Dr. Lauren Wilson, president of the Montana chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), has written to express her opposition to SB 99, the bill signed into law by Gov. Greg Gianforte that restricts sex change drugs and surgeries to adults only.
Wilson disagrees with Gianforte’s claim that the science of “gender-affirming care” is “unsettled.” Thirty American medical organizations, she says, agree that there is “strong, cohesive evidence that appropriate gender-affirming care improves health and well-being,” and that it can even be “life-saving.”
Wilson’s assertions are dangerously misleading, and Montanan parents should know why.
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Leor Sapir is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
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