Republican legislators call for VUMC to end trans surgeries on minors

House Speaker Cameron Sexton
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Republican members of the Tennessee House of Representatives issued a letter to Vanderbilt University Medical Center on Wednesday asking VUMC's Board of Directors to "take immediate action by halting all permanent gender transitioning surgeries being performed on minor children."

The letter follows allegations in a Tweet thread by Daily Wire political commentator and activist Matt Walsh that the Nashville hospital is operating a “child castration business.”

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