Given recent statements from organizations like the American Society of Plastic Surgeons recommending against certain sex-denying medical procedures for minors, one might think that prominent medical associations would think twice before endorsing the dangerous and experimental practices of the child transgender industry.
But last week, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) submitted comments on two rules recently proposed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) that would restrict taxpayer funding of sex-denying interventions for minors.
The CMS rules would both prevent hospitals from performing sex-denying procedures on minors as a condition of participating in Medicare and Medicaid programs, as well as require state Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) plans to provide that they will not pay for these procedures for minors.
Cutting off taxpayer funding for such harmful, life-altering interventions would appear to be common sense.
As a wealth of recent research, including the review published by the Department of Health and Human Services in 2025, has shown, the evidence base for so-called “gender-affirming care” is very weak.
But apparently, the AAMC thinks otherwise.
Although the AAMC comments make several legal arguments, it’s the medical arguments that are particularly noteworthy for their dubious (at best) claims.
“Medical decisions are best made by patients and their families, in consultation with their physicians, based on clinical evidence, professional judgment, and the individual needs and values of the patient,” the AAMC writes.
This statement may be true in a vacuum, but it is simply not the case that decisions regarding child sex change interventions are made based on “clinical evidence” or “professional judgment,” much less the “individual needs” of the patient.
As mentioned, the “clinical evidence” for the efficacy of so-called “gender-affirming care” is effectively nonexistent. Instead, ample research has shown that these interventions impose serious harms upon vulnerable children who cannot meaningfully consent to these irreversible, life-altering procedures.
“Gender-affirming care” in practice simply does not adhere to these standards.
Next, the AAMC declares that “It is inappropriate for government policies (such as this proposal that would prohibit funding for an entire class of services) to intrude into the physician-patient relationship – undermining both quality of care and patient trust.”
Perhaps nothing has undermined patient trust, or at least public trust in major medical institutions, in the past few decades more than the rise of gender ideology in medicine.
Rather than confront the reality that “gender-affirming care” is unsupported and dangerous, medical associations often defer to activists and gender ideologues more interested in imposing their worldview onto the medical field, to the detriment of children across the country.
Unfortunately, this embrace of gender ideology is par for the course for the AAMC.
According to leaked footage obtained by The Daily Wire from last fall, the organization’s leadership pledged to continue backing efforts to oppose laws and regulations cracking down on sex-denying interventions for minors.
If this isn’t a wake-up call for medical schools to seriously reckon with the ideological infiltration of the AAMC, then what is?
