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Accountability and leadership: Why the AMA finally abandoned pediatric sex-change surgeries

The stunning reversal by the American Medical Association and the American Society of Plastic Surgeons on child sex-change procedures last week appears to stem from two developments: a $2 million jury verdict in favor of a detransitioner and a change in the White House over the past year. Evidence questioning pediatric gender surgeries has existed for years, as have […]

February 10, 2026

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