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A federal judge in Oregon ruled on Thursday that Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. overreached in his push to restrict transgender health care for minors, according to multiple outlets. Judge Mustafa Kasubhai, an appointee of former President Biden, reportedly found Kennedy did not adhere to proper administrative procedures when he declared in December that gender-affirming health care for transgender youth was “neither safe nor effective.” The HHS chief’s written declaration also asserted that physicians who provided the treatment, including hormones and surgeries, “will be deemed not to meet professionally recognized standards of health care.” “The...

When the liberal Labour Party swept into power in the UK elections recently, conservatives were gritting their teeth and waiting for what was anticipated to be a dramatic lurch to the left in the country's policies. But one of the first initiatives they announced is diametrically opposite of that approach. The Tories had previously imposed a ban on administering puberty-blocking drugs like Lupron to children as part of gender-transitioning treatment, but that initial ban is set to expire in September. Rather than reversing it, the Labour Party is currently holding hearings with a goal of extending the ban or even...

Influential U.S. medical bodies are ignoring findings abroad that puberty-blockers and hormonal treatments for children and teens lack supporting evidence. On this side of the Atlantic, the Cass Review has fallen on deaf ears. Dr. Hilary Cass released her final report for England’s National Health Service two months ago, clearly demonstrating that puberty-blockers and hormonal treatments for trans-identified children and teens lack supporting evidence. NHS England has now banned puberty-blockers in clinical care and will be restricting their use to research settings. Yet U.S. medical leaders have responded with silence, inaction, or both, proving that the physical and emotional well-being...

Transgender activists are threatening the author of scathing UK report on child ‘sex changes’That a female physician has been advised to stop taking the bus or the train because she might be assaulted by trans activists for attempting to protect children from a horrifying – and ongoing – medical scandal should be shocking to us all.Dr. Hilary Cass, the 66-year-old physician who led the team behind the 366-page Cass Review, has become a target of trans activists as the repercussions of her findings reverberate through the political and medical establishment. The abuse is not confined merely to online; she has...

Scientific American has published a piece claiming that “misinformation,” such as the notion that there are only two sexes, is “being used against transgender people” and in order to target “gender-affirming medical care.”The article states that there are three types of “misinformation,” and they are “oversimplifying scientific knowledge, fabricating and misinterpreting research, and promoting false equivalences.”Three types of misinformation are being used against transgender people: oversimplifying scientific knowledge, fabricating and misinterpreting research, and promoting false equivalences. https://t.co/1AOp6Bk6A2 — Scientific American (@sciam) April 20, 2024The piece asserts that “Many of the arguments against trans rights center on the idea that transness...

Cass report published by UK's NHS reveals shaky premises of so called “gender medicine”Cass’ study has already led to the closure of Gids by NHS England, a ban on puberty blockers and a transition to a new “holistic” model of care in which under-18s confused about their gender identity will regularly obtain psychological support instead of medical intervention.For years, members of the transgender cult have alleged that “gender medicine”, including puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, merely follows the science, slamming naysayers for “spreading hate” as “extremists” and “bigots”.Recently, however, pediatrician Dr. Hillary Cass published the outcome of her study regarding...

The publication this week of the Cass Review into gender-identity services for young people marks a welcome return to reason in an area of medicine which for the past few years has been driven by identity politics. No one is denying that there are those who deserve psychological — and in some cases physical — help to cope with their condition. But the explosion in the number of children treated on Britain’s National Health Service for gender-identity issues (and in many cases being given powerful drugs with severe side effects) should have set alarm bells. Medical professionals should have been...

The evidence for helping children to change gender including 'social transitioning' and hormone blockers is built on "shaky foundations", a major review into the practice by a leading field pediatrician in the United Kingdom has found. The long-anticipated Cass report into how the tax-funded NHShas been published and calls for major change, saying hormone drugs should no longer be given to under-18s and that the basis of ‘treatments’ given by the NHS have been based on practices with little “developmental rigour and transparency”. Fundamentally, Dr Hilary Cass said, “When conducting the review, I found that in gender medicine those pillars...

More than 1,000 children at the NHS's controversial child transgender clinic were handed prescriptions for puberty blockers, a new book has claimed, as former staff compare it to the 'doping of East German athletes'. The Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) at Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust in London will close later this year after being slammed in a report amid accusations it was rushing children onto puberty blocking drugs. Now former clinicians at the service have revealed how 'incredibly complex' children were handed he life-altering drugs after just one assessment - despite having a multitude of mental health or background...