From Breitbart: A coalition of 20 attorneys general from red states are pressuring the American Medical Association (AMA) to disavow puberty blockers for minors, calling the leading medical organization’s position inconsistent given its recent about-face on sex change surgeries for youth.
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall sent a letter on behalf of the coalition to AMA CEO Dr. John J. Whyte on Monday, asking the group to reconsider its position on sex change drugs for minors and to explain the evidence it is basing its current guidance on, Fox News reported.
The attorneys general first praised the AMA for concurring with the American Society of Plastic Surgeons that sex change surgeries for minors lack “clear evidence.” The attorneys general argued that evidence is also weak on puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones form sex-confused youth.
The attorneys general questioned the AMA about the safety and efficacy of sex change drugs for minors and their endorsement of standards supporting puberty blockers and hormones for transgender youth.
“We thus find it concerning that the AMA continues to support the use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to treat gender dysphoria in minors,” the letter reads. “The quality of evidence is the same as it is for surgeries: low and very-low quality.”
The chief legal officers cited reviews that cited a lack of quality evidence supporting sex change drugs for minors.
“So if you agree that there is insufficient evidence to support using surgical interventions to treat gender dysphoria in minors — as your recent statement indicates — we do not understand how you can find that there is sufficient evidence to support using hormonal interventions to treat gender dysphoria in minors,” the letter continues. “These interventions have not been shown to be any safer for children that surgeries are, and in fact may be all the more dangerous precisely because they are viewed as not as serious.
“But hormones can leave a child sterilized just as surely as surgery can.”
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