VIEWPOINT | When ideology suppresses medical evidence, patients pay
Guest column by Dr. William Malone, Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine
Something unusual is happening in medicine. A once-rare diagnosis – gender dysphoria – has become common among American children. An estimated 3 percent of youth now identify as transgender, and another 2 percent are questioning their gender identity.
That surge should have prompted urgent, transparent scientific inquiry. Instead, the field of pediatric gender medicine has become one of the most ideologically charged – and least open to critical debate – areas in healthcare.
