21 state AGs launch probe into American Academy of Pediatrics for child mutilation support
Attorneys general in 21 states on Tuesday launched an investigation into the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) over its support for child mutilation surgeries.
The AAP is America’s largest association of pediatricians and sets the pediatric medical agenda for hospitals and clinics across the country. That agenda has included masking, mRNA vaccines, and medical mutilation in the name of gender ideology. The AAP has affirmed its support for giving children puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and genital surgeries.
‘Infertility and sterility is a known consequence’
In a letter Tuesday, the attorneys general slammed the AAP for its “misleading and deceptive” claim that puberty blockers can be reversed. Doctors and gender ideologues use this claim to defend hormone manipulation in children as safe and temporary. According to science, however, puberty blockers are not fully reversible.
“When used to suppress hormones below normal ranges during or before puberty, puberty blockers: (1) may interfere with neurocognitive development; (2) compromise bone density and may negatively affect metabolic health and weight; and (3) block normal pubertal experience and experimentation,” the letter reads, citing a medical report. “And when puberty blocker use is followed directly by cross-sex hormone use, which is often the case, infertility and sterility is a known consequence, at least for those who began puberty blockers in early puberty.”
The AGs noted how the AAP has relied on guidance from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH). Recently discovered communications revealed that the WPATH’s “science” was shaped by the federal government via pressure from the Biden-Harris administration.
“It is even less defensible now that the World Professional Association for Transgender Health and its standards of care—the AAP’s apparent cornerstone source—have been exposed as unreliable and influenced by improper pressures,” the attorneys general continued.
Claim that puberty blockers are reversible ‘just isn’t true’
They also pointed out that even the World Health Organization (WHO) has not signed off on puberty blockers.
“The AAP has no basis to assure parents that giving their children puberty blockers can be fully reversed. It just isn’t true. That is why the World Health Organization refuses to endorse puberty blockers or otherwise provide treatment guidelines for children with gender dysphoria, explaining that ‘the evidence base for children and adolescents is limited and variable regarding the longer-term outcomes of gender affirming care.’ The WHO is not alone. Countries around the world are intervening to protect children against these untested treatments.”
The letter went on to say that “gender-affirming care” is “abusive” and endorsing it is “inhumane,” but the APP continues to do so.
“And yet, the AAP continues to authoritatively declare that puberty blockers are ‘reversible.’ That claim is scientifically unsupported and contradicts what is medically known. And because that claim raises questions under most state consumer protection laws, it has the undersigned alarmed.”
The AGs ended the letter by requesting the AAP provide copies of its communications with WPATH, justification for its support of child medical mutilation, explanations for how its stance is consistent with scientific findings, its policies and procedures, and more.
The letter was written by Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador and signed by AGs from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, and the Arizona Legislature.
