After an LGBTQ+ specialist at the hospital was heard in a 2018 video suggesting that gender affirmation surgeries were a “big money producer,” Vanderbilt University Medical Center put a freeze on all of these procedures. In a video that conservative activist Matt Walsh published from 2018, Dr. Shayne Taylor describes transgender operations as simple ways to make money because of the “follow-ups.” Following this, Vanderbilt University stopped doing any operations that changed patients’ gender.
According to Matt Walsh’s now-famous tweet, his team had been looking into the transgender clinic at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. “BREAKING: My team and I have been looking into the transgender clinic at Vanderbilt here in Nashville,” Walsh tweeted. Vanderbilt subjects children to drugging, chemical castration, and double mastectomy procedures.
In the video shared by Walsh, Dr Taylor can be heard saying, “Some of our VUMC financial folks in October of 2016 put down some costs of how much money we think each patient would bring in. And this is only including top surgery, this isn’t including any bottom surgery, and it’s a lot of money.”
Who is Dr Shayne Taylor?
A doctor at the VUMC Clinic for Transgender Health is Dr. Shayne Taylor. She is originally from Tucson, Arizona, and she finished her undergraduate work in Biology and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University in Atlanta. She graduated from Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia with an MD in 2014, and in 2018 she started working as a resident at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.
In the department of general internal medicine and public health at VUMC, Dr. Taylor is an assistant professor of pediatrics and internal medicine. According to Vanderbilt Health, she specializes in Adolescent and Young Adult Health, Contraception, General Pediatrics, Internal Medicine, and Pediatric General Pediatrics.
According to Fox News, VUMC has halted performing gender-affirming procedures on minor patients while conducting a review of their procedures. They explained that they had stopped the treatments in a letter to Tennessee lawmakers that they have done so in response to fresh advice from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH).
BREAKING: My team and I have been investigating the transgender clinic at Vanderbilt here in Nashville. Vanderbilt drugs, chemically castrates, and performs double mastectomies on minors. But it gets worse. Here is what we found. Let’s start at the beginning.
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) September 20, 2022
So, let’s review. Vanderbilt got into the gender transition game admittedly in large part because it is very financially profitable. They then threatened any staff members who objected, and enlisted a gang of trans activists to act as surveillance in order to force compliance.
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) September 20, 2022
The statement read, “On September 6, 2022, WPATH [World Professional Association for Transgender Health] published a new version of its recommendations to health care professionals for treatment of transgender persons, known as SOC-8,’ the hospital wrote in a statement to lawmakers. In light of these new recommendations, and as part of completing our internal clinical review of SOC-8 guidance in patients under 18, we will be seeking advice from local and national clinical experts. We are pausing gender affirmation surgeries on patients under age 18 while we complete this review, which may take several months.”
