HHS Packed Anti-Trans Activists Into Report Undermining Gender-Affirming Care

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“Gender-affirming care is not fringe; it’s standard, developmentally appropriate health care. It is individualized, careful and — as every major medical organization has stated and a mounting body of evidence indicates — can be lifesaving.”
PRH Fellow Dr. Bianca Allison

A report published on the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) website on Wednesday pushes the dubious claim that gender-affirming care for transgender youth does more harm than good — a statement that flouts years of studies concluding otherwise.

The report, titled “Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria: Review of Evidence and Best Practices,” derides gender-affirming care by reclassifying it as “pediatric sex-rejecting procedures.” HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. commended the report, dismissing the idea that such treatment could “be good for children.”