Dr. Oz Brings Sanity to Gender Policy

On child gender transition, the Trump health official is helping shift medical culture

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Washington, D.C. — Last year, something remarkable happened in the world of pediatric gender care. After years of handing out gender dysphoria diagnoses and medical interventions to children like candy, hospital and gender clinic executives suddenly announced that their surgical services would be available only to adults.

The trigger? A Trump executive order declaring that the U.S. will not “fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support” gender transition for patients under 19 and will “rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures.”

Audrey Fahlberg

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Audrey Fahlberg

Audrey Fahlberg was a politics reporter for National Review.

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