Vanderbilt To Pause Gender Transition Surgeries On Minors Following Bombshell Report

The Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) has paused all gender transition surgeries for minors following an explosive report about their pediatric gender services and a letter from state legislators demanding the practices stop, according to a letter from VUMC.

“We are pausing gender affirmation surgeries on patients under age 18 while we complete this review, which may take several months. In addition, we understand this issue is likely to be taken up by the General Assembly in its next legislative session. As always, we will assure that VUMC’s programs comply with any new requirements which may be established as a part of Tennessee law,” the letter read.

VUMC offered medical procedures to minors who identified as transgender to help them present as the opposite sex, including hormones and double-mastectomies, according to the Daily Wire. VUMC was also accused of pressuring employees with conscientious and religious objections to transgender medical procedures, and in one video a hospital employee reportedly boasted about how profitable cross-sex hormones and surgeries, including genital surgeries, could be for the hospital…. (Excerpt from The Daily Wire)