1) necessary to the health of the person on whom it is performed, and is performed by a person licensed in the place of its performance as a medical practitioner; or
(2) performed on a person in labor or who has just given birth and is performed for medical purposes connected with that labor or birth by a person licensed in the place it is performed as a medical practitioner, midwife, or person in training to become such a practitioner or midwife.
It seems a likely defense that these practitioners and the institutions in which they work may well claim that these mutilations are "necessary to the health of the person on whom it is performed," in another attempt at the old "would you rather have a dead daughter or a live "son" argument.
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All three hospitals involved claim that they are not doing any "transgender" surgeries on minors, and the Children's Hospital Los Angeles claims it has permanently closed the "Center for Transyouth Health and Development." Children's Hospital Colorado has resumed providing hormone treatments and puberty blockers after a brief hiatus, and after suspending surgeries some time ago, is now referring patients to other providers, in a move that smells a lot like a dodge. Boston Children's Hospital, the final facility named, claims to only provide sex-change surgeries to patients over 18, but they do offer hormone therapy and puberty blockers.
Puberty blockers and hormone therapies, we should note, are just as permanent, just as damaging, and just as irreversible as surgeries.
Once again, this is all based on the idea that it's possible to change sex. It's not. Humans, as mammals, are sexually bipolar: Male and female, and barring a few extremely rare genetic abnormalities, those are the only options. Adults, of course, are free to do as they please, and much good may it do them. But children should - must - be protected from these treatments and procedures, which a sensible mind can only view as abuse, and a violation of the medical principle of primum non nocere.
