The government of President Donald Trump published a long review of the transgender health care on Thursday, which works for greater dependence on behavioral therapy instead of a broad gender-specific medical care of newborn people with gender-specific dysphoria.
The 409-page health and human service report questions standards for the treatment of transgender youth, which have been published by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, and should be used to strengthen the abrupt change of the government when maintaining a sub-group of the population that has become a political lightning section.
This up-to-date report “Best Practices” is a reaction to an executive regulation that Trump issued in his second term, in which the federal government must not support gender -specific transitions for people under 19 years of age.
“Our duty is to protect the children of our nation – not to expose them to not unproven and irreversible medical interventions,” said Dr. Jay Bhattcharya, director of the National Institute of Health, in a statement. “We have to follow the gold standard of science, not the activist.”
The report strongly contradicts the guidelines of the American Medical Association, in which the states have been asked not to prohibit the gender-known care of minors, and said that “empirical evidence has shown that trans- and non-binary gender identities of gender are normal variations of human identity and expression”.
HHS said that his report was not clinical instructions and does not give any political recommendations. The report is also restricted to children and does not deal with the treatment of adults.
The gender-known supply of transgender youth that are widespread in the United States includes supportive talk therapy and can not always include the puberty blocker or hormone treatment.
The Trump government’s report states that “many” US youth who are more transgender or question their gender identity, have received operations or medication. In fact, such treatments as part of the population rarely remain. According to a five-year study published this year, the five-year study of the commercial insurance published this year received less than 1 out of 1,000 newborn people in the United States. According to another study, around 1,200 patients were given gender operations in one year in a year.
Many US newborn people may decide not to continue with gender-specific drugs or operations. Recommendations for the medical association state that the best care includes the development of a plan with medical experts and family members, which includes psychotherapy for every newborn person.
“It is very frightening to see how the federal government injects politics and ideology into medical science,” said Shannon Minter, the legal director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights. Minter said the report could be looking for care for families and creates fear for medical providers.
“It is Orwellian. It should confuse and disorientate,” added Minter.
Dr. Jack Drescher, a New York psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, who is working on questions of sexual orientation and gender identity, said that the report is one -sided and “increases the risks of treatments and at the same time minimizes the advantages of treatments”.
A judge has blocked critical parts of Trump’s command, which includes refusing research and educational grants for medical faculties, hospitals and other institutions that offer people 18 or younger gender-specific care. Several hospitals across the country hired the supply. The White House announced on Monday that HHS has eliminated 215 $ 477 million grants for research or education for the treatment of gender-specific treatment since its office.
Most of the states controlled by Republicans have also adopted bans or restrictions on gender -known care. A judgment of the Supreme Court in the United States is pending after judge heard arguments in December in one case as to whether states can enforce such laws.
The Executive Ordinance of January 28th belongs to several administrative guidelines that aim to refuse the existence of transgender people. Trump has also ordered the government to identify people either as male or female instead of accepting a concept of gender in which people fall along a spectrum, remove members of the transgender service from the military, and bar -transfer women and girls from sports competitions that match their gender. This month, HHS gave instructions for the protection of whistleblower to report doctors or hospitals that offer gender -specific care. The judges block the enforcement of several guidelines.
This latest HHS report, which Trump demanded in the campaign last year, represents a reversal of federal politics. The administration of US drug abuse and the administration for mental health, which is part of HHS, found that no investigations had determined that interventions for behavioral health could change gender identity or the sexual orientation of a person. The 2023 -update for knowledge 2015 is no longer on the agency’s website.
While Health Minister Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has repeatedly undertaken to practice “radical transparency”, his department did not publish any information about who wrote the study. The administration says that the up-to-date report will go through a peer review process and only say who will be contributed to the report after “to maintain the integrity of this process”.
The report states that medical groups have based on medical treatment rather than on behavioral therapy for transgender youth based on a “failure characterization of such approaches such as” renovation “”, which has banned about half of the states for minors.
The American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry said that the evidence shows that newborn people, including increased thoughts of suicide, harm.
