The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is proving once again that they care more about leftist ideology than protecting children, announcing Wednesday they will continue supporting dangerous transgender surgeries and treatments for minors even as other major medical organizations worldwide are abandoning these harmful practices.
While countries like the United Kingdom, Sweden, and Finland have pulled back from so-called "gender-affirming care" for children after reviewing the weak evidence behind these life-altering procedures, the AAP – representing tens of thousands of pediatric professionals – is doubling down on the Democrat script that has already damaged countless young lives.
This decision comes at a time when President Trump's administration is working to restore sanity to American healthcare and protect children from radical gender ideology that infiltrated our medical institutions during the Biden years. The timing couldn't be more telling – as common sense returns to Washington, the medical establishment's most woke elements are circling the wagons.
Following Politics, Not Science
What's particularly disturbing is that the AAP's stance flies in the face of mounting evidence showing these procedures don't deliver the promised benefits. European health authorities have found that the research supporting puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgical interventions for minors is of "very low quality" – yet the AAP continues pushing treatments that can leave children sterile and scarred for life.
This isn't medicine; it's political activism disguised as healthcare. The AAP has become another captured institution, more concerned with appeasing the radical left than following the Hippocratic Oath to "first, do no harm."
Parents across America are waking up to the reality that they can't trust these medical organizations to put their children's wellbeing first. When politics trumps science in pediatric care, every American family is at risk.
How many more children will suffer irreversible harm before the AAP puts medical evidence ahead of woke politics?