POLITICS: Stop the madness of medical intervention for gender-confused kids

Sensible people already know that medicalizing children in the name of so-called “gender affirming care” is not only experimental, it’s barbaric.

Now, a peer-reviewed study, commissioned by the Department of Health And Human Services, reports that the evidence used to back such practices as hormone therapy for kids is flimsy at best.

There just isn’t enough known to justify such drastic medical interventions for young people.

Back in January, President Trump slammed the brakes on the medicalization of minors with his Executive Order 14187, restricting the “maiming and sterilization” of patients under 19,and ordered a study to look at the standards of care.

First released in May, the report has now been affirmed by 10 researchers and groups who found no fault with the findings — and advised that doctors treating minors with gender dysphoria should focus on psychotherapy until more is known about medical interventions.

“They were given the chance to show mistakes, show errors,” said Dr. Leor Sapir, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and one of the researchers. “And they were not able to identify any.”

Sapir stressed that the initiative was “bipartisan” and an “ideologically diverse group. Most of the authors are liberals, Democrats. They wouldn’t vote for Trump if he forced them to.”

These logical findings are a major pivot away from the last decade when our medical industry was captured by trans ideology and activists who rule like mob enforcers — canceling anyone who might even suggest gender-affirming care isn’t appropriate for minors.

Debate and dissent were squashed on social media.

Hospitals opened gender clinics for minors, and parents were manipulated into putting their children on puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones, or even getting surgery, by clinicians who warned: Would you rather have a dead daughter or a living son?

Doctors — under the threat of losing their licenses — were afraid to not affirm children’s gender whims.

In March of 2024, New York Magazine published a cover story by trans writer Andrea Long Chu, who made “the moral case for letting trans kids change their bodies.”

Finally, brave whistleblowers came forward. We’ve heard from far too many detransitioners who live with the crippling pain and regret from mutilating their perfectly healthy bodies.

Now in 2025, that illiberal period almost feels like a fever dream and the once very contentious culture war over youth gender transition has largely floated into the dustbins of history.

But it isn’t totally in the rearview mirror: Gender affirming care was a central part of Zohran Mamdani’s campaign.

New York City’s incoming mayor has promised to budget $65 million (that the city can’t spare) to turn the Big Apple into a hub for medical transitions — including for minors.

And Mamdani has vowed to “coordinate with the NYS Attorney General and District Attorneys to investigate and hold public hearings on hospitals that deny trans youth their rightful healthcare and hold them accountable to the law.”

Most of his supporters were probably too spellbound by promises of free everything to realize Mamdani was promising gratis child sterilizations too!

So much for following the science.

Level-headed people must not stop calling it out. This week, makeup influencer Jeffree Star called progressive parents who influence their kids to change genders “f–king weirdos.”

On the “Skinny Confidential” podcast, Star — who wears heavy makeup and long hair and presents as extremely feminine —  asked why both parents and society are “encouraging our kids to be a different gender and feed them false information when they’re so young.

“It’s like when you’re a tomboy. Did your mom … did she cut your tits off at 13?” Star asked. “Nowadays, it’s all these f–king weirdos telling their kids, ‘OMG you like Barbie? You’re a woman!’ No, that’s just a little boy experimenting and not knowing what the f–k he’s doing.”

As writer Andrew Sullivan has long argued, transing children is erasing gay children.

The gender conversation went so far left, it became radical.

We need to tell children the truth: They cannot change their sex. And their problems won’t be magically fixed by a pill or a scalpel.

Now, we have a scientific consensus to back that up.