America’s top child health authority is under fire for pushing the over-use of puberty-blockers and hormones on transgender youth, and for stifling debate over whether a non-drug therapy approach is better.Critics say the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is blocking efforts to review its influential policy on ‘gender-affirming care’ for teens who identify as transgender at its leadership meet, which starts in Chicago on Thursday.The AAP says its guidelines — to reinforce the gender a youth selects, including through gender-affirming drugs, hormones and eventually surgery — are evidence-based, widely supported and offer the best chances for a suicide-prone group.
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