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Trump administration steps up its heinous struggle on trans folks

Editorial Board Published July 30, 2025
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In a transfer that was doubtless inevitable contemplating how a lot anti-trans animus drives President Donald Trump’s administration, the Federal Commerce Fee has launched a proper inquiry into whether or not well being suppliers are making misleading claims about gender-affirming care.

Let’s face it—there isn’t any world the place the FTC goes to interact in a measured, science-based evaluation. The repair has been wholly in because the FTC introduced the invite-only workshop, which promised a veritable cavalcade of anti-trans activists, however claimed particulars needed to be secret “for the safety of participants.” Sure, the true victims, the actually weak amongst us, are individuals who have devoted themselves to attacking trans children, not the trans children themselves. 

Unsurprisingly, the key workshop filled with anti-trans folks someway raised sufficient considerations that the formal inquiry is warranted. In the event you’d prefer to see the proceedings of that workshop to see what was introduced for your self? Lol, nope. You’ll be able to learn some tremendous transphobic statements from FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson and Commissioner Melissa Holyoak, however that’s about it. 

Now, primarily based on the workshop you’ll be able to’t watch, the FTC is soliciting public feedback about gender-affirming care, however solely needs to listen to from individuals who assume it’s dangerous. The questions are insanely biased, asking folks to report whether or not a health care provider who prescribes gender-affirming care described all of the dangers, offered materials from “other sources” about these dangers, and advised them in regards to the political controversy over such care or that some states have prohibited that look after minors. Additionally, after all, did the physician stress you or your baby to transition? 

Whereas these are all questions focused at those that have acquired gender-affirming care, the FTC made certain to incorporate catch-all inquiries to solicit feedback from probably the most rabid anti-trans varieties who haven’t any connection in any respect to the supply of gender-affirming care. The company is asking folks to report “any individuals, entities, or institutions that have promoted, advertised, or otherwise made public representations” about gender-affirming care and whether or not they’re conscious of any “false representations” about gender-affirming care. 

The one “false representations” being made about gender-affirming care are these being made by anti-trans activists who insist that every one the science is improper for … causes. Each main medical group has stated that gender-affirming look after minors is protected. However, as Supreme Court docket Justice Clarence Thomas famous in his concurrence in U.S. v. Skremetti, nobody ought to take heed to “self-proclaimed experts” as a result of they’ve “no license to countermand the ‘wisdom, fairness, or logic of legislative choices.” As long as Thomas or anyone else just has a vibe that gender-affirming care hurts kids, it’s cool to discriminate. 

Nobody has actually been capable of clarify how prescribing puberty blockers for minors with gender dysphoria is harmful, however prescribing the identical factor for non-trans minors for issues like precocious puberty is completely protected. Looks like science isn’t a conservative factor nowadays, now’s it?

As an alternative of science, we get stuff just like the Division of Well being and Human Companies’ 409-page “report” on the hazards of gender-affirming care. HHS withheld the names of the authors as a result of nothing says you stand behind one thing like an nameless report. It was criticized for its analysis strategies, because the report concluded {that a} systematic assessment of the proof exhibits a “growing body of evidence pointing to significant risks.” However the precise systematic assessment within the report doesn’t present that. Oops. 

Precise medical organizations got here ahead to elucidate all of the methods wherein the report was improper. Susan Kressly, the president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, issued an announcement saying they weren’t consulted for the report, but it nonetheless mentioned AAP’s insurance policies and suggestions in a deceptive manner. Shutting out the docs who truly present medical care to kids is definitely a selection. 

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The one “treatment” that the report endorses is “exploratory therapy,” which could sound comparatively benign however is code for conversion remedy, the place LGBTQ+ minors are pressured to be straight. Right here’s some precise scientific analysis from the American Psychological Affiliation explaining that conversion remedy truly harms folks. Research present folks expertise a lack of sexual curiosity, melancholy, nervousness, and suicidal impulses. Additionally, research present that it simply doesn’t work and that an everlasting change in sexual orientation or gender identification is unlikely. 

Sadly, none of this particular science issues. HHS doesn’t care what the science says. The FTC doesn’t care what the science says. Donald Trump doesn’t care what the science says, and the conservatives on the nation’s highest court docket positively don’t care what the science says. 

The FTC’s solicitation of feedback from transphobic cranks is the right distillation of Trump world. It’s anti-science, ignoring each main medical group in favor of no matter misinformation is printed by The New York Instances. It’s additionally viciously anti-trans, pretending that bigots are the true victims when actually it’s transgender individuals who face violence, with one in 4 transgender adults saying they’ve been bodily attacked and almost two-thirds reporting being verbally attacked. Forty-one % stated they had been harassed or felt unsafe in restrooms and locker rooms. Additionally they expertise widespread prejudice and discrimination.

If the Trump administration has its manner, issues are about to get quite a bit worse.

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