FTC Launches Federal Probe Into “Gender-Affirming Care” for Minors
On Monday, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a public inquiry into whether doctors and clinics may be deceiving parents and children about the risks of so-called “gender-affirming care.”
The FTC is asking for public comments on whether minors and families have been misled by false or unsubstantiated claims about the supposed benefits and safety of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and sex-change procedures. The inquiry will help the FTC determine whether these practices violate federal law.
The commission says the public will have until September 26 to submit comments at Regulations.gov.
This move by the FTC is significant.
On July 9, the FTC hosted a workshop highlighting the dangers of so-called “gender-affirming care” for children, and the U.S. Department of Justice has subpoenaed doctors and hospitals that performed sex-change procedures on children. All of this shows that concerns about deception in the transgender medical industry are finally being taken seriously at the federal level.
In recent years, men and women have come forward with chilling testimony about how they were rushed through gender-transition as children, and experts have revealed how the medical “consensus” in support of performing transgender procedures on children was largely manufactured by pro-LGBT organizations.
The U.K., Sweden, Finland, and other nations have found that science simply does not support giving puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to kids.
In 2021, Arkansas became the first state in the nation to pass a law protecting children from gender transition procedures.
Arkansas’ Save Adolescents From Experimentation (SAFE) Act prohibits doctors from performing sex-change surgeries or giving puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to minors. Unfortunately, the law has been challenged in court—but Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin continues to defend it.
A federal investigation is long overdue. Protecting children from deceptive and harmful medical practices isn’t just good policy—it’s common sense.
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