Charlie Kirk: Breaking Down The Incentives For Gender Affirming Procedures

Charlie Kirk welcomes Jeff Younger to break down what the incentives are for gender affirming procedures that include "castration" of young men.

Transcript below.

Kirk: Can you talk about the money that is being made here? Do you believe there was a heavy and significant financial incentive to castrate your son?

Younger: Yeah. So first of all, Obama created an incentive by giving subsidies to insurance companies that pay for these procedures and mandated that the insurance companies pay for these procedures. That's the first thing.

The second thing is the drugs that are used are among the most expensive drugs sold in the United States. The hospitals get a significant markup and the pharmacology companies get tremendous profits from it. The estimates in the Texas gender clinics was that each child that goes into the gender clinic is approximately a four and a half million [dollar] lifetime income stream to these clinics because they can't get off the drugs.”

Once they have the surgeries, what it essentially amounts to is these children have an open wound, and the so-called gender-affirming care after they do the surgeries is functionally identical to outpatient wound care, because they have to keep the wound open because the body will naturally close up and grow all this stuff back together. So they have to keep the wound open and have permanent lifetime wound care, which is very painful and very expensive and very lucrative for the clinics.