Oregon's Troubling Transgender Story; Why Are They Pumping Minors Full of Puberty Blockers?

Leor Sapir : Jul 21, 2026
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[City-Journal.org] A study recently published in Research Connections drew attention for finding very high rates (relatively speaking) of puberty-blocker and cross-sex hormone uptake among adolescents in Oregon. A separate insurance database analysis by the Manhattan Institute, published here for the first time, adds further detail, suggesting that Oregon has become a national leader in transgender diagnoses and medical intervention. Not coincidentally, Oregon is the only state in the country to have formally adopted the World Professional Association for Transgender Health's recommendations as the basis for its Medicaid benefits. And it did so despite its own health regulatory body acknowledging the absence of supportive evidence ... Last year, a study published in JAMA Pediatrics reported that approximately one in 1,000 American teens was prescribed cross-sex hormones by age 17. The Oregon rate was two to three times higher than that. Indeed, a closer look at the data revealed that hormone prescriptions in Oregon were four to five times the national rate among 14- and 15-year-olds, while puberty-blocker uptake was up to six times the national rate at age 14... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here Click Here to read. (Screengrab image: via YouTube-Gov Tina Kotek)