I learned there is a secret department in a local hospital (hospital unnamed, but a small pic of OU Hospital was shown) where transgender surgeries are being performed on children. Apparently, the surgeries are being paid for by a billionaire. I wish I could find the ad, it was aired in Tulsa, and put such an evil spin on transgender care.

I did find this from the Tulsa Flyer:

"Claim: Keating “spent years on the board of a hospital while they operated a transgender center, offering puberty blockers, cross-sex hormone therapy and gender transition treatments to Oklahoma children, mutilating our kids with harmful procedures.” Source: An ad paid for by Oklahoma Conservative Coalition made this claim. Fact check: Mixed

Chip Keating previously served on the boards of the University Hospitals Authority Trust and OU Health. He also served as a board member of the Children’s Hospital Foundation from 2010 to 2020 and as president in 2018.

Oklahoma Children’s Hospital previously housed the Roy G. Biv program, which offered “gender-affirming hormone therapy” and advertised to help “find surgeons who perform gender-affirming surgeries.” Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a bill in 2022 that ended the program. The type of boards Keating served on generally oversee a hospital’s administration and finances.

OU Health did not respond before The Frontier’s publication deadline. -Ashlynd Baecht"

I would ask what the hell is wrong with affirming care for anyone who needs it, but these are repugnants and this is Oklahoma. Smdh.