New numbers reveal the child sex-change mania is worse than we knew

The child sex-change craze is worse than almost anyone realizes — and a Colorado hospital just proved it.Recently released court documents show that Children’s Hospital Colorado, affiliated with the University of Colorado School of Medicine, prescribed puberty blockers to more than 250 patients and cross-sex hormones to nearly 550 patients in a single year, 2025. Those are shockingly high numbers — at least 5 to 10 times higher than previously thought.My organization, Do No Harm, had already analyzed insurance data for this hospital.We found that between 2019 and 2023, Children’s Hospital Colorado provided just over 100 children with sex-change treatments, including puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and even surgeries.Those treatments already made this hospital one of the worst abusers of vulnerable and confused children in the country.But the numbers seen in 2025 are far higher.In that single year, the hospital gave puberty blockers to twice as many patients as we documented in total over five full years.All told, Children’s Hospital Colorado is hurting far more kids than even we thought possible.Not all these treatments are for different patients; many kids get multiple medical interventions.They may start with puberty blockers to stop their natural development, continue with cross-sex hormones to change their appearance, and undergo sex-change surgeries as a last step.Regardless, the court filings prove that Children’s Hospital Colorado is giving invasive and irreversible treatments to mind-boggling numbers of children.Is this single facility an exception? Probably not.At Do No Harm, our insurance-claims analyses have documented nearly 14,000 sex-change treatments provided at children’s hospitals and other facilities between 2019 and 2023.But not all claims were detectable, like internal Kaiser Permanente claims, and we don’t know how many treatments were paid for out of pocket.Plus, we know for a fact that some facilities have deliberate...