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FBI Investigates Three Major Hospitals for Mutilating Children

The FBI has initiated criminal investigations into employees at Boston Children’s Hospital, Children’s Hospital Colorado and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles for performing irreversible “transgender” medical procedures on children, an anonymous source “familiar with the investigation” tells Fox.

The inquiries follow several statements from the Trump administration promising to prosecute so-called gender affirming care for children under laws preventing child abuse and female genital mutilation.

In his executive order “Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation,” President Trump directed the Department of Justice (DOJ) to:

  • “Prioritize enforcement of protections against female genital mutilation.”
  • “Convene states’ attorneys general and other law enforcement officers to coordinate the enforcement of laws against female genital mutilation.”
  • “Prioritize investigations and take appropriate action to end deception of consumers, fraud and violations of the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act by any entity that may be misleading the public about the long-term side effects chemical and surgical mutilation.”

The DOJ created the Federal and State Coalition Against Child Mutilation to carry out the president’s order. In an April memo announcing the coalition’s formation, Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote:

Through this coalition, I will partner with state attorneys general to identify leads, share intelligence and build cases against hospitals and practitioners violating federal or state laws banning female genital mutilation and other, related practices.

On June 2, the FBI wrote on X and Facebook, “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.”

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles runs the “Center for Transyouth Health and Development,” which the Daily Citizen’s Jeff Johnston describes as “one of the oldest and largest children’s ‘gender clinics’ in the country.”

For more than 30 years, the center has pumped children full of opposite-sex hormones and cut off their healthy reproductive organs. But, just two weeks after the FBI’s statement, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles announced the center’s abrupt closure, effective July 22, 2025.

Children’s Hospital Colorado claims it has never performed transgender surgeries on minors. It does, however, offer children so-called puberty blockers and opposite-sex hormones, Fox reports.

Dr. Eithan Haim, a surgeon who exposed a secret transgender medical program at Texas Children’s Hospital sayshormone interventions can be just as, if not more, damaging than surgeries.

“Taking these medications during adolescence is like undergoing a million micro-surgeries to your bones, heart and blood vessels every single day,” he told the Daily Citizen, explaining:

The changes are more gradual than a surgery, so people tend to think hormone-based interventions aren’t so bad. But there’s no surgery that can prevent your secondary sexual characteristics from developing. There’s no surgery that can cause your bones to become that of a 65-year-old woman. There’s no surgery in the world that can cause your brain not to develop. Nothing can do those things except for these medications.

Radical Colorado legislators ostensibly support Children’s Hospital Colorado and other providers performing these inhumane procedures on children. On May 23, Governor Polis signed a law mandating health insurance companies cover opposite-sex hormone “therapy,” “transgender” surgeries and cosmetic surgeries like rhinoplasties, “check, chin or nose implants” and “facial bone remodeling.”

Boston Children’s Hospital runs GeMS, or the Gender Multispecialty Service. It makes no attempt to placate federal or state officials prosecuting child mutilation.

“You may be aware that in states across the country there is a recent increase in proposed legislation aiming to restrict the rights of transgender and gender diverse youth,” a letter from the hospital on the GeMS website reads, referencing laws preventing child mutilation and protecting girls’ sports and spaces.

The letter reaffirms the hospital’s belief in “a gender-affirmative” model of care, which it describes as “a standard of care grounded in scientific evidence, demonstrating its benefits to the health and well-being of transgender and gender diverse youth.”

This is, as Johnston would say, a bald-faced lie. Overwhelming evidence, including a recent, 400-page report from the Department of Health and Human Services, shows transgender medical interventions harm children and teens mentally and physically.

Still, the hospital’s letter concludes:

The proposed bans on medical care, sports participation and other legislation aiming to restrict the rights of transgender and gender diverse youth are in direct opposition to our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusivity, as well as the standard of care we live by.

In other words, Boston Children’s Hospital doesn’t think it has done anything wrong and has no intention of stopping.

But performing “transgender” medical interventions, which amount to nothing more than lucrative experiments, on vulnerable children is horribly wrong. Doctors peddling lies about their efficacy make money off turning healthy kids into lifelong hospital patients.

Please pray God will guide and bless the FBI’s truthful investigation into this evil practice.

Additional Article and Resources

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Shuts Down Harmful ‘Center for Transyouth’

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

Colorado Law Mandates Health Insurance Coverage for ‘Transgender’ Mutilations

Pam Bondi Directs DOJ Attorneys to Investigate Transgender Procedures for Minors

HHS Releases Report on Harms of ‘Transgender’ Medical Interventions for Minors

President Trump Signs Order Protecting Children From Transgender Medical Interventions

EXCLUSIVE: The Daily Citizen interviews Dr. Eithan Haim, the surgeon who exposed a secret transgender medical program at Texas Children’s Hospital

Florida Investigates Man Who Invaded Women’s Privacy in Disney World

Florida is investigating Lilly Tino, a man pretending to be a woman, for invading women’s privacy at Disney World, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced this week.

Tino, a notorious transgender-identified social media influencer, sparked an internet firestorm earlier this month after posting photos of himself visiting ten different women’s restrooms in Disney World. At least four of the pictures included other women in the background.

As the Daily Citizen previously reported, Tino’s behavior violates two Florida laws — one preventing men from using women’s restrooms and another prohibiting people from taking pictures of others in private spaces without their consent.

At least one woman captured in Tino’s photos claimed she was looking at her legal options, because she doesn’t know what other footage he had captured.

Tino seems undaunted by legal action, posting several videos mocking women’s discomfort with his using the women’s restroom.

“As far as I know, I’m not getting sued,” he told TikTok viewers last week. “I don’t expect to, because I didn’t do anything wrong.”

Apparently, Attorney General Uthmeier thinks otherwise.

“Yeah, we’re investigating this,” he told journalist and podcaster Benny Johnson on Monday. “We do not tolerate men or boys in women’s and girls’ restrooms, gyms and private spaces.”

“No tolerance,” he emphasized.

Uthmeier further told Johnson his office had already taken significant steps to protect women’s private spaces in other parts of Florida.

“We’ve already cracked down on some gyms in South Florida that were allowing men who identify as women to go into women’s locker rooms,” he told Johnson. “We put them on notice legal action was coming. Thankfully, they changed their ways.”

Uthmeier also forced a kids’ camp to stop allowing fifth grade boys “identifying” as girls to sleep in girls’ cabins.

“It’s amazing we have to have these kinds of conversations today, but here in Florida, we believe there are two sexes, man and woman,” he concluded. “We’re going to protect our girls at all costs.”

Lilly Tino exemplifies the ways biological men use the nebulous umbrella of “transgenderism” to justify predatory behavior. He clearly enjoys the discomfort he inspires in women using the restroom, closely watching their reactions and describing them to his followers.

But, ultimately, Tino enjoys the power his subjective “gender identity” affords him over biological woman. He likes inspiring unease just by entering women’s spaces. And he’s constantly testing how much he can get away with.

In one of his Disney World videos, Tino contemplates whether anyone from conservative Florida would stop him from using the women’s room. When he returned, from peeing standing up, he claims, Tino commented:

That went as well as it could have gone. No one gave me any weird looks — definitely no one stopped me.

It’s long past time someone stopped him. Thank goodness Florida is up to the task.

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SJSU Hired Same Law Firm to Simultaneously Defend and Investigate Male Athlete on Women’s Team

San Jose State University (SJSU) hired the same law firm to simultaneously defend a male student’s right to play women’s volleyball and investigate him for misconduct against his teammates, Fox’s Brian Thompson reported yesterday.

Willkie Farr & Gallagher attorneys represented the Mountain West Conference in November against twelve women requesting a federal court court ban SJSU volleyball player Blaire Fleming, a man, from the conference championships.

The plaintiffs included SJSU volleyball’s co-captain Brooke Slusser and former associate head coach Melissa Batie-Smoose, whom SJSU suspended after she filed a separate Title IX complaint against the school.

Willkie announced its “high-profile win” on its website on November 27 after Judge Kato Crews ruled against the women.

While some Willkie attorneys worked on defending Fleming’s presence in a women’s volleyball game, another was investigating Fleming’s alleged misconduct against Slusser.

Slusser began playing with SJSU in Fall 2023. Unaware of his true sex, Slusser lived with Fleming on campus and often shared rooms with him while traveling. After discovering Fleming was male from other SJSU students, Slusser and some of her teammates raised concerns about his participation on the team.

Tension on the team came to a head in an October game against Colorado State University. A now infamous video shows Fleming set the ball for Malayla Jones, a CSU player, to spike the ball at Slusser.

After the play, Jones appears to blow a kiss at Fleming.

Batie-Smoose claims she clocked Fleming’s bizarre behavior early in the game.

“In set one, I called blocking,” Batie-Smoose told Fox News Digital last year. “[Fleming] was not looking at me, would not even give me eye contact when [he] kept setting up the block wrong [and] didn’t follow the game plan.”

Fleming’s errors became so egregious, Batie-Smoose recalls, that she told head coach Todd Kress, “I know this sounds crazy, but I think [he’s] throwing the match and [he’s] definitely not listening to a word I’m saying about blocking.”

Batie-Smoose witnessed the interaction between Fleming and Jones and waited for Kress to pull Fleming from the game — but he never did. Instead, she heard him telling an assistant coach, “This is so horrible for Blaire, all this stuff is taking such a toll on Blaire, I feel for [him].”

After the game, Batie-Smoose learned that Fleming and another SJSU teammate had allegedly visited Jones’ dorm the night before the game. Another teammate had received a social media message warning SJSU players to keep their distance from Slusser.

Slusser recalled of the message:

[It] basically [said] that my teammates needed to keep their distance from me on gameday against Colorado State, because it wasn’t going to be a good situation for me to be in.

Batie-Smoose filed a Title IX complaint making these allegations public on October 29. On November 12, SJSU launched an investigation into the incident headed up by Tim Heaphy — an attorney at Willkie.

Heaphy closed the investigation in just three days, concluding there was insufficient evidence to find Fleming guilty of wrongdoing. The official statement concluding the investigation misdates the initial incident, Fox’s Thompson notes — an ironic error for an ostensibly thorough probe.

Notably, Slusser and Batie-Smoose did not consent for Heaphy to interview them.

Some might chalk Willkie’s involvement in defending and investigating Fleming up to the Mountain West Conference retaining a single law firm. But Heaphy, at least, seems sympathetic to men competing in women’s sports.

On February 6, the Department of Education (DOE) announced an investigation into SJSU for violating Title IX. According to emails reviewed by Thompson, Heaphy offered to defend SJSU from the inquiry. Dustin Mays, head counsel for California State University and San Jose State University, allegedly turned him down.

DID YOU KNOW?
Judge Crews based his dismissal of Slusser and company, in part, because of the Supreme Court’s reasoning in Bostock v. Clayton County, a damaging opinion finding “sex discrimination” under Title VII included discrimination against “sexual orientation” and “gender identity.”

Importantly, Justice Neil Gorsuch, writing for the majority, specifically clarified the court’s interpretation of “sex” in Bostock only applied to Title VII. Crews’ decision to cite favorable court precedent, omitting the Supreme Court’s caveat and other precedent finding Title IX does not protect discrimination against “gender identity” betrays dangerous bias.

The sentiment likely extends beyond Heaphy. Willkie has deleted its post announcing the firm’s successful defense of Mountain West and, by extension, Fleming. The scrubbed document notably refers to Fleming as a “transgender woman” and repeats highly suspect legal reasoning from Judge Crews concluding legal precedent establishes “‘sex’ under Title IX’s prohibitions includes discrimination based on an individual’s trans status or sexual orientation.’”

Perhaps most importantly, Willkie’s involvement in both cases further illustrates the web of secrecy and corruption surrounding Fleming’s participation in women’s volleyball. Slusser, Batie-Smoots and the other women in this case endured physical and financial retaliation to bring Fleming and SJSU’s misconduct to light.

Yet Fleming, for all intents and purposes, was allowed to come out on top. He continued playing women’s volleyball and graduated SJSU in May.

Slusser had to leave campus to finish her degree at home.

At least two other athletes lost scholarships and starting positions on SJSU’s volleyball and beach volleyball teams.

Batie-Smoots was fired in January.

SJSU’s prioritization of Fleming over the physical wellbeing and advancement of women is egregious and unjust. Please pray the DOE’s ongoing investigation will provide some relief to those that have been victimized.

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San Jose Coach Suspended for Filing Discrimination Complaint Against Transgender Player

Four Women’s Volleyball Teams Forfeit — Won’t Play Team with a Man

The Bostock Slippery Slope: Girls Who Think They’re Boys Must Be Allowed to Use High School Boys’ Restroom, Appeals Court Rules

Appeals Courts Affirm Rulings Stopping the DOE’s Rewrite of Title IX

US Supreme Court Upholds Tennessee Law Protecting Kids From Transgender Mutilation

On June 18, the United States Supreme Court issued a historic 6-3 decision in United States v. Skrmetti, upholding Tennessee’s law banning the “transgender” mutilation of minors. The ruling is a monumental win for children, families and commonsense policy making.

The decision affirms the state’s authority to protect minors from dangerous and experimental transgender medical procedures. It also rejects the argument that children have a constitutional right to access medical interventions like opposite-sex hormones and surgery. The Court’s decision sets significant legal precedent in favor of state sovereignty and the democratic policy making process to determine the controversial issues of the day.

As previously reported by the Daily Citizen,  Tennessee’s Senate Bill 1 prohibits doctors from prescribing puberty-blocking drugs and opposite-sex hormones or performing surgeries to “transition” a minor. The ACLU and LGBT activists challenged the law, claiming that it violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment in the U.S. Constitution because it discriminated on the basis of sex.

Chief Justice John Roberts authored the Supreme Court’s majority opinion and was joined by Justices Thomas, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett. Justice Alito joined the majority opinion in part.

Roberts explained that the law does not discriminate against transgender-identified individuals because it applies neutrally to all individuals on the basis of age and medical purpose. The majority applied rational basis review, the lowest level of constitutional scrutiny, because classifying by age and medical purpose does not require a higher level of legal scrutiny. Based on a rational basis review, the Court concluded that Tennessee has a legitimate interest in protecting children from unproven and potentially harmful medical treatments and surgeries.

The majority also opined that it’s not the role of the Court to settle ongoing debates about transgender medical interventions for minors. Roberts wrote:

This case carries with it the weight of fierce scientific and policy debates about the safety, efficacy, and propriety of medical treatments in an evolving field. … The Court’s role is not ‘to judge the wisdom, fairness, or logic’ of the law before us, but only to ensure that the law does not violate equal protection guarantees. … It does not. … Questions regarding the law’s policy are thus appropriately left to the people, their elected representatives, and the democratic process.

Justice Thomas concurred separately and argued that gender identity should not be extended to sex-based equal protection doctrine and reiterated that rational basis review is “critical to safeguarding” a legitimate government interest.

Justice Barrett also filed a concurrence emphasizing that “courts must give legislatures flexibility to make policy in this area.”

Justice Alito concurred in part and underscored the right of states to regulate these matters and clarified his position that “transgender status does not qualify under our precedents as a suspect or ‘quasi-suspect’ class” that deserves a heightened constitutional review.

The Court’s ruling places the United States (at least in the 26 states that have enacted Help Not Harm laws) in line with several European countries — such as Sweden, Finland, and the United Kingdom — that have restricted the use of these treatments in minors due to safety concerns and a lack of long-term evidence.

Justices Sotomayor, Jackson and Kagan dissented from the majority, arguing that the law discriminates on the basis of sex and transgender status and should have been reviewed with a heightened scrutiny. The dissent also maintained that to deny minors transgender medical intervention is a violation of constitutional protections.

The majority opinion is a decisive win for the idea that the people should resolve controversial medical and moral issues of the day by democratic processes rather than judicial fiat.

This ruling will set a strong precedent for the constitutionality of similar laws nationwide.

Focus on the Family applauds the Court’s decision. This ruling will help families protect their children from radical trans ideology that tries to deny the inherent goodness of God’s design for human sexuality and the value of male and female made in His image. 

Now is the time to call on Congress to pass a federal law to ban experimental trans interventions on minors nationwide. Every child in America deserves to be protected from reckless medical experimentation. Contact your senator and representative today.

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Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Shuts Down Harmful ‘Center for Transyouth’

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is shutting down their harmful “Center for Transyouth Health and Development,” one of the oldest and largest children’s “gender clinics” in the country.

Pro-child advocates celebrated the closure, as the center will no longer be irreparably damaging minors with irreversible, experimental puberty blockers, opposite sex hormones and surgeries.

The “transyouth” clinic stated its decision “followed a thorough legal and financial assessment of the increasingly severe impacts of recent administrative actions and proposed policies.”

Those administrative actions included announcements by the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation that they would be investigating and prosecuting those responsible for mutilating and sterilizing children with sexual identity confusion.

In announcing its closure, the “transgender” clinic stated:

For more than 30 years, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles has provided high-quality, evidence-based, medically essential care for transgender and gender-diverse youth, young adults, and their families. CHLA is immensely proud of this legacy of caring for young people on the path to achieving their authentic selves.

Despite this deeply held commitment to supporting LA’s gender-diverse community, the hospital has been left with no viable path forward except to close the Center for Transyouth Health and Development, effective July 22, 2025.

It’s important to know that the interventions the clinic refers to as “medically essential care” do not have “high-quality, evidence-based” research behind them. This is a bald-faced lie.

A recent, comprehensive HHS review, Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria Review of Evidence and Best Practices, found a lack of good evidence for using drugs, hormones and surgeries for children suffering from sexual identity confusion.

A news release from HHS clearly explained the troubling paucity of evidence and grave risks for confused children who receive these drugs, hormones and surgeries:

This review, informed by an evidence-based medicine approach, reveals serious concerns about medical interventions, such as puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries, that attempt to transition children and adolescents away from their sex.

The review highlights a growing body of evidence pointing to significant risks – including irreversible harms such as infertility – while finding very weak evidence of benefit. That weakness has been a consistent finding of systematic reviews of evidence around the world.

The HHS report lists other countries that have stopped or limited these damaging, disfiguring treatments, including Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. They all found a lack of scientific evidence for these procedures and noted the serious harms and risks to minors.

In addition to the HHS report, England’s Dr. Hilary Cass spent four years reviewing the evidence about “gender identity” interventions for minors and released a 388-page report with 12 research-based appendices.

Dr. Cass explains that there is little evidence for using drugs, hormones and surgeries for minors:

This is an area of remarkably weak evidence, and yet results of studies are exaggerated or misrepresented by people on all sides of the debate to support their viewpoint. The reality is that we have no good evidence on the long-term outcomes of interventions to manage gender related distress.

Journalist and pro-child activist Brandon Showalter has written extensively about the horrible damage to minors from transgender medicine. He touted the closure of the clinic in a post on X:

Focus on the Family heartily agrees. We are thankful that the closure of this clinic means more children will be protected from these experimental, ineffective, disfiguring procedures.

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