HHS gold standard study flips ‘gender affirming care’ on its head as Dems keep pushing trans issues at SCOTUS
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a peer-reviewed report that found medical procedures to alter a child's biological sex pose serious long-term dangers to children as Democrats...
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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a peer-reviewed report that found medical procedures to alter a child's biological sex pose serious long-term dangers to children as Democrats continue promoting transgender issues before the nation's highest court. "The American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics peddled the lie that chemical and surgical sex-rejecting procedures could be good for children," HHS chief Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. said in a Wednesday press release. "They betrayed their oath to first do no harm, and their so-called ‘gender-affirming care’ has inflicted lasting physical and psychological damage on vulnerable young people. That is not medicine — it’s malpractice." The report was released through the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health and found that operations working to reject a child's biological sex — including the use of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgical operations — "are significant, long term, and too often ignored or inadequately tracked." "What are we going to tell the young people who can’t have children because the medical profession stole that from them?" said Assistant Secretary for Health Brian Christine said. "Our report is an urgent wake-up call to doctors and parents about the clear dangers of trying to turn girls into boys and vice versa." BIDEN LEGACY INCLUDES RELENTLESS PUSH FOR TRANSGENDER AGENDA The study was peer-reviewed and authored by nine medical doctors, PhD holders and others who previously have spoken out against the dangers surrounding children attempting to alter their biological sex. The authors included experts associated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Duke University, the Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine, the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, and other colleges and groups. The November report was an update to HHS' May report that reviewed the evidence and best practices for children with gender dysphoria, which was cr…