A report published on the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) website on Wednesday pushes the dubious claim that gender-affirming care for transgender youth does more harm than good — a statement that flouts years of studies concluding otherwise. The report, titled "Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria: Review of Evidence and Best Practices," derides gender-affirming care by reclassifying it as "pediatric sex-rejecting procedures." HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. commended the report, dismissing the idea that such treatment could "be good for children." "So-called 'gender-affirming care' has inflicted lasting physical and psychological damage on vulnerable young people," Kennedy said, baselessly claiming that it's "malpractice."

On Wednesday Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., released a study that is critical of gender-affirming care for minors. It updates a widely criticized study that was released in May. The American Medical Association and numerous other major medical organizations support psychological and medical treatments that help transgender children live as the gender they identify as. Between 2.5 and 8.4 percent of children identify as transgender or gender-diverse. This means they identify with a different gender than, or have a gender expression that does not conform to, the norms of their sex assigned at birth. Gender-affirming treatment can include puberty-blocking hormones and sex hormones such as testosterone and estrogen. The effects of puberty blockers are reversible; sex hormones cause more lasting effects.

Last month, the U.S. Senate narrowly rejected a bipartisan resolution recently that would have prevented the Trump administration from launching military strikes in Venezuela without congressional approval. The 49–51 vote effectively green-lit the White House's use of force, emboldening the administration to deploy an expanding fleet of warships off the Venezuelan coast, declare Cartel de los Soles as a foreign terrorist organization, and expand military activities from bases in Puerto Rico in a marked escalation.

The Department of Health and Human Services published a rapid review in May of the academic literature focused on "gender-affirming care" for minors, and concluded 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." On Wednesday, the HHS published responses to peer reviews of the report — and although some minor corrections have been issued, the report's major medical findings were not disproven. "They were given the chance to show mistakes, show errors. And they were not able to identify any," Leor Sapir, one of the researchers who worked on the report, told the New York Post. "They had some minor comments here and there, but nothing that gets to the main findings about evidence and ethics." In an executive order issued on January 28, President Trump announced that the HHS would publish a review of "the existing literature on best practices for promoting the health…

Within President Trump's Executive Order 14187, "Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation", was a directive. The Department of Health and Human Services had 90 days to conduct "a review of the existing literature on best practices for promoting the health of children who assert gender dysphoria, rapid-onset gender dysphoria, or other identity-based confusion". That report, which first came out on 1 May, 2025, was originally published anonymously, and without peer review due to time constraints. Many proponents of gender-affirming care ignored the report's important takeaways about science and medical ethics, and criticised it for the anonymity and lack of peer review. Today, the report has been re-released with peer reviews, responses, minor changes to the text, and the names of the authors revealed.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a peer-reviewed report that found medical procedures to alter a child's biological sex pose serious long-term dangers to children as Democrats continue promoting transgender issues before the nation's highest court. "The American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics peddled the lie that chemical and surgical sex-rejecting procedures could be good for children," HHS chief Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. said in a Wednesday press release. "They betrayed their oath to first do no harm, and their so-called 'gender-affirming care' has inflicted lasting physical and psychological damage on vulnerable young people. That is not medicine — it's malpractice." The report was released through the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health and found that operations working to reject a child's biological sex — including the use of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgical operations — "are significant, long term…

Donald Trump has been quick to post videos and brag about the heinous boat strikes on suspected drug traffickers by the U.S. military. But now comes a report by the Washington Post that a live drone feed showed two survivors from the first attack clinging to the wreckage. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who a year ago was working weekends at Fox News, reportedly gave a spoken directive to "kill everybody." To comply with Hegseth's instructions, the Special Operations commander overseeing the attack ordered a second strike, and the two men were then blown apart in the water, according to the Post.

The U.S. military might be guilty of murdering civilians on the high seas. Attacks on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean demand extraordinary public investigation into any wrongdoing, not whispered consultations in the halls outside a congressional subcommittee room. Calling for federal lawmakers to investigate something feels almost quaint in our time of extreme partisanship and congressional ineffectiveness. But the past shows that Congress has ample powers to scrutinize, expose and end government abuse — if its members use them.

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