Government Report on Pediatric Gender Medicine

Hey, everybody. This is Vice President J.D. Vance.

I'm here with my friends and colleagues, of course, our great Health and Human

Services Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Admiral Brian

Christine, the Assistant Secretary for Health.

Parents bring their children to doctors because they trust

them. They trust doctors to tell them the truth,

and they trust

hospitals to put their children ahead of

ideology and profit. But when that trust gets

violated, parents deserve to have a government

that will

stand up for them and for their kids and do something

about it. Today, the Trump administration is proud to

announce we're doing exactly that.

Today, HHS released Wolves in White Coats, a report examining

pediatric gender medicine and insurance building across

America.

The findings raise serious questions about what families were told,

what insurers were told, and how these procedures were billed.

Today, Secretary Kennedy and I referred hospitals and clinics

identified by this review to the Department of Justice and

the HHS Inspector General for possible violations of federal

law. These allegations are crazy, and they demand

investigation. When children may have been harmed and

families misled, it's on those of us in power to find

the truth and to seek justice for kids who are harmed

by these doctors.

Under the previous administration, my predecessor, Richard Levine,

promoted what he called gender affirming care for minors, and there's nothing

caring about that. These are sex-rejecting, mutilating

transgender procedures promoted by the Biden administration, and thanks to

President Trump's leadership, we're changing course.

The Wolves in White Coats report issued by my office at HHS

examines a medical system that subjected children to profound

interventions while serious questions remained about evidence, about

informed consent, and about financial incentives.

The report found more than two hundred and twenty-five hospitals

and health systems

established pediatric gender programs nationwide, where they

preyed on vulnerable children and told families that their kids

needed life-altering medical treatments when what they really

needed was compassion and counseling.

So many of these people got rich not by doing what was good for the

patient, but by actually mutilating these kids.

It was disgraceful.

And if someone broke the law, we are going to hold

them accountable.

If the medical establishment failed children, we will confront that

failure and restore the sacred duty to do no harm.

And if our public health institutions lost the trust of American

families, we're gonna earn it back with truth, with

transparency, and with gold standard science.

Together, we're gonna protect our children,

and importantly, we're gonna

restore trust in public health. When you walk into the doctor's

office, you have to know that they're gonna do the best by

yourselves, by your

children, by your family, and we will hold accountable anyone who

would

betray that trust. We've got so many great doctors.

We can't have a few bad doctors tarnish the whole lot.

Thank you, everybody.