The Department of Health and Human Services recently released a report documenting “serious concerns about medical interventions, such as puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgeries, that attempt to transition children and adolescents away from their sex.” The report confirms what many professionals who work with gender-confused youth, including myself, have been saying for years: A fast-tracked, affirmation-only approach to gender dysphoria harms far more than it helps.

That’s why I find it so concerning that the American Academy of Pediatrics has chosen to ignore HHS’s findings, which are backed by a 100-plus page bibliography of evidence and will undergo a full peer review in the coming days, and instead continue promoting medical interventions that lack the same scientific........

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