Federally funded gender center ‘under guise of care’ uses dubious diagnoses for hormone drugs

A Chicago health facility diagnoses transgender patients with a vague medical condition to prescribe cross-sex hormones despite growing suspicion that the diagnosis is fraudulent.

The Howard Brown Health Center’s website says it avoids stigmatizing transgender patients on hormones by giving their insurance providers a diagnosis for an unspecified “endocrine disorder,” which typically refers to one’s […] ...