It seems the whole world is rethinking the transgender procedures for kids.
Peer-reviewed studies show their long-term harm. European countries are moving to ban the practice. And just last week, the Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Skrmetti that Tennessee&#8217;s law banning trans procedures for minors could stand. That landmark decision opens the door for future bans, and even caused The New York Times to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/magazine/scotus-transgender-care-tennessee-skrmetti.html?unlocked_article_code=1.QE8.7tVl.6ppovQTiJISu&amp;smid=url-share">warn</a> that the case may have &#8220;set the movement back a generation.&#8221;
But one group simply refuses to back down: the American medical establishment.
The American Medical Association (AMA) recently reaffirmed its commitment to performing transgender procedures on minors, as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/americas-largest-medical-association-sides-with-child-mutilation-after-scotus-ruling">The Daily Wire</a> recently chronicled.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
President Trump tells NATO members to up their defense spending, a Democratic Socialist pulls ahead in NYC’s mayoral race, and the American Medical Association doubles down on transgender medical procedures for minors. Get the facts first with Morning Wire. Reporting from… <a href="https://t.co/RCSuhDIXpW">pic.twitter.com/RCSuhDIXpW</a>
— Morning Wire (@MorningWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/MorningWire/status/1937790366306165242?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 25, 2025</a></blockquote>
They&#8217;re joined by a coalition of groups that essentially represent the entirety of the American medical establishment — including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Psychiatric Association, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists — to say nothing of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, which has long been at the forefront of the effort to make transgender procedures available to children.
<div id="attachment_940793" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-940793" class="wp-image-940793 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/Screenshot-2025-06-28-at-1.54.13-PM-1024x569.png" alt="" width="1024" height="569" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/Screenshot-2025-06-28-at-1.54.13-PM-1024x569.png 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/Screenshot-2025-06-28-at-1.54.13-PM-300x167.png 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/Screenshot-2025-06-28-at-1.54.13-PM-768x427.png 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/Screenshot-2025-06-28-at-1.54.13-PM.png 1338w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" />American Medical Association</div>
The AMA&#8217;s new president, <a href="https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/providers/bobby-mukkamala-sworn-ama-president-william-underwood-iii-chosen-president-elect">Dr. Bobby Mukkamala</a>, condemned Skrmetti, <a href="https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/ama-press-releases/ama-statement-united-states-v-skrmetti">saying</a> without a hint of irony that “all patients deserve access to high-quality, evidence-based medical care.” He added that decisions about medical treatment “must be made through a shared decision-making process between the patient and their physician.”
<div id="attachment_940787" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-940787" class="wp-image-940787 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/GettyImages-1749382842-864x576.jpg" alt="(L-R) Jesse M. Ehrenfeld, MD, MPH, President of the American Medical Association; PFLAG National CEO Brian K. Bond; Admiral Rachel L. Levine, MD, the 17th Assistant Secretary for Health (ASH) for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; and Charlotte Clymer, writer, transgender activist, and military veteran attend Learning With Love: The 2023 PFLAG National Convention, four days of educating, lobbying, networking, and leading with love, taking place October 19-22, 2023 in Washington, DC. " width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/GettyImages-1749382842-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/GettyImages-1749382842-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/GettyImages-1749382842-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/GettyImages-1749382842.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" />Paul Morigi/Getty Images for PFLAG National</div>
Though the AMA has new leadership, the support for transgender procedures for children goes back years. About a year and a half ago, the AMA hosted a conversation on “what doctors should know&#8221; about so-called trans teens. The conversation was jarring, with one doctor claiming a child can know their gender is apparently wrong by age four. 
&#8220;What we know about gender formation for all human beings is that young people really do know their gender by about age four,&#8221; Dr. M. Brett Cooper <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nOdEIdwTZY">said</a>. &#8220;It&#8217;s that young female assigned at birth that says, &#8216;Mom, I am a boy,&#8217; or, &#8216;Mom, I&#8217;m like my brother. I&#8217;m a boy too.&#8217; And they keep saying that, over and over and over again. Those are the folks that likely, but not always, will have a very firm gender diverse identity.” 
Notably, in October 2024, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton <a href="https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/attorney-general-ken-paxton-stops-texas-doctors-who-illegally-gave-children-gender-transition-drugs">sued</a> Cooper, as well as other doctors, for prescribing “gender transition” drugs to dozens of Texas children in violation of Texas law.
In 2023, the AMA passed a resolution to commit to working with legislators to oppose policies that curb access to these treatments or prioritize parental rights. The resolution also promised collaboration with other organizations to “educate the Federation of State Medical Boards about the importance of gender-affirming care.”
The group also enthusiastically supported Dr. Rachel Levine’s nomination as Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services under President Joe Biden. Levine, a male who identifies as a woman, is a proponent of all types of trans drugs and procedures for minors, and once talked about children going through the “wrong puberty.” 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
Assistant Secretary for Health Admiral Levine — who transitioned *as an adult* — dismisses the question of why children can’t wait until they turn 18 to pursue sex change surgeries:
“Adolescence is hard and puberty is hard. What if you’re going through the wrong puberty?”
This… <a href="https://t.co/vJAIwKE6Vl">pic.twitter.com/vJAIwKE6Vl</a>
— Nicki Neily (@nickineily) <a href="https://twitter.com/nickineily/status/1681291320755617797?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 18, 2023</a></blockquote>
Meanwhile, the gap between the American people and the medical establishment is continuing to widen. According to a recent New York Times and Ipsos <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/us/politics/trump-policies-immigration-tariffs-economy.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare">poll</a>, 71% of Americans believe children under the age of 18 should not be prescribed puberty blockers or hormones. 
Fortunately for them, medical professionals who disagree with their profession&#8217;s trade groups are speaking out, and forming organizations that call for evidence-based medicine.
One group, <a href="https://donoharmmedicine.org/gender-ideology/?gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=20707841002&amp;gbraid=0AAAAAo-mml2sQ9TwnUgwBn1NT5HLq5klM&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjwmenCBhA4EiwAtVjzmuvg61iE0bzkY3AdFxTDzjFXzrKJNEneUCsvx5AOfI8JSZ7LRQu5yxoCM_4QAvD_BwE">Do No Harm</a>, has 16,000 members and is fighting to “curtail the unscientific and individually harmful practice of so-called ‘gender affirming care.’” The Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine, meanwhile, researches and questions trans procedures for minors and promotes non-invasive approaches for gender confusion, like psychotherapy. 
These groups have a strong ally in President Donald Trump, who ran on this issue, and gained massive support for opposing trans procedures for minors and protecting girls&#8217; sports. During his second week in office, Trump signed an executive order stating the United States will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support gender transitions for children. 
Now, his administration is joining the fight. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. <a href="https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/ocr-rescission-february-20-2025-notice-guidance.pdf">rescinded</a> Biden-era guidance that promoted trans procedures for minors. Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a memo in April that the Department of Justice would consider prosecuting doctors for mutilating children under the guise of “trans care.” 
And, as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-federal-trade-commission-is-setting-its-sights-on-transgender-procedures-on-kids">The Daily Wire</a> exclusively reported, the Federal Trade Commission will hold a workshop in July on transgender surgeries, hormones, and puberty blockers.
An FTC memo said there’s reason to believe some doctors and medical providers are pushing these treatments on minors while “knowingly deceiving parents by exaggerating ‘benefits’ and downplaying&#8230;harmful side effects.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-fda-chief-pushes-for-major-shift-after-maha-report-chronic-disease-children">‘MAHA’ Report On Chronic Disease Will Cause Major Shift In Healthcare, FDA Chief Predicts</a>

Transgender hormone therapy

Inside The American Medical Establishment’s Bitter Refusal To Rethink Trans Procedures For Kids

Medical Establishment Continues To Promote Trans Procedures For Minors

American Medical Association

Donald Trump

Skrmetti

Supreme Court

Transgender

Women's sports

Trump pressures NATO to increase military spending after mediating the Iran-Israel truce. New Yorkers head to the polls &#8212; will they elect a socialist mayor? And, the United States&#8217; largest medical group doubles down on transgender treatments despite the data.
It’s Wednesday, June 25, and this is the news you need to know to start your day.
Morning Wire is available on video! You can watch today’s episode here:
<iframe loading="lazy" title="Trump Presses NATO &amp; NYC’s Mayoral Showdown | 6.25.25" width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/q-VN4KonSVM?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe>
If you’d rather listen to your news, today’s edition of the Morning Wire podcast can be heard below:
<iframe style="width: 100%; max-width: 660px; overflow: hidden; border-radius: 10px;" src="https://embed.podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/trump-presses-nato-nycs-mayoral-showdown-6-25-25/id1576594336?i=1000714474660" height="175" frameborder="0" sandbox="allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation"></iframe>
<h2>War &amp; Peace</h2>
<div class="image"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-938999" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/SEGMENT-HEADERS.00_00_22_06.Still002-2.jpeg" alt="" width="640" height="360" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/SEGMENT-HEADERS.00_00_22_06.Still002-2.jpeg 640w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/SEGMENT-HEADERS.00_00_22_06.Still002-2-300x169.jpeg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /></div>
Topline: President Donald Trump headed to Europe on Tuesday for high-stakes NATO meetings after he brokered the tenuous ceasefire between Iran and Israel.
Leaders from all 32 members of the NATO alliance and some partner states are attending a two-day <a href="https://www.act.nato.int/activities/nato-summit/">summit</a> in the Netherlands to discuss defense policy and the broader strategy. President Trump’s main goal is to push NATO members to increase their defense budgets. Trump has long lamented that America is being taken advantage of by allies who benefit from our military without paying their fair share. At the moment, NATO members are expected to spend at least 2% of their GDP on defense — Trump wants to raise that to 5%. According to Reuters, &#8220;All NATO members have backed a statement enshrining the target, although Spain declared it does not need to meet the goal and can meet its commitments by spending much less.&#8221;
This is also the first large gathering of world leaders since the president’s strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities on Saturday, and the subsequent ceasefire announced on Monday. On Tuesday morning, hours after the deal went into effect, Iran reportedly launched a series of missiles at Israel, prompting the Israelis to respond with strikes on a radar facility outside of Tehran. For a moment, it looked like the war was back on, but then Trump intervened. With Israeli planes reportedly en route to Iran, the president called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu directly with what the White House called an “exceptionally firm and direct” warning to abide by the ceasefire. 
Trump also made a <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/trump-i-need-israel-to-calm-down-do-not-drop-those-bombs-bring-your-pilots-home-now/">public appeal</a> on social media, writing, “ISRAEL. DO NOT DROP THOSE BOMBS. IF YOU DO IT IS A MAJOR VIOLATION. BRING YOUR PILOTS HOME, NOW!”
Shortly afterward, Netanyahu said he would refrain from further strikes.
While further escalation was avoided, Trump made it clear that he was unhappy with both Israel and Iran.
“We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the f*** they’re doing,” Trump <a href="https://x.com/cspan/status/1937468807536169315">told</a> reporters bluntly. “[Iran is] not going to have enrichment and they&#8217;re not going to have a nuclear weapon. They&#8217;re going to get on to being a great trading nation.&#8221;
At the summit, Trump also <a href="https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-06-24/trump-nato-summit-iran-israel-putin">quipped</a> about ongoing tensions with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who launched an invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and has been accused of slow-walking the peace negotiations with the United States. “Vladimir called me up – he said ‘do you need help with Iran?’ And I told him ‘I don’t need help with Iran, I need help with you.”
<h2>Cuomo Concedes NYC Primary To Socialist</h2>
<div class="image"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-939001" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/SEGMENT-HEADERS.00_01_21_16.Still003-2.jpeg" alt="" width="640" height="360" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/SEGMENT-HEADERS.00_01_21_16.Still003-2.jpeg 640w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/SEGMENT-HEADERS.00_01_21_16.Still003-2-300x169.jpeg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /></div>
Topline: New Yorkers went to the polls on Tuesday to decide the Democratic candidate for mayor.
The New York City Mayoral Democratic Primary took place on Tuesday, and the former frontrunner has already conceded. With 92% of the vote in, Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani had a 7-point lead over former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, although neither candidate secured a majority, and the official results won’t be tallied until next week. This kind of wait isn’t unusual — it took two weeks for this primary to be decided in 2021, in a large part because New York City uses <a href="https://vote.nyc/page/ranked-choice-voting">ranked-choice voting</a>.
In a ranked choice election, instead of picking one candidate, voters rank candidates in order of preference – if no candidate receives a majority in the first round, then the candidate who received the fewest votes is eliminated and their supporters&#8217; ballots are added to the tally of the candidate who was ranked as their next most preferred choice – the process continuing until one of the candidates has majority support.
There were 11 candidates on the ballot, but in the end, it came down to three: Andrew Cuomo, the former governor who resigned amid allegations of sexual misconduct; New York City comptroller Brad Lander, who received the New York Times’ endorsement; and the apparent rising star of the race, Zohran Mamdani, an state assemblyman from Queens and vocal member of the Democratic Socialists of America. Lander and Mamdani made waves a few weeks ago when they endorsed each other, urging their supporters to put both of them in their top two and not to rank Cuomo.
“We both love New York City, and that’s why it’s so important to not send scandal-ridden, corrupt, Andrew Cuomo to City Hall,” Lander and Mamdani <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYH_zerPE3M">said</a> in a joint statement. “New Yorkers deserve so much better than a disgraced creep. … Brad and I are officially telling our supporters: rank me number one, rank him number two. Let’s send Andrew Cuomo back to the suburbs.”
Cuomo led the pack in almost every <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/nyc-mayoral-primary-election-polls-2025.html">first-round poll</a>, but the most recent Emerson College survey suggested that Mamdani was only a few points behind and would actually beat Cuomo by 4 points in the final count. Despite conceding the Democratic primary, Cuomo is still free to run as a third-party candidate against Mamdani in the general election.
<h2>Trans Medicine &#8212; The Establishment Vs The Evidence</h2>
<div class="image"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-939003" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/SEGMENT-HEADERS.00_02_17_13.Still004.jpeg" alt="" width="640" height="360" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/SEGMENT-HEADERS.00_02_17_13.Still004.jpeg 640w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/SEGMENT-HEADERS.00_02_17_13.Still004-300x169.jpeg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /></div>
Topline: The nation’s largest medical association is standing by its controversial guidance to promote transgender medical procedures for minors – despite mounting evidence against it and a landmark Supreme Court ruling.
The American Medical Association (AMA) released a statement signaling against the recent ruling in United States v. Skrmetti, which permits states to ban puberty blockers and other so-called gender-affirming procedures on minors – those procedures have been shown to be damaging and often irreversible. The new president of the AMA, <a href="https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/providers/bobby-mukkamala-sworn-ama-president-william-underwood-iii-chosen-president-elect">Dr. Bobby Mukkamala</a>, condemned the decision and said that “all patients deserve access to high-quality, evidence-based medical care.” He added that decisions about medical treatment “must be made through a shared decision-making process between the patient and their physician.”
The AMA has a significant influence in shaping policy and common medical practices – it has long supported trans procedures for minors. In 2023, it passed a resolution to commit to working with legislators to oppose policies that curb access to these treatments or prioritize parental rights. The resolution also promised collaboration with other organizations to “educate the Federation of State Medical Boards about the importance of gender-affirming care.” The AMA also enthusiastically supported Dr. Rachel Levine’s nomination as Assistant Secretary for Health and Human Services during the Biden era. Notably, Levine – a man who identifies as a woman – is a proponent of many types of trans procedures for minors.
Other major players in the American medical establishment, including the <a href="https://publications.aap.org/aapnews/news/25340/AAP-reaffirms-gender-affirming-care-policy">American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)</a>, the <a href="https://www.endocrine.org/clinical-practice-guidelines/gender-dysphoria-gender-incongruence">Endocrine Society</a>, the American Psychiatric Association, the <a href="https://wpath.org/publications/soc8/">World Professional Association for Transgender Health</a>, the American Academy of Family Physicians, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and the American College of Physicians are standing behind their position to support trans procedures for minors.
However, individual medical professionals speak out about this – and now organizations are forming that call for evidence-based medicine. One group called <a href="https://donoharmmedicine.org/gender-ideology/?gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=20707841002&amp;gbraid=0AAAAAo-mml2sQ9TwnUgwBn1NT5HLq5klM&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjwmenCBhA4EiwAtVjzmuvg61iE0bzkY3AdFxTDzjFXzrKJNEneUCsvx5AOfI8JSZ7LRQu5yxoCM_4QAvD_BwE">Do No Harm</a> has 16,000 members, and one of its stated goals is to “curtail the unscientific and individually harmful practice of so-called ‘gender affirming care.’” Another group, called the “Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine,” researches and questions trans procedures for minors. It promotes non-invasive approaches for gender confusion, like psychotherapy.
Since Trump took office, a number of hospitals have announced that they are curtailing or entirely stopping trans procedures for minors. During his second week in office, Trump signed an order saying that the United States would not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support gender transitions for children. Under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., HHS <a href="https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/ocr-rescission-february-20-2025-notice-guidance.pdf">rescinded</a> trans guidance from the Biden administration that promoted these procedures. An April memo from Attorney General Pam Bondi said the DOJ would look at prosecuting doctors for mutilating children under the guise of “trans care.”

MRN 6.25.25 Thumbnail V1

Morning Brief: NATO Commits To Defense Spike, NYC Picks A Socialist & ‘Experts’ Push Transing Kids

Andrew Cuomo

Iran

Israel

Media

Morning Wire

NATO

New York City

Politics

Rachel Levine

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Zohran Mamdani

The American Medical Association (AMA), the largest medical association in the United States, is coming out against the Supreme Courts ruling in United States v. Skrmetti, arguing that irreversible and damaging transgender procedures for minors are necessary treatments.
“The American Medical Association is disappointed in today’s decision that opens the door to further intrusion into patient care and harmful government interference into the practice of medicine,&#8221; AMA President Dr. Bobby Mukkamala <a href="https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/ama-press-releases/ama-statement-united-states-v-skrmetti">said</a> in a statement after the ruling came down.
The court <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-upholds-tennessees-ban-on-transgender-drugs-for-children">ruled</a> on Wednesday that Tennessee&#8217;s ban on controversial transgender &#8220;care&#8221; for minors is constitutional, noting the law doesn&#8217;t violate the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause.
Mukkamala became president of the AMA earlier this month, and is continuing the organization&#8217;s strong support for transgender drugs and procedures on minors.
<div id="attachment_937581" style="width: 310px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-937581" class="wp-image-937581 size-medium" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/Screenshot-2025-06-21-at-7.48.13-AM-300x294.png" alt="" width="300" height="294" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/Screenshot-2025-06-21-at-7.48.13-AM-300x294.png 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/Screenshot-2025-06-21-at-7.48.13-AM.png 432w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" />Credit: The American Medical Association</div>
“All patients deserve access to high-quality, evidence-based medical care. Decisions about medical treatment must be made through a shared decision-making process between the patient and their physician, based on individual patient needs and in accordance with medical evidence and the standards of good medical practice,&#8221; Mukkamala claimed.
&#8220;The AMA opposes efforts by the government to insert itself into the patient-physician relationship and interfere in clinical decision-making with no regard for the clinical standards of care,&#8221; he added.
The AMA — which is the largest medical association in the United States and has significant influence in shaping policy and common medical practices — has been an advocate for transgender procedures on minors for years.
For example, the AMA &#8220;strongly&#8221; supported Dr. Rachel Levine&#8217;s nomination as Assistant Secretary for Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services during the Biden era. Notably, Levine is a proponent of all types of so-called gender-affirming care procedures and drugs for minors.
&#8220;If confirmed, she would be the highest-ranking transgender official in the U.S. government—a strong, inclusive message to America’s LGBTQ community,&#8221; the AMA <a href="https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/ama-press-releases/ama-nomination-rachel-levine-md-hhs-assistant-secretary">said</a> at the time of Levine, who is male.
Additionally, the AMA <a href="https://www.endocrine.org/news-and-advocacy/news-room/2023/ama-gender-affirming-care">passed</a> a resolution in 2023 that committed to &#8220;opposing any criminal and legal penalties against patients seeking gender-affirming care, family members or guardians who support them in seeking medical care, and health care facilities and clinicians who provide gender-affirming care.&#8221;
The AMA also vowed to &#8220;work at the federal and state level with legislators and regulators to oppose such policies and collaborate with other organizations to educate the Federation of State Medical Boards about the importance of gender-affirming care.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-upholds-tennessees-ban-on-transgender-drugs-for-children">Supreme Court Upholds Tennessee’s Ban On Transgender Drugs For Children</a>

Protestors Rally At Stonewall Inn Against Withdrawal Of Transgender Protections

America’s Largest Medical Association Sides With Child Mutilation After SCOTUS Ruling

New President Of Largest Medical Association Sides With Child Mutilation After SCOTUS Ruling

A top employee for the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mount-rushmore-of-dei-how-a-major-academic-association-is-destroying-medicine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Association of American Medical Colleges</a> (AAMC) said that he had dedicated his career to unpacking people’s “invisible knapsacks” of white privilege, and blamed problems with American health care on “isms&#8221; like &#8220;cisgenderism.&#8221; 
Philip Alberti, the founding director of the AAMC&#8217;s Center for Health Justice, made these comments during <a href="https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hp20241015.75857/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an appearance</a> last month on HealthAffairs&#8217; “Research and Justice for All” podcast. The December 18 appearance comes as the AAMC, which facilitates medical education in the United States, has come <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mount-rushmore-of-dei-how-a-major-academic-association-is-destroying-medicine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">under fire</a> for its promotion of diversity, equity, and inclusion policies and leftist ideology.
During the podcast, Alberti told host Rhea Boyd that “isms” are a foundational cause of sickness in the country. 
“My training was around social conditions as fundamental causes of disease,” he said. “What social conditions am I talking about? I’m talking about racism, classism, sexism, cisgenderism, all the isms. That’s what we’re talking about.” 
&#8220;And these are fundamental causes for a couple of reasons. One is that they’re clever. So if you close off one pathway for racism to operate, that’s cool, it’s just going to find some other pathway,” he added, saying that the “isms” control resources, power, voice, money, and beneficial social relationships.
Earlier in the podcast, he said that his interest in DEI-related issues began when leftist academic Peggy McIntosh came to his high school and encouraged students to consider the “invisible knapsack of white privilege” that they had.
“That was a very early moment for me to say, I don&#8217;t know what I&#8217;m gonna do or how it&#8217;s gonna be, but I&#8217;m gonna dedicate myself to unpacking my own and others&#8217; invisible knapsacks to really create pathways of opportunity wherever I can,” he said.
The AAMC administers the MCAT, a test used for admission to medical colleges, and sponsors the accrediting body for allopathic medical schools. It counts as members all 158 American medical schools accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME), the organization it co-sponsors. 
Do No Harm senior director of programs Laura Morgan criticized Alberti&#8217;s comments, saying he was &#8220;the product of a politicized higher education system that taught him illogical concepts that do not have a legitimate place in medical schools like ‘the invisible knapsack of white privilege.’&#8221;
<a href="https://get.dailywire.com/subscribe/plus/">JOIN THE MOVEMENT IN ’25 WITH 25% OFF DAILYWIRE+ ANNUAL MEMBERSHIPS WITH CODE DW25</a>
Morgan pointed out that the Alberti-run Center for Health Justice put out an “Advancing Health Equity” <a href="https://www.ama-assn.org/system/files/ama-aamc-equity-guide.pdf">language guide</a> in 2021 in partnership with the AAMC and the American Medical Association that suggested infusing agenda-driven commentary into health care discussions. 
The guide recommends changing a sentence like “Low-income people have the highest level of coronary artery disease in the United States” to “People underpaid and forced into poverty as a result of banking policies, real estate developers gentrifying neighborhoods, and corporations weakening the power of labor movements, among others, have the highest level of coronary artery disease in the United States.”
<div id="attachment_857557" style="width: 2070px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-857557" class="size-full wp-image-857557" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/01/Screen-Shot-2025-01-13-at-11.18.35-AM.png" alt="" width="2060" height="1170" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/01/Screen-Shot-2025-01-13-at-11.18.35-AM.png 2060w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/01/Screen-Shot-2025-01-13-at-11.18.35-AM-300x170.png 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/01/Screen-Shot-2025-01-13-at-11.18.35-AM-1014x576.png 1014w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/01/Screen-Shot-2025-01-13-at-11.18.35-AM-768x436.png 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/01/Screen-Shot-2025-01-13-at-11.18.35-AM-1536x872.png 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/01/Screen-Shot-2025-01-13-at-11.18.35-AM-2048x1163.png 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 2060px) 100vw, 2060px" />Health Equity language guide</div>
Morgan was also critical of Alberti’s assertion during the podcast that health equity “should infuse everything that we do.” 
“The work should pervade both kinds of organizational equity, diversity, and inclusion as well as what I see as the complementary field of population health, health equity, science, policy. Right? That should infuse everything that we do,” Alberti said. 
Morgan told The Daily Wire that she’d “rather see the AAMC put its time, effort, and resources into infusing excellence – not to mention scientific fact – into everything they do.”
Do No Harm released a <a href="https://donoharmmedicine.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Activism-over-Meritocracy-How-the-AAMC-is-Corrupting-Medical-Education-with-Endless-DEI-Ideology.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> last month that exposed the AAMC’s embrace of DEI.
A report from The Daily Wire last week <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-how-much-medical-schools-pay-for-membership-in-woke-academic-association" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revealed</a> the membership costs of being a part of the AAMC, which has 171 members in both the United States and Canada. An invoice obtained by Do No Harm showed that the University of Utah School of Medicine paid over $75,000 for a full year of membership.

Four Surgeons discuss each Other Surgical Precision and Healthcare Expertise  before the Operation case

Top Medical Association Academic Blames Health Care Problems On ‘Cisgenderism’

Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI)

Health Care

medical school

Wokeness

Medical Team Performing Surgical Operation in Modern Operating Room

‘Mount Rushmore Of DEI’: How A Major Academic Association Is ‘Destroying’ Medicine

Academia

Medical

A review of 60 studies of the mental health of transgender-identifying youth found that “there is no long-term evidence that current &#8216;gender affirming&#8217; medication and surgical protocols benefit their mental well-being,” according to a group representing pediatricians.
The American College of Pediatricians issued a position statement on Wednesday <a href="https://acpeds.org/position-statements/mental-health-in-adolescents-with-incongruence-of-gender-identity-and-biological-sex">opposing the gender transitioning of youth</a> based on the literature review. It comes just after a watchdog group filed a scientific integrity complaint against Department of Health and Human Services official Rachel Levine for claiming that “there is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hhs-says-it-has-only-two-pages-of-scientific-evidence-backing-its-support-for-gender-affirming-care" target="_blank" rel="noopener">no argument</a> among medical professionals regarding &#8220;the value and the importance of gender-affirming care.”
HHS provided only two pages to support the idea that the gender transitioning of children was “necessary.” Levine, a man who believes he is a woman, has often dodged the question by saying that “accredited medical professional groups agree that gender-affirming care is medically necessary.”
The American College of Pediatricians is a small group of pediatricians, many of them conservative, that formed in part due to dismay over the way that the much larger pediatrics group, the American Association of Pediatrics, passes activist statements that are then used as if they represent the views of all pediatricians, even though <a href="https://acpeds.org/about/faq" target="_blank" rel="noopener">only a handful were involved</a>.
Given the well-documented problems that often go hand-in-hand with being transgender, the sharp and sudden increase in the number of youth who question their gender should be something that raises alarm bells for physicians, the group said.
Its <a href="https://acpeds.org/position-statements/mental-health-in-adolescents-with-incongruence-of-gender-identity-and-biological-sex" target="_blank" rel="noopener">paper</a> said that intake surveys by a gender-affirming clinic in Europe found that “gender dysphoric adolescents are significantly more likely to show psychopathological abnormalities than their cisgender peers.” Such research is often portrayed as showing that society makes life too hard for transgender people. 
But children may be transgender as a result of other mental issues, rather than having mental issues because society is not accepting of their transition, the pediatricians’ paper said. For example, the paper states that autistic children are more likely to be transgender than non-autistic children. While one wouldn’t claim that transgenderism caused the children to become autistic, activists more readily cast depression, self-harm, and other ailments as the effect of not being able to transition, rather than being associated with underlying conditions that may lead children to be confused about their gender in the first place.
A study of 120,617 adolescents found that the majority of female-to-male transgenders made a suicide attempt, the highest rate of any group. Activists often tell parents that their choice is between supporting a gender transition or having a dead child, arguing that so-called &#8220;gender affirming care&#8221; is life-saving.
But what they do not say is that things don’t get better because a gender transition is affirmed, according to the data. Multiple studies found that transgender-identifying youth had social problems whether or not they transitioned, with one finding that “there was little evidence that psychosocial well-being varied in relation to gender transition status.”
Studies also found that many youth who question their gender eventually change their minds, whereas those who are affirmed are more likely to be relegated to a life of transgenderism, with its attendant mental problems. When a University of Toronto gender dysphoria clinic followed up on its patients years later, they found that 88% were “desisters,” or had changed their mind about being transgender — suggesting that if the clinic had performed gender surgery, the patients would have had severe regret.
When activists cite studies that state that affirmed transgenders do better than non-affirmed ones, a look at the actual available data show that the slight difference in suicidality between the two groups is far less notable than how unacceptably high the figure is for both groups. For example, in one study billed as promoting how essential it was to give puberty blockers to youth, 42% of those who received care still tried to kill themselves.
A study using Denmark’s national database, reviewing 6.6 million individuals over four decades, found that transgender people were 3.5 times more likely to kill themselves compared to normal people. If accommodating and supporting transgender people was a sufficient treatment, then that disparity shouldn’t exist since Denmark is “recognized by the European chapter of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans &amp; Intersex Association (ILGA-Europe) as the third best country in Europe for its protection of sexual and gender minority rights.”
The Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare concluded that “the risk of hormonal interventions for gender dysphoric youth outweigh the potential benefits,” stating that there is insufficient evidence supporting that the treatments work, especially considering that the population of purportedly transgender youth has exploded in recent years and experts cannot explain why. (One reason, the pediatrics group suggests, is that in a developing brain, a “desire for excitement via novel behavior may entice adolescents to experiment with alternative gender roles.”)
The American College of Pediatricians concluded that the group &#8220;cannot condone the social affirmation, medical intervention, or surgical mutilation of children and adolescents identifying as transgender or gender nonconforming.  Rather, intensive psychotherapy for the individual and family to determine and hopefully treat the underlying etiology of their gender incongruence should be pursued.&#8221;
&#8220;More attention and support should be afforded to individuals seeking help in detransitioning after having made a decision during their formative adolescent years with life-long consequences, including possible sterility and loss of sexual function,&#8221; it said.

Doctor nurse followup data with medical examination document for patient health check in hospital or clinic.

Pediatricians Group Says Research Doesn’t Support ‘Gender Affirming’ Treatments

American Academy of Pediatrics

The American Medical Association (AMA) is discouraging doctors from using only Body Mass Index (BMI) to measure whether a person is a healthy body weight because the system is &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/racism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">racist</a>.&#8221;
BMI has been widely used because it is easily measured, is inexpensive, and has specific cutoff points for the overweight and obese classifications, the AMA <a href="https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/public-health/ama-use-bmi-alone-imperfect-clinical-measure" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a post on its website Wednesday.
However, BMI has been used for &#8220;racist exclusion&#8221; and has caused &#8220;historical harm,&#8221; the medical organization said.
The AMA&#8217;s House of Delegates adopted a <a href="https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/press-releases/ama-adopts-new-policy-clarifying-role-bmi-measure-medicine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">new policy</a> this month recognizing the issues with using BMI.
&#8220;Under the newly adopted policy, the AMA recognizes issues with using BMI as a measurement due to its historical harm, its use for racist exclusion, and because BMI is based primarily on data collected from previous generations of non-Hispanic white populations,&#8221; the AMA said in a press release.
The new policy comes after the AMA Council on Science and Public Health presented a report addressing the BMI issues at the 2023 AMA Annual Meeting, which was held June 9 to 14 in Chicago.
There are other issues with the BMI system, too, the AMA said.
BMI is an &#8220;imperfect measure&#8221; because it does not directly assess body fat and is &#8220;misleading about the effects of body fat mass on mortality rates,&#8221; the AMA&#8217;s post said.
<a class="c-link c-link--focus-visible" href="https://onelink.to/dwapp" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://onelink.to/dwapp" data-sk="tooltip_parent" aria-describedby="sk-tooltip-102078">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP</a>
The BMI system also does not account for differences across the sexes, genders, and age-span, the new policy says.
“Further, the use of BMI is problematic when used to diagnose and treat individuals with eating disorders because it does not capture the full range of abnormal eating disorders,” the report said.
BMI should be used along with other measures like body composition, waist circumference, and genetic and metabolic factors, the new AMA policy <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4054274-american-medical-association-says-use-of-bmi-metric-on-its-own-has-done-historical-harm/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a>.
“There are numerous concerns with the way BMI has been used to measure body fat and diagnose obesity, yet some physicians find it to be a helpful measure in certain scenarios,” <a href="https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/press-releases/ama-adopts-new-policy-clarifying-role-bmi-measure-medicine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> AMA Immediate Past President Jack Resneck, Jr. M.D. “It is important for physicians to understand the benefits and limitations of using BMI in clinical settings to determine the best care for their patients.”
The AMA said it will support efforts to educate physicians on the issues with BMI and alternative measures for diagnosing obesity.
The AMA is the largest organization of doctors in the nation with more than 271,000 members.
In recent years, the body positivity and fat positivity movements have picked up steam in the U.S., arguing that obese people can be healthy.
Fat activists have rebelled against &#8220;diet culture&#8221; and made specific demands like free extra seats on airplanes to accommodate their size.
In December, Time Magazine <a href="https://time.com/6242949/exercise-industry-white-supremacy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published</a> an article titled, &#8220;The White Supremacist Origins of Exercise,&#8221; while Cosmopolitan&#8217;s February 2021 issue featured plus-sized models with the headline, &#8220;This is Healthy!&#8221;
Meanwhile, doctors have <a href="https://www.healthline.com/health/exercise-to-gain-weight" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pointed out</a> that weight gain doesn&#8217;t always correlate to fat gain. For example, some people who exercise will end up gaining muscle weight, which will add to their overall weight.

Gastric Band Treatment

American Medical Association Says BMI Is Racist

Fat Acceptance

Health

Progressivism

U.S.

The American medical establishment markets itself as a champion for all patients’ dignity and pretends to be an ally of marginalized women. But in its passionate support of abortion, in the very arguments it uses to justify that support, the medical establishment is actually upholding a destructive, defeatist, and racist philosophy.
In the wake of the Dobbs decision that removed federal abortion protections and returned power to the states to make their own abortion laws, the president of the American Medical Association published a statement <a href="https://www.ama-assn.org/about/leadership/dobbs-ruling-assault-reproductive-health-safe-medical-practice">condemning</a> the Supreme Court decision as an immoral intrusion of government into the private affairs of patients and their physicians. In July of 2022, a few weeks after the Dobbs decision, the AMA published a follow-up <a href="https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/population-care/access-abortion-and-women-s-health-what-research-shows">article</a> on their website, arguing that abortion bans would have dire effects on women’s overall health. In October of that same year, the New England Journal of Medicine published an article calling abortion access a <a href="https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2209737">racial justice issue</a>. These publications from medical elites reveal a racist mentality and insidiously devalue human life, especially the lives of those facing genuine hardship.
In his statement, AMA President Jack Resneck called the Dobbs decision an “assault on reproductive health” and “safe medical practice.”
In one noteworthy section of his statement, the president asserted: “Access to legal reproductive care will be limited to those with the sufficient resources, circumstances, and financial means to do so—exacerbating health inequities by placing the heaviest burden on patients from Black, Latinx, Indigenous, low-income, rural and other historically disadvantaged communities that already face numerous structural and systemic barriers to accessing health care.”
In the AMA’s follow up article posted a couple weeks after Dr. Resneck gave his statement, AMA contributing news writer Tanya Albert Henry pointed to research conducted by University of California San Francisco faculty that suggests that women seeking abortions who are denied those abortions face worse health and economic outcomes than women not denied abortions. The San Francisco researchers conducted a five-year study of 956 women who wanted abortions, 231 of whom were prevented from getting abortions by state laws. While the study looked at multiple areas of life, including physical and mental health, Henry’s article placed much emphasis on the women’s economic situations. According to Henry, the study found that women who did not receive abortions were more likely to raise their children alone, “live in households that drop below the poverty level,” and “lack enough money to pay for food, housing and transportation.” Diana Greene Foster, the director of the research, said that “Access to abortion enables women to have children at a time when they have more resources – financial and emotional — to devote to their children.”
The heads of the AMA think they are promoting human rights and protecting their patients from injustice. But there’s just one problem. Ending a pregnancy ends a human life. Even if you reject the scientific fact that human life <a href="https://www.liveaction.org/news/first-trimester-babies-complex/?gad=1&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjwgqejBhBAEiwAuWHioGNykDgEAOmIjrEViBsMinTWEapZVxIK2uPKBgcYeqjKEMd7ddWY-BoC0lkQAvD_BwE">begins</a> at fertilization, when an embryo with unique DNA is created, there is no denying that the pregnancy, without interference, will result in the birth of a new human being. With that indisputable fact in mind, the AMA’s pro-abortion arguments take on a morally ghoulish character.
President Resneck thinks it a travesty that “black, Latinx” and “low income”women cannot access abortion as easily with Roe reversed. Resneck believes the world would be a better place if fewer black, Latino, and poor children were born. For him, being black and living in poverty is such a hard, miserable existence with so much suffering involved that it would be better to be killed in the womb than to endure that horrible fate.
Diana Foster and the other University of California San Francisco researchers share President Resneck’s mindset when it comes to poverty. They think that if mothers struggle financially while trying to raise their children, resulting in those children not always having their needs met, it would be better for those children not to have a chance at life at all.
These medical experts believe so strongly that systematic oppression is embedded in this country and cannot be overcome. For them, racism is ubiquitous and unavoidable. Poverty is inescapable. Children who come from hard backgrounds can never rise above their past. Giving birth to them is dooming them to misery. The kind, humane thing to do is to cut their lives short. This thinking is hideous. Medical experts, who know abortion ends a life, should not be advocating for the termination of any woman’s pregnancy, no matter her race, no matter her situation. Every human being, from the moment of conception, deserves the same respect. Every human life, once created, has a right to exist. No matter how many studies they conduct, medical experts have no right to assert that black or brown children or children from poor families are any less capable of making a better future for themselves than any other children.
The authors who wrote the New England Journal of Medicine article linking abortion and racial justice make a different point, but it’s a point just as defeatist as the AMA’s arguments. They point out the high maternal mortality rate among black women and argue that abortion is safer for these women than carrying their babies to term. In other words, because there are parts of the country where certain black women do not have access to the potentially life-saving care they need during pregnancy, we need to ensure that they can abort their babies. Why is that the solution? Why not invest resources into researching and addressing the causes of pregnancy complications and maternal mortality among black women so that their lives and their babies’ lives can be saved?
The AMA and the New England Journal of Medicine are not wrong to point out the real hardships that many pregnant women face in this country. But their insistence that impoverished and marginalized women will be better off if they can abort their babies is racist and classist. These leading medical institutions should not be focusing an ounce of their energy on fighting the Dobbs decision. Instead, they should be working to improve maternal medicine so that pregnant women have better health outcomes. 
Emmie Lo is a writer and Latin teacher currently living in Jacksonville, Florida. You can read her personal blog at <a href="https://blindgirldreaming.blogspot.com/">blindgirldreaming.blogspot.com</a> and follow her on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/Teabooksgirl">@teabooksgirl</a>.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Female doctor holding hands of her patient at hospital room

The Medical Establishment’s Racist, Classist Argument For Abortion 

The Medical Establishment’s Racist, Classist Argument for Abortion 

Abortion

Dobbs

New England Journal of medicine

Poverty

Readers Pass

Social Issues

Medical organizations in the U.S. that endorse the &#8220;gender affirming&#8221; model of care lack evidence to substantiate the medical treatment of trans-identified minors.
Activists often point to the authority of medical institutions that support &#8220;gender-affirming&#8221; care for minors to dismiss any and all criticism. A close inspection in the form of a new <a href="https://www.manhattan-institute.org/how-to-respond-to-medical-authorities-claiming-gender-affirming-care-is-safe?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social#notes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resource guide</a> by Manhattan Institute fellow <a href="https://twitter.com/LeorSapir" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Leor Sapir</a> found that the most prominent organizations in favor of &#8220;gender-affirming&#8221; care lack evidence to back up their position and depart from a growing international consensus.
&#8220;While it is understandable that doctors and their patients should want to follow guidelines issued by professional medical groups, it is important to recognize that these groups don’t always get the science right,&#8221; said Sapir.
“Gender-affirming” care discourages medical professionals from questioning a minor’s self-reported transgender identity or exploring possible underlying factors that may be causing their dysphoria. The standard protocol for gender affirmation is administering puberty blockers, followed by cross-sex hormones, and then surgery, if desired. Proponents generally argue that parental approval should not be a requirement and reject medical “gatekeeping.”
The three most influential medical organizations to have released guidelines recommending “gender-affirming&#8221; care for minors are the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the Endocrine Society (ES), and the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH). The American Medical Association, as well as other organizations, have made public statements supporting the “affirming” model without citing evidence, or have deferred to one or more of these three, Sapir noted.
&#8220;On the issue of medical treatment for youth gender dysphoria in particular, American medical organizations have demonstrated a preference for ideologically driven conclusions over cautious review of the available research,&#8221; Sapir said.
According to Sapir, the AAP&#8217;s central conclusion is negated by its citations and flawed logic. The AAP’s position is based on a 2018 <a href="https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/142/4/e20182162/37381/Ensuring-Comprehensive-Care-and-Support-for?autologincheck=redirected?nfToken=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000" target="_blank" rel="noopener">policy statement</a>, authored by Dr. Jason Rafferty and published in Pediatrics.
&#8220;Rafferty’s central claim in that article is that &#8216;watchful waiting,&#8217; a therapeutic approach in which clinicians delay social and medical transition as long as possible in order to exhaust all efforts to help youth in distress feel comfortable in their bodies, is a form of &#8216;conversion therapy,’” said Sapir. The citations used to defend this claim had nothing to do with gender self-identification and were all based on the discredited practice of trying to get gay and lesbian adults to &#8220;convert&#8221; to heterosexuality.
Rafferty argued that clinicians should always “affirm” the gender self-declarations of their pediatric patients. In 2020, Dr. James Cantor of the Toronto Sexuality Centre published a thorough <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31838960/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fact-check</a> of Rafferty’s article in another journal. The fact-check revealed that the AAP policy contained &#8220;egregious omissions and misrepresentations of the available research on youth gender dysphoria,&#8221; said Sapir.
In 2017, the Endocrine Society published <a href="https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/102/11/3869/4157558" target="_blank" rel="noopener">guidelines</a> that invalidate their own strength of evidence by rating the guidelines as being &#8220;weak recommendations&#8221; and citing the quality of evidence for hormonal interventions for minors as being “low” or “very low.”
The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) recently published the 8th edition of their <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/26895269.2022.2100644?scroll=top&amp;needAccess=true" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Standards of Care</a>, notably removing their <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/leading-transgender-health-association-releases-new-guidelines" target="_blank" rel="noopener">minimum age recommendations</a> for minors to receive medical interventions, their guidance on ethics, and adding a chapter on &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/leading-transgender-health-association-seeks-to-include-eunuch-as-gender-identity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">eunuchs</a>&#8221; that has alarmed medical professionals.
&#8220;WPATH is an explicitly ideological organization that now includes &#8216;eunuch&#8217; as a valid &#8216;gender identity&#8217; that children can supposedly know they have at a very early age,&#8221; Sapir said.
Their guidance for adolescents seeking hormones are based largely on a single study from the Netherlands, often referred to as the “<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1743609515336171" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dutch study</a>,” and related, the Dutch protocol. Aside from its &#8220;biased methodology&#8221; and &#8220;unimpressive results,” which have been the subject of widespread <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0092623X.2022.2046221?tab=permissions&amp;scroll=top" target="_blank" rel="noopener">criticism</a>, it does not apply to the vast majority of teenagers in the West seeking hormonal interventions today.
The Dutch study and its &#8220;protocol&#8221; selects candidates who must fulfill certain criteria to be eligible. Data shows the majority of youth seeking hormonal interventions in recent years are adolescent girls with no prior history of dysphoria and <a href="https://cass.independent-review.uk/publications/interim-report/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">very high rates</a> of mental health comorbidities, that would automatically disqualify them from the Dutch protocol, rendering the WPATH&#8217;s application of it practically worthless.
Additional <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/researcher-debunks-claim-trans-youths-mental-health-improves-with-gender-affirming-care" target="_blank" rel="noopener">studies</a> cited by the WPATH &#8220;all suffer from methodological shortcomings, most commonly lack of adequate controls for confounding factors like psychotherapy and very short follow-up times,&#8221; said Sapir.
None of these U.S.-based organizations have done systematic reviews of the evidence, while arguably more progressive European countries like <a href="https://segm.org/segm-summary-sweden-prioritizes-therapy-curbs-hormones-for-gender-dysphoric-youth" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sweden</a>, <a href="https://genderreport.ca/finland-strict-guidelines-for-treating-gender-dysphoria/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Finland</a>, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/englands-national-health-service-abandons-gender-affirming-model-of-care" target="_blank" rel="noopener">England</a> have. After reviewing the evidence for the use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones in treating pediatric gender dysphoria, health authorities in all three countries have decided to abandon the &#8220;gender-affirming&#8221; model, finding the costs outweigh the benefits.
&#8220;The main purpose of systematic reviews is to prevent cherry-picking of studies to produce desirable conclusions,&#8221; said Sapir. &#8220;Neither the AAP, nor the ES, nor WPATH have conducted systematic reviews of the research. Indeed, in its latest Standards of Care WPATH asserts that such a review is &#8216;not possible.’”
The U.K.’s National Health Service (NHS) proposed <a href="https://www.engage.england.nhs.uk/specialised-commissioning/gender-dysphoria-services/user_uploads/b1937-ii-specialist-service-for-children-and-young-people-with-gender-dysphoria-1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">new guidelines</a> last week <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/englands-national-health-service-abandons-gender-affirming-model-of-care" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recognizing</a> that children and adolescents identifying as transgender may be experiencing a “transient phase” and warning that doctors should not encourage them to change their names and pronouns, as “social transition” is not a “<a href="https://www.engage.england.nhs.uk/specialised-commissioning/gender-dysphoria-services/user_uploads/b1937-ii-interim-service-specification-for-specialist-gender-dysphoria-services-for-children-and-young-people-22.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">neutral act</a>” and could have “significant effects” in terms of “psychological functioning.” Additionally, they have banned the use of puberty blockers in patients under 18, making exceptions only in certain cases for strict clinical trials.
Spain&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/spains-medical-societies-revolt-against-proposed-transgender-law" target="_blank" rel="noopener">medical societies</a> have also recently vocalized their concerns and objections to a proposed Trans Law that would allow minors to self-declare as transgender and be granted access to medical interventions.
&#8220;With so many contemporary &#8216;affirming care&#8217; methods and practices resting on poorly conducted or inapplicable studies, medical authorities like the AAP and the ES, and ideological organizations like WPATH, are gambling not only with their credibility, but the mental and physical health of children,&#8221; said Sapir.
Recently a popular article in Psychology Today by activist researcher Dr. Jack Turban claiming to show mental health benefits from “gender-affirming” care was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/leading-gender-affirming-psychiatrists-popular-article-updated-after-fact-check-reveals-misleading-claims" target="_blank" rel="noopener">updated</a> by the publisher after a thorough <a href="https://www.realityslaststand.com/p/the-distortions-in-jack-turbans-psychology" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fact-check</a> found that it <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/researcher-debunks-claim-trans-youths-mental-health-improves-with-gender-affirming-care" target="_blank" rel="noopener">contained</a> distortions and misleading information. Turban&#8217;s article is still <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/matt-walsh/death-threats-proud-boys-and-homophobic-bigots-matt-walshs-anti-trans-rally-drew-crowd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cited</a> widely among trans activists to support medically transitioning gender dysphoric minors, even though the evidence is lacking.
&#8220;Parents, scientists and researchers, attorneys general and lawmakers are justified in their hesitance to lean into the surge in transgender identification,&#8221; said Sapir. &#8220;They must not be reluctant to call for a pause in transitioning, and demand better research and more debate.&#8221;

Investigate and analyze.

U.S. Medical Groups Get The Science Wrong On Pediatric ‘Gender Affirming’ Care

Puberty blockers

transgender surgery

Children’s health professionals are <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/american-medical-association-pushes-doj-to-investigate-and-prosecute-those-who-call-out-gender-surgeries-online" target="_blank" rel="noopener">complaining</a> that the mutilation of minors, dishonestly packaged by mainstream media outlets as “gender affirming care,” is under attack.
The American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Medical Association, and the Children’s Hospital Association, sent a <a href="https://downloads.aap.org/DOFA/DOJ%20Letter%20Final.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to Attorney General Merrick Garland on October 3, asking him to investigate threats against hospitals that encourage children to change their gender.
“From Boston to Akron to Nashville to Seattle, children&#8217;s hospitals, academic health systems, and physicians are being targeted and threatened for providing evidence-based health care,” their letter warns.
Never mind that the bomb threat to Boston Children’s Hospital, which made the news last month, <a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/09/15/fbi-makes-arrest-boston-childrens-hospital-hoax-bomb-threat" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was apparently a hoax</a>. That likely won’t matter to Garland, who has long fought back the facts threatening the Left’s victim narrative.
You can expect Garland to take this letter seriously, as his partisan record includes announcing that clinics should be <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-justice-dept-says-will-protect-texas-abortion-clinics-that-come-under-attack-2021-09-06/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">protected</a> in their efforts to perform nonstop abortions, but becoming suddenly immobilized when it comes to responding to actual <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/republican-lawmakers-urge-doj-to-investigate-attacks-on-pro-life-centers-as-domestic-terrorism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fire bombings and threats</a> to crisis pregnancy centers. 
What’s truly concerning about this letter, though, is not that the Justice Department might expend more resources on bomb threats that may or may not exist. It’s that these health professionals are trying to get the federal government to shut down not just crime, but free speech.
The medical associations, which together represent “more than 270,000 physicians and more than 220 children’s hospitals across the country,” place blame for these allegedly numerous threats of violence on everyday social media users who object to their so-called “evidence-based health care.”
“The attacks are rooted in an intentional campaign of disinformation, where a few high-profile users on social media share false and misleading information targeting individual physicians and hospitals, resulting in a rapid escalation of threats, harassment, and disruption of care across multiple jurisdictions,” the letter reads. “Our organizations have called on technology companies to do more to prevent this practice on digital platforms, and we now urge your office to take swift action to investigate and prosecute all organizations, individuals, and entities responsible.”
One such high-profile user is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/libs-of-tiktok-locked-out-of-twitter-again" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Libs of TikTok</a>, a conservative account with 1.4 million followers on Twitter. It frequently shares clips of leftist craziness, from babies at drag shows to children’s hospitals bragging about their “gender-affirming care,” a nice code for feeding children’s gender dysphoria.
In August, the account posted a video from the Boston Children’s Hospital, <a href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1557775959217950725" target="_blank" rel="noopener">with a caption saying</a> that the hospital “is now offering ‘gender affirming hysterectomies’ for young girls.” The media immediately went to work defending the hospital, <a href="https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/aug/12/tweets/no-boston-childrens-hospital-doesnt-provide-hyster" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rating</a> the specific claim that the hospital provides “hysterectomies for children” as false.
According to the Boston Children’s Hospital website today, it does not offer genital surgery until the age of 18, but it does <a href="https://www.childrenshospital.org/programs/center-gender-surgery-program/eligibility-surgery" target="_blank" rel="noopener">offer</a> chest surgery starting at 15 years old. And, worse, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220409020642/https://www.childrenshospital.org/programs/center-gender-surgery-program/eligibility-surgery" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to the website</a> before the viral Libs of TikTok video, patients as young as 17 years old qualified for vaginoplasty, “a procedure in which surgeons create a vagina from your existing genital tissue.” Less than a week after the tweet was posted, though, the hospital website was <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220817164233/https://www.childrenshospital.org/programs/center-gender-surgery-program/eligibility-surgery" target="_blank" rel="noopener">updated</a> to say that patients must be 18 for phalloplasty, metoidioplasty, and vaginoplasty.
If it all sounds a little confusing, that’s because it is. Intentionally so. Boston Children’s Hospital, the medical establishment, and their friends in the media are quibbling with phrasing to hide the fact that minors in the U.S. are still eligible for surgery to permanently alter their bodies. And, apparently, the villain here isn’t the host of doctors willing to perform these experiments on children — it’s the people online with enough commonsense to stand up to them. 
The AMA letter’s appeal to social media sites and the DOJ is chilling. As the Libs of TikTok saga tells us, what qualifies as “disinformation” is highly subjective, especially when you can stealthily edit your website to move the narrative in your favor.
When health professionals call <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/revealed-pediatricians-privately-slam-american-academy-of-pediatrics-for-pushing-puberty-blockers-to-teens" target="_blank" rel="noopener">puberty blockers</a> and invasive, unnecessary surgery “evidence-based health care” with a straight face, then even questioning the prevailing gender dogma is sure to put your head on the chopping block.
On top of that, sharing information does not make someone responsible for other people’s actions. If a social media user were to suggest that bomb threats against a children’s hospital were a good idea, that would be one thing. But to chastise someone for sharing public information with her followers, and then blame her for any ensuing threats of violence, is ridiculous.
Note that the AMA letter complains not just of “threats” and “harassment,” but “disruption of care.” The health establishment is calling for federal intervention not because it’s afraid for the children in its charge, but because it’s worried that a dose of common sense will threaten a growing source of cash.
Madeline Fry Schultz (<a href="https://twitter.com/madelineefry" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@madelineefry</a>) is the assistant contributors editor at the Washington Examiner.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Hospital sign SURGERY

The Chilling Truth Behind The AMA’s Push To Punish Transgender ‘Disinformation’

Gender Identity

Merrick Garland

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/republican-party">Republican</a> lawmakers across seven states signaled in a Wednesday letter reviewed by the <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2022/10/05/state-freedom-caucus-fbi-ama-aap-transgender-children/">Daily Caller News Foundation</a> that they would inflict repercussions on medical facilities that perform so-called &#8216;gender-affirming care&#8217; on children.
Lawmakers from the State Freedom Caucus Network, a group composed of conservative members aiming to decentralize government power in federal agencies, penned the letter rebuking the American Medical Association (A.M.A.) and American Academy of Pediatrics (A.A.P.) for urging Biden Administration officials and federal agents to investigate journalists exposing radical gender surgeries that medical facilities are allegedly offering and performing on minors nationwide.
Signatures from the group&#8217;s lawmakers represent Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Nevada, South Dakota, Illinois, and Arizona.
&#8220;With your advocacy of childhood genital mutilation, your call to investigate those who disagree with you, and your request for Big Tech to suppress constitutionally protected free speech that challenges your leftist ideology, you have lost whatever credibility you had left,&#8221; the letter read.
The American Medical Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, and Children&#8217;s Hospital Association all signed the letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, urging the administration to &#8220;investigate the organizations, individuals, and entities&#8221; that it claimed were &#8220;coordinating&#8221; and &#8220;provoking&#8221; outrage online directed at those providing the controversial services.
According to the letter, lawmakers condemned the medical institutions for pushing and making decisions for young children to take action, resulting in &#8220;irrevocable and irreparable harm.&#8221;
&#8220;This so-called &#8216;gender-affirming care&#8217; is both morally and ethically repugnant,&#8221; the letter read. &#8220;We will fulfill our duty to stand in the gap and stop harm to any child by unnatural and irreversible procedures.&#8221;
State legislators wrote they would ensure such taxpayer-funded institutions should take &#8220;no part in furthering ethically and morally repugnant agendas&#8221; contrary to their state&#8217;s values.
&#8220;Collectively, and across the country, we will be pursuing a path to ensure no minors can receive these barbaric procedures,&#8221; the lawmakers wrote. &#8220;This includes calling on our governors to denounce this practice and using all available tools to end it.&#8221;
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hospitals-clinics-are-promoting-services-to-gender-nonconforming-kids-here-are-47-of-them">reported</a> at least 47 pediatric gender clinics, many at prominent children&#8217;s hospitals, have broadened the scope of their patient criteria to include not only transgender-identified children but those they describe as &#8220;gender creative,&#8221; &#8220;gender diverse,&#8221; or &#8220;gender nonconforming.&#8221;
Some of these programs see patients as young as two and three years old. However, while most clinics will not offer medical interventions until a child has reached puberty, many will help facilitate a &#8220;social transition.&#8221;
Such social transitions have forced the State Freedom Caucus Network to push back on the facilities that could face repercussions if the programs are proven non-compliant.
&#8220;This mutilation cannot and will not be tolerated in any form,&#8221; the letter reads.
Manhattan Institute fellow Christopher Rufo, who originally obtained the letter signed by the three major American medical institutions, said in a <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1577029634042253313">tweet</a> that the &#8220;American Medical Association is attempting to censor, de-platform, investigate, and prosecute journalists questioning the orthodoxy of radical gender surgeries for minors, arguing that public criticism is &#8216;disinformation.'&#8221;
&#8220;This is now the Left&#8217;s playbook: last year, the National School Board Association, Department of Justice, and F.B.I. worked together to label parents who opposed critical race theory ‘domestic terrorists,'&#8221; Rufo <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1577029635380228096">said</a>. &#8220;They want to stifle dissent, suppress speech, and criminalize opposition. If ‘gender-affirming care’ is so good, the activists and doctors who promote it—and profit from it—should defend their practices in the realm of public opinion.”
&#8220;In a democracy, everyone gets to weigh in on important issues, not just regime-approved apparatchiks,&#8221; he <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1577032889308708865">added</a>.
Ryan Saavedra and Christina Buttons contributed to this report.

Supporting sexual issues and human rights

Republican Lawmakers Warn Medical Facilities Performing Child Sex Changes Face ‘Repercussions’

Christopher Rufo

Republicans

On a healthy, seed oil-free diet there is no “bad” cholesterol. But when your diet is full of seed oils, LDL becomes a problem.
<h4>The Heart Healthy Oil That’s Anything But</h4>
You may have noticed a pretty, red, heart-healthy label on certain vegetable oils. What you may not have noticed is an asterisk under the claim that says words to the effect of there’s only preliminary and limited evidence to support this statement. That snippet of legalese has quite a history behind it.
In the 1950s, margarine and cooking oil advertisers promoted their products as healthy due to the known cholesterol-lowering effect of polyunsaturates — the main fatty acid in seed oils. A string of prominent doctors objected to these tactics, since there was no evidence whatsoever to support the claim. Decades of wrangling finally resulted in a law prohibiting the promotion of margarine “or any other food, fat, or food oil” as a way of preventing disease unless it was grounded in science. A happy example of the Federal Trade Commission protecting the public that was over and done with back in 1974.
Which leads to my next point: we are here, nearly 50 years later, with no further evidence to support the heart-healthy claim than with what we had back then. Yet, the idea that lowering cholesterol prevents heart disease is still planted into our minds and remains the foundation upon which all of preventative cardiology rests. If your LDL cholesterol, the so-called “bad” cholesterol, is “too high,” your doctor will put the fear of death into you until you lower it.
To be clear, the polyunsaturates in seed oils do successfully lower total and LDL cholesterol. This is supported by a great deal of evidence, and nobody debates this. What’s more, as the dairy and other saturated-fat, rich animal fats in our food supply have been increasingly replaced by seed oils, our cholesterol levels as a country have dropped across the board. The average American’s total cholesterol is about 20 points lower today than in the mid-1960s, when we first started tracking. This drop is attributable to diet change, not drugs. So it’s absolutely true that swapping saturated fat for polyunsaturated fat lowers cholesterol levels. Now, here’s a question for you: so what?
The end goal of these dietary recommendations is not to lower cholesterol — it’s to help you live longer. Dying with lower cholesterol levels, what one of my patients termed “a Harvard death,” is not the goal.
<h4>Keep Your Eye On The Ball</h4>
Although seed oils do lower cholesterol, they do not keep you alive. At least we don’t have any evidence yet to support that idea — after 70 years of looking for it. We do, however, have evidence that foods fried in these oils contain “extremely high levels” of toxins known to cause cancer and neurodegenerative disease. Rather shockingly, a <a href="https://www.bmj.com/content/353/bmj.i1246">2016 NIH study</a> showed that for every 30 points these oils cut cholesterol, “there was a 22% higher risk of death.” It’s difficult to know, however, what exactly the people in the study died from, as 146 of the original 295 autopsy files were lost.
What’s clouding the issue is the fact that we are dying less often from heart attacks today than we were back in 1961, when heart attack deaths peaked. But it would be incorrect to assume that the drop in heart attacks means these cholesterol-lowering oils are heart healthy — or, for that matter, that the decline had anything to do with our lower cholesterol. The biggest factor behind the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/jan/26/heart-attack-deaths-fall-50-percent">50% drop</a> in heart attack death rates is the fact that we’re smoking less.— much less. In 1961, both heart attack deaths and smoking peaked at their all-time highest levels. The average American (including children, smokers, and nonsmokers) <a href="https://cancercontrol.cancer.gov/sites/default/files/2020-08/m08_2.pdf">smoked 4,000 cigarettes</a> that year. By 2010, the per capita rate of smoking had fallen to 1,000, and heart attacks reached their lowest point. Since then, smoking rates continue to fall, while heart attack deaths are leveling out and <a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2778234">appear to be climbing again</a>.
I’d like to share a striking, though narrowly appreciated, secret: Harvard — the primary advocate for seed oils — has yet to nail down exactly how the polyunsaturated fats in these oils lower cholesterol. They don’t seem to care. Reviewing the medical literature reveals that, over the past 60 years, only two articles, found in <a href="https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/91/2/398/2843254">The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology &amp; Metabolism</a> and <a href="https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article-abstract/42/3/560/4691820?redirectedFrom=PDF">The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition</a>, discuss the subject — both hypothetical.
Why should you care what Harvard’s nutrition leadership knows about seed oils?
Harvard is the biggest advocate of the cholesterol theory of heart disease, and thanks to the university, all of preventative cardiology rests on the idea that lowering cholesterol is beneficial. Harvard works with the American Heart Association (AHA) to shape the U.S. government dietary policy regarding fat. Our K-12 state-funded college education systems, nursing homes, prisons, hospitals, and all other government-funded organizations are required by law to feed us more polyunsaturates than saturates — all because they lower cholesterol. Yet, if you ask the average cardiologist how polyunsaturates lower cholesterol, or how they know this effect is beneficial, I doubt you’ll receive a good answer.
<h4>The Cholesterol Hypothesis Needs To Go</h4>
It’s high time cardiologists clue in, though. Because after decades of reductions in deadly heart attacks, since 2010, they’ve started to creep upwards again. The combined effects of cholesterol-lowering drugs, further cuts in smoking rates, and advanced emergency care and cardiac surgeries are collectively failing to stem the tide of deadly heart attacks. It’s not just due to the population aging, since the mortality rates for people 65 and older actually <a href="https://usafacts.org/data/topics/people-society/health/longevity/mortality-rate/">went down</a> between 2010-2019. There’s something very powerful driving this newly apparent trend.
Don’t look to the AHA for answers. It’s in its best interest that our notice in this recent increase in heart disease deaths is diminished. For 70 years, the cholesterol theory of heart disease has buttered its bread, so to speak. It literally can’t afford to change. For now, it’s much easier for it to cover up its mistakes by, for example, re-allocating deaths from the heart attack column to a different column, like hypertension, kidney disease, and more recently COVID. These and other efforts have prevented many doctors from noticing that eating seed oils and lowering cholesterol is failing to prevent <a href="https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIR.0000000000000757">heart</a> <a href="https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-021-11072-5/figures/2">attacks</a>. But, mark my words: as long as we keep eating polyunsaturated-rich seed oils, death rates in younger generations will continue to rise. Sooner or later this egregious trend will garner the attention it is due.
Thankfully, the cholesterol theory is not the only theory in town. There’s another theory to explain the genesis of heart attacks that’s quietly gaining momentum — in spite of being mostly relegated to technical journals that doctors don’t read. This theory connects all the dots, explaining how cigarette smoking causes heart disease — something the cholesterol theory cannot do — while also explaining why drugs that drop your LDL number down to the lowest possible level only work to prevent a second heart attack about 30% of the time. That 70% failure rate is pretty grim, given the many side effects you expose yourself to when you’re taking these drugs and the fact that you will be taking them for the rest of your life.
<h4>Oxidation: What Cigarettes And Seed Oil Both Have In Common</h4>
Seed oils and cigarette smoking cause heart attacks for similar reasons. Whether you smoke, or you eat foods cooked in seed oils, the same set of toxins may enter your arteries. These toxins cause oxidation. So this theory is called, logically enough, The Oxidation Theory of Atherosclerosis. The oxidation takes place inside tiny fat-transport vehicles called lipoproteins. According to the <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/%28SICI%291521-3773%2820000204%2939%3A3%3C585%3A%3AAID-ANIE585%3E3.0.CO%3B2-G">theory</a>, oxidation turns your lipoproteins from agents of nutrient delivery to agents of inflammation and disease.
What is oxidation, exactly? Technically, it’s the chemical reaction between oxygen and a fuel. The more familiar term is simply burning.
The oxidation theory explains that toxins from smoking and from cooking with polyunsaturated fats burn (oxidize) the interior of these tiny-fat transport vehicles. Seed oils play a dual role in the burning process, serving as both spark and fuel. That’s why the more polyunsaturated fat the vehicles carry, the faster the burning progresses. The transport vehicles include low density lipoprotein, or LDL (the so-called bad cholesterol), and high density lipoprotein, or HDL (the so-called good cholesterol), and a few others. These particles have slightly different functions in the body and normally they all do good stuff.
The oxidation theory tells us that lowering LDL may not be important at all, certainly not as important as preventing oxidation of LDL. So what do you do if you are one of the 40% of American adults with high cholesterol? Should you just take a statin?
That’s the topic of next week’s article.
<a href="https://drcate.com/">Dr. Cate Shanahan</a> is a board-certified Family Physician whose revolutionary approach to nutrition targets the underlying problems causing metabolic damage and inflammation. She is the NY Times bestselling author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Fatburn-Fix-Great-Weight-Using/dp/1250114497/ref=sr_1_2?qid=1660575621&amp;refinements=p_27%3ACatherine+Shanahan+M.D.&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-2&amp;text=Catherine+Shanahan+M.D.">The FatBurn Fix</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Nutrition-Your-Genes-Traditional/dp/1250113822/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1660575496&amp;sr=1-1">Deep Nutrition</a> and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Food-Rules-Doctors-Healthy-Eating/dp/1452861382/?_encoding=UTF8&amp;pd_rd_w=eItP2&amp;content-id=amzn1.sym.91202c6f-1c11-4e3d-b51a-3af958cedd30&amp;pf_rd_p=91202c6f-1c11-4e3d-b51a-3af958cedd30&amp;pf_rd_r=3P0BZ5Q1YDTBVK6JSXWV&amp;pd_rd_wg=Q8Vux&amp;pd_rd_r=1e132346-179e-45ce-981a-e36967ecc481&amp;ref_=aufs_ap_sc_dsk">Food Rules</a>. Her  work has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Men&#8217;s Journal, and Prevention Magazine among others and she’s been a guest on Real Time with Bill Maher and The Megyn Kelly Show. Follow her at @DrCateShanahan
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Cholesterol Has Been Framed For Crimes Commited By Seed Oils

Cholesterol Has Been Framed For Crimes Committed By Seed Oils

Cigarettes

Heart Attack

Menu