The American Medical Association is setting the record straight on trans people’s health care—expressing its full support of keeping decisions in the hands of doctors, patients, and their families.
I am sending a copy of your piece to the Tennessee State Senators in Knox County who are in support of a horrendous bill the legislature is hearing in committee. Tennessee House members, too. These people have no business in office. I am so angry.
Hi Erin, a teacher friend of mine at a public middle school reported he heard from guidance counselors in his school and the high school reported kids on puberty blockers and hormones had become more suicidal after accessing GAC than before they were taking GAC medication. My friend was interested enough to go to pub.med.gov website to read published papers on effect of puberty blockers and hormones on kids. He reported that these studies backed what his guidance counselors said. I question this conclusion, but I have not had time to read these studies. Do you or someone have insight into what the government is putting on this website and are they only putting studies that support banning GAC for youth? https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
Did your friend tell you what searches they did on PubMed or provide you any specific articles? You can find negative research for many if not most treatments on PubMed or any other database. One could make an argument to ban aspirin using research from PubMed if they wanted. It causes deaths, after all. People do the same thing for vaccines and birth control.
I work in healthcare authorizations dealing with insurances, and these tactics are similar to what insurance companies do when they distort research to support their denials of treatments that are FDA-approved, efficacious, and should be covered. They may be able to point to something somewhere that supports their positions, but it’s almost always dishonest in some way.
Like in the examples above with aspirin, vaccines, and birth control, the consensus of experts is overwhelmingly in support of the benefits of GAC at all ages. Nobody has ever denied negative outcomes or risks, but risk vs benefit is a choice every patient and provider makes for every treatment. Like any other treatment, choices about GAC should be left in the hands of patients, providers, and families, rather than taken away by ideological quacks misusing research, medicine, and the government to attack people they don’t like.
In addition to what you find in your own searching, maybe you could share this 2024 PubMed article and quote from it with your friend and any other GAC skeptics https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11935454/
”Bans on GAC undermine evidenced-based practices and are resulting in negative health effects for trans communities and youth.”
You can make an argument for or against most treatments using research available in databases like PubMed, but if you assess the entirety of the available literature, you’ll find that the majority of experts support GAC at all ages.
Email the MSSNY and tell them to vote against Glasberg’s resolution that falsely cites the AMA as agreeing with the ASPS, among other misinformation:
Main house of delegates email - hod@mssny.org
General contact - MemberResources@MSSNY.org
HQ on legislative affairs - mssny@mssny.org
Valerie Cammiso, VP of Meeting Planning (directly oversees HOD logistics) - vcammiso@mssny.org
Julie Vecchione, VP of Communications - jvecchione@mssny.org
I am sending a copy of your piece to the Tennessee State Senators in Knox County who are in support of a horrendous bill the legislature is hearing in committee. Tennessee House members, too. These people have no business in office. I am so angry.
Hi Erin, a teacher friend of mine at a public middle school reported he heard from guidance counselors in his school and the high school reported kids on puberty blockers and hormones had become more suicidal after accessing GAC than before they were taking GAC medication. My friend was interested enough to go to pub.med.gov website to read published papers on effect of puberty blockers and hormones on kids. He reported that these studies backed what his guidance counselors said. I question this conclusion, but I have not had time to read these studies. Do you or someone have insight into what the government is putting on this website and are they only putting studies that support banning GAC for youth? https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
Lynn
Did your friend tell you what searches they did on PubMed or provide you any specific articles? You can find negative research for many if not most treatments on PubMed or any other database. One could make an argument to ban aspirin using research from PubMed if they wanted. It causes deaths, after all. People do the same thing for vaccines and birth control.
I work in healthcare authorizations dealing with insurances, and these tactics are similar to what insurance companies do when they distort research to support their denials of treatments that are FDA-approved, efficacious, and should be covered. They may be able to point to something somewhere that supports their positions, but it’s almost always dishonest in some way.
Like in the examples above with aspirin, vaccines, and birth control, the consensus of experts is overwhelmingly in support of the benefits of GAC at all ages. Nobody has ever denied negative outcomes or risks, but risk vs benefit is a choice every patient and provider makes for every treatment. Like any other treatment, choices about GAC should be left in the hands of patients, providers, and families, rather than taken away by ideological quacks misusing research, medicine, and the government to attack people they don’t like.
In addition to what you find in your own searching, maybe you could share this 2024 PubMed article and quote from it with your friend and any other GAC skeptics https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11935454/
”Bans on GAC undermine evidenced-based practices and are resulting in negative health effects for trans communities and youth.”
You can make an argument for or against most treatments using research available in databases like PubMed, but if you assess the entirety of the available literature, you’ll find that the majority of experts support GAC at all ages.
Thank you Devin. I found your reference article very helpful. Lynn
Thank you for the good news!
Thank you AMA.
YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Who to trust on the question of gender affirming care - the AMA or the ASPS?
It's not a hard choice, America.
I wonder if the ASPS has a position statement on MAGA face, too? 🫢