Our Recent Podcast Guest Was An Author Of The HHS 'Umbrella Review' Of Trans Medicine

A reprise of my recent interview Dr. Kristopher Kaliebe

During May, the Trump administration HHS released an “umbrella review” of the evidence-base for pediatric gender transition that exposed it as low-quality, and the medicine conducted on that basis as harmful fraud. The final version of that report, Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria: Review of Evidence and Best Practices, was released yesterday.

The nine authors, whose names were withheld pending a peer review process, have now been revealed. As Benjamin Ryan reports at the New York Sun, the authors are not ‘right wing’, as their personal politics “spread from left to right and was tilted leftward on average” — they have completely normal, non-ideological ‘gender critical’ opinions.

One of the seven HHS report authors is Dr. Kristopher Kaliebe. He has provided expert testimony and reports on behalf of several states’ legislative bans of pediatric gender medicine. In a supplemental article at his Substack, Ryan describes Dr. Kaleibe’s CV in more detail. He is a highly qualified ps…