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Joondeph: Pediatric gender medicine is cracking under its own evidence
Rocky Mountain Voice, Approved, Commentary, National

Joondeph: Pediatric gender medicine is cracking under its own evidence

By Brian C. Joondeph, M.D. | Commentary, American Thinker When ideology overrides biology, it isn’t compassion — it’s harm dressed as progress. For nearly a decade, Americans were told to deny what biology, common sense, and their own eyes made plain. Men could become women. Women could become men. Children were fully capable of choosing sterilizing hormones. Puberty blockers were “reversible.” And anyone who questioned any of it was a bigot. It was one of the most aggressive campaigns of magical thinking in modern public life. We were told sex was “assigned at birth,” as if doctors in delivery rooms were rolling dice rather than observing biological reality. Chromosomes, anatomy, and reproductive function were suddenly deemed less important t...
‘Wolves in White Coats’: HHS official warns of harms, profit behind gender medicine for minors
Rocky Mountain Voice, State, Top Stories

‘Wolves in White Coats’: HHS official warns of harms, profit behind gender medicine for minors

By RMV Staff | Rocky Mountain Voice Assistant Secretary for Health Brian Christine joins Heidi Ganahl on ‘Unleashed’ to discuss a new federal report, detransitioner stories and what the findings could mean for Colorado families A new report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is putting renewed scrutiny on medical interventions for minors experiencing gender dysphoria — and one of the nation's top public health officials says accountability may be coming. Admiral Brian Christine, the 18th Assistant Secretary for Health at HHS, joined Heidi Ganahl on the latest episode of Unleashed to discuss the department's new report, Wolves in White Coats, which examines medical treatments for minors, financial incentives within gender clinics and potentially improper medi...
Inside the story Colorado rarely hears: Trauma, transition and the path back to truth
Rocky Mountain Voice, State, Top Stories

Inside the story Colorado rarely hears: Trauma, transition and the path back to truth

By Jen Schumann | Rocky Mountain Voice “It took me almost two decades to realize the error,” Antoinette De La Cruz told a Fort Collins audience on November 20. “Transitioning didn’t fix anything. It delayed the inevitable. Healing.” It was the first time many Coloradans had heard a detransitioner describe her path into transition, what it cost her and what brought her back. Read RMV’s reporting on the event here. Here she shared the fuller account of her story. Where it began De La Cruz said her transition began long before hormones or surgery. “I learned very young as a little girl that I was not valued as a woman, and I definitely was not safe as one,” she said. When she was seventeen she met someone who told her she could become a man. “I had no idea you could even do ...