Posted on 12/19/2025 6:27:48 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Dr. Kade Goepferd watched the Trump administration's moves on Thursday to ban gender-affirming care for transgender youth with "a mix of sadness and frustration."
Goepferd, who is the founder of Children's Minnesota Gender Health Program, says that for the medical community, nothing has changed about the evidence supporting gender-affirming care that could justify the government's actions.
"There's a massive propaganda and disinformation campaign that is selectively targeting this small population of already vulnerable kids and their families," Goepferd says.
Federal health officials said many times at Thursday's announcement that their actions were driven by science and evidence, not politics or ideology. They frequently praised a report published by the Department of Health and Human Services in November. It concluded that clinicians who provide medical care to help youth transition have failed their patients and emphasized the benefits of psychotherapy as an alternative.
At times, health officials cast doubt on the idea that a person could be transgender at all.
"Men are men. Men can never become women. Women are women. Women can never become men," said Acting CDC Director Jim O'Neill. He added that "the blurring of the lines between sexes" represented a "hatred for nature as God designed it."
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said doctors and medical groups had "peddled the lie" that these treatments could be good for children, and that those youth were "conditioned to believe that sex can be changed."
The American Academy of Pediatrics, the medical group that represents 67,000 pediatricians across the country, pushed back forcefully on those characterizations.
"These policies and proposals misconstrue the current medical consensus and fail to reflect the realities of pediatric care and the needs of children and families," said AAP President Dr. Susan J. Kressly in a statement. "These rules help no one, do...
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It is NOT “care”. It is chemical and physical mutilation.
Dr. Kade Goepferd is sad because Trump’s ban will negatively impact his plans to buy another vacation home.
less💰 = 😢
Source is NPR.
DO NO HARM you butchers
True. Vile leftist pediatricians make money off this insanity.
I swear, the medical schools are now turning out leftists ONLY.
The faculty picks who gets in and who doesn’t when it comes right down to it.
It’s sad.
And dangerous.
Dr. Kade Goepferd watched the Trump administration's moves on Thursday to ban
gender-affirming care for transgender youth with "a mix of sadness and frustration.
"Goepferd, who is the founder of Children's Minnesota Gender Health
Program, says that for the medical community, nothing has changed
about the evidence supporting gender-affirming care that could justify
the government's actions."
kade goepferd, prime candidate for gitmo amongst it's fellow terrorists.
No, it is opposed by the monsters who profit from mutilating children. Who, odds are, get involved because it gives them access to “fondling” children.
It is chemical and physical mutilation — in direct violation of “Do no harm.”
Trump opposes evil: pediatricians upset.
It looks like a confused, unhinged, mental nutcase who could easily go off the rails and shoot-up any conservative gathering.
National Socialist Radio.
‘Nuf said.
CC
Minnesota, eh??? My “surprised face” is overworked lately…😲😲😲
Actually not really surprised, seems about par for the course these days.
Promoting child castration is a crime against humanity and should carry a death penalty.
Yank their licenses and smash their doors down with a battering ram
67,000 medical licenses that should be pulled immediately.
No one trusts doctors anymore im general. We’ve learned that they’re definition of “science” has moved through many a goal post.
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