Action4Canada - Fox News' Tucker Carlson on Gender Reassignment Surgery for Kids

00:00:00.000 With the most basic ethical guidelines gone completely ignored, you should not be surprised

00:00:07.440 to learn that some hospitals have decided to monetize the mental anguish of children.

00:00:13.800 Consider the University of California at San Francisco Hospital. Supposedly it's one of the

00:00:18.020 best in the world. UCSF, despite its august reputation, is not even trying to behave responsibly

00:00:25.160 with children who've been convinced by TikTok they should change their sex. So a new trend comes

00:00:30.840 along propelled by social media. It didn't exist before at scale. Now it does. Rather than pausing

00:00:38.440 and asking what is this and how can we help the children, they blow right past it. UCFS Hospital's

00:00:47.280 current guidance for treating so-called transgender youth is this. We got this right from their 1.00

00:00:51.080 website. Quote, as youth are transitioning at increasingly younger ages, genital surgery

00:00:56.680 is being performed on a case-by-case basis more frequently in minors. Genital surgery on children.

00:01:05.120 This is a very big step. It's irreversible. So you wonder what is the medical basis for this?

00:01:11.420 Well, a few sentences later, UCFS Hospital admits that there is no medical basis. Instead, quote,

00:01:16.920 in the absence of solid evidence, providers often must rely on the expert opinions of innovators

00:01:22.980 and thought leaders in the field. So UCSF is conducting genital surgeries on minors based on,

00:01:32.620 quote, thought leaders in the field? What does that mean? Well, it means the human rights campaign

00:01:39.580 is in favor of it. It means activists are pushing it. It means there's no scientific data to justify it.

00:01:44.880 This is horrifying. Why is this happening? And how widespread is it? No one seems to be interested.

00:01:53.560 Virtually alone in our media, Matt Walsh of the Daily Wire decided to find out the answers to those

00:01:59.080 questions. And in that search, he obtained this video. It's from 2018. The video shows a physician

00:02:05.020 called Shane Taylor from Vanderbilt University Medical Center, which like UCFS, SF has a global

00:02:11.320 reputation for excellence. In this video, Taylor explains that Vanderbilt performs gruesome sexual 1.00

00:02:18.460 surgeries on children. Why? Because those surgeries make Vanderbilt money. Oh, it makes money. So this 0.83

00:02:26.500 huge new trend appears, again, driven not by medical research, but by social media convincing

00:02:33.540 children they can change their sex. And Vanderbilt, rather than pausing and asking once again,

00:02:39.000 how do we help these children? What is this? Decides, oh, there's money there. We're all in.

00:02:45.100 Now, it's hard to believe that everyone at Vanderbilt Hospital could possibly be for this

00:02:52.000 because it's completely irresponsible and wrong. So what would happen if a physician at Vanderbilt,

00:02:58.360 a conscientious objector, disagreed with mutilating children for profit? That's a key question.

00:03:03.560 So another doctor called Ellen Clayton explained what would happen. Again, this video we're about

00:03:09.580 to show you has also been around since 2018, but no one in the media cared to look at it until Matt

00:03:15.320 Walsh found it this week. If you were going to assert conscientious objection,

00:03:23.000 you have to realize that that is problematic. You are doing something to another person

00:03:30.680 and you are not paying the cost for your belief. I think that is a real, I mean, I think that's a real

00:03:39.480 issue, but I just want you to take home that saying that you're not going to do something because of your

00:03:47.720 conscientiousness, because of your religious beliefs is not without consequences and it should not be

00:03:55.640 without consequences. And I just want to put that out there. We are given enormous, if you don't want

00:04:03.800 to do this kind of work, don't work at Vanderbilt. Oh, so if you object to this, leave. You can't work

00:04:12.120 at Vanderbilt, quote. So Vanderbilt clearly thought this through. Not everyone's going to be for this,

00:04:18.760 so let's just make it really, really clear. If you're not fully on board with sexually mutilating

00:04:23.800 children for non-medical reasons on the basis of no medical evidence, then you just leave.

00:04:29.160 But that wasn't enough. They anticipated that this is so horrifying that some doctors might

00:04:33.560 still step out of line. They might tell 16-year-olds that they have a psychological disorder or

00:04:37.720 this will pass or maybe stop watching so much TikTok. And no, we're not going to mutilate

00:04:41.960 your genitals or cut your breasts off, at least until you're an adult. But if they said that, 0.99

00:04:47.160 that would, of course, hurt the business model. So Vanderbilt recruited activists, trans activists,

00:04:52.600 to bully physicians into submission. Watch.

00:04:56.200 Everybody provides trained peer advocates for transgender patients who are coming for doctor's

00:05:01.720 appointments or other healthcare-related services. Whether you're looking for something that's

00:05:05.960 related to medical transition, such as hormone therapy, or something completely unrelated,

00:05:10.440 like breaking an arm or going to an A&T, we are here to help support any transgender patients

00:05:15.400 that come through our doors. The transbuddy program is a one-of-a-kind in the nation,

00:05:19.160 and institutions are looking to Vanderbilt to replicate and expand programs like ours.

00:05:23.640 Oh, transbuddies. Right. Enforcers, in other words. It's like having the mafia standing over 1.00

00:05:32.040 your shoulder while you're on the witness stand. Doctors should be, in fact, have to be allowed to

00:05:38.600 give politically unbiased counsel to their patients without being intimidated. But the whole point of

00:05:44.840 a transbuddy system is to prevent that. In one video from Vanderbilt, the transbuddies say they're on the 0.97

00:05:51.400 lookout for doctors who don't use the right pronouns because that's, quote, unsafe. Get in line or we'll 0.95

00:05:58.360 crush you. So Matt Walsh brought all of this to the surface just the other day. And in response to it,

00:06:05.000 rather than defend it or explain it, Vanderbilt University Medical Center took its entire website

00:06:09.480 offline. And no doubt at some point they'll be claiming it's unsafe for them, that the people who

00:06:16.360 are shocked by what they're doing are actually the criminals here and that they're getting

00:06:21.080 threatening phone calls. They're gonna have to call the DOJ and anyone who comments on it is

00:06:25.400 going to get a visit from the FBI. But the truth is people who are horrified by this

00:06:32.280 are not the bad actors. Vanderbilt is the bad actor. Vanderbilt has just admitted on camera to 0.65

00:06:37.720 castrating children as young as 13 years old. This is from Vanderbilt psychiatry's YouTube page

00:06:42.840 from 2020. We can provide gender-affirming hormones on an individual who is on a pubertal blocker,

00:06:49.160 depending on whatever kind of blocker they've chosen or we have discussed with them. Or they

00:06:53.480 can present to us at a later stage of puberty and then we provide the gender-affirming hormones.

00:06:58.600 Previously, the Endocrine Society recommended to start these at age 16, but we all know that would

00:07:03.160 be delayed puberty, right? 16-year-olds don't start puberty. So more recently, they did update that to

00:07:09.240 say as early as 14 for compelling reasons. So we have some individuals who have started

00:07:13.720 gender-affirming hormones at 13 or 14 to be more like their peers. Has anyone at Vanderbilt

00:07:19.880 Medical Center ever had a 14-year-old? And what sort of person would give a 14-year-old,

00:07:25.000 do you know what they're like if you've lived with one before? Would chemically castrate a 14-year-old

00:07:30.280 because he or she saw something on TikTok that suggested it was a good idea? This is lunacy.

00:07:34.760 But the same YouTube page also confirms that Vanderbilt will happily perform double

00:07:39.400 mastectomies in adolescent girls after they've drugged them because, you know,

00:07:42.680 it's pretty lucrative actually. Here's plastic surgeon Julianne Winokur and physician's assistant

00:07:47.880 Shaylin Vanderblomen. Watch. For any kind of top surgery, we do require one letter of persistent,

00:07:54.920 well-documented gender dysphoria by a licensed mental health provider. We ensure that the patient is 0.97

00:08:02.120 capable of making fully informed decisions on their own. They're the age of majority.

00:08:07.400 However, for a lot of our younger patients, again, if they are 16, 17 here at Vanderbilt,

00:08:14.840 if they have been on testosterone, have a parental consent,

00:08:19.080 we're able to do a lot of the top surgeries for those patients.

00:08:22.280 So again, this is a hospital filled with physicians and ethicists and other adults

00:08:32.280 who ought to be stepping in to protect children from their worst impulses, from the latest fad, 1.00

00:08:39.000 from their parents' neuroses. But they're not doing that because it's just too profitable to destroy the

00:08:45.080 lives of kids. So who should be the backstop against this? Who are the people who oversee this who

00:08:51.000 really should be exercising adult wisdom here and restraint? Well, that would be, by definition,

00:08:57.960 the Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Board of Directors. And we're going to name them now in the

00:09:04.360 hope that these people will do something to stop these crimes before the lives of more children are

00:09:09.560 destroyed. So the board members would include Edith Carroll Johnson, John F. Stein, Jeffrey R. Balzer,

00:09:16.600 Lucinda M. Bayer, Daniel Diermeyer, Sarah J. Finley, John R. Ingram, Michael M. E. Johns,

00:09:23.880 Samuel E. Lynch, Alexander C. Taylor, and Makeba Williams. Let's hope these people, this is the board

00:09:31.960 that oversees all of this, let's hope these people act immediately to stop this crime.

00:09:37.880 But to be clear, it's not just Vanderbilt. We called UCLA's hospital today, and they told us

00:09:44.760 they'd be happy to mutilate our child. They just need a referral for insurance purposes.

00:09:49.400 So did Weill Cornell Medicine. One of our producers, Sammy, called Cornell about getting breast implants 0.93

00:09:54.680 for her 15-year-old son, who she said was, quote, questioning his gender identity. Just questioning.

00:10:00.520 Here's what they said in response. It's regarding my son. He is questioning his gender identity,

00:10:07.720 and he was interested in treatments. This would be for plastic surgery.

00:10:14.760 Dr. Otterburn does perform top surgery, if that's what you're referring to. If they're minor,

00:10:20.760 how do you get to that stage? All right, so I can make you an appointment to come in for a

00:10:26.520 consultation to have a discussion. Mm-hmm. So it's for my son, who's a minor, so he can just come in,

00:10:34.920 or do I have to go with him, or how does that work? How old is he? I'm 15. 15, okay.

00:10:46.680 Yeah, I would come with him. Yeah, breast implants for a 15-year-old boy, yeah,

00:10:53.000 I'd come with him. Whatever. And it's not just UCLA. The account libs of TikTok, which the

00:10:59.480 Washington Post is desperately trying to get scrubbed from the internet, recently recorded

00:11:03.080 a similar call with Boston's Children's Hospital. Listen. I just need to want to know if you guys do

00:11:12.040 service that age, you know, before obviously, before coming, you know, coming all the way for

00:11:17.560 an in-person consult and going through all the paperwork and everything. Well, yeah, it depends.

00:11:22.440 Like, each department's different. Some departments come out for 18. How old is your patient? 16.

00:11:28.920 Okay, all right, so they're in the clear. So they would do it for that age?

00:11:36.680 Yes. Okay, great. Is it a common procedure that you guys do for that age?

00:11:44.040 Yes. We have all different type of age groups that comes in for that.

00:11:51.560 For the hysterectomy? Yes, ma'am.

00:11:57.800 So Boston Children's Hospital is now playing the victim here. Anyone who criticizes this is a threat

00:12:03.400 and a danger and get DOJ involved. The Washington Post, New York Times jump on. Anyone who questions

00:12:08.200 this is evil. But that, of course, is the opposite of the truth. The people doing this

00:12:12.920 know that what they are doing is evil. They know perfectly well. And that's why Vanderbilt took

00:12:17.400 down its website after Matt Walsh reported on it. There is no scientific basis for any of this. It

00:12:22.920 does not help children. It harms children. That is known. It's also obvious when you're not a parent.

00:12:28.760 Researchers in Stockholm studied the effects of transgender surgery over a period of 30 years.

00:12:33.240 What did they find? Well, we'll tell you again. Quote,

00:12:35.960 persons with transsexualism after sex reassignment have considerably higher risks for mortality,

00:12:42.040 suicidal behavior and psychiatric morbidity than the general population.

00:12:47.080 30 year study. And it's not just one study. More than a thousand patients at the Tavistock

00:12:51.560 Gender Clinic in the UK have just sued the clinic. They say they were pressured into life destroying

00:12:56.600 treatments. And that clinic is now being shut down. And that will happen in this country.

00:13:01.800 This is a fad. And because there are no adults left, no one has put up a hand and say, slow down.

00:13:08.920 But five years from now, we're going to look back in this, like a lot of things we've done recently,

00:13:14.680 like destroying public art and statues and the COVID vaccine, so many other things that we've

00:13:19.640 done without thinking about it in an environment where no one's allowed to protest. And we're going to

00:13:23.720 look back in shame and horror. So Amy Tishelman is the lead author of the guidelines for the World

00:13:33.640 Professional Association for Transgender Health. And Tishelman just admitted that recommendations

00:13:39.320 for gender affirming hormones and surgeries were removed from the internet to eliminate a paper trail

00:13:45.560 and avoid lawsuits when inevitably practitioners followed them. Watch.

00:13:50.680 We were thinking and it was scary for me about the potential uses of the chapter for legal and

00:13:58.040 insurance context. Again, what we didn't want to do was create a chapter that would make it more likely

00:14:04.440 that practitioners would be sued because they weren't following exactly what we said.

00:14:09.560 This is completely wrong. They won't even defend it. They won't even answer simple questions about

00:14:17.160 what it is. And again, it's irreversible. Hospitals are mutilating children. Boston Children's Hospital,

00:14:26.040 UCSF, Cornell, UCLA, Vanderbilt and others. And they should all stop immediately, no matter how much it

00:14:33.880 hurts their business model, no matter how much it costs them. As we told you, Matt Walsh is the man who

00:14:39.000 broke the story about Vanderbilt's abuse of children. He just met with Tennessee state lawmakers,

00:14:42.840 Representative William Lamberth, State Senator Jack Johnson. They said they're working on a bill to

00:14:46.760 shut this program down at Vanderbilt. Can't come soon enough. Matt Walsh joins us tonight.

00:14:51.400 Matt Walsh, thank you so much. And for, among other things, illustrating how journalism can be a force

00:14:58.200 for good, I think yours has been. Have you spoken to anyone at Vanderbilt Hospital about this directly?

00:15:05.720 Well, Vanderbilt Hospital, I mean, we, we reached out for a statement when we first published the

00:15:11.400 report. And at first they didn't want to give a statement and they, and they actually just took

00:15:14.440 down, as you mentioned, they just deleted. That's what people have to understand. They

00:15:17.400 deleted their entire transgender clinic website. They wiped it from existence. And then today,

00:15:22.520 not to us, but in general, they released a statement. And the interesting thing about the

00:15:26.280 statement they released is that they do not, while they start by claiming there's misinformation and so

00:15:30.680 on, they don't actually factually dispute anything in my report because they can't,

00:15:36.200 because everything that I said, wasn't me saying it. I was just providing video evidence, much of

00:15:41.080 which you, you played there. Well, we know for a fact, this is an absolute fact that, that, that,

00:15:45.240 that Vanderbilt, they performed double mastectomies on minor girls, on children. They chemically

00:15:52.040 castrate children and they give them irreversible hormone drugs that change their bodies permanently. 0.55

00:15:58.280 They're doing all of that to kids. And the other thing we should know, and I'm glad you mentioned

00:16:01.960 all the other hospitals around the country, because the things I just mentioned, that's

00:16:06.040 happening all across the country in every single state, in, in many hospitals and in many other

00:16:12.040 medical clinics, all of those things are happening. And one of the reasons why it's allowed to keep

00:16:16.120 happening is because people don't know about it because they're not talking about it. And I think

00:16:20.520 for a lot of average Americans, people just walking down the street, it's sort of unthinkable.

00:16:26.120 They can't imagine that this sort of thing is actually happening, but it is, which is why we

00:16:31.320 have to start by raising awareness about it. And we have to do that no matter, no matter the,

00:16:35.880 the game, the left plays by saying, if you, if you so much as mention what they're doing,

00:16:41.400 it's incitement and terrorism, which is, which is absurd, but we can't, we can't bend to that tactic.

00:16:47.880 We have to keep shining a light on this. Cutting the breasts off little girls, 1.00

00:16:52.760 sterilizing 14 year olds. Like, yeah. Okay. Yeah. We're not the criminals here. And by the way, 1.00

00:16:57.720 I've got to believe that not everyone on the board at Vanderbilt Medical Center is a bad person.

00:17:01.720 I've got to believe a lot of these people had no idea this was happening. And I hope they know now,

00:17:05.400 and I hope they do something tonight to end it. I appreciate your coming on and for all you've

00:17:10.200 done on this. Matt Walsh, thank you. Thank you.

Action4Canada - September 22, 2022

Fox News' Tucker Carlson on Gender Reassignment Surgery for Kids

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