Doctors Challenge Push for Gender-Affirming Care for Children

Doctors and other medical professionals are denouncing a leading association of pediatricians for allegedly refusing to listen to dissenting voices among rank-and-file members who oppose “gender-affirming care” for minors.

A pediatrician using the pseudonym Dr. Grace Clark out of fear of retaliation told The Epoch Times that years ago, when she first learned puberty blockers were used to treat children, she was intrigued. Like other doctors, she said, she assumed a treatment so new and radically different must be based on solid medical research and evidence.

But, she has since lost faith in the specialists and medical institutions she once trusted.

“I feel betrayed by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), honestly, because I came to realize I can’t believe them. They’re telling me something that defies common sense,” she said.

In a recent letter to the AAP, doctors and other supporters raised concerns that the association is supporting only one set of views on how best to treat children who have gender dysphoria—the feeling that their biological sex is different from their gender identity—namely social and medical transition…. (Excerpt from The Epoch Times)