According to a report by City Journal’s Leor Sapir, The American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) is challenging the “consensus” over “gender-affirming care” for minors.
ASPS represents 11,000 members and over 90 percent of the field in the U.S. and Canada. The organization told Sapir that it “has not endorsed any organization’s practice recommendations for the treatment of adolescents with gender dysphoria.”
Further, ASPS “acknowledged that there is “considerable uncertainty as to the long-term efficacy for the use of chest and genital surgical interventions” and that “the existing evidence base is viewed as low quality/low certainty.”
Calling the evidence for youth gender transition “low quality” is not, as some gender clinicians say, a “scary buzzword” intended to “confus[e] non-experts.” In evidence-based medicine,…
