A new Project Veritas undercover video series looking into the transgender medical industry revealed that clinics in Texas, New York, and New Jersey are offering puberty blockers to children aged 14 and younger.
“We do have patients who are starting as young as eight, nine. So we do have folks on the younger side,” a social worker at Dell Children’s Medical Center in Texas told, on hidden camera, one Project Veritas journalist posing as a parent looking for transition services for a 10-year-old child. “We have a list of gender-affirming therapists that we can provide.”
“In regards to prescribing, that’s up to the prescribers’ discretion,” the social worker replied when asked about getting puberty blockers. “They might just require a couple of appointments just to see, it might be appropriate after one.”
“It’s not something that we want to gatekeep and require someone to come see us 10 times before its prescribed,” she added.
Another undercover recording shows a pediatrician at New York City’s Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center who said he would follow the guidelines of the World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH) when it comes to prescribing puberty blockers to young children.
In the latest version of its “standards of care” issued last September, the WTAPH removed all previous recommendations regarding age limits for medical and surgical intervention in “gender diverse youths.” The guidance does acknowledge potential risks such as decreased bone mineral density, and the psychological stress of not being able to enter puberty with peers.
“When you then get to age 14 is when I'll consider some, you know, cross-gender hormones,” he added, arguing that a 14-year-old is “mature enough” to make such medical decisions. “I need the patient to be a little—to be mature enough to make a relatively informed decision. I get it, that there are some 14-year-olds that are not, you know, mature. But generally speaking, they are usually pretty good.”
In the second part of the series, an “LGBTQIA+ health navigator” at New Jersey’s Babs Siperstein PROUD Center said the clinic was providing transgender hormone treatment to a teenager who came to the United States illegally.
“We had a 14, 15-year-old who was still undocumented,” the health navigator said, noting that the teenager who illegally crossed the border “felt more comfortable” as a “trans girl” after connecting with “mentors” at the center.
“She just started hormones as well,” he said. “She’s doing great.”
The series also featured Prisha Mosley, who underwent transgender surgeries and hormone treatment as a teenage girl, only to find herself in regret in later life. She told Project Veritas that she was able to obtain a letter of recommendation for a double mastectomy from a WPATH-certified “gender-affirming therapist” after just a 30-minute talk online.
“I took that letter to a pediatric endocrinologist and that very same day, I started testosterone,” she said. “Not even a whole year later, at 18, I had a radical double mastectomy.”
The videos represent the first and the second of a three-part series concerning “how young medical professionals are not only allowing, but encouraging, children to begin the journey of medical treatment required for gender transitioning,” said Project Veritas, which was founded by James O‘Keefe in 2010. O’Keefe was forced to leave Project Veritas earlier this year after the board of directors suspended him amid an investigation into alleged financial malfeasance.
