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On the same day the Department of Health and Human Services proposed new rules that would bar publicly-funded hospitals from performing “sex-rejecting procedures” on children, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) released a statement opposing the proposal, claiming that banning hormone drugs and surgeries for children with gender dysphoria is “restricting access to care for families.”

“Unprecedented actions and harmful rhetoric taking place today by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) leaders mark a concerning departure from the longstanding principle that health care policy should be grounded in scientific evidence, clinical expertise, and the needs of children and families,” AAP President Susan J. Kressly, M.D. said Thursday. “These policies and proposals misconstrue the current medical consensus and fail to reflect the realities of pediatric care and the needs of children and families.”

A recipient of large donations from big pharmaceutical companies, AAP has opposed HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s efforts to overhaul America’s health system.

The pediatricians’ group has supported both so-called “gender-affirming care” for children and has called for an end to religious exemptions from childhood immunizations.

Following the release in May of a review by HHS of medical interventions used to suggest to children and their parents that they can actually change their sex, AAP’s Kressly responded that the report “misrepresents the current medical consensus and fails to reflect the realities of pediatric care.”

“As we have seen with immunizations, bypassing medical expertise and scientific evidence has real consequences for the health of America’s children,” she claimed. “AAP was not consulted in the development of this report, yet our policy and intentions behind our recommendations were cited throughout in inaccurate and misleading ways. The report prioritizes opinions over dispassionate reviews of evidence.”

HHS, nevertheless, found “serious concerns about medical interventions, such as puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries, that attempt to transition children and adolescents away from their sex.”

The review also exposed “a growing body of evidence pointing to significant risks—including irreversible harms such as infertility—while finding very weak evidence of benefit.”

“That weakness has been a consistent finding of systematic reviews of evidence around the world,” the federal health agency asserted, bringing the United States into the company of other nations that have expressed substantial concerns about medical treatment for child gender issues.

Claiming that the proposed HHS rule to terminate sex-rejection medical interventions for children are “a baseless intrusion into the patient-physician relationship,” Kressly added that it creates “uncertainty for all patients” since taxpayer funds would no longer be available for these procedures.

“The American Academy of Pediatrics remains committed to ensuring that all children — including gender-diverse youth and children covered by Medicaid — receive care that is backed by science, delivered with compassion, and offered without political interference,” the AAP president said. “We call on HHS to immediately reverse course and rescind these harmful proposals.”

The proposed HHS rule intends to fulfill President Donald Trump’s executive order titled “Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation.”

HHS has also terminated federal grants to AAP in the area of $18-$20 million.

According to physician and scientist Dr. Robert Malone, it’s “for good reason” that AAP’s federal grants were terminated.

“Consider their recent track record,” Malone, a member of the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), wrote at his column last week. “They have presided over the greatest decline to the health of our children that America has ever seen.”

In addition to recommending “gender-affirming care,” AAP also supported mandatory masks during the COVID pandemic, claiming they would prevent spread of the virus, Malone cited.

“These masks harm children’s development by delaying or impeding speech, language learning, and emotional growth, as facial cues are crucial to development,” he observed.

But Malone went further.

“Around 2000, the AAP recommended that infants avoid peanuts and other allergens until age 3 to prevent allergies,” he asserted. “There was little scientific evidence to support this recommendation. This advice was shared with their pediatrician members and the media, triggering a surge in peanut allergies.”

Now, AAP has set up its own childhood immunization guidance that breaks from that of HHS.

As Malone noted, AAP is “recommending COVID shots for all children aged 6-23 months, and for high-risk children.”

“This puts children at risk for myocarditis and other severe adverse events, including death, from these dangerous injections – injections that are not safe for children, and do not stop transmission or infection of COVID-19,” he wrote.

“The AAP continues to advocate various faddish trends that have caused real physical damage to our youth,” Malone asserted, pointing out that HHS notes the pediatricians’ group also uses “identity-based language,” and suggests that AAP is no longer connecting with American families.

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