Dr. Patrick Hunter, a pediatrician, spoke to Liz Collin on her podcast about his opposition to “gender care” for children.
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Dr. Hunter is member of the Florida Board of Medicine, the first and only board in the U.S. to have a policy that opposes youth transition and gender care for kids. Meanwhile in Minnesota, a recent report found that Minnesota has the highest percentage of adults who identify as transgender.
Many throughout the state are still reeling from the tragedy of the Annunciation Catholic Church and School shooting perpetrated by transgender shooter Robert “Robin” Westman. The horrific assassination of Charlie Kirk, and reports that the suspected assassin was reportedly living with a transgender “partner,” have only increased concerns and fears about transgenderism and transgender violence.
Dr. Hunter, however, explained why he believes it’s important to put fear aside and push back on the issue of transgender care for children “because it’s a lie.”
Dr. Hunter spoke about why he believes tragedies like the Annunciation Catholic Church and School shooting could have been prevented—if Westman was never “lied to.”
“I’ve vowed to help children. And this is harming children. I’ve seen way too many children harmed by this ideology. Children and young adults. And it’s not evidence based. It’s not science based. It’s not rational. These children and young adults have been harmed terribly by this ideology,” Dr. Hunter said.
Psychological and physical harm
Dr. Hunter spoke about harm, but also the consequences: “The physical harm can never be healed. The changes that hormones do to the body, the changes that surgery do, obviously, are irreversible. If you have a breast cut off, it cannot be reattached. If you have a genitalia cut off, it cannot be reattached. They have been lied to by the medical profession.”
Along with physical harm, he also talked about the psychological harm.
“That anger, which is the initial feeling I think they rightly feel, that anger mixed with the psychological harm, and many of these youth also have psychological problems, my fear has been that the anger, the harm done to them, the underlying psychological problems may end up in violence,” he added.
“I never imagined it would be what we saw in Minneapolis. But Minneapolis is not the first one. We saw this in Nashville,” Dr. Hunter explained.
“What we’re seeing is evil. It’s evil. And I’m not excusing it, but I’m laying part of the blame at the medical profession, the harm that is being done to these youth,” he said.
Transgenderism in Minnesota
Dr. Hunter also reflected on cultural factors in Minnesota and beyond, including how transgender ideology has become pervasive in public schools; how the Minnesota media celebrates transgenderism—with a biological male, namely state Rep. Leah Finke, being crowned Minnesota’s Woman of the Year; and how the state’s lieutenant governor told voters that they must believe what kids say—while wearing a t-shirt that says “protect trans kids” with a large knife on it.
However, there was one particular person in Minnesota whom Dr. Hunter criticized.
Transgenderism and the connection to Dr. Eli Coleman
“There is one person in Minnesota, (Dr.) Eli Coleman, the former president of the World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH). He is the first author or the senior author on WPATH’s standards of care.”
According to Dr. Hunter, the problem is that Dr. Coleman “has been dishonest” and “WPATH has been dishonest.”
In discussing some of the details, Dr. Hunter explained how “they commissioned Johns Hopkins University to do systematic evidence reviews, to look at the evidence, they found, quote, Johns Hopkins found there is little to no evidence to support this in youth and children. WPATH, led by Eli Coleman, suppressed this information from the public.”
“They prevented Johns Hopkins from publishing this. Johns Hopkins wanted to publish it and WPATH would not let them. That’s terrible. Inconceivable,” he added.
Alpha News reached out to the University of Minnesota seeking comment on the statements made about Eli Coleman’s institute but did not receive a response.
Dr. Hunter has also taken on the American Academy of Pediatrics.
“The American Academy of Pediatrics and WPATH don’t want to have this conversation,” he said.
“The medical profession, we can’t sit down at medical meetings and have rational discussions about this. That is wrong. And then we’re seeing this bleed out into the larger community and it’s terrible.”
Parents must take a stand
Dr. Hunter encouraged parents to stand up to schools—and to the medical community.
“This is not a political issue … This is not a right-left issue. This is a right or wrong issue. And I think, thankfully, the tides are turning and the public is seeing that this is wrong. And this needs to stop. This needs to end,” Dr. Hunter said.
