“The report reads less like a medical analysis and more like an anti-trans screed—politicized, inflammatory, and devoid of scholarly grounding,” writes journalist Erin Reed in comprehensively fact-checking the 400-page document.
The HHS report has also been repudiated by the medical community. “This report misrepresents the current medical consensus and fails to reflect the realities of pediatric care,” Susan Kressly, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, said in a statement yesterday.