The world has seen many harms perpetuated by societal lies. Agent Orange is not dangerous – until we learned it causes massive birth defects and cancer. Sugar is healthy for you, but we discovered that sugar is a main cause of chronic disease. OxyContin is not addictive – meanwhile, prescription opioid deaths sit at about 13,000 a year. Trans kids will die if you don't affirm their identity – actually, no.
The Department of Health and Human Services has released a comprehensive study, finally proving that the "dead daughter or live son" theory is bogus and driven more by ideology than science.
Before we delve into the findings, it is essential to understand the scope of what the medical industry has subjected innocent young children to – especially in the field I represent: psychology and psychiatry. We were told that if we didn't affirm the gender confusion children experience, we were possibly aiding in their death. The emotional manipulation placed on parents to make irreversible decisions for their child should be criminal, yet it was pitched as care.
Anyone who understood history, common sense, and science knew this was a social contagion – a sick and demonic one at that. But a field run by progressive ideology and emotionally stunted professionals enforced gender affirming care without evidence. It forced licensed clinicians to adopt this theory as the gold standard in trans care.
To be clear: there is no such thing as trans kids. There is zero evidence showing a biological disposition or any empirical proof that children are inherently trans. None. Full stop. Children go through developmental stages where they can be confused, inquisitive, explorative, and easily influenced by aggressive messaging that pushes them toward the next trend.
The HHS review is the most comprehensive U.S. evaluation to date of pediatric medical transition, combining an umbrella analysis of 17 systematic reviews with detailed bias assessments and international guideline comparisons. The study examined every available line of evidence for social transition, puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and adolescent surgeries. Across all categories, the certainty of evidence for psychological or functional benefit was rated low to very low, driven by small samples, uncontrolled designs, short follow-ups, and near-universal serious or critical risk of bias under ROBINS-I, the risk-of-bias tool used in the HHS report to evaluate the quality of the studies supporting gender affirming medical interventions. In contrast, the physiological risks of these interventions – especially bone density loss, infertility, cardiovascular and metabolic complications, and sexual dysfunction – were supported by moderate to high certainty evidence because these effects are well-established in endocrinology and basic physiology. The report also illustrates the dramatic shift in the clinical landscape. Adolescents identifying as transgender now comprise an estimated 3.3 percent of the U.S. population, and thousands of minors are placed on puberty blockers, hormones, or surgeries annually. Yet most of these youth present with significant comorbidity – 75 percent with pre-existing mental health disorders and approximately 35 percent with autistic traits, compared to under 2 percent in the general population. Evidence cited in the review shows that childhood onset gender dysphoria historically remitted in a majority of cases, but early social transition pushes persistence to above 90 percent, funnelling almost all socially transitioned children into medical pathways. Puberty blockers reliably halt development but also reduce bone density to the point that one third of treated adolescents in U.K. cohorts met criteria for osteoporosis risk, and over 90 percent of youth placed on blockers proceed directly to cross sex hormones – a sequence associated with a high likelihood of permanent infertility. Surgeries in adolescence remain poorly studied, with complications documented in case series, including necrosis and impaired sexual function. No intervention demonstrated sustained improvements in depression, suicidality, quality of life, or adult psychosocial outcomes. What the field got wrong is clear: clinicians adopted the gender affirming model long before establishing evidence that it worked, relying on guidelines now shown to be methodologically unsound. The HHS review found that U.S. guidelines from WPATH, the Endocrine Society, and the AAP failed to meet basic rigor standards, whereas only Finland and Sweden met the criteria for trustworthy evaluation. The belief that medical transition prevents suicide was unsupported; the report found no reduction in long-term suicide rates and confirmed that the most frequently cited studies promoting this claim were at critical risk of bias. And perhaps the most damning finding – emphasized repeatedly in the supplement's peer reviews – is that the informed consent process in many U.S. clinics was ethically indefensible. Some adolescents were cleared for hormones after a single two-hour visit, and parents were pressured with coercive messaging such as "dead daughter or live son," which the ethicists reviewing the report labeled manipulative, dishonest, and a violation of medical ethics. The picture that emerges is not one of careful, evidence-based medicine, but of a field driven by ideology, institutional pressure, and a fear of dissent, leaving vulnerable children exposed to interventions whose harms are well-documented while their benefits are not. Can we take a step back to truly understand the severity of what our nation and the world subject young, innocent children to in the name of inclusivity? We medically castrated and psychologically damaged children for an ideology that shifts depending on who is in office. Thank God for President Trump and his pick for HHS Director, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. We are not out of the woods yet. We now have to clean up the absolute destruction left behind by the last administration. We need to help heal the thousands of families who were gutted by this indoctrination. And that healing can only begin if people are willing to admit they were lied to and that they were wrong. It is not an easy task, but with God, all things are possible. Soad Tabrizi is a licensed marriage and family therapist in private practice (www.soadtabrizi.com). Soad is also the founder of www.ConservativeCounselors.com.
