Exposé On Vanderbilt’s Pediatric Gender Clinic Sparks Action By Lawmakers
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Tennessee lawmakers are taking action after damning videos about Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s pediatric gender clinic were posted online.
Tucker Carlson covered the incredible act of journalism by the Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh on his show on Wednesday.
Here's part of Tucker Carlson's monologue about @MattWalshBlog's reporting on "gender affirming surgeries" that are being performed on minors.
It's long, but worth the watch. pic.twitter.com/xPIvURgA8l
— Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) September 22, 2022
Tennessee Governor Bill Lee has called for an investigation into VUMC’s pediatric gender clinic after Walsh’s exposé.
“The ‘pediatric transgender clinic’ at Vanderbilt University Medical Center raises serious moral, ethical and legal concerns,” said Lee in a statement to The Daily Wire. “We should not allow permanent, life-altering decisions that hurt children or policies that suppress religious liberties, all for the purpose of financial gain. We have to protect Tennessee children, and this warrants a thorough investigation.”
The governor of Tennessee is calling for an investigation into Vanderbilt after my report this afternoon. Legislators on the state and national level have also responded. We are not going to let up. We will shut this down.
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) September 21, 2022
Walsh announced that he met with state lawmakers who are now putting forward legislation to end the mutilation and castration of gender-confused children under the guise of “affirmative care.”
MAJOR UPDATE: I have met with Tennessee Rep William Lamberth and Sen Jack Johnson. We are working on a bill to shut down Vanderbilt’s child gender transition program and ban the practice in the state. Tennesseans do not want this barbarism in our state. We will put a stop to it.
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) September 21, 2022
We will not stand by and allow our children to be taken advantage of.
I’m proud to stand alongside @MattWalshBlog and @WilliamLamberth to hold VUMC accountable. https://t.co/fp2U7rBW6Q
— Jack Johnson (@SenJohnson) September 21, 2022
.@WilliamLamberth and I are appalled by what @MattWalshBlog uncovered at VUMC. We're going to do everything we can to stop it.
Watch @TuckerCarlson → pic.twitter.com/U03eCTy64m— Jack Johnson (@SenJohnson) September 22, 2022
I'm deeply troubled by what @MattWalshBlog uncovered about the Pediatric Transgender Clinic at VUMC. @GovBillLee is right to call for an investigation and we will support that investigation 100%. This type of child mutilation should be illegal and soon will be in TN." https://t.co/I1UPR7vRcw
— William Lamberth (@WilliamLamberth) September 21, 2022
Great to run into @MattWalshBlog @theMRC tonight, and I appreciate his work in exposing what the left is doing to our children.
Stay tuned for more tomorrow about how puberty blockers are being used on children. @VUMChealth @US_FDA pic.twitter.com/PtLGiT6f6i
— Sen. Marsha Blackburn (@MarshaBlackburn) September 22, 2022
This all comes after Walsh posted an epic Twitter thread on what he and his team managed to dig up on Vanderbilt’s gender clinic for kids in a week or so.
He lays out what “gender-affirming care” for minors looks like at VUMC — chemical castration, drug dependence, and mutilating the chests of young girls by performing double mastectomies.
He also posted a video showing that the motivation for this is profit and the recurring visits for “follow-up care” that these surgeries require.
Vanderbilt opened its trans clinic in 2018. During a lecture the same year, Dr. Shayne Taylor explained how she convinced Nashville to get into the gender transition game. She emphasized that it's a "big money maker," especially because the surgeries require a lot of "follow ups" pic.twitter.com/zedM7HBCBe
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) September 20, 2022
It’s ghoulish.
One of the most damning videos shows that Vanderbilt’s pediatric gender clinic will crush objections to so-called “gender affirmative care” — specifically citing those based on religious belief.
Vanderbilt was apparently concerned that not all of its staff would be on board. Dr. Ellen Clayton warned that "conscientious objections" are "problematic." Anyone who decides not to be involved in transition surgeries due to "religious beliefs" will face "consequences" pic.twitter.com/CgNicrG4Mg
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) September 20, 2022
How is that legal? At the very least, this should trigger court challenges.
Besides, the same argument could be made against Dr. Clayton and her ilk as more and more detransitioners are saying that the “affirmative care” they were given rushed them into chemical and surgical transition with permanent, life-altering changes. These medical “experts” in gender transition will need to live with that, too.
Walsh adds that Vanderbilt has decided to ensure that the gender confusion is “affirmed” in both kids and adults by sending trans activists to accompany patients on medical appointments.
Vanderbilt makes their Trans Buddies available to children, too. They make lots of "services" available to children, including chemical castration. Though at some point in the last month they removed explicit admission of this fact from their site. Here's the archived screenshot pic.twitter.com/X9nBpSxTC1
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) September 20, 2022
Have you ever noticed that a lot of these “gender activists” are leftist, white women? It’s just an interesting thing to note.
Walsh’s thread goes on to show that they are quite willing to give cross-sex hormones to 13-year-olds.
But they must have forgot to delete a video from Vanderbilt Psychiatry’s Youtube channel back in 2020 which admits explicitly that they will give and have given irreversible hormone drugs to children as young as 13. pic.twitter.com/Qn48zWoJ1N
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) September 20, 2022
They’re also willing to cut off healthy breast tissue of teen girls.
After they have drugged and sterilized the kids, Vanderbilt — as explained in this video presentation by plastic surgeon Julien Winocour and Physician’s Assistant Shalyn Vanderbloemen — will happily perform double mastectomies on adolescent girls. pic.twitter.com/SRvtytflsk
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) September 20, 2022
They now castrate, sterilize, and mutilate minors as well as adults, while apparently taking steps to hide this activity from the public view.
This is what "health care" has become in modern America.
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) September 20, 2022
Vanderbilt’s response to the thread was telling.
Vanderbilt has issued a statement in response to our investigation. They do not specifically deny anything in my report. Their only defense for drugging and mutilating kids is that their parents allegedly consent to it. That’s all the confirmation you need.
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) September 21, 2022
They also scrubbed its website of any reference to the pediatric gender clinic.
Don’t worry, we knew this would happen and have spent the past week saving videos and screenshots. We have it all. They can’t hide it now.
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) September 21, 2022
It turns out one of the doctors at VUMC’s gender clinic is treating children as young as 6 — that’s First Grade.
In my research, I obtained a document proving that Dr. Cassandra Brady at Vanderbilt Pediatric Transgender Clinic treats patients as young as 6 with "gender affirming care". She also says she has 200+ patients and advocates for mastectomies to "alleviate distress". pic.twitter.com/6Sckq50qs1
— Landon Starbuck (@LandonStarbuck) September 21, 2022
This path to lifelong medicalization is being pushed on children. Before “gender-affirming care” became the standard, the vast majority of gender dysphoric children would grow out of their dysphoria and accept biological reality once they passed puberty. Many would turn out to be gay but didn’t know how to express that prior to puberty.
As Libs of Tik Tok points out, many of these “gender specialists” have drunk the Kool-Aid and will push for affirmation and will go behind parents backs to do it.
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1572253301940563971?s=20&t=5NqcoJ00RrkJzaRCW3p-rg
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1572429031899004930?s=20&t=5NqcoJ00RrkJzaRCW3p-rg
Walsh is being targeted by Lib journos for reporting on the thing that theses hospitals and gender clinics have been promoting for the past few years.
The Daily Beast says I am making “dangerous claims” about Vanderbilt while not actually factually disputing any of my report pic.twitter.com/lm1HOIGgsJ
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) September 21, 2022
Another pathetic local “journalist” running a PR campaign for Vanderbilt. These people are just absolute gutless worms. Totally torching their own credibility to protect people who profit from chemically castrating and sterilizing kids. https://t.co/ZXEOEo89B2
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) September 22, 2022
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) September 21, 2022
He’s probably also being targeted because Lib journos don’t really like it when conservatives expose them as lazy, lying frauds that uncritically carry water for the extremist progressive left.
In another thread, the bearded, flannel-wearing culture warrior points out that the arguments made by the Gender Gestapo don’t even make any sense.
Trans identity has risen among children exponentially in just the last five to ten years. We're talking about a ten or twentyfold increase, or more. This is the result of deliberate indoctrination. There can be no other explanation. I'll explain why.
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) September 21, 2022
Why? Because the Left ALSO says that if we do not "affirm" all of these children as trans, they will kill themselves. The worst form of emotional blackmail.
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) September 21, 2022
No, the tragic epidemic of child suicide has happened ALONGSIDE the rapid increase in "affirmation." Which clearly shows that by "affirming" we are driving the suicide epidemic. Not the other way around. The trans agenda drags kids into despair and confusion and leaves them there
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) September 21, 2022
He’s right.
Matt Walsh isn’t backing down anytime soon, and that’s such a good thing.
The Left is wailing and screaming and threatening to have me arrested and even killed, but they are powerless to stop us. Their threats mean nothing to me and their insults and accusations mean even less. We’re going to see this through. No matter what.
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) September 22, 2022
He’s a hero for taking on this issue and using his platform to protect kids.
Walsh is also showing conservatives how important it is to fight for what’s right.
On the Right we've had some success in drawing attention to important issues that the media wants to ignore. But we usually fail to convert the attention into meaningful action. We don't get points on the board. That's going to change now.
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) September 22, 2022
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