Kentucky Clinic Refutes Andy Beshear’s Claim That Youth Gender Reassignment Surgeries ‘Don’t...

A University of Kentucky clinic is admitting it performed gender reassignment surgeries on minors before state lawmakers passed a ban on those procedures—legislation that Democratic governor Andy Beshear vetoed because he said the surgeries "don't happen in Kentucky."

In a March 2 letter obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, the university's Transform Health clinic said it has "in recent years performed a small number of non-genital gender reassignment surgeries on minors, such as mastectomies." Gender reassignment mastectomies, or so-called top surgeries, remove a biological female's healthy breast tissue to create "a more masculine-looking chest." The University of Kentucky confirmed the letter's accuracy, telling the Free Beacon that it has performed "non-genital gender reassignment surgeries" on patients as young as 16.