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The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has filed its third claim against the Trump administration since July 2025, with the latest lawsuit alleging the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) civil investigation into the organization’s embrace of so-called “gender-affirming care” for children and teens is “unconstitutionally retaliatory and discriminatory.”
An AAP news story quoted the group’s President Andrew D. Racine, M.D., Ph.D., FAAP, as arguing that the Trump administration “has politicized health care for transgender and gender-diverse young people.”
“This lawsuit is necessary to protect our ability to continue to engage in the scientific discussion necessary to generate this essential guidance to clinicians and families,” Racine added.
On January 15, the FTC opened a “consumer protections probe” into both AAP and the World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH), an activist organization that sets guidelines and standards of care for the medical treatment of those struggling with gender dysphoria.
FTC sought information related to AAP’s 2018 policy titled “Ensuring Comprehensive Care and Support for Transgender and Gender-Diverse Children and Adolescents,” a statement that was reaffirmed in August 2023.
In its policy statement, AAP defines sex as “an assignment that is made at birth, usually male or female,” and “gender diverse” as a “term that is used to describe people with gender behaviors, appearances, or identities that are incongruent with those culturally assigned to their birth sex; gender-diverse individuals may refer to themselves with many different terms, such as transgender, nonbinary, genderqueer … gender fluid, gender creative, gender independent, or noncisgender.”
“’Gender diverse’ is used to acknowledge and include the vast diversity of gender identities that exists,” asserts AAP.
In its discussion of how medical and mental health workers address the care of children struggling with gender dysphoria, AAP lends support to so-called gender-affirming care:
Providers work together to destigmatize gender variance, promote the child’s self-worth, facilitate access to care, educate families, and advocate for safer community spaces where children are free to develop and explore their gender … A specialized gender-affirmative therapist, when available, may be an asset in helping children and their families build skills for dealing with gender-based stigma, address symptoms of anxiety or depression, and reinforce the child’s overall resiliency.
The pediatricians’ group also supports puberty blockers for children, referring to them as “reversible treatments” that can “be used in adolescents who experience gender dysphoria to prevent development of secondary sex characteristics and provide time up until 16 years of age for the individual and the family to explore gender identity, access psychosocial supports, develop coping skills, and further define appropriate treatment goals.”
The organization is now seeking to quash the FTC’s probe, claiming it “(1) exceeds the scope of the Commission’s authority to investigate; (2) violates the First Amendment; (3) was not issued pursuant to a Commission Resolution; and (4) is overbroad and unduly burdensome.”
As AAP News reports, attorneys for the group argue that the FTC is “retaliating against the AAP and discriminating against viewpoints with which it disagrees in violation of the First Amendment.”
The lawsuit states the FTC probe is “an overbroad and unauthorized fishing expedition into AAP’s protected speech, deliberations, and associational relationships undertaken to punish AAP for expressing a viewpoint the Trump Administration has deemed unfavorable and an attempt to silence AAP.”
AAP has also been fighting the Trump administration’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) over its changes made to federal vaccine policy.
In July 2025, AAP joined other medical groups in a lawsuit seeking to halt HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s changes to vaccine policy, including his support for the removal of the COVID shot for healthy pregnant women and children from the recommended immunization schedule.
“Unless the Secretary’s baseless and uninformed policy decision is vacated, pregnant women, their unborn children, and, in fact, all children remain at grave and immediate risk of contracting a preventable disease,” the lawsuit argues. “This decision immediately exposes these vulnerable populations to a serious illness with potentially irreversible long-term effects and, in some cases, death. This is not a hypothetical concern, but a pressing public health emergency that demands immediate legal action and correction.”
Former AAP President Susan J. Kressly, MD, FAAP, issued a statement in response to Kennedy’s discussion of changes to the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP), a program established by Congress in the 1980s that serves to assess claims of vaccine injuries and deaths. If approved, VICP provides compensation to victims.
“We are deeply concerned that Secretary Kennedy’s planned changes to the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) will be yet another example of his campaign to set aside the overwhelming weight of medical evidence and use the federal government to stoke fears about vaccines that have no basis in medicine,” Kressly said.
“Time and time again, Sec. Kennedy has intervened to remove unbiased expertise, and replace it with attacks on the immunizations that protect children from serious diseases,” she added. “Threatening to ‘fix’ VICP is just the latest example of a larger, ongoing effort to erode confidence in childhood vaccines and the public health infrastructure designed to keep kids safe and healthy.”
In a move to have Congress address changes to the VICP, U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) introduced a bill February 11 that would amend that program to enable those who suffer vaccine-related injury or death to bypass a VICP claim and directly file a lawsuit against the vaccine manufacturer in state or federal court.
The bill also would end immunity protections for the developers and distributors of the COVID-19 vaccines, which were created under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act.
The legislation is a companion bill to one introduced in the U.S. House in July 2025 by U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ).
Also in July 2025, AAP called for an end to religious and other nonmedical exemptions from childhood immunizations.
“The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) supports certification of immunization to attend child care and school as a sound means of providing a safe environment for attendees and employees of these settings,” an AAP policy statement said, adding that the group is calling for “the elimination of nonmedical exemptions from immunizations as contrary to optimal individual and public health.”
In yet another lawsuit against the Trump administration, AAP challenged its move to terminate $12 million in grants to the medical organization, claiming the action was retaliatory.
In January, Judge Beryl Howell of U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted a preliminary injunction to restore the grants while the case proceeds.
Other doctors and parents have now filed their own lawsuit against AAP.
In January, multiple plaintiffs filed a major lawsuit against the organization, claiming AAP “has engaged in a decades-long pattern of fraud comparable to the tobacco industry’s historic deception about smoking risks.”
Two pediatricians, Children’s Health Defense (CHD), and the parents of four children who either died or experienced injuries after receiving routine childhood vaccines, brought the lawsuit against the medical organization.
In a video about the lawsuit, pediatrician Dr. K. Paul Stoller explains the plaintiffs’ claim amounts to “a civil RICO [Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act] case.”
The pediatricians allege “that AAP worked in coordination with pharmaceutical manufacturers and allied institutions to promote the claim that the childhood vaccine schedule is fully tested and safe while concealing material facts that undermine that claim.”
While the lawsuit does not allege malpractice, it “repeatedly focuses on one core claim made by AAP that the entire childhood vaccine schedule has been carefully studied, fully tested, and proven safe as a whole. This statement is materially misleading,” Stoller asserts in the video.
On its website, AAP boasts its corporate donors to its Friends of Children Fund. Many of its largest donations come from its Big Pharma “partners”:
The plaintiffs claim that while AAP presents itself as “a trusted authority, issuing policy statements and educational materials,” the group does so “while receiving substantial funding from vaccine manufacturers and allegedly suppressing dissent within pediatrics.”
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