BREAKING: First U.S. Pediatric Gender Clinic Erases Its Online History
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 8, 2025 – St. Louis, MO
BREAKING: First U.S. Pediatric Gender Clinic Erases Its Online History
The LGB Courage Coalition has learned that Boston Children’s Hospital has deliberately blocked the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine from preserving historical versions of its Gender Multispecialty Service (GeMS) webpages.
Founded in 2007, GeMS was the first pediatric gender clinic in the United States and has played an outsized role in shaping youth gender medicine worldwide. Its protocols, promotional materials, and public statements have been cited by other hospitals, advocacy groups, and government agencies as justification for introducing or expanding medical interventions for minors. Because of GeMS’s central place in the history of pediatric gender medicine, its past public communications are of significant historical and ethical interest.
On the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, old versions of nearly every page and program on the Boston Children’s Hospital website are viewable — except for the GeMS page, which returns a special notice: “This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine.”
This is not the standard “unavailable” message that appears when a page simply wasn’t captured. The “excluded” notice means the website owner has specifically requested that the page not be included in the archive.
This targeted exclusion appears to coincide with the quiet removal of key references to surgeries and other irreversible interventions from the hospital’s live site. Blocking the public from accessing archived versions further shields these changes from scrutiny.
“Boston Children’s Hospital is not just rewriting its own history — it is erasing it,” said Jamie Reed, Co-Executive Director of the LGB Courage Coalition. “At a time when public trust in pediatric medicine depends on transparency, deliberately concealing historical records of controversial medical services raises profound ethical concerns.”
The LGB Courage Coalition calls on Boston Children’s Hospital to immediately reverse the block and restore full access to archived pages and urges medical ethics boards and legislators to investigate transparency practices at pediatric hospitals providing gender-related interventions.
What This Means
The Wayback Machine has two main messages for unavailable pages:
Unavailable: Means the page was never captured or archived.
Excluded: Means the website owner has explicitly requested that the page be blocked from archiving.
The GeMS page shows the “Excluded” message — a deliberate choice by Boston Children’s Hospital to hide its history from the public record.
About the LGB Courage Coalition
The LGB Courage Coalition is a lesbian and gay advocacy group committed to promoting evidence-based medical care, ending the medicalization of gender nonconformity, safeguarding homosexual rights, and building a pathway back for LGB individuals who have undergone medicalization. We believe no child should be subjected to the material harms caused by puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and “gender-affirming” surgeries.
Media Contact:
lgbcouragecoalition@gmail.com
This is is Stalin-style shit. This is literally what Stalin used to do -- erase history. Erase records. And now Boston (and maybe others in the future?) is following suit.
Hey, "trans" "allies" -- what gives? If your model of "care" is so great, so benign, so necessary, why are you erasing its history??
This coalition continues to “nail it”! I don’t think there could be a more powerful force than the LGB community, which knows full well the struggles same sex attracted children face to embrace themselves. I’m grateful, and honestly blown away by the strides they are making.