Do No Harm Files Amicus Brief In Support of Texas’ Efforts to Protect Children From Harmful “Gender Medicine”

Add Texas to the long list of states where Do No Harm is taking action to protect children from dangerous gender ideology and medical treatments.

On Friday, December 22, 2023, we submitted an amicus (“friend of the court”) brief to the Supreme Court of Texas, showing support for the state’s efforts to uphold its law prohibiting the practice of experimental gender medicine on minors. The plaintiffs challenging the law include physicians who are practicing so-called “gender-affirming care” and others who want these harmful interventions to continue. In the brief, Do No Harm explains that:

• Physicians who claim to be experts in dispensing “gender-affirming care” actually do not have any more expertise than the general community of pediatricians in dealing with children with gender dysphoria. Therefore, their argument that their opinions should be determinative is invalid;
• The plaintiffs and their experts changed critical definitions from the sources they cite to make it appear as if gender identity is innate and immutable and, therefore, justifies imposing unproven medical therapies onto adolescents;
• The current scientific evidence reveals that the practice of experimental gender medicine on minors causes significant harm, carries serious unknown risks, and offers no proven benefit; and
• The plaintiff physicians who brought the lawsuit (and the hospital they are affiliated with) have misrepresented and hidden their experimental gender interventions while flouting established ethical standards, including informed consent.

We are watching the developments of this litigation, and oral arguments will take place in the coming weeks. Do No Harm hopes that the Court will not be misled, and will uphold Texas’s law (SB14) to protect children from these harmful and irreversible treatments.

Read the full text of the amicus brief here.