Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has plenty of unsubstantiated theories — but his latest controversy involves following the science. 

HHS is pushing back against so-called gender-affirming care for children under age 18, undertaking a number of regulatory actions to discourage doctors and hospitals from continuing the practice. 

As part of the effort, HHS released a review of the state of research into gender-affirming care.

The study establishes that this suite of interventions — involving puberty blockers and cross-sex hormone therapy, as well as surgery — has been justified by a bogus, ideologically driven scientific consensus. 

The HHS review can’t be dismissed as partisan hackery.

Writing in Newsweek, two co-authors of the report, Dr. Moti Gorin and Dr. Kathleen McDeavitt, note that they and most of the other co-authors are left of center. 

The seedbed of the mania for aggressive treatment of pediatric gender dysphoria was a pair of desperately flawed but enormously influential........

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