Fund studies on the negative effects of gender transition care
What the document says“it should fund studies into the short-term and long-term negative effects of crosssex interventions”
The chapter names affirmation, puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgeries, and asks for study of the likelihood of desistence if young people are given counseling that does not include medical or social interventions. It says the agency has been at the forefront of pushing what it calls junk gender science.
What the document actually says“it should fund studies into the short-term and long-term negative effects of crosssex interventions”
The NIH should pay for studies on the harms of this care. Both short term and long term.
Some young people get medical care to change how their body looks. The book wants studies into harm from that care. It also wants studies of counseling instead.
Protecting Children From Chemical and Surgical Mutilation
2025-01-28 · 90 FR 8771
Section 3 of EO 14187 orders HHS to publish, within 90 days, a review of the existing literature on best practices for promoting the health of children who assert gender dysphoria, and to use all available methods to improve the quality of data guiding their care. That reaches the study half of the proposal by a different route: it commissions a literature review and better data rather than funding studies of the short and long term negative effects of the interventions, and it does not mention studying desistance among young people given counseling without medical or social intervention.
The order tells the health agency to review what has been written on care for these children. It also tells the agency to improve its data. The chapter asked for new studies of harm from the treatments. A review of old work is not the same thing.
4 agency rules
- Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; Marketplace Integrity and AffordabilityHealth and Human Services Department · June 25, 2025
- William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan (Direct Loan) ProgramEducation Department · October 31, 2025
- Combating Gender Ideology in Foreign AssistanceState Department · January 27, 2026
- Medicaid Program; Prohibition on Federal Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program Funding for Sex-Rejecting Procedures Furnished to ChildrenHealth and Human Services Department, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · August 13, 2026
Each of these names the order above in its own summary, preamble or filing. That is a fact about the document, not a finding that it carries out this proposal: it is one step further away than the order is, and what it does about the proposal is a reading nobody has made here.