The Department of Health and Human Services has released a report that casts serious doubt on the propriety of so-called “gender-affirming care,” and questioning the safety of treatments such as puberty blockers.
Now, this report is not a lone document in the world. After all, the British government issued the Cass Report last year which also found that “gender-affirming care” simply isn’t “affirming” anything, “gender” anything”,” or any sort of “care.”
In her report, Dr. Hilary Cass said there is “no good evidence on the long-term outcomes of interventions to manage gender-related distress,” and young people have been caught up in a “stormy social discourse” about transgenderism (i.e. social contagion).
Since that report came out, British health authorities have put an end to such care for minors and stopped paying for puberty blockers and the like.
Now, the U.S. looks to be headed down that road, as well.
Per Just The News:
The 400-page report breaks from the opinions of many major medical groups in the United States, such as the American Medical Association, who have come out in favor of gender-affirming care for transgender minors.
The department claimed that there was a “lack of robust evidence” to support the use of puberty blockers, surgeries, or other medical procedures and treatments that have been used to help minors transition away from their biological sex.
“Our duty is to protect our nation’s children—not expose them to unproven and irreversible medical interventions,” National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya said. “We must follow the gold standard of science, not activist agendas.”
The report also slammed doctors for “fail[ing] their patients” by providing them with irreversible surgical and hormonal care instead of insisting on alternative treatments.
“A central theme of this review is that many U.S. medical professionals and associations have fallen short of their duty to prioritize the health interests of young patients,” the report concludes.
This is all good news.
If an adult wishes to mutilate himself over his mental illness, then at some point we’d be forced to allow them to lead their life. But this sort of stuff should be illegal to visit upon minors.
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