SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH: July 29, 2026 – Today, Medical watchdog Do No Harm sent a letter to 10 major medical societies, urging them to reject genital surgeries on minors for the purpose of “gender-affirming care.”
Signed by Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, board chairman of Do No Harm, and Dr. Kurt Miceli, chief medical officer at Do No Harm, the letter calls on the organizations to recognize the commonsense idea that adolescents are not equipped to make informed decisions about such invasive and high-risk procedures and requests that the organizations remove these procedures as an option in any clinical-care plans or treatment protocols related to “gender-affirming care.” Children should not be subjected to unwarranted, irreversible procedures that remove healthy body parts, such as castration or hysterectomy.
The letter warns: “If your society continues to support the entire program of so-called gender-affirming care, it implicitly maintains that the cosmetic outcomes produced by hormones and mastectomies, for instance, confer some form of medical benefit. Yet this position is not supported by nearly two dozen systematic reviews that have been published in this field. Moreover, genital surgery does nothing to alter a person’s outward public appearance and has been notorious for producing multiple complications, including fistulas and urinary complications.”
Do No Harm has done extensive work to put an end to mutilative surgeries on minors diagnosed with gender dysphoria, as seen in its in-depth Stop The Harm database, which exposes the medical entities that perform these invasive procedures.
“Professional medical societies that endorse so-called gender-affirming care in minors bear tremendous responsibility for the harm done to American children in the name of gender ideology,” said Dr. Kurt Miceli, chief medical officer at Do No Harm. “These societies shape professional standards through their policy directives, clinical guidelines, and public statements. In many cases they are viewed as the experts to whom providers, lawmakers, and the public defer judgment on the safety and efficacy of treatments. We therefore call on professional medical societies to begin to right wrongs and explicitly oppose the performance of transgender genital surgeries on minors. No high-quality evidence demonstrates that these surgeries have beneficial outcomes in children. Medical societies must be clear and state their firm opposition to these unscientific and harmful procedures.”
Do No Harm’s letter calls on the following organizations to renounce all genital surgeries performed on minors for the purpose of “gender-affirming care”:
Read the full letter here.
Do No Harm, established in April 2022, has rapidly gained recognition and made significant strides in its mission to safeguard healthcare from ideological threats. It has over 50,000 members, including doctors, nurses, physicians, and concerned citizens across all 50 states and 26 countries.
