Trump's health agency urges therapy for transgender youth, not broader gender-affirming health care

News24 | 'It erases the very existence of people like me': Activists tackle doctors' anti-trans stance

Hundreds of doctors have come out against a small group of their peers who are against gender-affirming medical practices and are instead advocating for what they call "evidence-based clinical practice".

US Health Agency Urges Therapy, Not Transition Treatment For Transgenders

Major medical groups and those who treat transgender young people sharply criticised the new report as inaccurate.

Gender dysphoria should be treated with therapy instead of transition treatments, massive Trump-ordered HHS report urges

A sweeping review of transgender treatments on minors found "deep uncertainty about the purported benefits" of many of those interventions — and urged doctors to put more of an emphasis on behavioral therapy when addressing gender dysphoria.

US health agency’s ‘review’ advocates for therapy for youth gender dysphoria

In ‘comprehensive’ 409-page report, department claims medical care should be avoided though harms are ‘sparse’The federal health department released what it described as a “comprehensive review” of pediatric gender dysphoria – advocating for therapy instead of medical care for youth whose gender identity does not match their assigned sex.The 409-page report claimed that while the harms of such medical treatment are “sparse”, medical treatment sh…

Trump's health agency urges therapy for transgender youth, not broader gender-affirming health care

The new "best practices" report sharply contradicts guidance from the American Medical Association, which has urged states not to ban gender-affirming care for minors, but HHS said it is not clinical guidance.