Michael Knowles Slams Catholic College For Teaching Students ‘How To Greenlight’ Child ‘Mutilation’

Daily Wire host Michael Knowles exposed a Catholic college for teaching psychiatric nurse practitioner students “how to greenlight the castration, sterilization, and mutilation of gender-confused kids and adults” in an exclusive thread on X.

Steph Williams, a lecturer who uses he/him and she/her pronouns, taught students at Mount Saint Mary College in New York how to halt puberty in children as young as nine, even if they did not experience gender dysphoria, Knowles revealed, based on a tip from advocacy group Do No Harm.

“Per Williams: If a 12-year-old girl menstruates and feels ‘stress,’ she might grow up to be a depressed alcoholic—unless we drug her,” Knowles said. “That’s the rationale for chemically halting puberty in gender-confused kids.”

2/ Psychiatric nurse practitioner students at Mount Saint Mary’s College in New York were taught how to greenlight the castration, sterilization, and mutilation of gender-confused kids and adults.

Their lecturer? A he/him/she/her with no medical degree named “Steph” Williams. pic.twitter.com/lVBAYENTk5

— Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) June 11, 2025

Mount Saint Mary College was founded by the Sisters of St. Dominic in 1959, according to its about page, and says its “roots in education” go back to Saint Dominic in the 13th century. The school’s website says it is “a college in the Catholic and Dominican tradition.”

Williams is “a Director of LGBTQIA+ Relations and AmeriCorps Programming at Sun River Health” and “a certified organizational culture facilitator,” according to LinkedIn — but is not a licensed doctor, Knowles pointed out.

Using puberty blockers “buys the adolescent some time … to ensure that the person is indeed trans,” Williams said in a video obtained by The Daily Wire. If the child is not “trans” — which Williams said is very rare — she can discontinue puberty blockers and resume puberty as normal.

“Williams leaves out the significant potential harm of puberty blockers on bone density, fertility, and overall health,” Knowles said.

4/ And if they’re not “trans”? Don’t worry: “You just take yourself off the puberty blockers, and you start with your native puberty right off right where you left it.”

Williams leaves out the potential harm of puberty blockers on bone density, fertility, and overall health. pic.twitter.com/GuClqPyEoX

— Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) June 11, 2025

Williams claimed adolescents under 18 did not take hormones, saying, “‘The only adolescents who take hormone[s]… are folks who have other conditions.'” Those “other conditions” include precocious puberty and “really high hormones,” but “trans people do not take — unless there is something else going on — hormones before 18.”

Except, Williams said almost immediately, “It does happen, but it’s extremely, extremely rare.”

How rare? Between 2019 and 2023, “8,579 minors received hormones and puberty blockers,” according to Stop the Harm Database. Stop the Harm also found that “62,682 sex change prescriptions were written for minors.”

6/ According to Williams, children as young as nine can begin pubertal suppression without even experiencing "dysphoria."

“And just like in adults, they don’t necessarily have to experience dysphoria.”

They just need a history of gender confusion. pic.twitter.com/vIZtnCgWVK

— Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) June 11, 2025

Williams also told students they did not need to understand all the material covered in class because the patient “is the expert” and “knows more” than the nurse practitioner.

Trans-identifying patients are defined by “self-declaration,” according to Williams’ slideshow obtained by The Daily Wire.

“This is ‘gender-affirming care’: Children diagnosed by ideology. Puberty treated like a disease,” Knowles said. “And future nurse practitioners taught that their ignorance is a beneficial feature rather than a bug.”

8/ This is “gender-affirming care”:

Children diagnosed by ideology, puberty treated like a disease.

And future nurse practitioners taught that their ignorance is a beneficial feature rather than a bug.

— Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) June 11, 2025

Knowles slammed the medical standards of the trans agenda as “incoherent” and “rubber-stamping child abuse.”

“With ‘Catholic’ institutions like Mount Saint Mary’s College, who needs paganism?” Knowles said.

10/ With “Catholic” institutions like Mount Saint Mary’s College, who needs paganism?

— Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) June 11, 2025