When three medical associations recently asked Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate those who are “provoking” threats against pediatric gender clinics, their letter repeatedly used the phrase “evidence-based health care.”
This description of pharmaceutical and surgical interventions for gender-confused children and even “gender-nonconforming” children prompted a sarcastic response from journalist Andrew Sullivan, who helped mainstream the idea of same-sex marriage in the 1990s.
He rewrote the phrase as “experimental off-label sex-change drugs not FDA approved for children with natural puberty.”
The Oct. 3 letter from the American Medical Association, American Academy of Pediatrics and Children’s Hospital Association, which seeks wholesale censorship and prosecution of journalism that prompts scrutiny of “gender affirming medicine,” also stands to widen interest in the evidence for and against it. As with COVID-19 vaccine policy for children and young adults, the U.S. is out of step with some European countries when it comes to GAM for minors.This summer, […]
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