Last week, the federal government took several initiatives to curb the medical abuse of children on the basis of “gender identity” pseudoscience:

• The HHS published a declaration on sex-rejecting procedures, often misleadingly called “gender-affirming care,” identifying them as “neither safe nor effective” according to rigorous standards of evidence.
• The Assistant Secretary for Health released a public communication alerting the public to the misinformation around sex-rejecting procedures.
• The CMS issued proposed rules to bar hospitals that perform sex-rejecting procedures from the Medicare and Medicaid programs, as well as to prohibit Medicaid and CHIP from covering sex-rejecting procedures.
• The FDA issued warning letters to 12 companies who illegally marketed breast binders to children.

The HHS is also looking to ensure that “gender dysphoria” is not classified as a disability.

For more insight on the harm caused by marketing these procedures to young people as the solution to their distress, see this recent op-ed by Prisha Mosley.

As for overseas, settle in for a long read: a recent review known as the Levy Review, has been published by NHS England on adult “gender” clinics. Littered throughout are telling statements such as “The absence of any patient outcomes data, alongside limited and inconsistent quality data reporting, and minimal clinical audit makes it impossible to properly understand patient outcomes and the safety of these services.”

Queensland, in Australia, has extended its ban on puberty blockers into 2031, citing a lack of evidence. The protests of many in the UK have fallen on deaf ears as their trial on puberty blockers goes forward, with Wes Streeting still believing that permanently stunting children’s growth based on a pseudoscientific construct is the “right thing to do.”

Remember the neo-Nazi who changed his “gender identity” to “female” and won a bid to be placed in a women’s prison under Germany’s self-ID laws? He’s on the run and identifies as “non-binary” now.
Lastly, if you need some inspiration to keep fighting for single-sex intimate spaces, watch this video of a little girl who can’t even see over the podium defending basic rights that were won for her long ago. Sadly, the adults don’t seem willing to listen to her.