by Katelynn Richardson
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) must explain why it “abandoned its commitment to sound medical judgment” by endorsing puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and sex-reassignment surgery as treatments for children with gender dysphoria, the organization told a group of Republican attorneys general on Tuesday.
According to the Cass report, a four-year systematic review in England, medical studies were conducted on transgender people, a group of 20 states led by Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador, together with the Arizona legislature, he wrote “It is beyond the medical debate that puberty blockers are not fully reversible, but instead are associated with serious long-term consequences.” In lithe of this mounting evidence, as well as the exposure of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) standards as “unreliable and subject to inappropriate pressure,” the states informed APP of their 2018 policies statement Endorsing these medical procedures is “misleading and fraudulent.”
“Treating a child with biologically altering drugs whose physiological trajectory and endpoint are unknown is an abuse,” the letter reads. “It is also inhumane to support such experiments without a certain safety profile, especially when in most cases it turns out to be medically unnecessary.”
The letter noted that “medical experiments on children” have been halted in many countries around the world and that the World Health Organization “refuses to approve puberty blockers.”
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The attorneys general asked AAP to substantiate its claims and explain the process for developing the policy statement. They also asked the organization to provide communications from WPATH, related to the WPATH Standards of Care Version 8 (SOC-8), and with each member of the Biden administration.
The states said they were concerned about the AAP’s “complicity in pressuring WPATH to make last-minute changes to SOC-8 based on political considerations—and then assuring the public that those same standards were ‘evidence-based.'” The AAP must also be held accountable for continuing to cite WPATH’s standards after release disclosure documents were driven by political and legal objectives, even though they claimed to be “evidence-based,” the states wrote in the letter.
Closed court documents revealed that Assistant Secretary of Health Rachel Levine was “eager” to release SOC-8 and wanted to utilize it to advance the Biden administration’s policy goals.
“Ultimately, the AAP’s statements and guidelines influence the way physicians practice medicine and treat children,” the states wrote. “Because health care providers rely on the AAP to make treatment decisions, parents and their children are harmed by the AAP’s misleading and deceptive claims.”
The AAP did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Katelynn Richardson is a reporter at the Daily Caller News Foundation.
