12-05-2025
- Health
- Wall Street Journal
Trump Tells the Truth About ‘Trans' Children
The most striking thing about the Department of Health and Human Services's report on gender medicine is how humane its conclusions are ('The U.S. Catches Up on Gender Medicine,' Review & Outlook, May 8). Most notably, it acknowledges that transgender ideology has a particular kind of victim: children who are gay or lesbian.
As a gay physician, I can attest to two things. First, gay boys and lesbian girls usually don't conform to gender roles. Second, the medical establishment now assumes that gender nonconformity means a child is transgender. This isn't merely an insult to many kids' identity—it leads to a medical assault on their bodies and minds, in the form of hormones that have irreversible effects and invasive surgeries that lead to permanent scars.
