BENJAMIN RYAN
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UK Plans Landmark Study on Puberty-Blockers’ Effect on Children With Gender Distress: Critics Express Doubt It Will Advance the Weak Evidence Base
The stakes of this hotly anticipated trial have only heightened since President Trump’s second term has posed an existential threat to such research in the United States.
$544,000-a-Year, Nonbinary ACLU Executive Makes Incorrect Claims About Pediatric Gender Medicine: Will This Impact Landmark Supreme Court Case?
Hired in 2019 as the ACLU’s first DEI chief, AJ Hikes has also emerged at the center of a labor-rights case against the nonprofit that deemed it illegally fired a staffer on unsubstantiated claims of racism.
Trump’s Justice Department Won’t Pull Out of Supreme Court Case About Gender Treatments for Minors, Paving Way for Landmark Decision
A major outstanding question in the pending landmark case was whether the Trump administration’s Justice Department would withdraw its complaint on account of switching sides.
New Research Raises More Doubts About Safety and Benefits of Gender Transition Treatments for Minors
The most rigorous academic analysis to date of the research backing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones as treatments for gender-related distress in young people has found it has produced ‘very uncertain’ evidence.
Supreme Court Appears Likely To Uphold State Law Banning Gender Treatments for Minors: Ruling Would Deal a Major Blow to Transgender Activists
During oral arguments held Wednesday, Chief Justice Roberts expressed wariness about the judicial, rather than legislative, branch solving disputes over medical regulation.
‘Shocking’ and ‘Reckless’: Top Gender Clinic Assesses Children for Gender-Altering Medical Treatments in Just 2 Hours, Lawsuit Lays Bare
Boston Children’s Hospital slashed the time slated for psychologists to assess and write a report on children seeking gender-transition treatment from 20 hours to under 3 hours, alarming experts.
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