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Transgender Athletes Face a Reckoning as Supreme Court To Hear Challenges to State Laws Restricting Their Participation in School Sports
The New York Sun, January 13, 2026

Oral arguments taking place at the Supreme Court could lead to a decisive ruling on whether states can restrict transgender athletes participation in school sports that would have major implications for the rights of transgender people.

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Final Trump Administration Report Sharply Questions Benefits of Medical Gender Care for Kids: Newly Identified Authors Criticize Poor Scientific Evidence 
The New York Sun, November 19, 2025
​The long-awaited publication of the names of the co-authors of the Trump Administration’s springtime report on pediatric gender medicine has disclosed that the Department of Health and Human Services deployed a team of scholars who are all at least highly skeptical of providing minors with medical gender treatments.

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Pressure By Transgender Activists Forces Washington State University to Suspend Courses Critical of Medical Gender Treatments For Minors
The New York Sun, November 3, 2025
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The transgender-activist war against the Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine, a nonprofit that promotes scientific skepticism of the controversial field of pediatric gender medicine, has scored a new, at least temporary win. 


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Pressured by Transgender Activists, Star Academic Backs Out of His Own Research
The New York Sun, October 8, 2025
A renowned Canadian researcher has bowed to a pressure campaign by transgender activists who have sought to blunt the impact of research they consider a threat to minors’ access to medical gender treatments. The scholar, evidence-based medicine expert Dr. Gordon Guyatt, led his junior academic colleagues in collectively jumping ship as coauthors, in a leading medical journal, of a pending paper on this controversial subject. 

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Supreme Court Ruling on Gender Treatments for Minors Is Major Blow to Transgender Movement, but Could Be Narrower Than Trump Administration Hopes
The New York Sun, June 18, 2025


​The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a Tennessee law that bars minors from undergoing gender-transition treatment. The landmark ruling deals a bruising blow to the transgender rights movement.

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Breakout New York Mayoral Contender Zohran Mamdani Wants To Spend $65 Million on Medical Gender Treatments for Minors and Adults
The New York Sun, June 22, 2025


The Democratic Socialist candidate for New York City mayor proposes using $67 million taxpayer funds to pay for gender-transition treatments, including for minors, in the face of Trump and other right-wing attacks on such access.

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UK Plans Landmark Study on Puberty-Blockers’ Effect on Children With Gender Distress: Critics Express Doubt It Will Advance the Weak Evidence Base
The New York Sun, March 18, 2025

The stakes of this hotly anticipated trial in the United Kingdom, which still needs to pass muster with an ethics review board, have only heightened since President Trump’s second term has posed an existential threat to such research in the United States.


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$544,000-a-Year, Nonbinary ACLU Deputy Makes Incorrect Claims About Pediatric Gender Medicine: Will This Impact Landmark Supreme Court Case?
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The New York Sun, February 10, 2025
The ACLU's fourth highest-paid staffer, whose 2023 salary exceeded a half-million dollars and who wields considerable influence as a close advisor to the executive director, has drawn unflattering attention to the storied legal group, including holding a central role in what an NLRB suit found was an illegal firing of a staffer.​

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Trump’s Justice Department Won’t Pull Out of Supreme Court Case About Gender Treatments for Minors, Paving Way for Landmark Decision 
The New York Sun, February 8, 2025
The Justice Department has alerted the Supreme Court that it would switch sides and back Tennessee in the high-stakes challenge, brought by the Biden Administration, to the Volunteer State’s ban on gender-transition treatments for minors. Nevertheless, the DoJ has also decided not to withdraw Biden’s original complaint, filed last year. 

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New Research Raises More Doubts About Safety and Benefits of Gender Transition Treatments for Minors
The New York Sun, January 23, 2025


A pair of major new analyses of research into providing gender-transition drugs to adolescents and young adults have indicated that a prevailing orthodoxy in the U.S. medical community  — that such treatments are safe and effective for gender-distressed minors — is largely based on “very uncertain” scientific evidence.

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Supreme Court Appears Likely to Uphold State Law Banning Gender Treatments for Minors
The New York Sun, December 4, 2024
The Supreme Court appears inclined to rule that Tennessee’s ban on gender-transition treatments for minors does not violate the Constitution. Such a landmark decision would bolster similar state laws. And it would be a major setback for transgender rights activists who believe children should have access to medical treatments that change their sex characteristics. 

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‘Shocking’ and ‘Reckless’: Top Gender Clinic Assesses Children for Gender-Altering Medical Treatments in Just 2 Hours, Lawsuit Lays Bare
The New York Sun, October 31, 2024
An employment-discrimination civil lawsuit against Boston Children's Hospital has revealed that between the founding of prestigious hospital's gender clinic in 2007 and 2018, the time allotted for psychologists to assess gender-distressed children to determine if they are good candidates for gender-transition treatment dropped from 20 hours to two-and-a-half hours.

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Inside the Feud Within American Academy of Pediatrics, Torn Over Transgender Issues, About Group’s Decision To Hold Meeting in ‘Anti-LGBTQ’ Florida of Ron DeSantis
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The New York Sun, Sept. 27, 2024
Amid pressure from within to pull its annual conference out of Florida over the state's LGBTQ policies, the American Academy of Pediatrics is also under scrutiny over its policies on pediatric gender medicine. 

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New Evidence Challenges Institutionalized Belief That Transgender Teens Become Transgender Adults, Undermining Core Defense of Medical Gender Transitions for Minors
The New York Sun, Sept. 18, 2024

A pair of analyses of insurance-claims data each found that the majority of youths diagnosed with gender-related distress saw that diagnosis vanish from their medical chart within six years.


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Ohio Court Is Latest to Back State Bans on Gender-Transition Treatments for Minors, as Supreme Court Prepares To Hear Landmark Tennessee Case
The New York Sun, August 9, 2024
A loss for trans rights advocates in Ohio could presage what’s to come from the U.S. Supreme Court next term when the justices hear an appeal from the Biden Administration that seeks to help overturn state bans on medical gender transitions for minors.

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From the Face of Pediatric Gender Medicine Comes a Quietly Radical Manifesto
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The New York Sun, August 2, 2024

Dr. Jack Turban
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‘Damning’ Information About Trans Medical Group Expected To Reach Supreme Court, as Justices Consider Challenge to Ban on Gender Treatments for Minors
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The New York Sun, July 10, 2022
The World Professional Association for Transgender Health stands at the forefront of promoting and defending access to gender-transition treatment for minors. Amid a storm of litigation over these controversial and politicized medical practices, though, the organization’s leaders now find that their own words threaten to undermine this mission.

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Claim of Suicide Surge in Youths on U.K. Wait List for Gender Care Undermined by ‘Cass Review’
The New York Sun, June 27, 2024

A British legal group has claimed there was a “huge increase” in suicide deaths among minors on the waiting list for the U.K.’s pediatric gender-care clinic. This surge, the group argues, is the result of what it characterized as the clinic’s harsh restrictions on adolescents’ access to gender-transition treatment. However, the recent British report on gender care of minors calls into question the specifics of these claims. 

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Major U.K. Report Finds Pediatric Gender Medicine Is Based on ‘Remarkably Weak Evidence’
The New York Sun, April 10, 2024

A new era in the care of minors with gender-related distress has begun in England, where a government-appointed team has published a mammoth report critiquing this controversial and politicized branch of pediatrics. The report positions England as the global standard-bearer of a cautious and circumspect new method of caring for youth who are troubled about their gender. 

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Leaked Files From Influential Transgender Medicine Group Cause Uproar, Could Imperil Liberal Efforts To Undo State Bans on Gender-Transition Treatments for Children
​The New York Sun, March 12, 2024
The publication of a trove of leaked internal communications from the nation’s predominant transgender medicine and advocacy organization could imperil liberal legal groups’ efforts to undo bans on such medical treatment in the courts. 

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Beleaguered World Health Organization Is Met With Uproar Over Plans to Develop Guidelines on Transgender Healthcare
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The New York Sun, February 1, 2024
The WHO has marched into the crucible of trans health care, and is facing outcry after announcing plans to convene a committee to develop “a guideline on the health of trans and gender diverse people.” A global chorus of critics has mobilized to protest the panel. which includes multiple trans activists and few people with relevant advanced degrees, as unqualified. ​

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Sued Over Policies on Transgender Children, American Academy of Pediatrics Pulls Forthcoming Book, Takes Steps To Protect Emails From Prying Eyes
The New York Sun, December 21, 2023
The American Academy of Pediatrics, under fire for its policies on gender-transition treatment for minors, is taking steps that might limit its legal exposure — or at least minimize public scrutiny — in the face of a lawsuit by a woman who at 14 underwent a medical gender transition that she later regretted. 


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Lawsuits by Regretful ‘Detransitioners’ Take Aim at Medical Establishment’s Support for Gender-Transition Treatments for Minors
The New York Sun, December 6, 2023
Two medical-malpractice lawsuits, each waged by a plaintiff who regrets having undergone medication-based gender-transition treatment, have taken collective aim at the U.S. medical establishment’s overwhelming support for prescribing such drugs to minors.

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