Johns Hopkins Children’s Center

Health Systems Johns Hopkins Health System

Johns Hopkins Children’s Center

501(c)(3)

1800 Orleans St.
Baltimore, MD

4

Total Sex Change Patients

info icon Total unique children who underwent gender-affirming procedures or hormone/puberty blocker therapy.
4

Total Surgery Patients

info icon Total unique children who underwent gender-affirming surgical procedures.
0

Total Hormone and Puberty Blocker Patients

info icon Total unique children who were prescribed puberty blockers or received gender-affirming hormone therapy.

Total Prescriptions Written

info icon Total number of scripts for puberty blockers or gender-affirming hormones.
$53,982

Total Submitted Charges

info icon Total amount submitted by providers or pharmacies to insurance for services, treatments, or prescriptions, before any reviews or adjustments. Includes medical procedures and prescription charges but may not reflect the final amount after negotiations.

Johns Hopkins Children’s Center is the pediatric hospital at Johns Hopkins. The children’s hospital is a part of Johns Hopkins Medicine, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit hospital. Johns Hopkins Children’s Center operates the Johns Hopkins Emerge Gender and Sexuality Clinic as part of the Center for Adolescent/Young Adult Health. The clinic offers menstrual suppression, puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and gender surgical referrals. Claims data confirms that the Johns Hopkins Hospital billed for hormone therapy, puberty blockers, and gender surgeries for minors. On average, providers at Johns Hopkins Hospital write 15 gender-related prescriptions per patient in their clinic.

For more information on the specific procedure and diagnostic codes and other methodology used to make these determination, read our white paper here.

Key Findings

The Johns Hopkins Emerge Gender and Sexuality Clinic is part of the Center for Adolescent/Young Adult Health and the Johns Hopkins Center For Transgender And Gender Expansive Health.

The Center for Adolescent/Young Adult Health is part of Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and offers gender care and LGBTQ care.

The Emerge Gender and Sexuality Clinic for children, adolescents and young adults provides integrated, interdisciplinary adolescent, social work and psychology services for transgender and gender nonbinary youth ages 6 to 25 years.” “Clinical services” include puberty blockades, cross sex hormones, and menstrual suppression.

The Emerge Gender and Sexuality Clinic also provides referrals for gender affirmation surgery for adolescents and young adults. It emphasizes that “gender affirming surgery is only offered to patients aged 18+.”

The Johns Hopkins Center for Transgender and Gender Expansive Health claims they offers “comprehensive, evidence-based and affirming care for transgender youth and adults that is in line with the standards of care set by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH).”

In the early 1960s, Johns Hopkins was a trailblazer for “gender-identity science,” and its Baltimore hospital was the site of the nation’s first gender-affirmation surgery.

In October 2016, the former Chief of Psychiatry McHugh co-authored a report with a Hopkins scholar in residence, arguing that neither sexual orientation nor gender identity are biologically determined.

Hopkins stopped performing surgeries in 1979 as the Chief of Psychiatry Paul McHugh “believed that by conducting surgeries ‘Hopkins was fundamentally cooperating with a mental illness,’ concurring with the findings of a study by Jon Meyer, who ran the hospital’s Sexual Behaviors Consultation Unit.”

In October 2022, STAT published an article detailing Johns Hopkins’ opening of a Center for Transgender Care.

Sex Change Treatments Offered

The Center for Adolescent/Young Adult Health

The Center for Adolescent/Young Adult Health is part of Johns Hopkins Children’s Center offers gender care and LGBTQ care. Dr. Maria E. Trent heads the center. The Johns Hopkins Emerge Gender and Sexuality Clinic is part of the Center for Adolescent/Young Adult Health and the Johns Hopkins Center For Transgender And Gender Expansive Health

Sex Change Treatments Offered:
  • Puberty blockades
  • Cross sex hormones
  • Menstrual suppression
  • Referral for gender affirmation surgery for adolescents and young adults

The center emphasizes that “gender affirming surgery is only offered to patients aged 18+.”

The Johns Hopkins Center for Transgender and Gender Expansive Health

The Johns Hopkins Center for Transgender and Gender Expansive Health claims they offers “comprehensive, evidence-based and affirming care for transgender youth and adults that is in line with the standards of care set by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH).” The Center’s medical director is Dr. Fan Liang.

The center offers the following sex change treatments for children and adolescents:
  • Dermatology
  • Facial gender surgery
  • Fertility
  • Gynecology and obstetrics
  • Hormone treatment
  • Hysterectomy
  • Mental health
  • Penile construction (phalloplasty/metoidioplasty)
  • Primary care
  • Top surgery (mastectomy or augmentation)
  • Urology
  • Vaginal construction (vaginoplasty)
  • Voice therapy

 

Definitions

SEX CHANGE PATIENTS: Total unique children who underwent “gender-affirming” surgical procedures or hormone/puberty blocker therapy.

TOTAL SURGERY PATIENTS: Total unique children who underwent “gender-affirming” surgical procedures.

TOTAL HORMONE AND PUBERTY BLOCKERS PATIENTS: Total unique children who were prescribed puberty blockers or received gender-affirming hormone therapy.

TOTAL PRESCRIPTIONS WRITTEN: Total number of prescriptions written by a provider for puberty blockers or gender-affirming hormones for children.

TOTAL SUBMITTED CHARGES: This is the initial amount a healthcare provider or pharmacy submits to the insurance company for a specific service, treatment, or prescription before the insurance company reviews and adjusts the payment. This value includes both the pharmacy-submitted cost of prescription drug claims and the line-item charges associated with medical procedures. Please note that this amount does not necessarily reflect the full cost of the procedure or prescription, as it is subject to adjustments and negotiations by the insurance company.

 

Leadership

Executive Leadership

Name Title Compensation
David Joel Hackam, MD Surgeon-in-Chief N/A
Margaret R. Moon Pediatrician-in-Chief N/A

The current leadership/titles are based on the Johns Hopkins Medicine leadership website.

No board of trustees at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center was identified.

 

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