""The Hsiao Declaration includes two CHOP-specific allegations. Both are threadbare, of dubious origin, and so heavily qualified and caveated as to offer the Court no meaningful information," reads the brief, filed by Lawrence McMichael and attorneys for the Philadelphia hospital. Hsiao asserted in a legal declaration that over the course of seven years, more than 250 CHOP patients were diagnosed with "precocious puberty" at age 10 or older, then claimed that was "well beyond the age at which children are typically diagnosed.""
""Even assuming the cited figure is atypically high, the Government's allegation is far too underdeveloped to offer useful information. For one thing, the provenance of the dataset is entirely unknown. The Hsiao Declaration does not indicate whether it might include patients who were diagnosed at a younger age by another provider," the CHOP brief states. "And critically, the Declaration does not specify how many patients received treatment for gender dysphoria.""
Attorneys for the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia challenged a Department of Justice subpoena seeking private medical records of minors receiving gender-affirming care. The challenge asserts that data submitted by the Acting Director of the Consumer Protection Branch are threadbare, of dubious origin, and heavily qualified. The DOJ declaration claimed over 250 CHOP patients were diagnosed with precocious puberty at age 10 or older and suggested that exceeded typical diagnosis ages, but it provided no comparative hospital data, no provenance for the dataset, and no specification of how many patients received gender dysphoria treatment.
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