(The National Pulse)—President Donald J. Trump’s executive order banning the “chemical and surgical mutilation” of American children through irreversible transgender medical interventions is already bearing fruit, with many institutions canceling or pausing all so-called “gender-affirming care.”
The White House has produced an illustrative list highlighting various jurisdictions and institutions where poorly evidenced transgender treatments have been curtailed:
- NEW YORK: NYU Langone Health has begun canceling appointments for “gender-affirming care” for minors, including for two 12-year-olds who were scheduled to receive puberty-blocking implants.
- COLORADO: Denver Health has ceased performing gender reassignment surgeries on minors, and UCHealth has announced the termination of “gender-affirming care” for all minors.
- VIRGINIA: VCU Health and Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU have put a hold on providing transgender-related medications and surgeries to minors. Similarly, UVA Health has suspended all transgender-related services for minors.
- WASHINGTON, D.C.: Children’s National Hospital has paused the prescription of puberty blockers and hormone therapies for minors, with Northwest Washington Hospital following suit.
- ILLINOIS: Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago is currently reviewing its transgender-related services for minors.
- PENNSYLVANIA: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is conducting a thorough review of the transgender-related services they offer to minors.
President Trump’s executive order states that it is “a stain on our Nation’s history” that medical professionals have been “maiming and sterilizing a growing number of impressionable children under the radical and false claim that adults can change a child’s sex through a series of irreversible medical interventions” unchecked in recent years.
Independent Journalism Is Dying
Ever since President Trump’s miraculous victory, we’ve heard an incessant drumbeat about how legacy media is dying. This is true. The people have awakened to the reality that they’re being lied to by the self-proclaimed “Arbiters of Truth” for the sake of political expediency, corporate self-protection, and globalist ambitions.
But even as independent journalism rises to fill the void left by legacy media, there is still a huge challenge. Those at the top of independent media like Joe Rogan, Dan Bongino, and Tucker Carlson are thriving and rightly so. They have earned their audience and the financial rewards that come from it. They’ve taken risks and worked hard to get to where they are.
For “the rest of us,” legacy media and their proxies are making it exceptionally difficult to survive, let alone thrive. They still have a stranglehold over the “fact checkers” who have a dramatic impact on readership and viewership. YouTube, Facebook, and Google still stifle us. The freer speech platforms like Rumble and 𝕏 can only reward so many of their popular content creators. For independent journalists on the outside looking in, our only recourse is to rely on affiliates and sponsors.
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Independent media is the future. In many ways, that future is already here. While the phrase, “the more the merrier,” does not apply to this business because there are still some bad actors in the independent media field, there are many great ones that do not get nearly enough attention. We hope to change that one content creator at a time.
Thank you and God Bless,
JD Rucker
