HHS: Doctors 'Betrayed Their Oath' With Trans Care in Minors

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), in a final report on care for transgender youth, claims certain medical and surgical treatments do more harm than good, contradicting the recommendations of leading medical societies.

The report, published November 19 on the HHS website, calls puberty-blocking hormones and genital surgeries "unproven." HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in a statement, said such treatments, commonly referred to as gender-affirming care, constitute "malpractice" by the physicians who provide them.

"The American Medical Association (AMA) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) peddled the lie that chemical and surgical sex-rejecting procedures could be good for children," Kennedy stated. "They betrayed their oath to first do no harm, and their so-called 'gender-affirming care' has inflicted lasting physical and psychological damage on vulnerable young people. That is not medicine — it's malpractice."