The state has issued sensible advice on gender-related distress in minors
The United States is fast becoming an outlier in paediatric gender medicine. Whereas medical authorities in Sweden, Finland, France, and the United Kingdom have recognised that evidence for the mental health benefits of paediatric transition is weak while evidence for its risks and harms is stronger, the Biden administration’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has now committed itself to promoting the “affirming” model of care.
This model argues that puberty blockers are relatively risk-free, fully reversible, and merely provide users a “window of time” in which to reflect on their identity and decide on next steps. More importantly, it trades on the transition-or-suicide narrative, which suggests that if young people are not allowed to undergo full medical transition, they will be at an extraordinarily high risk for anxiety, depression, and most worryingly, suicide.
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Leor Sapir is an adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
This piece originally appeared in UnHerd