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On Sunday, the Washington Post editorial board published an op-ed that appeared to fully embrace the anti-trans pseudoscience promoted in the recent report from RFK Jr.’s Department of Health and Human Services. This is the same department that has overseen some of the most disastrous public health responses in recent memory, stacked key positions with conspiracy theorists, and pushed disinformation on everything from autism to vaccines. Ironically, the Post has criticized these failures in other reporting—but when it comes to transgender health care, the editorial board seems unwilling to apply the same scrutiny, leaving readers uninformed about the report’s dangerous, evidence-defying recommendations.
“Rather than say doctors have been performing interventions for which the evidence of effectiveness is inadequate, |Trump| said they are “maiming and sterilizing a growing number of impressionable children” based on “Junk Science.” … This hyperbole is not helpful to anyone, especially not young people and their families. What’s needed instead is better evidence and reasoned discussion about the trade-offs involved in intervening with the biological process of puberty in children who experience gender dysphoria… The good news is that the executive order provided some of what is too often missing in the debate over transgender medical care for children,” reported the Washington Post Editorial Board in an article titled, “Good questions about transgender care.”