Medical providers who encouraged gender transition drugs and procedures for minors may now face federal investigation.
The Federal Trade Commission is reportedly considering legal action against the doctors and medical providers behind the spike in gender transitions in recent years, according to a memo reported on by The Daily Wire.
“Every available and legal means to protect children from harmful transgender procedures should be taken,” said Stanley Goldfarb, a medical doctor and Chairman of the medical advocacy group, Do No Harm. “The FTC is right to recognize that medical institutions captured by gender ideology are deceiving concerned parents into allowing their children to undergo these dangerous interventions. We applaud the FTC and the Trump Administration for taking this important step towards protecting children.”
Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., responded to the media report by praising the FTC “for investigating the horrific scheme to target minors with barbaric gender procedures.”
“Everyone involved – including the ‘doctors’ – should face massive liability for the damage they did to vulnerable children,” he added.
Meanwhile, many medical groups have insisted that gender transition care is helpful to those who need it. This issue was front and center in the presidential election where now President Donald Trump promised to take on the transgender agenda in the U.S. The FTC news is the latest example of the administration taking on this controversial issue.