The HHS Report on Pediatric Gender Dysphoria - A Summary
Where ML summarizes the report in four chapters
Thanks to ML for his efforts to summarize the Department of Health and Human Services Review of Evidence and Best Practices for the Treatment of Pediatric Dysphoria. The report is 409 pages. But the report is really a review. It “summarizes, synthesizes, and critically evaluates the existing literature on best practices for promoting the health and wellbeing of children and adolescents with distress related to their sex or to social expectations associated with their sex.” It does not present new research. It reviews existing work.
Because it is so long, but also so important and with the potential for much influence, ML has summarized it in four parts on his Substack. Part 1 is here. The other parts are here: Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
ML considers Part 4 to be the most important. It is where the HHS report goes through the ethical considerations of medical interventions that have very low evidence of benefit but much more certain evidence of harm. Near the end of Part 4, he also summarizes his own observations about the HHS review - why is it important, and what makes it so significant?
PITT readers can have many kinds of objections to gender affirming care but the strongest may be the lack of evidence of its efficacy. In other words, it doesn’t help. It makes everything worse.
Thanks to ML, for preparing this and sharing it with PITT readers.
The HHS report is lengthy but it does start with an executive summary. The summary is divided onto parts, matching the four parts of the main body of the report. I suggest jump to part four of the executive summary if you would like to get the highlight quickly.
How can we use this report?
When talking to relatives and neighbors and friends, this report is evidence that trans ideology is NOT a consensus opinion, evidence that transition is NOT a suicide prevention, that transition is NOT a therapy for psychological problems. This report shows the HARM done to children.
You can bring this report to your school, your doctor, your psychologist, your relatives, your kid’s friends, to anyone involved in trans ideology and shove it in front of their eyes and tell them you are not taking any of their trans BULL****
Thanks to educate us! It should have been obvious that human beings have a biological reality that we have to conform to but in an upside up world obvious is not enough. The ideological war's spoils of relativism and nihilism. No surprise there, things naturally ended up to its logical conclusion. Nature revenges against humans who wants to change it. Nature and the physical world are programmed by the Creator to work in a certain way and we as humans must work with those parameters that have been given to us, once we walk away of the natural world bad things happen. Education used to be about understanding nature and the physical world that is where do we live and we learned to interact with it, in the most efficient ways for our own advance (society). Education now is indoctrination specially in the most powerful countries, mainly where materialism prevails and spirituality chokes by the atheist point of view where humans are just OBJECTS no SUBJECTS that deserve so many things because of our divine origin. We have a purpose and we are immortals (our souls are of divine origin). Now, it doesn't matter if you believe it or not but that belief of transcendence makes humans better and that is what it counts, but it has sense because the complexity of existence is so sophisticate it and so tune in, and perfect as an intelligence had provided us with everything we need to survive and if we need to survive it is because we are wanted and loved, we are not just an accident or a bunch of cels, that it is logic and reasonable.