Gender-affirming care has been called"life-saving" by mutliple medical associations. Its critics raise concerns about the long-term effects on the minor cohort, of which there is limited research, and the ability to consent.
"[I]t doesn’t mean that the surgery that urologists are considering or subsequent medications… is not going to have long-term benefit. I think that’s an area that we’re still looking at very carefully," he told Urology Times. The Pentagon building is seen in Arlington, Virginia, U.S. October 9, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo
Dr. Klein, as the program director of family medicine residency, also trains doctors at the California military base. He did not respond to a request for comment. Dr. Stanley Goldfarb of Do No Harm, an organization seeking to restore the medical profession to the Hippocratic Oath, told Fox News Digital that the medical literature does not support minors being given hormones and puberty blockers as a standard of practice.
Dr. Goldfarb added that the proclaimed need for transgender medical interventions for minors has evolved into a"mythology" and is not in line with what the science currently shows.