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Children’s Hospital Colorado insurance data tells one story—its testimony another.
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Children’s Hospital Colorado insurance data tells one story—its testimony another.

By Kelly Notarfrancesco | Contributing Writer, Rocky Mountain Voice Hundreds of children were provided puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones by Children’s Hospital Colorado’s TRUE Center for Gender Diversity annually in 2024 and 2025 — in numbers that may be more than 35 times higher than those previously reported in 2024 by medical watchdog group Do No Harm. Do No Harm (DNH) analyzed five years of insurance data and demonstrated an average of 22 minor patients per year had received either puberty blockers or hormone therapy at Children’s from 2019-2023. DNH’s analysis led it to place Children’s on its “Dirty Dozen” list of the 12 worst-offending children’s hospitals promoting sex change treatments for minors.  The stark difference between Children’s self-reported number...