A new report from the U.S. government has found disrupting puberty in gender-confused children is more harmful than any perceived benefits.

The comprehensive 410-page report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is extremely critical of sex-rejecting treatments for minors.

The Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria: Review of Evidence and Best Practices is a peer reviewed study revealing the dangers of medicalising children with gender distress.

The report “finds that the harms from sex-rejecting procedures – including puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgical operations – are significant, long term, and too often ignored or inadequately tracked”. 

The report debunks myths and highlights the history of the movement that is doing irreversible harm to children, turning them into life-long pharmaceutical consumers. 

“The American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics peddled the lie that chemical and surgical sex-rejecting procedures could be good for children,” said Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. 

“They betrayed their oath to first do no harm, and their so-called ‘gender-affirming care’ has inflicted lasting physical and psychological damage on vulnerable young people. That is not medicine – it’s malpractice.” 

“This report marks a turning point for American medicine,” said National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD. “The evidence in it meticulously documents the risks the profession has imposed on vulnerable children. At the NIH, we are committed to ensuring that science, not ideology, guides America’s medical research.”

Experimenting on children because adults are not getting the outcomes they desire after transitioning is not a good reason to subject minors to such cruelty and harm. 

Parents ought to be able to rely on medical practitioners to make decisions informed by accurate data. This is not the case when it comes to sex rejecting procedures. 

It has been driven by ideology instead of science and ethics.

Disrupting normal puberty pathways is unethical and robs children of the human right to develop into fully mature adults. 

A child’s brain is in no way developed enough to make fully informed decisions about the long term harm sex rejecting procedures can produce.

The report is authored by nine experts in the fields of medicine, bioethics, psychology, and philosophy.