Posted on 06/21/2025 12:24:10 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The American Medical Association's new president Dr. Bobby Mukkamala said the ruling was "harmful government interference."
The American Medical Association (AMA), the largest medical association in the United States, is coming out against the Supreme Courts ruling in United States v. Skrmetti, arguing that irreversible and damaging transgender procedures for minors are necessary treatments.
“The American Medical Association is disappointed in today’s decision that opens the door to further intrusion into patient care and harmful government interference into the practice of medicine,” AMA President Dr. Bobby Mukkamala said in a statement after the ruling came down.
The court ruled on Wednesday that Tennessee’s ban on controversial transgender “care” for minors is constitutional, noting the law doesn’t violate the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause.
Mukkamala became president of the AMA earlier this month, and is continuing the organization’s strong support for transgender drugs and procedures on minors.
“All patients deserve access to high-quality, evidence-based medical care. Decisions about medical treatment must be made through a shared decision-making process between the patient and their physician, based on individual patient needs and in accordance with medical evidence and the standards of good medical practice,” Mukkamala claimed.
“The AMA opposes efforts by the government to insert itself into the patient-physician relationship and interfere in clinical decision-making with no regard for the clinical standards of care,” he added.
The AMA — which is the largest medical association in the United States and has significant influence in shaping policy and common medical practices — has been an advocate for transgender procedures on minors for years.
For example, the AMA “strongly” supported Dr. Rachel Levine’s nomination as Assistant Secretary for Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services during the Biden era. Notably, Levine is a proponent of all types of so-called gender-affirming care procedures...
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“The American Medical Association is disappointed in today’s decision that opens the door to further intrusion into patient care and harmful government interference into the practice of medicine,”
“The American Medical Association is disappointed in today’s decision that opens the door to further intrusion into patient MUTILATION
Another reason I hate going to doctors.
It is so obvious where satan is active is 2025
The AMA represents less than 15% of American physicians. They don’t speak for me.
*snicker*
Where’s the blob to make a sequel about these sickos in the AMA?
First do a lot of harm, especially to children and pre-born
“Dr. Bobby Mukkamala “
Do they do this crap to children in his home country.
"Take off two testicles and call me in the morning."
The POS has a brain tumor. Hope he is quadruple vaxxed.
Yeah I’m wondering how to pronounce that. Is it -
MUCKamala?
MuKAMAla?
MookAmala?
Mukkamala - sounds amish. Isn’t diversity awesome?
Groomers are {expletive deleted} evil.
Mukkamala. Sounds like an appropriate name for the genital mutilation procedure.
15% and shrinking on an annual basis ...
The ABA doesn’t represent most lawyers either.
The American Psychiatric Association voted in 1974 that homosexuals were no longer mentally ill, and since then (rant continues elsewhere)
Yup and it should.
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