Top State University Pushes Doctors To Join Radical Trans Organization

One of the nation’s top medical schools runs a program for future doctors to learn how to remove healthy body parts and construct fake genitals for gender confused adults. 

The University of Kansas Medical Center offers an “Adult Comprehensive Gender Care and Surgery” fellowship for medical professionals to obtain a “comprehensive experience in all clinical and academic aspects of adult gender care.” Through the program, fellows become members of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), a radical organization that has faced accusations of manipulating science for political purposes. 

The fellowship was flagged in a report shared with The Daily Wire by CriticalRace.org, an organization that monitors activist ideology in higher education. The report looked at how top medical schools and their medical wings promote transgender ideology through programs, initiatives, and medical care. 

“I think this report is a warning alarm being sounded that both the federal government and state governments need to pay attention to what’s actually happening,” William Jacobson, a professor at Cornell University and the founder of CriticalRace.org, told The Daily Wire. “While adults have broad power to consent to things, you cannot consent to unsound medical practices, or at least, that is not an excuse for the unsound practices.”

Fellows at the University of Kansas Medical Center, which receives millions in federal and state level funding, will be taught how to perform a vaginoplasty, a procedure where a pseudo-vagina is created on a male, oftentimes using skin from the penis. Another procedure is phalloplasty, when a fake penis is created using skin removed from other parts of the body. 

Additionally, the medical center will sponsor fellowship participants to become members of WPATH, an organization accused of twisting science to hide uncomfortable details about transgender procedures. Fellows will attend WPATH’s annual symposium. WPATH is one of the largest advocates of transgender procedures for kids. 

The fellowship at the University of Kansas Medical Center will also cover training in performing transgender chest and face surgeries, genital reconstruction surgery, “body contouring,” and other procedures like surgeries to remove a woman’s uterus. Non-surgical aspects of the fellowship involve learning about “voice/speech training,” and “social work/fertility preservation.”

In 2023, the University of Kansas Health System reported it had over 190 cases related to gender surgery. 

The University of Kansas Medical Center declined to comment.

Republicans in Kansas have moved to protect kids from transgender procedures, overriding a veto from Democratic Governor Laura Kelly. That cut off funding for any gender procedures on minors and banned doctors from doing the procedures on kids. 

The University of Kansas Medical Center was not the lone school scrutinized in CriticalRace.org’s report. Kemberlee Kaye, the managing editor of CriticalRace.org said that researchers found “a surprising number” of educational institutions that “were engaging in the sexual mutilation surgery.”

“I think the entire issue is egregious and troubling, quite frankly, and the fact that our medical schools are willingly engaging in this and promoting it,” Kaye told The Daily Wire. “These kinds of reports illuminate how deeply this pernicious ideology is entrenched in our institutions, whether it’s just the higher education programs or medical schools.”

The report found links to transgender ideology at other top institutions like the University of New Mexico and the Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center. 

The Wexner Medical Center says that it is “one of only a few academic health centers in the country to offer bottom gender-affirming surgery.” 

It details procedures such as carving up a person’s forehead or jaw to appear more masculine or feminine. 

“The forehead has been regarded as the most gender-defining region of the face. Cis-females tend to have lower hairlines, flat to smooth forehead contour with eyebrows that sit above the orbital rims, while cis-males are recognized by longer foreheads commonly combined with frequent hair-loss patterns,” the medical center says on its website. 

The University of New Mexico is another taxpayer-funded university that offers “gender affirming care” through its Student Health and Counseling office. The office boasts that it “offers gender affirming hormone therapy, referrals for gender affirming surgery and voice therapy, non-estrogen contraception (including LARC) for transmen/nonbinary people for pregnancy prevention if appropriate” and “routine screenings for cervical/breast/prostate cancer for people with these parts.”

The University of Arizona’s Campus Health department has a “LGBTQ+ Clinic” that helps gender-confused students obtain cross-sex hormones, makes transgender surgery referrals, and provides other “trans support.” 

Additionally, the university takes credit for ensuring that the student health insurance plan covers “access to medically necessary, gender-affirming health care.”

“This access to care is a crucial element to the health, academic success, and retention of transgender-identified students,” the university says. 

While many red states have advanced protections for kids from transgender procedures, some lawmakers at the state and national level have started to push for all funding and support for transgender procedures on adults to be cut off. Republicans in South Carolina recently moved to ban all public funding for transgender procedures. Shortly after, the Medical University of South Carolina ended its transgender program at all levels. 

In other states, entities like Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Tennessee have shuttered transgender programs. 

Kaye told The Daily Wire that federal and state lawmakers across the country need to take a closer look at what kinds of programs state funded medical institutions support and promote.