Ideology in Medical Schools Threatens Everyone’s Health

Beware the rising generation of physicians. In June, an army of medical students defeated my attempt to protect children from radical transgender ideology. My fellow physicians in the Colorado Medical Society overwhelmingly stood with me in defense of basic medical ethics and evidence, yet students from Colorado’s premier medical school overruled us. Americans should worry that when today’s trainees become tomorrow’s doctors, they’ll put political activism ahead of patient health.

I never expected to learn this lesson when I filed a resolution with the CMS in March. I did so based on the rapid rise of transgender medical interventions for children, both in Colorado and around the nation. I began my medical career in gynecology and know how transgender treatments can affect young people’s bodies. They can ruin healthy sexual function and damage reproductive ability, potentially leading to a lifetime of physical and mental ailments.

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