‘50 male hysterectomies’: Oregon alters health records to reflect gender identity, not biological sex

Rep. Ed Diehl requested data regarding so-called “gender-affirming” procedures performed in the state during the debate surrounding HB 2002, a bill that requires health insurance companies to cover the cost of sex change interventions. Along with the 50 hysterectomies performed on males, there were some other curiosities, including 47 males undergoing “chest masculinization” surgery, and 13 males undergoing “genital masculinization.”

Such anomalies are the result of the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) no longer tracking the biological sex of its patients, but instead allowing people to mark this field based on their gender identity.

According to Diehl, this means tracking sex no longer provides any value since people are marking these fields based on how they feel, not on the reality of their bodies.

“Sex dis-aggregated data has been vitally important in the medical field because men and women have different health outcomes, respond to medications differently, respond to disease differently, and require different approaches to surgeries, etc. This will limit our ability to study and improve health outcomes,” tweeted Diehl.

The procedure euphemistically referred to as “genital masculization” by the OHA is phalloplasty, an extremely risky surgery that involves a surgeon stripping the skin and flesh of a woman’s forearm or thigh and using the tissue to create a non-functional appendage that is then attached to the groin. The procedure comes with an extraordinarily high complication rate.

From the data provided, it is impossible to tell whether the 47 males who underwent “chest masculinisation” surgery were all very confused females, males who had previously undergone medical sex changes and were seeking to reverse their chest surgery, or a combination of the two.

Such confusion is not confined to the healthcare setting. In the criminal justice system, crimes are now frequently recorded based on the self-declared gender identity of the offender, rather than the material reality of their sex.

Around the same time that police forces in the UK started recording crimes by gender identity rather than biological sex, the number of “female” pedophiles increased dramatically.

The Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) also records gender identity rather than biological sex, making it difficult to track how many trans-identified males there are in women’s prisons.

Oregon’s HB 2002 passed the House floor on May 1. The bill requires that health insurance companies cover “medically necessary” procedures such as hair electrolysis, tracheal shaves, and facial feminization surgery for trans-identified males, but when Diehl proposed an amendment to add coverage for detransition-related treatments, it was flatly rejected by Democrats.

Diehl believes the reason for this refusal is that detransition challenges the approved narrative of the modern trans rights movement - that gender identity, defined vaguely as one’s internal sense of self, cannot be changed. Those who advocate for child and adolescent sex changes claim that healthcare professionals are able to determine if someone was “born in the wrong body.

“So here is the crux of the issue: To detransition is to demonstrate that gender identity is not immutable,” tweeted Diehl. “By including detransition treatment coverage in the bill, the true believers would be acknowledging that detranstion is real, that some children and young adults are being harmed, and that the professional can be wrong.”

“And that is simply something they cannot admit.”