Ritacca Laser Center's Director of Operations for Plastic Surgery Anayeli Gonzalez, left, and Highland Park Hospital President Nikki Fernandez, right | Ritacca Laser Center / Endeavor Health
Ritacca Laser Center's Director of Operations for Plastic Surgery Anayeli Gonzalez, left, and Highland Park Hospital President Nikki Fernandez, right | Ritacca Laser Center / Endeavor Health
Two hospitals located in Lake county, Illinois provided "sex change" treatments to at least 3 children between 2019 and 2023.
That’s according to a national database released of hospitals and medical facilities “administering irreversible sex change interventions on children in the United States” by the organization Do No Harm.
“With the launch of the Stop the Harm Database, Do No Harm is building on our mission to expose the dangers of experimental pediatric gender medicine and bring the practice to an end,” said Do No Harm Chairman Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, in a press release. “This first-of-its-kind project provides patients, families, and policymakers with a resource that reveals the pervasiveness of irreversible sex-change treatments for minors in America.
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“While this data represents the tip of the iceberg, this is the first step in holding the medical establishment accountable for participating in, and often times promoting, predatory and unscientific medical interventions for vulnerable children,” Goldfarb said.
Do No Harm said the database “catalogs pediatric sex change-related services, including surgeries, cross-sex hormones, and puberty blockers, at U.S.-based medical facilities between 2019 and 2023.”
The data represents sources including “claims clearinghouses, data aggregators, payors, health systems, CMS, and multiple open data sources,” according to Do No Harm, and includes data from commercial insurance, Medicaid, Medicare, and VA claims.
Ritacca Laser Center in Vernon Hills had one patient between 2019 and 2023, which was a surgery patient. The hospital submitted $31,012 charges in total.
The Ritacca Laser Center is a MedSpa and cosmetic surgery center serving northern Illinois. Its services include non invasive procedures and laser treatments, as well as plastic surgery procedures. Their plastic surgery team includes Dr. Daniel Ritacca, Dr. Leonard Lu, Dr. Kathleen Morno, and Dr. Fadi Bakhos. The Director of Operations for the plastic surgery department is Anayeli Gonzalez.
Highland Park Hospital in Highland Park has two patients during the same time period, both of which were surgery patients as well. Total reported charges from the facility were $21,460.
Founded in 1918, the Highland Park Hospital was the site of the first open-heart surgery performed in Lake County, and also opened the only dedicated labor, delivery, and post-partum unit in the country in 2017. The facility offers "Adolescent Psychiatry" services, along with other services like cardiology, maternity, and oncology. The hospital is part of the Endeavor Health network.
Nikki Fernandez is the President of Highland Park Hospital, and also serves as the Chief Nursing Officer for NorthShore at Endeavor Health. Fernandez previously served as the Vice President of Nursing at Glenbrook Hospital and as the Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer at Evanston Hospital before moving to Highland Park Hospital.
”Last year Tablet Magazine wrote an in-depth article noting how the Pritzker family, including Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D), has used its wealth and outsized footprint to promote and normalize “synthetic sex identities.”
“In August 2021, Gov. Pritzker signed into law a new sex education bill for all public schools in Illinois, the first of its kind designed in accordance with the second edition of the National Sex Education Standards (NSES) to update sex ed curricula in K-12 schools,” Jennifer Bilek wrote in Tablet.
"Bill SB0 818 will be implemented on or before Aug. 1, 2022. Though the bill includes a written opt-out for parents (but not an alternative if they do opt out), many are concerned with the material being brought into children’s schools under the auspices of teaching them sexual health—namely gender identity ideology and other related material.”
Pritzker, through a non-profit foundation, has directly funded "gender reassignment" of children – meaning they have engaged in experimental surgery to greatly alter the sex organs of children – at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Prairie State Wire reported earlier this year.
In all, hospitals in Illinois saw 412 minors who were “sex change patients,” including 211 total surgery patients. These hospitals administered “hormone and puberty blockers” to 206 total children, and wrote 1,589 prescriptions. In all, it totaled $642,091 in total submitted charges.
Chloe Cole, a senior fellow at Do No Harm, said the database “proves the lies from the medical establishment and radical politicians who argue that cases like mine are rare.”
A 20-year-old woman who said that she had “gender dysphoria” was given “puberty blockers,” testosterone and had a double mastectomy at age 12, Cole has since “de-transitioned” and supports bans on the chemical castration of minors.
“The stats in this database represent thousands of kids who are being treated like Guinea pigs for unproven, and sometimes dangerous, medical experiments,” said Cole. “I hope politicians and parents alike use this database to see where these treatments are happening and protect their children from being rushed into irreversible, life-altering treatments.”
Nationally, 13,994 children received sex change related treatments between 2019 and 2023, according to Do No Harm’s database. This includes 5,747 sex change surgeries performed on children, and 62,682 hormone and puberty blockers prescriptions written for 8,579 pediatric patients.
“At least $119,791,202 made from sex change treatments performed on minors,” reported the organization.
Which Illinois Hospitals are Performing these "Irreversible Sex Change Interventions"?
Source: StoptheHarmDatabase.com
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