Gender dysphoria should be treated with therapy instead of transition treatments, massive Trump-ordered HHS report urges


A sweeping review of transgender treatments on minors found “deep uncertainty about the purported benefits” of many of those interventions — and urged doctors to put more of an emphasis on behavioral therapy when addressing gender dysphoria.

Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, chairman of Do No Harm, an organization that opposes so-called gender transition surgeries, hailed the HHS review for exposing “a number of serious risks in the medical transition of young people.”

“The report cites a ‘lack of robust evidence’ for these medical procedures,” Goldfarb said in a statement. “It is clearer now, more than ever, that we must end this misguided practice and replace it with evidence-based treatment for gender confused kids.”

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