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August 10,2025: The Truth About Detransitioning-The New York Times, New York Times op-ed finally concedes that rate of detransition is not 1 percent, but still asserts that roughly 90 percent of children with gender dysphoria are actually born in the wrong body.
July 8, 2025: Inside the fight over gender treatments in youth, Short film by journalist Jennifer Block making the case against pediatric gender medicine from the liberal perspective. Block highlights the voices of gay and lesbian insiders who believe that this treatment is leading to medical harm for same-sex attracted youth. She also directly addresses the concerns of doctors and researchers such as Dr. Hillary Cass and Zhenya Abbruzzese that WPATH’s Standards of Care 8 do not accurately reflect the state of the evidence. The film refutes the popular narrative that opposition to PGM is driven by a conservatives with a political and religious agenda.
June 29, 2025: The Liberal Misinformation Bubble About Youth Gender Medicine, The Atlantic comes clean about the lack of evidence to support the medicalization of minors with gender distress.
June 12,2025: Emerging and accumulating safety signals for the use of estrogen among transgender women, Review published in Discover Mental Health on the impact of estrogen use in natal males. Long term estrogen use in this population is associated with highly elevated risks of breast and testicular cancer, increased risk for stroke, autoimmune disease, and cognitive decline.
May 10, 2025: Pediatric Gender Affirming Care is Not Evidence-based, A Review in Current Sexual Health Reports on the state of the evidence for pediatric gender-affirming care. The authors conclude that the available evidence is “woefully insufficient” to establish both safety and efficacy with respect to mental health outcomes.
May 1, 2025: HHS Gender Dysphoria Report, US Department of Health and Human Services issues 409 page report on pediatric gender dysphoria. Recommends that the US change course in favor of the approach adopted by European countries that rejects the affirmation-only model and advances psychosocial interventions.
April 14, 2025: "HB25-1312 and the silencing of parents: What the Rocky Mountain Summit revealed" by Jenn Schumann in The Rocky Mountain Voice. “From court-ordered gag rules to the looming threat of custody loss, this isn’t hypothetical — it’s happening now. Colorado families gathered at the Rocky Mountain Summit in early April to share what it means to raise children under a system that increasingly treats concern as abuse.”
April 11, 2025: "Injecting Ideology into Colorado’s Custody Cases" by Jimmy Sengenberger in The Gazette. “If 1312 passes, parents seeking therapists who explore root issues rather than automatically affirming gender transition will face even greater barriers — chilling therapeutic approaches and pushing conversations underground. Some clinicians already decline to see minors with gender dysphoria.”
APRIL 10, 2025: "Fertility preservation: is there a model for gender-dysphoric youth?" by Michael Laidlaw, Jennifer Lahl, and Angela Thompson in Frontiers, Frontiers in Endocrinology. “Fertility preservation (FP) for youths with gender dysphoria (GD) poses an additional set of complications and obstacles because of the use of medications which block normal pubertal development such as gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogues (GnRHa) and medications which directly alter the genital tract such as cross sex hormones.”
April 07,2025: "‘CROSSED THE RUBICON’: Colorado House Passes Bill Treating as Child Abuse Dissent From Transgender Orthodoxy" by Tyler O’Neil in The Daily Signal. “The Colorado House of Representatives passed a bill Sunday that would remove kids from parents’ custody for behaviors like “misgendering” and “deadnaming” after Democrats cited the Southern Poverty Law Center to justify excluding parental rights groups from discussion on the bill.”
February 19, 2025: "'Misgendering' trans people on their death certificates could be jailable offense under blue-state bill" by Jamie Joseph in Fox News. "And the idea that it's under compulsion, that's unprecedented," Dr. Travis Morrell, a Colorado physician and fellow with the conservative medical coalition Do No Harm, told Fox News Digital in an interview. "Although the misdemeanor is maybe a new little feature that they've added, it's kind of situation normal here in Colorado." Morrell said he plans to speak at the bill's hearing next week. "This is very much in line with Colorado's overall war on reality and war on scientific truth," he said. "The idea that not only does a doctor or mortician have to lie, they're being tried with jail, that's insane. It's compelled speech."
February 17,2025: "‘Absolutely Nuts’: Blue State Bill Aims To Jail Those Who ‘Misgender’ Dead People” by Hudson Crozier in The Daily Caller. “It’s dangerous and absolutely nuts to threaten doctors with a misdemeanor if they won’t forge a death certificate. But it’s what I’d expect in Colorado,” Dr. Travis Morrell, a Colorado physician and senior fellow with the conservative-leaning medical group Do No Harm, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “The first thing you learn in middle school science is to write in your lab book with a pen; honest data recording is science 101,” Morrell added.