According to the 400-page review of the best practices for pediatric gender dysphoria, evidence overwhelmingly concludes that children have not benefited from the mutilative drugs and surgeries meant to help them change genders.
"The umbrella review found that the overall quality of evidence concerning the effects of any intervention on psychological outcomes, quality of life, regret, or long-term health, is very low," the executive summary reads.
"These interventions carry risk of significant harms, including infertility/sterility, sexual dysfunction, impaired bone density accrual, adverse cognitive impacts, cardiovascular disease and metabolic disorders, psychiatric disorders, surgical complications, and regret, and there has been inadequate research into the frequency and severity of these harms," it states.
Linda Harvey of Mission: America says so-called "gender-affirming care" is more about ideology than science, and it has proven to be "seriously harmful" to children for decades.
"This report hopefully puts us on a road back to facts and science and away from political fantasy and experiments, which is what so much of this has been based on," she tells AFN.
Some major medical organizations like the American Academy of Pediatrics refused to participate in this study, and the report states there is not widespread consensus about pediatric medical transition. Instead, Harvey says the current practices are driven by a small number of committees under the influence of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health.
Thanks to the Trump administration's budget cuts and states' legislation banning these treatments, many gender clinics for children have closed down. But Harvey does not expect this report to have an immediate effect on public schools' promotion of transgenderism.
"When schools are held accountable financially and professionally, they will start to back off of loading up their libraries with these books for little children," she predicts.
She regards the report as "critically important" to correcting the trusted institutions that have been compromised, and she says it affirms the truth of God's Word, which has, until now, been "dismissed" and "discounted," especially by trans enthusiasts.
