Dartmouth Health Archives

Dartmouth Health Promotes Medical Harm at “Family Friendly” Pride Event

August 3, 2026 Beth Scaer

Dr. John Turco at Dartmouth Health is being sued by detransitioner Amanda Stewart for the serious harm she suffered when he put her on high levels of testosterone. Dartmouth Health lost its ability to medically transition kids with puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones after laws were passed in New Hampshire to ban those practices, with … Read more

Scaer: Dartmouth Health’s Misleading Statements on “Gender-Affirming Care” Compiled for AG Bondi Probe

July 9, 2025 Beth Scaer

On April 22, US Attorney General Pam Bondi sent a letter to state Medicaid directors about the actions they need to take to “prevent the mutilation of American children.” The Department of Justice will investigate and hold accountable medical providers and pharmaceutical companies that mislead the public about the long-term side effects of chemical and … Read more

Dartmouth Health’s Bird-Brained Bird Flu Mask Guidance

February 24, 2025 Steve MacDonald

You could put every ‘confirmed’ case of Bird Flu in the United States (in humans) on a Greyhound Bus. Fewer than 70 cases (68) out of a population of 340 million (ish). That’s 0.00002%. You’re more likely to get struck by lightning (1 in 15,300). And that’s just catching it. There have been no fatal … Read more

NH Conservatives Have a Personnel Problem

February 18, 2025 Ian Huyett

In January, news broke that Shannon Buttermore—a Gilford mother of three—had been denied a kidney transplant by Dartmouth Hitchcock because she refused a COVID vaccine shot. Dartmouth’s actions were an open violation of New Hampshire’s 2022 “Patients Bill of Rights,” which prohibits the denial of medical care on the basis of vaccination status. Although Buttermore had … Read more

New Hampshire Woman Sues Doctors for Gruesome “Gender Affirming Care”

July 1, 2024 Stephen Scaer

A Jaffrey, NH detransitioner is suing the local clinicians who brushed aside concerns about her autism and severe mental health disorders and pushed her down a path of testosterone and harmful, unnecessary surgeries.

England Finds No Evidence for Transing Kids. Will Dartmouth Health Listen?

April 16, 2024 Stephen Scaer

There is no sound evidence that puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones improve mental health. “The reality is that we have no good evidence on the long-term outcomes of interventions to manage gender-related distress.”

Dartmouth Health Ignores the Evidence

April 8, 2024 Stephen Scaer

A recent op-ed “Truth about gender-affirming care for NH youth from Dartmouth Health Children’s” assures us Dartmouth’s practices are grounded in “evidence-based treatment protocols.”

Republican NH State Senator Wants To Remove “Mother” and “Father” From Birth Certificates

February 21, 2024February 21, 2024 Beth Scaer

Senator Sharon Carson is the state senator for the Republican towns of Auburn, Hudson, and Londonderry, New Hampshire and she is the prime sponsor for bill SB422 which would remove the words “mother” and “father” from birth records and replace them with “birth parent” and “non-birth parent.”

Night Cap: Sit Down and Shut Up: The Myth of Parent Involvement in Child Transing

November 19, 2023 Stephen Scaer

Gender clinics welcome parent involvement as long as they do what they’re told.

Dartmouth Health recently testified that giving children puberty blockers and hormones is “rendered following consultation with medical and mental health professionals and parents and guardians.” But parents are given one option: social and medical transition.

Dartmouth Health Falsely Claims Child-Transing “Well-Researched”

November 16, 2023 Stephen Scaer

If Dartmouth Health is right that administering puberty blockers and hormones to boys and girls to try to make them look like the opposite sex is medically necessary, safe, and well-researched, then systematic reviews that say otherwise by France, the United Kingdom, Norway, Sweden, and Finland are wrong.

Detransitioner Sues American Academy of Pediatrics for Fraud and Conspiracy

November 14, 2023October 30, 2023 Stephen Scaer

A detransitioner who, as a 14-year-old girl, was coerced into taking testosterone that left her with vaginal atrophy, weak bones, and possible infertility is suing the experts who harmed her for malpractice, civil conspiracy, and fraud.

Dartmouth Health Staff Accuse Pediatricians Concerned About Sterilizing Children of Transphobia

August 31, 2023 Stephen Scaer

Pediatricians who aren’t on board with pronouns, puberty blockers, and hormones are guilty of “transphobia” and need help, according to Dartmouth Health staff. They suggest pediatricians reflect on their “implicit bias” and that they “do some personal work in understanding how biases negatively affect the care they provide.”

Experts: Child Transing Doesn’t Reduce Suicide

July 19, 2023 Stephen Scaer

The US medical industry got a wakeup call about its affirmative-care model of medically transitioning children. In a July 14 letter to the Wall Street Journal, 21 clinicians and researchers from nine countries, including Finland’s leading expert, Riittakerttu Kaltiala, challenged Endocrine Society President Stephen Hammes’ recent claim that more than 2,000 studies clearly demonstrate that the euphemistically-called gender-affirming care for children improves well-being and reduces suicide.

Psychologist Celebrated for Transing Autistic Kids

June 1, 2023 Stephen Scaer

Dartmouth Health recognized Psychologist Alisa Hurwitz with an Ongoing Commitment Social Justice Award for her role in medically transitioning youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).

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Are Babies Worth More Dead Than Alive to Dartmouth Health?

April 16, 2023 Beth Scaer

Dartmouth Health sent their white-coated doctors to the public hearing for HB224 in front of the NH Senate Judiciary Committee. HB224 would remove all legal and civil penalties from the Fetal Life Protection Act, which restricts abortion after six months of pregnancy in New Hampshire.

Trans or Die: The Ideological Blindness of a Dartmouth Health Endocrinologist

April 7, 2023 Stephen Scaer

The pressure parents face from Dartmouth Health to medically transition their gender-confused children was brought to light in a guest editorial by endocrinologist Francis Lim-Liberty, MD.

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The Trans Suicide Myth and Blackmail Politics

March 23, 2023 Stephen Scaer

“Rates of suicide are as high as 40% in transgender youth,” Dr. Simrun Bal of Dartmouth Health testified at the New Hampshire State House. “Imagine that if there are 100 people in this room, 40 of us would have attempted suicide.”

Dartmouth Child Transing Physician Astonishingly Ignorant

March 21, 2023 Stephen Scaer

Dr. Simrun Bal of Dartmouth Health testified at a public hearing at the New Hampshire State House that she doesn’t know whether puberty blockers are completely reversible, even though these chemicals are known to cause sterility and sexual dysfunction for children who take them through puberty.

Is Dartmouth Health’s Pediatric Gender Clinic Destroying Kids’ Sexual Function?

January 21, 2023 Stephen Scaer

Is Dartmouth Health’s Pediatric and Adolescent Transgender Health Program destroying children’s future fertility and sexual function by administering puberty blockers to 10-year-olds?

Gender Clinics Are Coming for Your Autistic Children

July 22, 2022July 22, 2022 Stephen Scaer

A psychologist with a Manchester, NH, pediatric gender clinic admits that clinicians don’t know why they’re seeing so many autistic kids who think they’re trans, but they’re medicalizing them anyway.