While Chip Keating sat on the OU Health board, the Children’s Hospital advertised gender-transition procedures for kids.
From 2019 to 2023, Chip Keating served on the board of OU Health. During that period, OU Children’s Hospital openly marketed its “Roy G. Biv” program, which the hospital’s own website described as offering services to help adolescents “benefit” from puberty blockers, gender-affirming hormone therapy, and finding surgeons who perform gender-affirming surgeries. The hospital also boasted of being “the only interdisciplinary clinic in the state that provides gender-related care to patients under the age of 16 years” and a founding member of the Gender Affirming Professionals Network. OU Health did not end these services until late September 2022 — only after the state legislature threatened to pull its funding.
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“Oklahoma Children’s Hospital Ends ‘Gender Medicine Services’ After State Threatens Funding,” Daily Caller, 9/27/22 — https://dailycaller.com/2022/09/27/oklahoma-childrens-hospital-ends-gender-medicine-services-state-funding/
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OU Health “Roy G. Biv” program page (Internet Archive, captured 5/20/22) — https://web.archive.org/
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“Charles McCall Welcomes Chip Keating to Governor’s Race, Criticizes Record,” The Oklahoma Post, 10/1/25
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“‘Find solutions’: Chip Keating announces campaign for governor at OCPAC event,” NonDoc, 10/1/25 — https://nondoc.com/