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LostOne4Ever

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Wed Sep 25, 2024, 06:53 PM Sep 25

22 Republican AGs Threaten To Make It Illegal For The AAP To Endorse Trans Care

22 Republican AGs Threaten To Make It Illegal For The AAP To Endorse Trans Care
The letter, which was sent to the president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, attempts to use consumer protection laws to make it against the law to support puberty blockers.

ERIN REED


On Tuesday, a group of 22 Republican attorneys general, led by Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador, sent a letter to the president and vice president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, accusing the organization of violating consumer protection laws by endorsing the use of puberty blockers. The letter also demands answers to 14 probing questions and extensive access to internal documents. While the letter carries no legal authority, states have increasingly used vague and broad consumer protection laws to investigate the records of gender-affirming care and abortion providers, often with little to no judicial oversight.

The letter, bearing the seal of the Idaho Attorney General's office, seeks to prohibit the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) from endorsing puberty blockers as a form of reversible gender-affirming care for transgender teenagers, using consumer protection laws as the basis. "Statements made by medical trade organizations, like the AAP, are subject to state consumer protection laws… misleading and deceptive statements of medical trade associations are connected to commerce and reach consumers," the letter states, asserting the authority of Republican-controlled states to challenge the AAP’s endorsement of puberty blockers and justify extensive investigations into the organization's documents.

The letter leans on flawed science and previous hit pieces from far-right, anti-transgender think tanks that have struggled to gain credibility in scientific and medical communities. It criticizes the organization for describing puberty blockers as “reversible,” a stance supported by several medical and scientific organizations, backed by studies, and decades of use in treating precocious puberty and other conditions. A review by the Sax Institute found that “two systematic reviews reported that puberty suppression treatment is reversible,” and that the treatment is “effective, safe, well tolerated, and reversible.”

The letter heavily references the Cass Review. On the second page, for example, it asserts that the claim puberty blockers are reversible is false, “beyond medical debate.” To support this assertion, it cites the Cass Review, which identifies several "possible" irreversible consequences, such as interference with neurocognitive development, bone density, and “blocking normal pubertal experience and experimentation.”

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22 Republican AGs Threaten To Make It Illegal For The AAP To Endorse Trans Care (Original Post) LostOne4Ever Sep 25 OP
What business is it of theirs? Biophilic Sep 25 #1
The legitimate science isn't on their side LostOne4Ever Sep 25 #2
I would refuse to treat these assholes or their families with best available modern practices. Freethinker65 Sep 25 #3
control freaks 4catsmom Sep 25 #4

Biophilic

(4,664 posts)
1. What business is it of theirs?
Wed Sep 25, 2024, 06:56 PM
Sep 25

The Trans population is such a small group of people I just don’t get their war on them.

LostOne4Ever

(9,592 posts)
2. The legitimate science isn't on their side
Wed Sep 25, 2024, 07:04 PM
Sep 25

So they game the legal system using refuted propaganda and junk science from think tank trying to force real science and medical institutions to support them or go bankrupt!

I HATE REPUBLICANS SO FUCKING MUCH!!! I wish karma was real so that everything they are doing would be used against them! Let see how they like it when a bunch ideologues who don’t give an actual FUCK about truth game the system and use the most unfair and deceitful methods devised to force an ideology on them at the expense of their health and happiness!!!

FUCK THEM FUCK THEM FUCK THEM!!! I don’t care who they are! Anyone who learns about this and still sides or supports the Republican Party is my enemy!!!

Goddamn fucking liars and bigots!

Freethinker65

(11,102 posts)
3. I would refuse to treat these assholes or their families with best available modern practices.
Wed Sep 25, 2024, 07:26 PM
Sep 25

They can treat their own medical issues since they pretend to know more than the experts. Plenty of self help alternative sites on the internet that these anti-LGBTQ assholes can use as they attempt to deny physicians to practice medicine they trained and studies years to master.

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