CV NEWS FEED // A journalist has exposed a sophisticated plot to legally and financially pressure hospitals into subjecting children to sexual surgeries in the name of the LGBTQ movement.
The Healthcare Equality Index (HEI) is a scoreboard used by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) to rate hospitals and medical facilities based on their conformity to the LGBTQ+ agenda, Aaron Sibarium of The Washington Free Beacon found. The index is funded by Pfizer and PhRMA.
The Index is similar to the HRC’s Corporate Equality Index, which inspired the recent Bud Light campaign featuring Dylan Mulvaney, who identifies as a “transgender female.”
The Healthcare Equality Index (HEI) awards points on a scale of 100 for all pro-“trans” policies implemented by medical facilities. HRC has rated 2,200 health systems on the index. This number includes dozens of children’s hospitals.
According to Sibarium, “the scorecard has helped powerful lobbyists seed their ideology across American hospitals, becoming de facto regulators of health care.”
The “Responsible Citizenship” clause of the Index is particularly dangerous, Sibarium claimed. It can remove up to 25 points from a facility on the grounds of “discrimination.”
Hormone-blockers have always been available for minors who suffer with precocious puberty disorders. The HEI insists that medical professionals subject so-called “transgender” children to those treatments as well, despite no physical ailment to justify the prescription.
Similarly, the HEI directs facilities who perform mastectomies on breast cancer patients to perform the same procedure on underage girls’ healthy breasts.
While HRC has never filed a lawsuit against a hospital for failure to have a perfect score, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and other organizations have filed against hospitals with low HEI ratings.
In 2022, HRC docked points from the Mercy San Juan Medical Center in Sacramento, California because the Catholic facility refused to subject Evan Minton to a hysterectomy. Minton is a young woman identified as a “transgender male.” The point deduction came directly after a lawsuit by the ACLU, which ruled that the Catholic hospital had violated civil rights law.
Sibarium warned that the Healthcare Equality Index creates a precedent in which American medical facilities, including children’s hospitals, “defer to activists rather than medical science.”
Leor Supir, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, affirmed Sibarium’s arguments. Supir added that it is the structure of the American government that gives power to the “public interest” groups.
The same abuse of power, Supir writes, can be observed in education. Schools adopt LBGTQ+ policies because it is safer than acting against the progressive ideology enforced by groups like HCR.
While Sibarium concludes that the motivation behind the HEI is a monetary one, Christopher Rufo thinks otherwise. Rufo is a writer for the City Journal and another fellow at the Manhattan Institute. He has been critical of the Texas Children’s Hospital (THC), which is currently facing scrutiny for continuing to subject children to sexual surgeries despite a public promise to the contrary.
According to leaked screen-shots from the facility, Harvard-trained surgeon and Texas Children’s Doctor Kristy Rialon inserted a “drug delivery implant” in an 11-year-old only three days after the hospital announced its halt of so-called “gender-affirming care” on minors.
While Sibarium and most commentators seem to think that TCH’s actions are profit-oriented, Rufo states that the hospital’s actions are “more about ideology than profit,” suggesting it is a fear of social and professional costs, rather than financial ones, that explain the current ascendancy of “transgender medicine” that targets children.
Readers can find Sibarium’s full article here.
Readers can find Rufo’s full article here.
