More than 520 minors received treatments from Catholic hospitals in 40 states, according to data released Oct. 8 from Do No Harm.
Nearly 150 Catholic hospitals across the United States provided children with hormone therapy or performed gender-transition surgeries on them between 2019 and 2023, contradicting Church teaching and the U.S. bishops’ prohibition on Catholic health-care providers offering such interventions, according to data published this week by a medical watchdog group.
In all, more than 520 minors received treatments in Catholic hospitals in about 40 states over the five-year period, an analysis of the data from Do No Harm by EWTN News shows.
Of those patients, more than 150 had surgeries to alter their appearances to resemble the opposite sex, while more than 380 children were given puberty blockers or hormone therapies.
Puberty blockers stop a child’s natural development during puberty, and hormone therapies provide testosterone to girls who want to resemble boys and estrogen to boys who want to resemble girls. Based on the records in the database, EWTN News found that doctors at Catholic hospitals wrote more than 1,850 prescriptions for minors to facilitate a gender transition.
Catholic health-care providers contacted by EWTN News criticized the watchdog group’s methodology and motives without contradicting any of its specific data.
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