FULL REPORT： Largest Catholic Health Network BETRAYS Church Teaching, Supports LGBT, Transgender Surgeries
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Pro-life researcher Michael Hichborn reveals Catholic hospitals in the United States are providing puberty blockers to children as young as 3 years old. In March, the U.S. Bishops' Conference condemned this practice, but then something amazing happened.
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The majority of the suicides come post-surgery or post-treatment because what the children realize
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or what the young people realize is that they have done something irreversible to their bodies.
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They have destroyed healthy reproductive systems, they have destroyed their genitals,
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they have destroyed their breasts, and they can never get them back.
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So, my friends, something very interesting happened, a real work of the Holy Spirit.
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So, Michael Hichborn, whom you all know from the Ponto Institute, probably the premier researcher
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in the pro-life world, in the Catholic world, he did a very in-depth study, I think 78 pages,
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into a really horrific finding that a Catholic health center, the largest Catholic health center,
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is actually involved in doing these transit surgeries, for children even, giving puberty
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blockers for children, totally opposed to what the bishops came out with in March.
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The committee, the theological committee of the U.S. Bishops' Conference, condemned that
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So, the order is, the Bishops' Conference releases in March, Michael thinking, oh, that's
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providential, because he was already doing that study, releases his in-depth study showing
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that, lo and behold, the Catholic Hospital Association is involved in that very thing
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At the Bishops' Conference, Cardinals McElroy, Cupich, and Tobin, all, and not to mention
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Bishop Sean McKnight as well, I have to throw that in there.
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But they all want to stall the implementation of what came out in March already, that they
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In other words, they want to stall on stopping Catholic hospitals from abusing children like
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Well, they do that by saying, oh, we need more dialogue.
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Let's wait, let's cancel it, but not by saying we're opposed, because that would be just too
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That's a game, and we've got the expert here to talk about it.
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This is the John Henry Weston Show with Michael Hitchborn.
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Let's take advantage of this moment, and by the grace of God, may our efforts serve
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him and his truth, and may that bear much fruit.
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So, first of all, let's begin as we always do, with the sign of the cross.
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In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
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So, Michael, first of all, providence has shined on you once again.
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Either you had a crystal ball, which you don't believe in, nor do I, or the Lord just sick
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You know, the thing is, I intended to release this report earlier, and I kept looking for the
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opportune time to release the report, and it just wasn't happening, and I couldn't
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quite, I couldn't get things done in time to get it done at the beginning of June.
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And as providence would have it, I released the report on Monday, and by Friday, the USCCB
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So, many probably don't know about the study yet.
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First, an overview, and then we're going to go more in depth.
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So, Common Spirit Health, which is the largest Catholic health system in the United States,
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the second largest non-profit hospital system in the United States, is performing transgender
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surgeries, it is providing hormone treatments for transgender nonsense, and it is providing
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On top of that, we found that they have health benefits packages for their employees that cover
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the same, and they are giving money to one of their hospitals for sex change operations.
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In fact, they actually helped to purchase a robotic machine that would assist in these
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And, of course, on top of this, they're very full in support of promoting transgender ideologies
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So, I'm sorry to do this, but you've got to know how serious this is.
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So, Governor DeSantis put out a clip or a little video to show what transgender surgeries
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I know it's gross, but you should know what we're talking about.
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What's going on in Florida is, as my mother would say, close to sinful.
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It's not like, you know, a kid wakes up one morning and says, you know, I decided I want
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to become a man or I want to become a woman or I want to change.
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They love, they have feelings, they have inclinations that are, I mean, it just to me
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And the way we do it is we make sure we pass legislation like we passed on same-sex marriage.
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You mess with that, you're breaking the law, and you're going to be held accountable.
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So, that insanity, which is just, that's beyond description.
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You wouldn't do that to your worst enemy, let alone people who come in who are needing
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You know, they talk about the suicide rates among the trans community, and one of the
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talking points that the trans community has is, well, you would rather have a living son
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The problem is, the majority of the suicides come post-surgery or post-treatment, because
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what the children realize or what the young people realize is that they have done something
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They have destroyed healthy reproductive systems.
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If you read the reports of people who are what they call post-trans, people that are trying
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to detransition or come back to their, the sex that they actually are, they talk about
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the horrors of the continuing surgeries that they have to undergo.
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The children, they talk about these puberty blockers for kids.
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And they say, well, you know, we're just going to pause puberty.
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Those kids will not be able to have children of their own later on in life because of what
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those blockers do to their reproductive development.
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So all of the stuff regarding the trans community is a big lie.
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And you think of how young they're starting this.
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You can find all sorts of programs where it's lauded at two and three-year-old to recognize
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that your son or daughter is already showing signs of gender dysphoria or whatever they
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And these little children, and they'll have to be able to decide for themselves.
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But as weird as that is, it's much more weird that they're doing it at Catholic hospitals
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and that this is being funded by the largest Catholic healthcare network in the country.
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So what we discovered as I was, the whole thing came from a tip.
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Once the USCCB document on transgender surgeries came out, I got a tip that there were hospitals
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that were pushing back on this saying, we're already doing top and bottom surgeries.
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And so the tip came in and I said, well, which hospital, which network?
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So I started digging and what I discovered is that Dignity Health, which belongs to Common
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Common Spirit was formed in 2019 as a merge between the Catholic Health Initiative and Dignity
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That merge brought Dignity Health into a Catholic health system.
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They have a hospital called, it's blasphemously called St. Francis Memorial Hospital.
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It is not a Catholic hospital, which is, I mean, that's perverted right up, right from
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the get-go, but it is their transition surgery unit.
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They have a policy that all of the hospitals within their system, if they don't perform
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a service, whether it's a sex change operations or surgical sterilizations, they are to refer
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to another hospital within network that does, including their Catholic hospitals.
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So their Catholic hospitals, by policy, are required to refer to St. Francis Memorial Hospital,
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which, by the way, got millions of dollars in funding from Common Spirit itself.
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So, Michelle Critella did probably one of the best explanations of what this actually is.
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Let's play this clip because you're going to see it.
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I'll be diagnosed with body identity integrity disorder.
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But if I walk up to that same doctor and say, I'm a man, sign me up for a double mastectomy,
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See, according to most mainstream medical organizations, if you want to cut off a healthy arm or a healthy
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But if you want to cut off healthy breasts or a penis, you're transgender.
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I, it's, I, this is, this whole field is so insane.
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So, we also found that one of their other hospitals that was acquired through a recent
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merge is called Virginia Mason Franciscan Health.
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It's in Colorado, and it also is performing transgender surgeries, providing the puberty
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We also discovered that other Catholic hospitals belonging to that network are prescribing every,
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every type of contraceptive, including abortifacients, and Virginia Mason Franciscan Health
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Well, it's, the funding comes from the, the services that they provide.
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So, you know, they, they get it from the insurance companies and that kind of thing.
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They're, they're registered as a 509A3, which means they are a subsidiary of another charity.
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And that charity is the Catholic health care federation.
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The Catholic health care federation is what, is what's called a public juridical person.
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It's what in the United States we would call a corporation, but that public juridical person
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in canon law has the same authority as a diocese or religious order.
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It is considered not just an aspect of the Catholic church.
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And through that common spirit health is getting its Catholic identity.
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Now, what's interesting is that the, um, the merged documents between CHI and, and dignity
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health show that there were carve out clauses that allow for non-Catholic hospitals to continue
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to perform surgical sterilizations and things that are completely antithetical to the faith.
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But I'm, you know, from a moral standpoint, you can't put a legal barrier under the auspices
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of something that belongs to the moral realm of the Catholic church and still say that
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it is, it has its integrity with the Catholic faith.
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Obviously, they have screwy things going on with the bishops.
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Anyway, that decision that they should have made, should it have gone forward, would it
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The USCCB had not Cardinal Cupich and Tobin and McElroy and Bishop Sean McKnight said,
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Had they voted properly and said, no, obviously you can't be a Catholic hospital and offer these
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Well, how can they possibly say that we need to consult doctors to talk about Franken-science
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The Hippocratic Oath starts with, first, do no harm.
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But what the trans movement is all about is destroying healthy reproductive systems, destroying
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genitals, and destroying aspects of the body and the human integrity itself.
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When they perform these surgeries, they're saying that God is trans or God can be transitioned
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God created us in his image and likeness as we are.
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And in order to transition somebody from a male to a female or, I mean, even from a
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person to a machine or a person to an animal, they are trying to destroy what is the image
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The book of Isaiah tells us that Lucifer said to himself, I will rise to the heights of
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Lucifer was the first trans being, and then he fell.
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And then when he fell, he went to the Garden of Eden.
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He already knew she was created in the image and likeness of God.
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So he was saying, no, you'll become like one of us.
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So the whole ideology of the trans movement is Luciferian and satanic at its core.
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One of the things that Benedict always said is God made us male and female.
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And this movement seems to attack that very thing.
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So when somebody says that they can have a gender-fluid ideology or a gender-fluid identity,
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one of the things that came out of the bishop's document from March, it says that it's not
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as if there is a duality within man, that there is an incongruity between their soul and
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their body, that you can have the wrong soul in a particular body.
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Your body is, or your soul is the form of the body.
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So your soul informs the matter of your body to be what it is.
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So the pushback you're going to get is what about hermaphrodites?
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And this is a thing where sometimes people are born with odd sex characteristics.
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So hermaphrodism is, there is an aspect of two genitals when an individual is born.
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That's because there is a genetic mutation that takes place in the generative process as
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There is always one dominant trait that overshadows the other.
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What causes that genetic mutation is something that's unknown.
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But it's not as if the soul of that person is both sexes.
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And if you look at the genetics of the individual, it's not as if they have a genetic makeup that
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Why is it that doctors, when they had hermaphrodism, or sometimes it was like really simple, you
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know, there was just some, doctors would say, oh, to the parents.
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I mean, the very idea that doctors can play God and try and manipulate a child within the
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I don't even know how to wrap my head around that.
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So what have you done now to try and create awareness about what's gone on?
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And what would you suggest people do to help fight this?
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And we brought it forth to the public as much as we could.
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We want to make sure that everybody understands that not only is this taking place, but it's
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taking place under the auspices of the Catholic Church.
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It's completely incontinent with the Catholic Church.
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The bishops have an obligation before God to not only demand that their Catholic hospitals
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in no way participate in this, but then to turn to the Vatican and say, because your
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dicastrian Rome is the authority by which this organization has its Catholic identity, we
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are calling upon you to strip this organization, Common Spirit Health, from its Catholic identity,
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make sure it is not allowed to call itself Catholic.
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And if that means that they don't have any Catholic hospitals, then so be it.
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But we can't have some entity within the church acting in the name of the church and doing these
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And because that is happening right now, I think that the other thing that has to happen is the
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bishops need to lead public acts of reparation and penance, because the punishment for this
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They're actually giving these drugs to children, harming them permanently.
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This is from one of the detransitioners that Michael mentioned.
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I just had this sense that if if I could inhabit life as like a trans man, as a man, then I
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I was thinking that it would make me feel very free.
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Grace says she found a gender therapist on the Internet and told her, I'm thinking of transitioning.
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Did the therapist not question you about how deep the feeling was and what it was stemming
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She didn't go really go into what my gender dysphoria might have been stemming from.
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Because she was over 18 and didn't need parental consent.
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She says she merely signed an informed consent form at a clinic and got hormone shots.
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They asked me, so why do you want to go on testosterone?
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And I said, well, being a woman just isn't working for me anymore.
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Just four months after she started testosterone, she says she was approved for a mastectomy,
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what's called top surgery that she told us was traumatic.
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You know, I'm kind of surprised because based on everything you've said up to now, I would
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have thought you'd have a great sense of relief.
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I started to have a really disturbing sense that like a part of my body was missing almost
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a ghost limb feeling about being like there's something that should be there.
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And so she detransitioned by going off testosterone and then went back to the clinic and she says
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complained to the doctor that the process didn't follow the WPATH guidelines.
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I can't believe that I transitioned and detransitioned, including hormones and surgery in the course
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It greatly concerns me where the field has been going.
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I feel like what is happening is unethical and irresponsible in some places.
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Michael, any final thoughts for us on what's going on?
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And you report, you know, with regard to that young lady that you were just talking about,
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the one of the stories that came out of Common Spirit Health, they have their own podcast
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I mean, it's it's a very ironic name considering what they're doing is unethical.
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They had an episode titled Transgenderism and they interviewed a bunch of different individuals
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that were actually affiliated with Common Spirit Health promoting their transgender health and
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One of them told the story of a 15 year old girl that they helped to transition to a boy
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and they said that the the person that was the most resistant was her mother and they had
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to bring the mother along and through the process of bringing her mother along, who was extremely
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resistant in the beginning, was then overjoyed at the end because they programmed her to accept
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What that does is more horrible, I think, than just the idea of doing these surgeries themselves
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because they are destroying the souls and the identities of individuals and they're destroying
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the family unit itself by telling these parents that what they're doing is a good.
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And I urge people, read the report, call your bishops, do whatever it takes in order to make
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Michael Hitchborn, thank you for your reporting as always.
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Incredible, incredible research and blessed by the Lord in terms of its timing every time.
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