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In this Just the News article, Katherine Pugh reports on a sharply divided Senate HELP Committee hearing over gender dysphoria, transition-related medical procedures for minors, and whether parents, doctors, states, or the federal government should control the issue.
- The hearing, titled “Protecting Our Children: Exposing the Dangers of Irreversible Gender Transition Procedures on Minors,” featured partisan clashes between Republicans calling for stronger protections for children and Democrats arguing the federal government should stay out of family medical decisions.
- Sen. Bernie Sanders argued that “gender-affirming care” should remain between a doctor, patient, and parents rather than politicians or federal authorities.
- Do No Harm chief medical officer Kurt Miceli testified that his organization identified nearly 14,000 minors who received gender-transition procedures from 2019 to 2023, including more than 5,700 surgeries.
- Miceli said numerous systematic reviews have found no credible evidence that such procedures improve mental health outcomes for young people, while warning of risks such as infertility, sexual dysfunction, bone-density problems, cardiovascular issues, elevated mortality, and lifelong regret.
- Detransitioner Chloe Cole testified that she began transitioning as a child, received puberty blockers and testosterone at 13, underwent a double mastectomy at 15, and was not fully informed of potential consequences.
- Cole said she and her parents were told by health providers that the alternatives were suicide or transition, framing the system as one that blurred the boundary between childhood and adulthood.
- Shannon Minter of the National Center for Lesbian Rights defended transition-related care as safe and effective, arguing that government intervention threatens families’ rights and medical privacy.
- Democratic senators including Tim Kaine, Ed Markey, and Tammy Baldwin criticized Republicans for politicizing the issue, with Kaine describing Cole’s experience as a tragic case of medical malpractice.
- Republican senators including Josh Hawley and Ashley Moody pushed back hard, with Hawley accusing Planned Parenthood of using federal money to promote transgender procedures and saying lawmakers must protect children.
- Miceli also pointed to other countries, including the United Kingdom, Sweden, and Finland, as examples of governments or medical systems pulling back from youth gender-transition treatments amid mounting concerns.
Read the full story: https://justthenews.com/government/congress/senate-committee-debates-gender-dysphoria-transition-medical-treatments
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