DOJ Targets Those Mutilating Children with ‘Transgender’ Drugs and Surgeries

The FBI is targeting medical professionals and institutions that mutilate children with experimental “transgender” interventions – drugs, hormones and surgeries – that leave children sterile, sick and permanently damaged.
The announcement came on Facebook and X:
Help the FBI protect children. As the Attorney General has made clear, we will protect our children and hold accountable those who mutilate them under the guise of gender-affirming care.
— FBI (@FBI) June 2, 2025
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The move by the FBI to protect children followed Attorney General Pam Bondi’s internal memorandum titled “Preventing the Mutilation of American Children“:
There is a radical ideological agenda being pushed throughout every aspect of American life – from TV programming and Hollywood film production to children’s books and elementary school classrooms – that teaches children to deny biological reality.
Gender ideology, masked as science, teaches that children should process adolescent stress and confusion as a case of mistaken identity and that the solution is not to root out and eliminate the underlying condition but to acquiesce in it permanently through life-altering chemical and surgical intervention.
Bondi rebuked the medical community, which should be rooted in evidence-based science and medicine, for not serving “as a bulwark against this sociological disease,” adding,
“Between 2019 and 2023, an estimated 14,000 children received “treatment” for gender dysphoria, with more than 5,700 subjected to life-altering surgeries.”
“The practitioners who provided this so-called ‘care’ profited while their patients were left permanently disfigured, scarred and sterilized.”
The memorandum spotlighted the influence of social media on detransitioner Chloe Cole, who was 11 years old when she “joined Instagram and was bombarded with ‘LGBT content and activism’”
As Daily Citizen previously reported, medical professionals chemically and surgically “transitioned” Cole when she was a young teenager, prescribing puberty blockers and testosterone when she was just 13 years old and performing a double mastectomy when she was only 15.
Cole has been a staunch opponent of what is erroneously labeled “gender-affirming care, testifying against these medical interventions before Congress and state legislatures.
She also filed a lawsuit against Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, The Permanente Medical Group and three doctors that had improperly treated her with chemical and surgical interventions, leaving her with “deep physical and emotional wounds, severe regrets, and distrust of the medical system.”
Transgender medical procedures can have life-long consequences, such as those Cole described in her testimony before Congress, saying testosterone gave her “menopausal-like hot flashes,” deepened her voice and masculinized her appearance. She said her future fertility is “unknown.”
She went on to state, “I still struggle to this day with sexual dysfunction, and I have massive scars across my chest and skin grafts that they used, that they took from my nipples, are weeping fluid today, and they were grafted into a more masculine positioning, they said.”
All these procedures worsened her mental health and did not turn her into a male.
Bondi’s memorandum followed an executive order from President Trump “Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation.” It states says the DOJ will investigate crimes “under the banner of so-called ‘gender-affirming care’” as female genital mutilation, a felony.
In addition, “The Department of Justice will investigate and hold accountable medical providers and pharmaceutical companies that mislead the public about the long-term side effects of chemical and surgical mutilations.”
The DOJ is also investigating violations of the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act for making false claims. The agency will work with state attorneys general to prosecute hospitals and practitioners of “gender medicine,” and promote legislation to protect children.
The memorandum ends with a statement on the urgency of protecting children from mutilation.
“Protecting America’s children must be our top priority, whether from drug cartels, terrorists or even our own medical community.”
“Every day, we hear more harrowing stories about children who will suffer for the rest of their lives because of the unconscionable ideology behind ‘gender-affirming care.'”
Daily Citizen is thankful for this effort from the DOJ and the FBI to safeguard children from dangerous, ineffective, traumatizing medical procedures.
Again, you can report tips of any hospitals, clinics or practitioners performing these surgical procedures on children at 1-800-CALL-FBI or tips.fbi.gov.
Related Articles and Resources:
Colorado Counselor Asks U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Free Speech Case
Counseling for Sexual Identity Concerns: A Measured, Careful, and Compassionate Approach.
Expert in ‘Transitioning’ Children Admits ‘We Were Wrong’ About Puberty Blockers
Four Brave Young Women File Lawsuits Alleging Harm from ‘Transgender’ Interventions
HHS Releases Report on Harms of ‘Transgender’ Medical Interventions for Minors
Important New Journal Article Calls Out Doctors for Harming Youth with Medicalized Gender Ideology
New Video Equips Parents and Counselors to Help ‘Gender Dysphoric’ Children
President Trump Signs Order Protecting Children From Transgender Medical Interventions
Transgenderism and Minors: What Does the Research Really Show?
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Jeff Johnston is a culture and policy analyst for Focus on the Family and a staff writer for the Daily Citizen. He researches, writes and teaches about topics of concern to families such as parental rights, religious freedom, LGBT issues, education and free speech. Johnston has been interviewed by CBS Sunday Morning, The New York Times, Associated Press News, The Christian Post, Rolling Stone and Vice, and is a frequent guest on radio and television outlets. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from San Diego State University with a Bachelors in English and a Teaching Credential. He and his wife have been married 30 years and have three grown sons.
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