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Medical Associations Trusted Belief Over Science on Youth Gender Care
The New York Times ^ | Feb. 24, 2026 | Jesse Singal

Posted on 02/25/2026 12:33:37 PM PST by Salman

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 that they were more likely to have complex mental health conditions than those who had come to clinics in years earlier, complicating diagnosis. ...

The reason these advocates were able to make such strong statements is that for years, the most important professional medical and mental health organizations in the country had been singing a similar tune: “The science” was supposedly codified in documents published by these organizations. As GLAAD puts it on its website, “Every major medical association supports health care for transgender people and youth as safe and lifesaving.”

But something confounding has happened in the last few weeks: Cracks have appeared in the supposed wall of consensus.

...

If, as I suspect, political forces are the culprit, that would lead to an inescapable conclusion: You cannot automatically trust what these organizations say at a given moment. Not unless they provide a lot more information about their decision-making processes.

Should we trust the science? Sure, in theory — but only when the science in question has earned our trust through transparency and rigor.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: bigpharma; bigprofit; childabuse; childexploitation; children; corruption; fraud; homosexualagenda; liberaltruth; malpractice; medicalmalfeasance; medicalmalpractice; medicalmisconduct; mutilation; prolife; quackdoctors; transtruth

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NYT op-ed. Much horrifying detail (no pictures) at link.

That they publish this at all indicates there may be cracks in the Democrat monolith.

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1 posted on 02/25/2026 12:33:37 PM PST by Salman
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But something confounding has happened in the last few weeks: Cracks have appeared in the supposed wall of consensus.

This is the lie that will give liberals cover. That the cracks in the consensus just appeared "in the last few weeks." BS. There have been huge cracks in the alleged consensus for years. Only ideologues didn't acknowledge them.

2 posted on 02/25/2026 12:43:04 PM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: Salman
[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.]

(gender-affirming care)

GODLESS REPROBATE DEMOCRATS mutilate children
for That Old Serpent 🐍 Called the Devil and Satan


Democrats are at
War with Reality,
Biology and
Almighty God



3 posted on 02/25/2026 12:43:22 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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Every doctor that encouraged or performed the monster surgeries should be forced to have their own monster surgery done to them, then be bankrupted, and in prison for life.

I could consider alternatives with more punishment.


4 posted on 02/25/2026 12:46:25 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Salman

Sweet lies to assuage their conscious of the atrocities they permitted in the name of their ideological tyrannies.

Accountability is one of their greatest fears.


5 posted on 02/25/2026 12:48:53 PM PST by Skwor
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To: Salman
Gender Clinics

Youth Gender Medicine

War Is Peace

Hate Is Love

6 posted on 02/25/2026 12:53:48 PM PST by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try. )
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Well, oops.

Very likely, now the NYT is looking at the court suits coming to many states brought by disfigured "patients" and the likelihood that settlements and fines will tell quite another tale. Precedent in legal terms is quite a powerful storyteller.

7 posted on 02/25/2026 12:59:21 PM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: Salman

No, they chose money over humanity.


8 posted on 02/25/2026 1:00:14 PM PST by Chainmail (You can vote your way into Socialism - but you will have to shoot your way out.)
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To: Salman

One giant Satanic Plot against our children.

At the highest levels of the Medicsl profession.

Every one of these people involved should be in jail. Period.


9 posted on 02/25/2026 1:01:06 PM PST by FlyingEagle
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

“Only ideologues didn’t acknowledge them.”

The New York Times being a prime example.


10 posted on 02/25/2026 1:01:27 PM PST by ChessExpert (Infidels of the world unite against the evil that is Islam.)
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To: Salman
...and, in the case of biological females, surgery to remove their breasts.

Sounds perfectly natural. Is there a way they could do this to themselves at home?

11 posted on 02/25/2026 1:13:39 PM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: FlyingEagle

🔝🔝🔝


12 posted on 02/25/2026 1:14:40 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Salman

what i don’t understand is how yutes got along just fine for thousands of years without all of this “gender dysphoria” bullshit until just a couple of decades ago?


13 posted on 02/25/2026 1:30:12 PM PST by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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“Sweet lies to assuage their conscious of the atrocities they permitted in the name of their ideological tyrannies [and profits].”


14 posted on 02/25/2026 1:31:15 PM PST by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

“Very likely, now the NYT is looking at the court suits coming to many states brought by disfigured “patients” and the likelihood that settlements and fines will tell quite another tale. Precedent in legal terms is quite a powerful storyteller.”

yep, NYT is just trying to get ahead of the curve that they know is coming down the pike: they’ll claim that they were alarmed all along about this butchery of a generation ...


15 posted on 02/25/2026 1:32:48 PM PST by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: catnipman

It’s all about the sexual deviants wanting to groom and create more of themselves so they can gain political clout and power.


16 posted on 02/25/2026 1:34:09 PM PST by Windcatcher
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
I guess the word has come down from the left-wing media controlling brain that the "man can become a woman, woman can become a man" trial balloon is being abandoned.

Next, helicopters will be shoved off the deck into the drink. Oh well, too bad, we tried. Can't win 'em all.

17 posted on 02/25/2026 1:50:16 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Salman

The NYT actually printed this?
Ok its on the Op-Ed page but still, they are almost as crazy as those men doing “mommy dress up”


18 posted on 02/25/2026 2:08:45 PM PST by Zathras
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To: Salman; Opinionated Blowhard; SaveFerris; ConservativeMind; Skwor; Ronaldus Magnus III; ...
"...It didn’t matter that the number of kids showing up at gender clinics had soared..."

Young, vulnerable, and highly impressionable kids were having their minds manipulated and corrupted by "responsible" leftist adults of all stripes ranging from politicians, teachers, counselors, health care "professionals", and sadly, even their own parent(s) who told the poor kid that they could fix the temporary discomfort and confusion by taking puberty blockers or even having surgery.

These"responsible" people should have sat down with those troubled kids and compassionately told them that "This is a hard and confusing time for most kids your age, but trust me, you will get through it. This is normal for many kids, and you will grow out of it."

What has happened is criminal. And sections of our society, governments at all levels, schools at all levels, healthcare at all levels, and the very people who should have been the last line of defense for the welfare of those vulnerable kids, put them on the sacrificial stone willingly to Moloch for exactly the wrong and immoral reasons to satisfy that idol...

...in the same way Abraham unwillingly put his son Issac on that stone for the right reasons when God commanded him to do it as a test of faith:

As a test of our society with transgenderism, we failed God and our society in a twisted and immoral way.

I wonder how future generations will look back on this era.

19 posted on 02/25/2026 2:11:51 PM PST by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est)
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To: rlmorel

(What has happened IS CRIMINAL)

🔝🔝🔝


20 posted on 02/25/2026 2:26:45 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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