Most "gender transition" surgeries on minors are covered by insurance

Over 1,100 adolescents underwent gender transition surgery from 2016 through 2019, according to a new study published in JAMA Pediatrics, the journal of the American Medical Association. No less shocking than the cumulative total is the accelerating rate from year to year.

Using data from the Nationwide Ambulatory Surgery Sample, researchers at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine estimated that approximately 100 gender transition surgeries were performed on adolescents in 2016, over 200 in 2017, over 300 in 2018, and a whopping 489 in 2019.

That represents a nearly fivefold increase over a span of four years. Ages ranged from 12 to 17, with 16 as the median. Altogether, researchers estimated the total number of gender transition surgeries performed on minors from 2016 through 2019 to be 1,130.