In late 2020, England’s National Health Service commissioned noted pediatrician Dr. Hilary Cass to review its gender care practices for young people. After nearly four years of intense study, the final report concluded that medicalized transition has little to no demonstrated benefit. As England and other European countries found growing evidence that these procedures do more harm than good, some American states joined the trend by passing laws against these procedures for minors.
Now our federal government may be taking notice. Since his inauguration, President Donald Trump has signed a series of executive orders that respect biological reality in areas from medicine to sports to intimate spaces, and protect the right to speak about the harms of gender ideology. These orders, including the most recent one, issued February 5, honor honest scientific inquiry and reverse the trend of activists distorting the scientific picture.
An early activist success was the 2015 removal of important scientist Dr. Kenneth Zucker as head of Toronto’s Gender Identity Service, which he cofounded. His sins included publishing research showing that most children who wanted to transition changed their minds before adulthood, and his preference for trying psychotherapy before hormones.
In 2018 activists attacked Dr. Lisa Littman’s scientific publication describing
Trump’s Orders on Gender Put Science Back in the Driver’s Seat | Opinion
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