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Trump HHS Explodes The 'Trans Kids' Fad

'Umbrella Review' includes a history of medical ethics in ideological capture

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Matt Osborne
May 07, 2025
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Imagine the mental anguish that a progressive person would experience if they were forced to admit that Donald Trump was right about this while they were wrong the whole time. Of course the denial continues. They think of themselves as the good people, surely they could not have been so wrong. Imagine how much personal inventory will be required for someone to come around, now, and agree that the ‘trans kids’ are victims of medicalized gay shame.

The short version of this sordid history is that the gender-magic failed on adults, so then a group of gender-magicians tried it on kids. “In many areas of medicine, treatments are first established as safe and effective in adults before being extended to pediatric populations,” reads the new HHS report Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria: Review of Evidence and Best Practices. Setting aside normal medical ethics, “clinician-researchers developed the pediatric medical transition protocol in response to disappointing psychosocial outcomes in adults who underwent medical transition.”

Clinicians thought they needed to start earlier to get better cosmetic results, which would improve mental health outcomes, so they started blockading normal puberty in children, who then proceeded to cross-sex hormones and surgeries. When the results of these experiments in political medicine on the bodies of children inevitably disappointed their designers, the woo-wizards of pediatric sex lobotomy stopped publication of the results. Their ‘science’ was always a sham. Outside the minds of the activists who peddled the patent medical fraud of ‘gender identity,’ the science was never, ever ‘settled.’

Imagine that the NAACP had endorsed the US Public Health Service’s Untreated Syphilis Study at Tuskegee, an historical episode of failed scientific medical ethics that this report references. That is how badly the civil rights institutions have failed gay and lesbian Americans. Of course the good progressive people don’t want to hear that from Trump, but really they don’t want to hear it at all, ever, from anyone. It hurts too much. It is too much truth for them to handle. They will have to hear it, though.

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