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The Department of Health and Human Services just released its report on gender dysphoria. Its findings are impossible to ignore.

Drawing on systematic reviews in Europe and the U.S., the report shows that the evidence for medical interventions in minors is shakier than assumed -- and that the risks, including infertility, reduced bone density, cognitive effects, cardiometabolic disease, psychiatric complications, and surgical harms, are more serious than the public has been led to believe.

Recent lawsuits and a shift by a major medical organization are putting pediatric gender-transition treatments in the United States under new scrutiny, as critics point to weak evidence, mounting legal challenges from detransitioners, and growing professional divisions that could reshape the field.

An article in the Bulletin of the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (IACAPAP) summarizes the proceedings of the SEGM Conference 2025.

Endocrinologist and SEGM co-founder Dr. Will Malone argues that pediatric medical transition lacks solid evidence of long-term safety or benefit, while activist pressure and institutional censorship in the U.S. have suppressed scientific scrutiny and debate.

Endocrinologist and SEGM co-founder Dr. Will Malone contends that pediatric gender medicine in the U.S. has abandoned scientific rigor, with weak evidence for medical interventions, growing international caution, and widespread activist-driven intimidation and censorship suppressing research, education, and open debate.

Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released the final, peer-reviewed version of its report, Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria: Review of Evidence and Best Practices. This publication updates the initial HHS Review, which was released on May 1, 2025.

Today, the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine (SEGM) announced the launch of a new Continuing Medical Education (CME) series designed to equip clinicians with the latest evidence, perspectives, and best practices in the care of gender-dysphoric youth.

Scientists are targeted with violent threats in Berlin — and three professional associations look on

After an international conference on the treatment of trans-identifying youth, “wanted images” featuring participants are circulating online. The German Association has condemned the practice as “unacceptable,” and views academic freedom as endangered.

I first heard about Kirk’s awful murder in Berlin, where I was at the SEGM conference on clinical approaches to gender distress in young people. A local transactivist group, bent on disruption, had put up an Instagram account to help “know your enemy”, and my face was the first one posted.