Medical groups ignored 'the science' on gender surgeries for children -- despite claims to the contrary

"Trust the science." 

Those three words have been a refrain rolled out by the medical community over the last five to ten years as a means of forcing compliance in a number of facets of life in America and even abroad. Most significantly, those words were used in an effort to coerce people into taking the COVID vaccine and following other pandemic mandates. Those words have also been deployed as a rationale for subjecting confused young children to irreversible surgeries and hormone treatments, as well as to smear everyday Americans who objected to such practices.

And, according to journalist Jesse Singal, it was all based on a lie. Singal published an op-ed Tuesday in The New York Times outlining how the medical community -- instead of trusting the science -- ignored the science on what it has touted as "gender care."

Singal cited examples from groups like the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), which, ostensibly combating "misinformation" in 2024 ended up spreading it instead. A year later, the AAP contradicted itself, publishing what a year earlier the group would have labeled misinformation. See an excerpt from Singal's column below in which he explains in greater detail.

Singal's colum comes on the heels of several recent developments regarding the trans hysteria surrounding children. As Dave Rubin pointed out in the Sunday "Return to Normalcy" edition of his newsletter, a shift is underway in the U.S. Earlier this month, The American Society of Plastic Surgeons became the first major U.S. medical group to formally oppose permanent gender reassignment surgeries for children.

Last week, one of New York City’s largest health systems somewhat quietly decided to stop providing gender transitioning drugs and surgeries to children. And Dr. Ira Savetsky, a surgeon who used to work for the hospital system, apologized in an interview on Fox News last week, saying he “failed to speak up” about what was going on with children at the hospital.

Numerous factors are enabling this shift in American society, but pressure from Trump administration -- an executive order in the first two weeks of his second term, threats from HHS to cut off federal funds to hospitals providing gender transitions to minors -- may be the key catalyst in the growing shift.

"Should we “trust the science?" Singal asks at the conclusion of his column. "Sure, in theory," he writes. "But only when the science in question has earned our trust through transparency and rigor." Read Singal's full op-ed here.