In December 2024, I posted an article that began with the following sentence: “The Trans Drug Cult is killing kids with mental health problems by the tens of thousands.” In response, a couple of readers emailed me doubting the truth of that statement. They wanted to know if I had proof that the Trans Drug Cult is killing kids by the tens of thousands.
The answer is yes, I have a lot of proof to support this claim. In fact, I have already provided this proof during the past few months in several previous articles each of which included many scientific studies on the harmful effects of puberty blockers, cross sex hormones and gender multilation surgery. These adverse effects include huge increases in cancer rates and suicide rates. Here are links to four of my past reports on this subject.
https://washingtonparentsnetwork.com/1-why-promoting-gender-mutilation-is-child-abuse
https://washingtonparentsnetwork.com/3-exposing-the-ferguson-reykdal-drug-cartel
https://washingtonparentsnetwork.com/4-why-kids-should-be-given-counseling-instead-of-drugs
https://washingtonparentsnetwork.com/8-why-states-should-ban-transgender-drugging-of-minors
After reviewing all of the evidence again, I recalculated my estimate of the number of kids being killed by the Trans Drug Cartel. It turns out that my claim that “The Trans Drug Cult is killing kids with mental health problems by the tens of thousands” is a serious understatement. In fact, I should have said “The Trans Drug Cult is killing kids with mental health problems by the hundreds of thousands.”
In this report, we will take a closer look at this research.
Estimating the total number of kids harmed by the Trans Drug Cartel
In my past reports, I provided links to recent surveys estimating that more than ten thousand kids have been mislead into joining the Trans Drug Cult just here in Washington state. Nationally, the number is over a half million kids and is likely more than one million kids.
Specifically, we have over 1 million kids attending schools in Washington state and over 50 million kids attending schools in the US. Surveys indicate that at least 3 percent and in some states up to 10 percent of these kids have been misled into joining the Trans Drug Cult. That would put the number of at-risk kids harmed here in Washington state at between 30,000 to 50,000 and in the US somewhere between 1.5 million to 5 million kids being harmed by the Trans Drug cartel.
While 26 states have banned giving kids Trans Drugs, this still leaves 24 states where Trans drugs are not only allowed but even encouraged. Thanks to Bob Ferguson and Chris Reykdal, in Washington state, a counselor who tells a child the truth about the adverse effects of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones can lose their counseling license and be subjected to a $5,000 fine. So it is reasonable to estimate that there are at least a million kids in the US who are either already taking Trans Drugs or are in the process of eventually taking Trans Drugs.
The next question is how many of these one million Trans Drug addicted kids will eventually be killed by these Trans Drugs?
Here we get into some important questions. There is no doubt that Trans Drugs (aka Puberty Blockers and Cross Sex Hormones) are extremely powerful drugs. They lead to sterility nearly 100 percent of the time.
Compare the harm of Trans Drugs to the harm of cigarettes
This is a sensitive subject for me because my father was killed from smoking cigarettes. My father got addicted to cigarettes when he was a teenager in the 1940s. He smoked 3 packs a day for more than 20 years and died when he was only 42 years old. Cigarette companies made millions of dollars from getting people like my father addicted to cigarettes. We have learned that these companies knew that cigarettes could cause cancer and brain tumors – yet hide this fact from smokers for many years. We also know that it takes 20 to 30 years to get cancer from smoking cigarettes so there is a a long time between the time one starts smoking and when they eventually get cancer. We also know that not all smokers die – but a lot of them do die.
What percent of cigarette smokers die an early death?
About half of smokers die early, losing on average 10 years of life. The impact of smoking varies by smoking intensity. On average, heavy smokers die 13 years earlier than non-smokers. About 23% of heavy smokers don't reach age 65. My father died about 30 years before he should have died. The majority of smoking-related deaths are caused by lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), or coronary heart disease (CHD).
Should cigarette companies be held civilly or criminally accountable for killing people?
Tobacco kill more people than alcohol, AIDS, car accidents, illegal drugs, murders and suicides combined. The lethal consequences of smoking have been known to tobacco corporations for decades, yet they continue to sell highly addictive cigarettes knowing that millions of deaths will result. The manufacture, marketing and sale of these products, coupled with the knowledge of their harms, provides possible grounds for a charge of manslaughter or even criminally negligent homicide. The Oregon Supreme Court not only discussed ‘the possibility of severe criminal sanctions’, but stressed that these actions could ‘constitute second-degree manslaughter’ under Oregon law. See Williams V. Philip Morris Inc 127 P.3d 1165. Supreme Court of the state of Oregon, 2006: 1176–7. In 2023, a federal court required tobacco companies to post this sign in stores:
What is the punishment for selling tobacco to minors?
Federal law prohibits selling tobacco to anyone under the age of 21. Retailers may have their license suspended for selling tobacco to minors. In some cases, criminal charges may be brought against individuals involved in selling tobacco to minors. Businesses may also face civil liability from lawsuits brought by government agencies or affected individuals.
Perhaps you are thinking that puberty blockers and cross sex hormones might not be as deadly as cigarettes. In fact, in addition to the studies we have provided in our previous reports, we will go into more evidence of the harm of Trans Drugs later in this article. But it is my claim that encouraging small children attending public schools to start taking Trans Drugs without the knowledge and consent of their parents is even worse that it would be to get a young child addicted to smoking cigarettes.
For now, I think it is reasonable to claim that cigarette companies were directly involved in the death of my father 50 years ago. I will never forgive the cigarette companies for the role they played in his early death.
If we ban giving cigarettes to children, why don’t we also ban giving them Trans Drugs – which are far more harmful than cigarettes?
Currently 26 states have banned giving Trans Drugs to minors. I believe that some day, when more is known about the terrible consequences of Trans Drugs, all 50 states will eventually bad giving Trans Drugs to minors. My goal is to inform people about the scientific evidence of the harm of Trans Drugs with the hope that we will elect wiser, more Common Sense, politicians here in Washington state so that we can join the 26 states that have already protected their kids from this deadly harm.
Compare Trans Drugs to Fetanyl
What about drug pushers who make millions of dollars getting people addicted to drugs? Should they be held responsible for the death of drug addicts?
Hopefully, you are aware that fentanyl overdoses have become a leading cause of death for minors in the last five years. According to the CDC, more than 74,000 people died in the U.S. from Fetanyl just in 2023.
In my opinion, it is not mere coincidence that Seattle is leading the nation in fetanyl deaths. Instead, I think it is the logical consequence of political leaders and school district leaders and teachers in Washington state and in Seattle of encouraging children to get addicted to toxic Trans Drugs – and for so-called “Health Centers” in Seattle to be passing out Trans Drugs “like cotton candy.” (note this is what one doctor actually said).
So should Fentanyl drug dealers, or other drug dealers be held responsible for young people who die from drug overdoses? In September 2024, a court in California concluded that the answer is yes. Here is a link to the article.
https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/man-who-sold-fentanyl-laced-pill-liable-for-5-8-million-in-death-of-young-female-customer/
A 20 year old drug dealer sold a 20 year old girl fentanyl and she died from a drug overdose. Her parents won a $5.8 million civil judgment against him for the death of their daughter. Here is a quote from the article:
"We've won the battle but not the war," said Matt Capelouto, Alexandra's father. "We still have a long ways to go in terms of holding drug dealers accountable for deaths."
Baruch Cohen, the Capeloutos' lawyer, said this was the first time a drug dealer has been held liable civilly for someone's death, to his knowledge.
"Here's the hope that this judgment will be the shot that's heard around the world," Cohen said. "Because if it inhibits another drug deal from going down, where the drug dealer ... realizes that besides the jail sentence, he is a liable for millions of dollars of damages, maybe he'll think twice.”
McDowell, now 25, first pleaded guilty in California federal court in 2022 for possession with intent to distribute fentanyl, a charge that carries a 20-year minimum sentence if linked to death or serious injury and convicted by a jury. McDowell was sentenced to nine years in prison.
The Superior Court of Riverside County found he sold harmful narcotics with "willful and malicious" intent that lead to Alexandra Capelouto's death.
In addition, many other fetanyl deaths in California led to the passage in November 2024 of Proposition 36, a law intended to hold drug dealers responsible for selling lethal drugs to their victims.
Despite the ACLU recommending a No vote on Prop 36, it passed by a vote of 70% to 30%. 10 million people voted Yes while 5 million voted no. Clearly people in California are getting fed up with drug dealers and are trying to find some way to stop this epidemic.
Imagine if people in Washington state understood that Reykdal and Ferguson are also little more than drug dealers getting kids addicted to toxic Trans drugs.
To be clear, I am not saying that Trans Drugs are as toxic as Fentanyl. You can die from a Fentanyl overdose in just a matter of minutes. Trans drugs cause cancer. So they are more like cigarettes in that it may take 20 years or more for Trans Drug addicts to die from them. But if you read my claim carefully, I did not say that tens of thousands of kids have already been killed by Trans Drugs. I said that tens of thousands of kids are “being killed” by Trans Drugs. By this, I meant that tens of thousands of kids will die an early death as a result of becoming addicted to Trans Drugs. They are being killed by these drugs just as surely as my father was being killed every time he smoked another pack of cigarettes.
So now, let’s review some more studies on the harm of Trans Drugs.
We should begin by reviewing the Supreme Court hearing in December 2024 on the Tennessee Trans Drug Ban. There were over 30 briefs submitted many of which included the latest scientific research on the harm of gving Trans Drugs to minors. In my past articles, I reviewed some of these briefs and provided links to some of the studies. You can download and read the 169 page transcript of the December 2024 Supreme Court hearing at this link: https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2024/23-477_2c8f.pdf
Given the huge number of scientific studies submitted to the Supreme Court on the severe harm of Trans Drugs, I was appalled by the claim by Justice Sonia Sotomayor compared deadly life-destroying Trans Drugs to Aspirin and claiming that girls should have a right to get rid of “unwanted breasts”. Justice Sotomayor stated: “Every medical treatment has a risk, even taking aspirin..” Hearing Page 118. Clearly Justice Sotomayer did not read any of the scientific studies. Thankfully, the majority of the judges did appear to have read the studies and I am expecting them to issue a ruling in favor of Tennessee in the near future.
The difference between giving drugs to restore normal functions versus giving drugs to destroy normal functions
We next need to correct some common misunderstandings about Trans Drugs. One of my readers sent me an email explaining that he had Prostate Cancer and was taking Puberty blockers, technically called gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH), to slow the growth of this cancer. His reasoning was that Puberty blockers could not be that bad if they were being used to slow down the growth of prostate cancer.
First, we need to understand that the FDA has approved the use of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) to treat prostate cancer because some forms of prostate cancer are related to an EXCESS amount or higher than normal amount of Testosterone in older men. For example, one study found that the risk of high-risk prostate cancer doubled for every 0.1 unit increase in the free testosterone index (FTI) for men over 65.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2848292/
Giving such older men drugs that lower the testosterone level back to normal level to reduce the progression of prostate cancer because the drugs are being used to restore normal functioning – not to destroy normal functioning. There are scientific studies confirming that GnRH receptor antagonists do delay prostate cancer progression. Here is a link to one of these studies: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6370592/
By contrast, the FDA has not approved the use of puberty blockers on children except for a tiny fraction of girls who have excess estrogen. Again, the goal is to restore normal levels of female hormones in girls where their hormone levels are not normal. What is not approved by the FDA is to give puberty blockers and cross sex hormones to children who have normal hormone levels in order to cause these children to have abnormal hormone levels. Trans drug bans in 26 states including Tennessee are simply following this basic FDA Common Sense guideline.
Drawbacks of Puberty Blockers and Cross Sex Hormones have been known for a long time
Some of these studies on giving older men puberty blockers and cross sex hormones go back as far as the 1940s. Despite the benefit of reducing testosterone when there is too much testosterone, many of these studies have found serious drawbacks for older men to be taking these drugs. These include serious decreases in bone density, hot flashes, mood swings, fatigue, sexual dysfunction, decreased erections, general pain, testicular atrophy, joint disorder, osteoporosis, metabolic decreases (that can lead to weight gain and obesity), increased risks of diabetes and increased risk of heart attacks and strokes.
Here is one of several studies on this issue:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2202881/
Here is another from 2008 and republished in 2015:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4333639/
Cognitive Effects of Hormone Therapy in Men With Prostate Cancer
Between 47% and 69% of men on ADT declined in at least 1 cognitive area, most commonly in visuospatial abilities and executive functioning.
Animal studies indicate a strong association between testosterone and hippocampal structures, thereby suggesting that testosterone may affect working memory. In addition, although testosterone and estradiol both impact cognition, they may influence cognitive functioning in different ways. The evidence suggests that, whereas testosterone impacts working memory, estradiol has implications for the rate of learning.
In short, giving males cross sex hormones (hormones intended for females) is known to adversely affect brain functioning.
To be clear, I am not saying a person with prostate cancer should not take these drugs. What I am saying is that adults taking these drugs in order to restore normal hormone levels is a completely different matter than allowing a growing child to take these drugs in order to prevent normal hormone levels. The brains and bodies of children are still developing. The brains and bodies of adults have finished developing. Thus, there is much less harm to adults of these drugs than there is to children.
Human Development Complexity and the Common Ion Effect
Organic chemistry is extremely complex. So is each child’s brain development. Taken together, it is safe to say that each child is unique. The human brain is also affected by a chemical process called the Common Ion Effect. The net result of this effect is that the concentration of any one chemical in the brain can and does affect the concentration of many other chemicals in the brain. The combination of these genetic, environmental and chemical factors make it impossible to predict the outcome of adding any chemical, such as puberty blockers or cross sex hormones, to any given child’s brain development. You are not only altering the concentration of the chemical being given, you are also altering the concentration of hundreds of other chemicals in the child’s brain.
Huge Differences between male and female development
As we have explained in previous articles, the biological development of boys is completely different from the biological development of girls. Genetics confirms that there are more than 6,500 significant genetic differences between human males and females. A 2017 study identified and analyzed differences between genetic markers linked to the human X or Y chromosomes. Over 30 different areas of the body are affected:
Here is a link to this study: https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12915-017-0352-z
This is why drugs affect male development different from female development. The adverse effects of puberty blockers are serious and permanent. A 2010 drugmaker-sponsored a study looked of children who took Lupron from 1991 to 2009. The study reported that several of the 55 kids suffered serious side effects. 15 (27%) suffered mood swings and headaches. One person suffered a heart attack and died after two years of taking Lupron. https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/3260007/Leuprolide-M90-516-Lee-Lupron-Study.pdf
More than 20,000 adverse-event reports have been filed with the FDA in the last decade. Women have reported to the FDA hundreds of cases of insomnia, depression, joint pain, and more than 100 cases of blurred vision. Among men who take Lupron, its label warns of increased risk of heart attacks, strokes and sudden death. https://www.statnews.com/2017/02/02/lupron-puberty-children-health-problems/comment-page-1/
Lupron was back in the courtroom in 2008, when patient Karin Klein sued the drugmaker. Klein alleged that she was not adequately warned of the drug’s effects and after taking the drug as a teen for a uterine condition, developed degenerative disc disease, jaw-joint dysfunction, and bone thinning, court records show.
According to a court record in her case, a report by Dr. John Gueriguian, a former FDA medical officer serving as an expert witness for Klein, said the drug causes “irreversible side effects and permanent severely disabling health problems.”
In a court document, one gynecologist said a salesperson told him he “could earn $100,000 annually” by treating women with Lupron. The settlement resulted in a corporate guilty plea for conspiracy to violate prescribing laws and one of the largest fines at the time, $875 million. https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/2001/October/513civ.htm
In 2017, the Center for Investigative Reporting revealed that the FDA had received more than 10,000 adverse event reports from women who were given Lupron off-label as children to help them grow taller. They reported thinning and brittle bones, teeth that shed enamel and cracked, degenerative spinal disks, painful joints, radical mood swings, seizures, migraines and suicidal thoughts. Some developed fibromyalgia. There were reports of fertility problems and cognitive issues. https://revealnews.org/article/women-say-drug-used-to-halt-puberty-has-ruined-their-lives/
Given that Lupron chemically castrates its recipients, diminishing gonadal hormone production entirely, we might expect a little more research and certainly more caution in prescribing this drug.
Several researchers have reported that cross- sex hormones increase the occurrence of various types of cardiovascular disease, including strokes, blood clots, and other acute cardiovascular events. Getahun, D., et al. (2018). Cross-sex Hormones and Acute Cardiovascular Events in Transgender Persons. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6636681/
The published evidence of adverse impact, coupled with the lack of data sufficient to reach a firm conclusion, make it irresponsible to assert that cross-sex hormones “are safe.”
Danger of giving male hormones to bio females
Girls normally have almost no testosterone. So-called Gender Affirming Care (GAT) requires giving girls who want to be boys huge doses of testosterone to ultimately raise their levels of testosterone to 320 to 1000 ng/dL11 which is the same level as dangerous tumors for women.
A 2022 study of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) as part of gender affirming hormone therapies in France states that “our data show a previously unreported proportion of cases indicating cardiovascular ADRs in transgender men younger than 40 years… In transgender men (bio females) taking testosterone, all reported ADRs were cardiovascular events, with pulmonary embolism in 50% of cases” (Yelehe et al., 2022) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9796635/
With respect to cardiovascular risk “Studies of transgender males (bio females) taking testosterone have shown a nearly 5-fold increased risk of heart attacks relative to females not receiving testosterone” (Laidlaw et al.,2021; https://doi.org/10.1210/clinem/dgab514
Regarding Testostorone abuse, the labeling reads "Testosterone has been subject to abuse... steroid abuse can lead to serious cardiovascular and psychiatric adverse reactions...There have been reports of venous thromboembolic events [blood clots], including deep vein thrombosis (DVT) [blood clot of the extremity such as pulmonary embolism (PE) [blood clot of the lung which may be deadly… There are also serious concerns regarding liver dysfunction: “Prolonged use of high doses of androgens ... has been associated with development of tumors, cancer and life-threatening liver problems” (Actavis Pharma, 2018).
Danger of giving female hormones to bio males
Estradiol is a type of estrogen. The normal adult male estradiol range is 60 pg/mL. In gender affirmative therapy, the medical condition of hyperestrogenemia is being deliberately, medically induced by the off-label use of high doses of Estradiol. Estradiol levels are raised to 200 pg/mL, three times above the normal range in an attempt to increase male breast tissue development. Long-term consequences of hyperestrogenemia include increased risk of heart attacks and death due to a five-fold increase in cardiovascular disease (Irwig, 2018)."Cardiovascular health in transgender people." Rev Endocr Metab Disord. 2018;19(3):243–251
Giving bio males female hormones also greatly increases the risk of breast cancer. Breast cancer is a relatively uncommon in males. However, the risk of a male developing breast cancer has been shown to be 46 times higher (4,600 percent) with high dose estrogen (Christel et al., 2019). https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/365/bmj.l1652.full.pdf
All of the above makes it clear that it is dangerous to give males female hormones and it is dangerous to give females male hormones. It is like throwing sand into the engine of a car. The engine no longer works. Nor can the sand be removed. Once the car engine is destroyed, it will never work properly. Human development is a one way path. The outcome will either be a woman or a man. There is no other option. It is a lie to tell children that all they have to do is take Trans Drugs and they can magically be turned into the opposite sex. The truth is that all they will be turned into is a Frankenstien monster that is no is still their original biological sex – but has been severely damaged by taking toxic Trans drugs.
Estimating the number of kids that will eventually be killed by the Trans Drug Cartel
We previously pointed out that the number of kids in the US who have been taken in by the Trans Drug Cult is more than one million including tens of thousands here in Washington state. It will take 25 years to learn the actual cancer rate and early death rate of giving kids these toxic Trans Drugs.
But given that cigarettes led to an early death rate from cancer of about 50%, it would be reasonable to use a similar estimate for Trans Drugs – which if anything are more toxic than cigarettes. This is especially true since once kids are addicted to Trans Drugs, they will need to continue taking these drugs for 30 years or more. Thus, we can expect Trans Drugs to lead to a half million early deaths. This is assuming that we are able to put a halt to the Trans Drug cartel in the next few years. If not, the early death rate will be even higher.
So, my claim that “The Trans Drug Cult is killing kids with mental health problems by the tens of thousands” is in fact a serious understatement. I should have said, “The Trans Drug Cult is killing kids with mental health problems by the hundreds of thousands.”
Meanwhile the Transgender Drug Cartel keeps making billions by killing thousands of kids
In 2022, there were more than 786 pediatric gender clinics in North America, according to the Gender Mapping Project. Sadly, this group used Google to create their US map. In 2022, Google took down their map. In addition, their website was removed from the Internet. And the Twitter account was removed and the Facebook account was removed. So the map is no longer available on the Internet.
It is likely that that there are now more than 1000 clinics in the US. Each of them provide toxic Trans drugs to hundreds of kids. The U.S. sex-reassignment-surgery market was valued at $1.9 billion in 2021 and is expected to reach $5 billion by 2030, according to Grand View Research. AbbVie reported $720 million in net revenue in 2019 from sales of Lupron, a powerful puberty blocker.
We need to continue organizing politically to hold those accountable for this monsterous crime and to get justice for their victims – which is all of us. We will therefore hold another meeting this coming Sunday from 4 to 5 pm to discuss how to get the word out to more people that Reykdal and Ferguson are responsible for this crime against our kids. Email me if you would like to attend this meeting and I will email you back with the video conference link. As always, I look forward to your questions and comments.
Regards,
David Spring M. Ed.
David (at) Washington Parents Network.com