JD Vance Seeks Criminal Investigation Into Hospitals Doing Child Sex Changes, Citing Evidence Of Fraud
Vice President JD Vance announced Thursday that he had reported a host of children's health providers for criminal investigation, citing a new government report alleging their pediatric gender programs exploited children in order to perpetrate massive fraud.
Vice President JD Vance announced Thursday that he had reported a host of children’s health providers for criminal investigation, citing a new government report alleging their pediatric gender programs exploited children to perpetrate massive fraud.
Health providers disguised pricey sex change surgeries and cross-sex hormones with anodyne diagnoses like “endocrine disorder, unspecified,” to bill insurance companies and the federal government, the report from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) alleges.
Vance identified two motivations: Ideology and money.
“For years now, some hospitals and Healthcare providers have been subjecting children to horrific, experimental treatments in service of radical gender ideologies,” Vance wrote in a Thursday X post. “More than just pushing these procedures on kids, hospitals and providers may have been defrauding Medicaid and private insurers by using misleading or fraudulent billing codes to get insurance to cover the costs.”
The report — titled “Wolves In White Coats: How Doctors and Hospitals Pushed and Profited from the Fraud of ‘Gender Medicine'” — lays out evidence that hospitals systematically misdiagnosed minors to bill private insurers and the federal government for breast removal surgeries, cross-sex hormone therapy, and other unproven treatments.
More than 225 hospitals and health systems established gender clinics, the report found. The providers could face serious criminal and civil liability, the report states.
How could hospitals continue to embrace experimental procedures on children even as evidence accumulated that they had no basis in medical science and could cause lifelong harm? Hospitals rigorously evaluate whether to embrace novel medical procedures all the time, and states like Texas have passed laws banning these practices.