Father Says His Teenage Daughter ‘Began Mentioning a Trans Lifestyle and Adopted a Male Name’ While Being Treated at Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital
June 21, 2024 Tom Pappert
The distraught father of a teenage daughter contacted The Tennessee Star on Thursday and expressed his concern about the treatment his daughter has been receiving at Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital, part of Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC).
The Star received the email after it published the notes taken by a Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) investigator who reviewed at least 75 pages of documents the department obtained from VUMC following a June 1, 2023 search warrant.
Additionally, The Star published police documents and reviewed MNPD materials which confirm Covenant School killer Audrey Elizabeth Hale was a 22-year mental health patient at VUMC, and was prescribed at least five medications, including three anti-anxiety medications and an antidepressant, prior to her attack.
“I am writing to you as a result of your investigation regarding Audrey Hale and the reprehensible ‘care’ she received at Vanderbilt [Psychiatric Hospital], ” the father told The Star.
The father explained that he and his daughter’s mother are divorced and the the mother has custody of the daughter.
He wrote that his daughter, still a minor teenager, “was briefly admitted to Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital in late 2020 and again in 2021.”
The father continued, “During her time at the Psychiatric Hospital, my daughter began mentioning a trans lifestyle and adopted a male name.”
Born a biological female, Hale identified as a transgender man at the time of her devastating March 27, 2023 attack on the Covenant School that claimed the lives of three 9-year-old students and three adult staff members.
It is unclear when Hale began identifying as a transgender male, but she was already using the name Aiden at the beginning of her journal, which appears to have been started in January 2023.
The distraught father of the teenage girl told The Star, “I have reason but no concrete proof to believe that the Psychiatric Hospital played a role in molding and shaping her into wanting to live a trans lifestyle.”
The father’s email, highlighting his concerns about VUMC and its treatment of his daughter, was sent after The Star reported a source familiar with the Covenant investigation also told The Star that MNPD Chief John Drake acknowledged VUMC staff failed their duty to warn Hale’s intended victims, potentially opening them to civil liability for Hale’s attack.
Additionally, the notes by an MNPD investigator claim Hale told VUMC personnel she experienced fantasies of committing suicide, killing her father and orchestrating a mass shooting on a school. Hale also wrote about her desire to murder her father in the journal police recovered from her vehicle, which The Star confirmed it obtained on June 5.
“Knowing what I now know, I also believe that the same people who treated Audrey Hale have treated and may well be presently treating my daughter,” the father told The Star.
He continued, “This begs the question – is Vanderbilt’s Psychiatric Hospital an incubator for creating psychologically compromised trans youth who are then referred for transition surgery at the main hospital?”
VUMC told The Star earlier this week it cannot comment on the documents which claim Hale was treated at the hospital and expressed violent fantasies due to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability (HIPAA) Act.
Previously, VUMC did not respond to inquiries from The Star that sought to establish whether Hale sought gender affirming care at VUMC, or whether she informed her mental health care team at VUMC that she identified as a transgender man named Aiden.
The Star first contacted VUMC for comment on June 4, after retired MNPD Lieutenant Garet Davidson claimed mental health professionals failed to warn law enforcement after learning of Hale’s fantasies.
“My point of all of this is IF (in caps for a reason) [VUMC] did this to Audrey Hale as well as my daughter, there MUST be others who are in the same predicament,” the father told The Star.
He declared, “Without question [VUMC] should be held accountable for what they did to Audrey but possibly have done to my daughter and other youngsters.”
Police documents show Hale was treated by VUMC beginning in 2001, when she was just six. The killer had one psychologist until 2019, when she was reportedly referred for commitment at VUMC.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center Doctor Called Transgender Surgery ‘Big Money’ Year Before Covenant Killer Audrey Hale was Referred for Commitment
June 21, 2024 Tom Pappert
Born a biological female, Covenant School killer Audrey Elizabeth Hale began identifying as a transgender man and using the name Aiden prior to her devastating attack which claimed the lives of three 9-year-old students and three adults on March 27, 2023.
Police documents published by The Tennessee Star determined Hale was a 22-year mental health patient of Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), the home of a controversial transgender program that is reportedly considered “big money” for the hospital.
In one 2018 video, posted to the social media platform X by The Daily Wire host Matt Walsh, a VUMC staff member identified as Dr. Shayne Taylor claimed she convinced the hospital to begin offering gender affirming care because it is a “big money maker.”
“It’s a lot of money. The surgeries make a lot of money,” stated Taylor (pictured above). “Female to male chest reconstruction can bring in $40,000.”
The doctor continued, “A patient just on routine hormone treatment, that I’m seeing just a few times a year, can bring in several thousand dollars.”
A second video, also posted to X by Walsh, seems to suggest VUMC in 2018 was concerned not all staff members would support the push to provide for transgender treatments.
VUMC, according to Walsh, “was apparently concerned that not all of its staff would be on board. Dr. Ellen Clayton warned that ‘conscientious objections’ are ‘problematic.’ Anyone who decides not to be involved in transition surgeries due to ‘religious beliefs’ will face ‘consequences.'”
Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti opened an investigation into VUMC after the publication of this and other videos by Walsh, and VUMC now says it no longer offers transgender surgeries to minor patients.
While it is unclear when Hale began identifying as transgender, audio from a Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) interview with her parents, Ronald and Norma Hale, revealed that Hale presented her new gender identity to her parents after her 25th birthday when Hale was no longer covered by her parents’ health insurance.
Hale was born on March 24, 1995, which means she told her parents of her desire to become a transgender man sometime after March 24, 2020.
In the journal Hale wrote that was recovered by police from her vehicle, which was given to The Tennessee Star by a source familiar with the Covenant investigation, she almost exclusively referred to herself as a transgender man. Hale appeared to have started this journal in January 2023.
However, police documents obtained by The Star revealed Hale began receiving treatment from mental health professionals affiliated with VUMC in 2001 when she was a six-year-old.
The Star additionally learned that Hale’s first psychologist, who was previously identified to The Star, referred Hale to VUMC for commitment in 2019.
Texas Children’s Hospital Still Leaning into Gender Ideology Even after Trans-Procedure Scandal
By CAROLINE DOWNEY June 24, 2024 6:30 AM
Texas Children’s Hospital is at the center of a public-relations firestorm for covertly performing experimental sex-change surgeries and hormone therapies on gender-confused children — but that blowback hasn’t stopped the hospital from encouraging employees to embrace gender ideology in their interactions with patients.
Last year, Dr. Eithan Haim, then a surgeon at TCH, revealed that the Houston-based hospital was conducting transition surgeries on and administering cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers to children, despite leadership announcing it had stopped these interventions the year before, in accordance with a legal opinion issued by the state attorney general declaring such procedures abusive.
Despite significant public backlash and the launch of an investigation by Texas attorney general Ken Paxton into Haim’s revelations, the hospital’s commitment to gender ideology persists. While the medical procedures have apparently stopped, the TCH human-resources department still requires that its staff complete a training for interacting with gender-confused patients. The training — most recently administered last month, according to a TCH staff member — implies that staff should unquestioningly affirm patients’ dysphoria, regardless of their age or whether their self-diagnosis has been confirmed by a mental-health professional or parent
Mandatory Gender Training
The training slides, obtained by National Review, teach medical professionals that transgender individuals face obstacles in accessing adequate health-care coverage, alluding to transition hormone therapy and surgeries. The presentation cites the 2022 Healthcare Equality Index from the Human Rights Campaign, quoting: “No one facing health concerns should also have to worry about receiving inequitable or substandard care because of their LGBTQIA+ status.”
A training slide titled, “The Benefits of Understanding Sexuality, Gender, Names (SGN) for Healthcare Providers” instructs TCH employees to affirm gender-dysphoric patients in the way they collect their personal information. Last year’s training touches on very similar themes, an employee at TCH told National Review.
“Knowing the answers to sexual orientation and gender identity questions allows caregivers to ask questions and gather important patient data for those whose sex at birth is different than their gender identity, those whose anatomy at birth does not fit into a male or female category i.e., intersex, and transgender patients,” the slide reads, reinforcing the core tenet of radical gender ideology that a person can be born in the wrong body.
Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas out of Olympics after losing legal battle
- Athlete said rules were ‘invalid and unlawful’
- World Aquatics: ‘Major step to protect women’s sport’
The US swimmer Lia Thomas, who rose to global prominence after becoming the first transgender athlete to win a NCAA college title in March 2022, has lost a legal case against World Aquatics at the court of arbitration for sport – and with it any hopes of making next month’s Paris Olympics.
The 25-year-old also remains barred from swimming in the female category after failing to overturn rules introduced by swimming’s governing body in the summer of 2022, which prohibit anyone who has undergone “any part of male puberty” from the female category.
Thomas had argued that those rules should be declared “invalid and unlawful” as they were contrary to the Olympic charter and the World Aquatics constitution.
However, in a 24-page decision, the court concluded that Thomas was “simply not entitled to engage with eligibility to compete in WA competitions” as someone who was no longer a member of USA swimming.
The news was welcomed by World Aquatics, who hailed it as “a major step forward in our efforts to protect women’s sport”.
“World Aquatics is dedicated to fostering an environment that promotes fairness, respect, and equal opportunities for athletes of all genders and we reaffirm this pledge,” it added.
World Aquatics introduced its new rules after Thomas beat Olympic silver medalist Emma Weyant by 1.75sec to win NCAA gold in the women’s 500-yard freestyle in 2022.
In a scientific document that informed its decision, it said swimmers such as Thomas retained significant physical advantages – in endurance, power, speed, strength and lung size – from undergoing male puberty, even after reducing their testosterone levels through medication.
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