RFK's HHS dropped a report called "Wolves in White Coats" claiming a nationwide fraud scheme behind trans health care for minors, and JD Vance took it straight to Fox News demanding a DOJ investigation. Only problem: HHS didn't write it. Lydia and Thomas track down who actually did, and the shaky evidence behind it. Then there's an Ohio Senate attack ad built on a de-transitioner's story that isn't quite what it seems. You sure about that, Senate Leadership Fund?

• "Wolves in White Coats: Doctors and Hospitals Who Pushed and Profited from the Fraud of 'Gender Medicine'", U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (8/13/2026)

• Do No Harm's "Stop the Harm" database methodology document

• Snopes fact-check of the "Wolves in White Coats" report

• Study on gender-affirming surgery utilization among cisgender and transgender/gender-diverse minors, JAMA Network Open (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)

• Ads misleadingly link Ohio's Sherrod Brown to Texas woman who had gender transition-related surgery, Politifact (10/14/2026)

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