NASHVILLE, Tenn.—Doctors across the country have seemingly thrown caution to the wind, prescribing experimental drugs to block puberty and to chemically alter young people’s bodies in the name of a nebulous gender identity. Rising rates for medical malpractice insurance may cause them to think twice, however.
“Clinics that are getting into this kind of work … were surprised at the rates they were being quoted for malpractice insurance,” Latham Watts, vice president of public affairs at the nonprofit law firm Alliance Defending Freedom, told “The Daily Signal Podcast.”
“Some of the quotes they were getting back were five times what they were expecting, and those rates continue to rise,” Watts explained in an interview at the National Religious Broadcasters Convention in February.
Many of the teens who once identified as transgender and took so-called…
