Connecticut Children’s Hospital Creating Portal for Out-of-State Kids to Pursue Gender Transition

The Connecticut Children’s Hospital is developing a portal that will connect kids from states where gender transition surgeries and hormone injections are banned to resources that would help them pursue so-called gender-affirming care.

“With Texas now being the latest to ban evidence based care for trans kids (and DEI offices on public college campuses 🤔), we have to find more ways to support these kids and families . . . are you a family in a state banning care?” Melissa Santos, Division Chief of Pediatric Psychology at the hospital, wrote in a LinkedIn post in late September. “Reach out below . . . we want to help . . . #transhealth #pride #transcareishealthcare #forthekids #lgbtqcommunity.”

Santos also posted a recruitment ad, asking for youth volunteers to join a committee working alongside hospital staff to create the LGBT youth web portal. Medical transparency nonprofit Do No Harm first uncovered the plans for the portal. The portal will be called REACH, standing for “Refuge, Education, Allies, Care, and Help.” A QR code on the ad links to a workgroup interest form that asks respondents to choose from pronouns including “ze, hir, hirs” and “ze, zir, zirs.”

Connecticut Children’s Hospital also gives a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion presentation to clinical staff, including physicians, that embraces gender ideology. Its main concept is that gender is a spectrum. The training, obtained by Do No Harm, includes the “genderbread person” model, which teaches that gender is a complicated function of identity, attraction, sex, and expression.

“The Connecticut Children’s Hospital is presenting the horribly flawed notion that children will benefit from gender transition after they suffer from gender dysphoria,” Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, Chairman of Do No Harm, told National Review. “They claim the treatments are evidence-based, but the evidence, in fact, shows just the opposite. There is no solid evidence that children are benefited by undergoing puberty, blockade, or sex characteristic, altering hormones. The time has come for these practitioners to be honest with the American public and carefully review the current literature…These children should be allowed to go through puberty and develop as normal individuals. They should not have their body parts altered, nor should they be exposed to medications which will produce irreversible damage.”

Another slide has a how-to guide for doctors and other medical professionals to use the appropriate pronouns when speaking with and about a gender dysphoric patient. The CCH presentation also cited a survey on poor mental health and high suicidal attitudes among LGBT kids. The survey was conducted by the Trevor Project, a youth-oriented LGBT activist group.

The Trevor Project hosts an anonymous online chat forum, “Trevor Space,” which allows adults to communicate with minors, National Review previously reported. The organization hosts age-segregated chatrooms with no age-verification system, allowing adults to interact with children in its “under 18” chatroom, a mother who went undercover in the chatroom said, and National Review confirmed.

In some cases, adults in the chatroom have discussed perverse sexual content with minors and encouraged them to withhold information about their gender transition from their parents. In other cases, users under 18 spoke with adult users about sexual preferences, including BDSM and polyamory. In conversations reviewed by NR, minors and adults discussed sexual fetishes, including “gokkun”— the act of drinking multiple male ejaculations from a container, “bukkake” — the fetish of being covered with ejaculate, “scat play” — deriving sexual gratification from fantasies involving feces, and “forniphilia” — a form of bondage in which a person’s body is incorporated into furniture for sexual acts.

Yet, the Trevor Project has partnered with familiar household names such as Abercrombie and Fitch, Chipotle, and Harry’s Razors to develop pride-themed merchandise. It’s also received seven-figure donations from certain corporate sponsors. The Trevor Project’s “Rainbow Tier” corporate partners, who have each donated more than one million dollars, include Google, Macy’s, AT&T, LuLulemon, and Abercrombie & Fitch. Google.org has provided more than $2.7 million in grants to The Trevor Project, according to the activism organization. In 2019, the Trevor Project and Macy’s joint “Pride and Joy” initiative raised $1.53 million.