The deputy chief of the White House, Stephen Miller, called on Thursday the care claiming the sexes for children at a press conference. Press secretary Karoline Leavitt looks.
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This story was updated at 12:30 p.m. on 5/2/2025 to add additional comments from the Ministry of Health and Social Services.
Thursday, the Ministry of Health and Social Services published a 400 -page document Entitled “Treatment of pediatric gender dysphoria: examination of evidence and best practices.”
The authors of criticism are not appointed by HHS. According to a press releaseThe names “are not initially made public to help maintain integrity” of a post-publication peer examination process.
HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon said in a statement at NPR: “contributors to this report represent a wide range of political points of view, including those with liberal political opinions”. He did not answer specific NPR questions about the number of authors, their professional history and their affiliations.
The current approach for young transgender people, approved by All the main medical associations In the United States, it is to assert the gender identity of a young person and give their families the possibility of medical interventions such as puberty blockers and hormone therapy.
The report describes this approach as fundamentally wrong. Its authors conclude that doctors and clinics who provide sexual care is “below their duty to prioritize the health interests of young patients”.
The deputy chief of staff of the White House, Stephen Miller, used the term “barbarian” during the description of medical interventions affirming sex in the White House on Thursday. “They violate all medical ethics.
In a statement, Dr. Susan Kressly, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, wrote that the organization was “deeply alarmed” by the new HHS document. “This report distorts current medical consensus and does not reflect the realities of pediatric care,” she wrote. She said that the report was not credible because it was based “on certain perspectives and a close set of data”.
She added that the AAP was not consulted on the report, but that its recommendations were “inaccurate” characterized throughout. (The official AAP recommendation Said, in part, that young transgender people should “have access to complete health care, affirmed by the sexes and appropriates which are provided in a safe and inclusive clinical space”).
The conclusion of the report according to which the affirmative care between the sexes for young people should be reduced is not surprising since the report has been put into service in a executive decree Entitled “Protect children from chemical and surgical mutilation”. It is read as follows: “across the country today, mutilating health professionals and sterilize an increasing number of impressable children under the radical and false complaint that adults can change the sex of a child through a series of irreversible medical interventions.” This trend, she continues, “must end”.
On the campaign track, President Trump and the Republican Party spent more than 200 million dollars On anti-transvisor television advertisements. Since taking office, Trump has moved quickly to target schools and hospitals who claim young transgender people, to limit the participation of trans people in sports and soldiers, demand that passports reflect Sex at birth and at cancel millions of funds For LGBTQ +health research. Some of these efforts were blocked in court.
The HHS report describes medical care linked to the transition for young people as being too easily available, but more than half of the US states banned it. The Supreme Court should govern this spring on a Challenge to the prohibition of Tennessee On the strict care for young people.
In tone and form, the HHS report reflects the Cass RevuePosted in the United Kingdom last year and commanded by the National Health Service. (The name “Cass” is cited 149 times in the HHS report.) As the new HHS report, the examination submitted by Dr. Hilary Cass, examines the evidence available and concludes the benefits of the care affirmed by the sexes are overestimated. But Cass was also the public face of the examination process, and she spent four years conducting interviews with young transgender, parents and clinicians to prepare the report. HHS did not answer the question of NPR over the duration of its long report in progress.
“The purpose of this propaganda is to give the veneer of science,” said a doctor who provides sexual care in a state where he remains legal. NPR has agreed not to appoint the doctor because they did not have the permission of their employer to speak with the media and because they fear their safety.
The doctor added that the anonymous authors of the report and the politicians who have ordered it “have already said what they think – they do not think they are trans, they do not think that trans people should be allowed to do what they want with their bodies, they think that gender is this immutable concept, and they have absolutely no curiosity about whether it might not be true for everyone.”
Regarding the anonymity of report authors, the HHS spokesman Nixon wrote: “HHS is firm in his decision to retain the names of contributors to this report in order to protect them from intimidation tactics and industrial contributors.
On social networks, Kristen Wagoner, president of the Christian Legal Group Alliance defending freedom, praised the report And said that “should lead to the closure of each gender clinic in America. Doctors who perpetuate these experiences on children should lose their medical license and be prosecuted for damages”.