Medical Giant Backs Away From Child Surgeries But Won’t Touch the Hormones

## When Half the Truth Is Still a Lie

The American Medical Association just did something remarkable. They admitted they were wrong about surgeries on children questioning their gender. Not sort of wrong. Not “we need more research” wrong. Actually wrong.

Alabama Attorney General Stephen Marshall isn’t buying their sudden bout of honesty. And he shouldn’t.

Marshall’s leading twenty states in telling the AMA what should be obvious to anyone paying attention: if the evidence for surgeries was trash, the evidence for puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones is the same trash with a different label. You can’t cherry-pick your way out of a credibility crisis when kids are involved.

“The quality of evidence is the same as it is for surgeries: low and very-low quality,” the attorneys general wrote to AMA President John Whyte. That’s medical speak for “we’ve been winging it.”

Think about that. The same organization that’s been lecturing parents, threatening doctors who dissent, and providing cover for policies that fundamentally alter children’s bodies just confessed their recommendations weren’t grounded in solid evidence. They told families one thing while knowing another. That’s not a mistake. That’s a betrayal.

## The Science They Don’t Want You Questioning

Here’s what gets me. The AMA will abandon surgical interventions when the pressure gets hot enough, but they’re clinging to hormone treatments like a lifeline. Why? Because backing away from the entire protocol means admitting the whole enterprise was built on ideology dressed up as medicine.

Marshall nailed it: “You cannot dismiss one intervention as unsupported while continuing to push the rest.”

The research quality hasn’t changed. What changed is public awareness. Parents started asking questions. European countries started pumping the brakes. Courts started paying attention. Suddenly, the “settled science” looks about as settled as a snow globe someone just shook.

We’re talking about puberty blockers that can affect bone density, brain development, and fertility. Cross-sex hormones that create permanent changes in voices, body composition, and reproductive capability. These aren’t reversible experiments. These are life-altering medical interventions being given to children who can’t legally buy cigarettes or get a tattoo.

## When Experts Forget Their Job

The medical establishment loves to wrap itself in authority. Trust the experts, they say. Follow the science, they insist. But what happens when the experts stop being scientists and start being activists?

You get situations like this. Where an entire medical association pushes treatments on children without the evidence to back it up. Where questioning becomes heresy. Where parents who hesitate are treated like bigots instead of responsible adults doing their job.

Marshall’s not asking for anything radical. He’s asking for scientific honesty. When children’s lives and futures hang in the balance, that shouldn’t be controversial.

The AMA’s partial retreat proves what many suspected all along. This was never about following evidence wherever it led. It was about supporting a predetermined conclusion and manufacturing consensus around it.

Twenty states are now demanding accountability. They’re asking the AMA to apply the same standard to hormones that they finally applied to surgeries. Stop recommending treatments that lack solid evidence. Stop experimenting on kids.

That’s not political. That’s basic medical ethics.

The question now is whether the AMA will listen or whether they’ll keep playing games with half-measures and selective admissions. Because parents are watching. Courts are watching. And the evidence, thin as it always was, isn’t getting any stronger.

American Conservatives