'Abusive': Pediatrician group's support for trans therapies rebuked by state AGs

A group of state attorneys general is urging the American Academy of Pediatrics to withdraw support for transgender procedures on minors, citing concerns over medical safety.

"That halt on what is fairly described as medical experimentation on children is long overdue – particularly since the majority of children initially diagnosed with gender dysphoria desist and 'grow out' of the condition by the time they are adolescents or adults," the letter reads. "It is abusive to treat a child with biologically altering drugs that have an unknown physiological trajectory and end point. It is also inhumane to endorse such experimentation without a confident safety profile, especially if more times than not, it proves to be medically unnecessary." Jamie Joseph is a writer who covers politics. She leads Fox News Digital coverage of the Senate. 

"And yet, the AAP continues to authoritatively declare that puberty blockers are ‘reversible,’" the letter continued. "That claim is scientifically unsupported and contradicts what is medically known. And because that claim raises questions under most state consumer protection laws, it has the undersigned alarmed."