Medical Associations Trusted Belief Over Science on Youth Gender Care

Mr. Singal is writing a book about the debate over youth gender medicine in the United States and writes the newsletter Singal-Minded.

American advocates for youth gender medicine have insisted for years that overwhelming evidence favors providing gender dysphoric youth with puberty blockers, hormones and, in the case of biological females, surgery to remove their breasts.

It didn’t matter that the number of kids showing up at gender clinics had soared and were more likely to have complex mental health conditions than those who had come to clinics in years earlier, complicating diagnosis. Advocates and........

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