Transgender Therapy — American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Put on Notice. Two hopeful stories! (posted 09/27/24)

→ 20 State AGs (including Idaho’s Raúl Labrador) Put Top U.S. Pediatric Group On Notice for "Abusive" and "Experimental" Trans Therapy Guidance. Following the Cass report, the American Academy of Pediatrics is the latest to answer for possible violations over its unscientific standards on gender dysphoria. By Jefferey Jaxen (09/26/24): jeffereyjaxen.substack.…

→ Labrador Letter – A Challenge to the American Academy of Pediatrics. By Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador (09/27/24):

Summary:

Twenty Attorneys General, including Idaho’s Raúl Labrador, sent a stern letter to the AAP stating, in part:

“It is abusive to treat a child with biologically altering drugs that have an unknown physiological trajectory and end point. It is also inhumane to endorse such experimentation without a confident safety profile, especially if more times than not, it proves to be medically unnecessary.”

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) may have violated state consumer protection statutes over its questionable standards on gender dysphoria care for minors. And the AGs want answers!

The letter continued:

"…the AAP continues to authoritatively declare that puberty blockers are ‘reversible,’…That claim is scientifically unsupported and contradicts what is medically known. And because that claim raises questions under most state consumer protection laws, it has the undersigned alarmed."

At last, the states are standing up to the unscientific dogma of “gender affirming care,” using scientific proof of its harms and asking the premier pediatric medical organization to explain its unconscionable stance.

Both of the above linked articles are excellent, but the newsletter from Idaho’s Attorney General perhaps says it best, concluding:

It is shameful the most basic tenet of medicine – do no harm – has been abandoned by professional associations when politically pressured.  These organizations are sacrificing the health and well-being of children with procedures that leave a wake of permanent damage.  Children with gender dysphoria need and deserve love, support, and medical care rooted in biological reality. Parents should be able to trust that a doctor’s medical guidance isn’t just the latest talking point from a dangerous and discredited activist agenda.

ED NOTE Let us hope that these 20 AGs will break the stranglehold of the AAP, not only for its stance on transgender medical treatments but also for other medical treatments this captured group imposes on children.