Detransitioners Urge Caution. Boston Children's Hospital Doubles Down on Transing Kids.
BCH and other MA providers can't-stop-won't-stop the chemical and surgical mutilation of minors. Detrans Awareness Day is a great day to challenge their narrative.
Today is Detrans Awareness Day 2025. Since its inception in 2021, this annual observance has highlighted the dangers of the transgender agenda through the voices of detransitioners—individuals who once identified as transgender but no longer do. With scarred bodies and determined hearts, these brave men and women share their deeply personal and often painful stories to raise awareness, hoping to spare others from the harmful consequences of embracing gender ideology.
Listen to the video below as detransitioner Prisha Mosely shares her experience with the Ohio legislature in support of a bill banning medicalized gender procedures for minors. Proponents misleadingly label these transgender medical interventions as “gender-affirming care.”
Thanks in part to Detrans Awareness Day and the voices of detransitioners, the public has become increasingly aware of the dangers of transgender medicine, including the horrific surgeries and irreversible effects of cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers. Support for these procedures, and the transgender agenda as a whole, is steadily declining across the nation. This shifting viewpoint is highlighted most vividly by several of Trump’s executive orders. Thanks to these orders, the position of the federal government is now clear: there are only two genders, females should not be forced to compete against males in athletics, and minors should be protected from gender ideology and chemical and surgical mutilation.
Yet in Massachusetts, the push for gender insanity continues. This is evident across the state, but one prominent example is Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH). BCH is home to the Gender Multispecialty Service (GeMS) clinic, the nation’s first pediatric gender clinic. A quick glance at the hospital’s website reveals that, rather than adhering to Trump’s executive order protecting minors from gender medicalization, BCH is doubling down on its stance. Every page on the BCH website prominently displays a link to a message for patients and their caregivers. This vague message refers to changes (and proposed changes) in federal policies and emphasizes that BCH remains fully committed to caring for all its patients and families. The GeMS page goes further, explicitly reaffirming the hospital’s support for “gender-affirming care” for “transgender and gender-diverse youth.” The statement can be read below.
Emboldened by the state’s continued support of the trans agenda and a recent injunction making Trump’s gender medicalization executive order temporarily unenforceable, it appears that the BCH has no intention of abandoning its mad “science” experiments on minors. The hospital’s actions come as no surprise. Affirming the gender confusion of children and teens is not merely the purpose of its GeMS clinic. It’s also a huge money maker.
Last October, the medical ethics group Do No Harm released the Stop The Harm Database. Using insurance claim data for “gender-affirming” procedures billed for minor patients, the Stop The Harm Database lets members of the public see which hospitals are transing kids, and how much they are being paid to do so. BCH is listed numerous times.
BCH is #6 on the Database’s “Dirty Dozen” list of the 12 worst-offending children’s hospitals and the #1 hospital in MA promoting sex change treatments for minors. As for the money trail? BCH is the #2 top-billing hospital in the nation, and it is home to the #1 top-billing doctor. According to the Database, one doctor alone at BCH has billed for $5,193,202 worth of gender treatments at the time of publication! Read more of what Stop The Harm uncovered about BCH, here.
Shortly after Do No Harm released its Stop The Harm Database, documents and testimony from an ongoing lawsuit revealed that BCH had slashed the time required for a child to be approved for gender transition treatment from 20 hours down to less than 3, as reported by the New York Sun. While detransitioners have been busy making the case for why kids need to be protected from “gender-affirming care,” BCH appears to have fast-tracked minors on the road to irreversible damage. And now they continue to move forward with their unconscionable procedures – and all in defiance of the Trump administration.
If you’re a longtime MIP substack reader, BCH’s franken-gender surgeries may ring a bell. You may remember last summer when we profiled the sad story of Griffin Sivret. Griffin, a young woman born and raised in MA, adopted a trans male identity as a teen. She had multiple “gender affirming” surgeries, (at least) some of which were done at BCH. We know this because Griffin was a social media influencer who shared information about her surgeries on TikTok, including identifying her doctor by name. And then, Griffin died. Many have wondered if her death was due to “gender affirming care,” including the longterm side effects of her phalloplasty surgery, which required multiple revisions. She was 24.
If you haven’t read Griffin’s story yet, you can find it here:
We wrote about Griffin because even though she was a legal adult when she died, she had started off as a MA public school student who followed an all-too-familiar course. A vulnerable young person experiences gender confusion, they are affirmed by adults and LGBTQ groups in the community, and ultimately they end up undergoing life-altering “gender affirming care” surgeries. We also wrote about Griffin because the key players and organizations in her story all still exist in MA. This includes BCH and Griffin’s doctor, Dr. Oren Ganor.
The BCH GeMS Clinic’s “Meet the Team” page used to list Dr. Ganor as co-director. Today the “Meet the Team” page does not list the names of any doctors at all. However, you can see the archived version of the page in the wayback machine here.
BCH has also made other GeMS-related revisions to their website, like redirecting the former “Center for Gender Surgery” page below to one now called “Gender Services” and removing the directory page for the other past-noted co-director of GeMS, Dr. Amir Taghinia. It seems Dr. Taghinia still works at BCH since he is mentioned on this page where notably he is the only staff member listed who does not have a link to a page in the staff directory. A search for his name in the staff directory yields no results, yet such a page used to exist. His former directory page can still be found in the wayback machine here, where his connection to gender surgery is clearly visible.
Regardless of which doctor holds the scalpel and what information BCH has decided to present on its website, the hospital’s own statements demonstrate that they are going full steam ahead with their gruesome (and lucrative) practices. The same is likely true of other MA providers of “gender affirming care.” And that is why, while we hope and pray for the legal relief that has protected vulnerable minors in red states through state-level legislation to come to blue Massachusetts, it’s more important than ever that we share the stories of detransitioners. The laws need to change, but hearts need to change too. Listening to and amplifying the voices of these brave men and women will help achieve both of these goals.
Thankfully, they are speaking loud and clear. And today they spoke in Washington.
To view a video of the Detrans Awareness Day speakers including detransitioners, doctors, whistleblowers and more that spoke on Capitol Hill this morning, click below.
Hopefully one day we won’t need a Detrans Awareness Day, because the laws and the culture will have changed enough to protect minors (and vulnerable adults) before they go down this destructive road. But for now, especially in states like MA, we all have work to do.
Share detransitioner stories, like the video above and the ones here, here, and here. And while you’re at it, share Chloe Cole’s op-ed from yesterday’s New York Post.
Share the Stop The Harm Database.
Share this post.
Share these things with your school committee, your local leaders, your friends and your families.
Share them until they change the narrative. Share them until they wake people up to the horrors on our own doorsteps.
“Gender affirming care” does not save lives. It threatens to destroy them. It leaves collateral damage. It leaves scars, infertility, sexual dysfunction, physical pain, young mothers who can’t breastfeed because they no longer have breasts, and a lifetime of other challenges and regrets.
Gender-confused kids deserve better.
Thank you, detransitioners, for speaking up. We know it’s not easy. You are true warriors. You are some of the bravest people in the public eye today. We are so grateful for your voices, and your courage.
Thank you, mom and dad, for sharing their stories.
Together we can make a difference.
On Detrans Awareness Day, and every day.
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