Pennsylvania Taxpayers Have Paid $16 Million for Childhood Sex Reassignment Treatments

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Switching genders is expensive. But low-income children in Pennsylvania are covered under medical assistance through the Childrenโ€™s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).

Pennsylvania taxpayers have unknowingly paid more than $16 million under Democrat Gov. Tom Wolfโ€™s administration to fund sex reassignment and gender transition services for children.

Each year since 2015, when Wolf took office, state spending on childhood sex change treatments has increased, data obtained by the Pennsylvania Family Institute shows.

In 2015, Pennsylvania paid $78,000 for services related to sex reassignment for children under 18. In 2021, the state spent $3.9 million.

The Pennsylvania Department of Human Services (PA DHS) provided data to the Pennsylvania Family Institute through a Right to Know request seeking records reflecting the amount of money Pennsylvania has spent for minors through CHIP to receive โ€œservices related to sex reassignment and transition related services and drugs, from 2015 to present.โ€

โ€œThis level of state-endorsed harm upon children is reprehensible,โ€ Alexis Sneller of the Pennsylvania Family Institute said in a statement. โ€œWhile we knew the Wolf administration was funding services related to these irreversible procedures on minors, now seeing the exact numbersโ€“millions spent towards these detrimental actsโ€”is still shocking.โ€

Taxpayer Funded Treatments

The data includes basic codes and descriptions for each treatment, but itโ€™s unclear how many treatments were used for each patient, so the total number of minors who received the medications and procedures is unknown.

Treatments listed in the data include androgenic agents, which are used in the transition from female to male; and estrogenic agents, which are feminizing hormones powerful enough to cause a male to develop breasts.

Some girls were given Yuvafem, a vaginal insert tablet used to reduce symptoms of menopause, and Estring, another menopause insert in the form of a flexible ring that continuously releases estrogen. The Estring safety indications include a warning that using the product may increase the chance of developing dementia, and that estrogens should be used at the lowest dose possible and only for as long as needed.

Byย Beth Brelje

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