HHS report criticizes health care for transgender children and hides the names of the authors: recordings

On Thursday, the Ministry of Health and Human Services published a 400-page document entitled “Treatment for Pediatric Gender Disphora: Checking evidence and Best Practices”.

The authors of the review are not named by HHS. According to a press release, the names are not published “initially to maintain the integrity of a peer review process after the publication. HHS did not immediately answer the questions of NPR on the number of authors, their professional background and their belonging.

The current approach for transgender youth who are approved by all major medical associations in the USA is to confirm a young person's gender identity and give their family the opportunity to enable medical interventions such as puberty blockers and hormone therapy.

The report describes this approach as fundamental. The authors come to the conclusion that doctors and clinics who offer gender -specific care “have no longer” drawn their duty to prioritize the health interests of young patients “.

The deputy chief of staff of the White House, Stephen Miller, used the term “barbaric” when he describes gender -known medical interventions in the White House in the White House on Thursday. “They violate all solid medical ethics. They are completely unjustified. They harm the children irreversible to the children. It is a child's abuse. It is child abuse. It is medical misconduct,” he said during a press conference on Thursday.

In a statement, Dr. Susan Kressly, President of the American Academy of Pediatrics, that the organization is “deeply alarmed” by the new HHS document. “This report is wrong with the current medical consensus and does not reflect the realities of pediatric care,” she wrote. She claimed that the report was not credible because it was based on “selected perspectives and a tight data set”.

She added that AAP was not consulted through the report, but that his recommendations were consistently “imprecise”. (The official AAP recommendation partially says that transgender youth should have “access to comprehensive, gender-known and development-friendly health care, which is provided in a safe and integrative clinical area.”)

The conclusion of the report that gender -known care for young people should be restricted is not surprising, since the report was commissioned in an executive regulation entitled “Protection of children from chemical and surgical change”. It is: “Mutomasal and sterilize all over the country a growing number of impressive children under the radical and false assertion that adults can change the gender of a child through a series of irreversible medical interventions.” This trend continues: “Must end.”

President Trump and the Republican Party spent more than $ 200 million on the campaign path for television proposals for anti-transs. Since taking office, Trump has quickly moved to schools and hospitals who confirm the transgender youth, restrict the participation of trans people in sports and the military to demand that passports reflect the sex of a person at birth and cancel millions of funds for LGBTQ+ health research. Some of these efforts were blocked in court.

The HHS report describes medical transition medicine for young people as too easily available, but more than half of the US states have banned it. This spring, the Supreme Court should decide a challenge for the ban on Tennessee for the gender -known care of the young people.

In tone and form, the HHS report reflects the Cass check published in Great Britain, published last year and commissioned by the National Health Service. (The name “Cass” is cited in the HHS report 149 times.) As in the new HHS report, Dr. Hilary Cass examined the available evidence examines and concludes that the advantages of gender care are overrated. But Cass was also the public face of the review process and carried out interviews with transgender boys for four years to prepare people, parents and clinicians to prepare the report. HHS did not answer the questions of NPR how long his lengthy report was in the works.

“The purpose of this propaganda is to give the veneer of science,” says a doctor who offers gender -specific care in a state in which it remains legal. NPR agreed not to name the doctor because they had no permission from their employer to speak to the media and because they fear for their security.

The doctor added that the anonymous authors of the report and the politicians who have commissioned him “have already said what they think – they do not believe that it is real that they are not of the opinion that trans people are allowed to do what they want with their body, they think that gender is this unchangeable concept, and they have absolutely no curiosity for everyone.”

On the social media, Kristen praised Wagoner, President of the Christian Rechts Group Alliance, and said that he should “lead to the closure of every gender clinic in America. Doctors who commit these experiments on children should lose their medical licenses and be sued for damage.”