Mon Jul 10, 2023 – 9:53 am EDTMon Jul 10, 2023 – 11:34 am EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — The Endocrine Society’s standards for gender-confused kids rest on “flimsy evidence” and are being used to push a “scientifically baseless movement,” an endocrinologist recently warned in the Wall Street Journal.
Dr. Roy Eappen made the claim in the Wall Street Journal on June 28, criticizing the Endocrine Society’s misleading claims. He noted that its alleged findings that “transitioning” kids is beneficial was used by a federal judge to justify blocking an Arkansas law that protected kids from the chemical and surgical procedures.
Eappen wrote, along with Ian Kingsbury of the medical advocacy group Do No Harm, that “over the past decade transgender activists have co-opted the Endocrine Society and other professional organizations to promote such treatments for adolescents and even young children.”
“Their guidelines are based on flimsy evidence, giving the appearance that invasive and irreversible treatments are beneficial for young patients despite a growing body of evidence to the contrary,” the op-ed stated. “The guidelines have been used by lawmakers in states such as California and New York to endanger children – and now by judges to block
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