Bishops Call for Urgent Review of ‘Pediatric Sex-Change Services’ at Catholic Hospitals, by Matthew McDonald

Bishops should discuss and act on a recent report that Catholic hospitals have provided “pediatric sex-change services” for patients 17 and younger, two bishops told EWTN News recently.

Their comments come as the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops holds its annual fall meeting in Baltimore, which began Monday.

As the Register reported last month, on Oct. 8 a medical watchdog organization called Do No Harm released a database finding that about 150 Catholic hospitals in the United States provided “pediatric sex-change services” between 2019 and 2023, including 33 Catholic hospitals that performed so-called gender-reassignment surgeries on minors.

Bishop James Conley, who leads the Diocese of Lincoln, Nebraska, told the Register last week that he has discussed the report privately with hospital administrators, Catholic physicians, and bishops of dioceses with Catholic hospitals mentioned in the Do No Harm database. …