"The American Medical Association and numerous other major medical organizations support psychological and medical treatments that help transgender children live as the gender they identify as. Between 2.5 and 8.4 percent of children identify as transgender or gender-diverse. This means they identify with a different gender than, or have a gender expression that does not conform to, the norms of their sex assigned at birth."
"Gender-affirming treatment can include puberty-blocking hormones and sex hormones such as testosterone and estrogen. The effects of puberty blockers are reversible; sex hormones cause more lasting effects. The newly-published Department of Health and Human Services report claims that gender-affirming care is harmfulin contrast with widespread medical consensus. An HHS press release asserts that it found that the harms from sex-rejecting proceduresincluding puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgical operationsare significant, long term, and too often ignored or inadequately tracked."
Health and Human Services released a study updating a May report and concluded gender-affirming care for minors is harmful. Major medical organizations, including the American Medical Association, support psychological and medical treatments that help transgender children live as the gender they identify as. Between 2.5 and 8.4 percent of children identify as transgender or gender-diverse, meaning a gender different from their sex assigned at birth or a nonconforming gender expression. Gender-affirming treatments include puberty blockers (reversible) and sex hormones such as testosterone and estrogen (more lasting effects). The HHS press release asserts harms from puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgical operations are significant, long term, and often inadequately tracked, and states such care has inflicted lasting physical and psychological damage on vulnerable young people.
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