I don’t care about your worldview. Stop injecting it into our children. Literally and metaphorically.
This highlights the need for actually faithful Catholic schools.
The Daily Wire: A healthcare organization that operates clinics inside Seattle public schools says it can now offer “gender-affirming” hormone treatment to children, emails from a health center program manager reveal.
Emails obtained by The Daily Wire reveal that Neighborcare Health, a healthcare organization that runs clinics in middle and elementary schools in the Seattle Public Schools district, announced in January 2023 that hormone treatments were now included in the “gender-affirming care” it could offer.
“The Neighborcare Health team wanted to share an exciting new update to our School-based Health Center services,” the email from a Program Manager for Neighborcare Health, which was obtained by Parents Defending Education through a public records request, reads. “Our program will begin offering comprehensive, evidence-based, gender-affirming care services to our students and families who need them.”
The change meant that the group could now give hormone treatments to children, it explained. “While our School-based Health Centers have long offered a continuum of gender-affirming care services including supportive student counseling, promotion of social identity, and health education, this step will allow us to begin offering families access to important medical interventions including hormone treatments,” it states.
The offerings mark one of the boldest efforts to create what Manhattan Institute Fellow Leor Sapir has dubbed the “school-to-clinic pipeline” whereby young school children are encouraged to undergo irreversible medical interventions that seek to change their sex.
Neighborcare, which runs 14 different school-based clinics in Seattle Public Schools and Vashon Island School District, states that its mission is to “help students do better in school by working to address health concerns, prevent serious illness, and promote healthy lifestyles.” The clinic does not, however, openly admit to providing so-called “gender-affirming care,” which is conspicuously absent from its “services offered” list despite announcing that it would begin offering hormone therapies at some of its school-based clinics over a year ago.
