Trans health group fought study analyzing ‘gender affirming care’ for children, docs show

BALTIMORE (TND) — A transgender health group tried to prevent researchers from publishing a study showing little evidence supporting gender transition procedures for children, according to documents acquired by Do No Harm (DNH).

In 2020, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) commissioned researchers from Johns Hopkins University in Maryland to execute “systematic reviews on the evidence supporting ‘gender affirming’ care,” DNH wrote via X. Those researchers allegedly found “little to no evidence about children and adolescents.”

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