Whistleblowers, state attorneys general and researchers have laid the groundwork for the feds to go after medical professionals who practice so-called gender-affirming care on minors for consumer and billing fraud, they told a Federal Trade Commission workshop Wednesday.
FTC commissioners and Department of Justice officials responded, in so many words: We’re on it, and we’re thinking bigger.
Practitioners, gender clinics, hospitals, nonprofit advocacy groups, medical associations and drug manufacturers should expect to hear from the DOJ on alleged healthcare fraud, false statements, false billing and Medicaid claims, “scientifically dubious assertions” used as “cover” by clinics and Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act violations, a top official said.
The invite-only audience of around 200, including at least a dozen parents and “survivors” of youth gender transitions, repeatedly applauded as DOJ Chief of Staff Chad Mizelle rattled off the target list – “everyone” in the “multi-billion-dollar industry of harming our kids” – starting with nearly 20 subpoenas it has issued to gender clinics.
Just outside the workshop on the National Mall, progressive advocacy group Fight for the Future hired a billboard truck to scold the FTC for its “extremely dangerous and certainly out-of-agency scope ‘workshop’ … an ideologically-motivated waste of taxpayer dollars without an opportunity for public comment by members of Congress.”
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Author: Ray Hilbrich
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