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Federal Report Exposes Sacramento's Failure: AAP, AMA, WPATH Lied and Lawmakers Let Children Pay the Price

California Family Council : Nov 25, 2025
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"This report marks a turning point for American medicine... . The evidence in it meticulously documents the risks the profession?has imposed on vulnerable children. At the NIH, we are committed to ensuring that science, not ideology, guides America's medical research." -National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD

[CaliforniaFamily.org] Last week, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a sweeping, peer-reviewed report that vindicates years of warnings from California Family Council, Christian medical professionals, parental-rights advocates, pro-family groups, and detransitioners themselves. For nearly a decade, these voices have been sounding the alarm in legislative hearings, rallies, and expert testimony: puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and irreversible surgeries on minors carry profound risks, including sterilization, cognitive impairment, emotional distress, and permanent physical harm. (Image: Pixabay)

California lawmakers dismissed those concerns. They insisted critics were exaggerating or "fear-mongering." They pointed to endorsements from powerful medical bodies,  the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the American Medical Association (AMA), and the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH),  and claimed they were simply "following the science."

But last week, HHS confirmed decisively that the science never supported these interventions.

"That is not medicine—it's malpractice."

In announcing the findings of Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria: Review of Evidence and Best Practices, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. issued perhaps the strongest federal condemnation yet of America's gender-medicalization industry:

"The American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics peddled the lie that chemical and surgical sex-rejecting procedures could be good for children. ... They betrayed their oath to first do no harm, and their so-called 'gender-affirming care' has inflicted lasting physical and psychological damage on vulnerable young people. That is not medicine—it's malpractice."

For years, these organizations claimed the evidence was settled. It was not. They argued that "gender-affirming care" reduced suicide risk. HHS now says the data does not support such claims. Legislators insisted puberty blockers were "completely reversible." The report confirms they are not. Doctors reassured parents that cross-sex hormones were safe. The federal review found long-term dangers, including irreversible infertility.

Most damningly, the report exposes the poor-quality evidence in the studies the AAP, AMA, and WPATH relied on to justify their guidelines—guidelines California lawmakers accepted as unquestionable truth.

Bhattacharya: Science, not ideology, must guide medicine.

National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD, underscored the significance of the review:

"This report marks a turning point for American medicine... . The evidence in it meticulously documents the risks the profession?has imposed on vulnerable children. At the NIH, we are committed to ensuring that science, not ideology, guides America's medical research."

The federal government has acknowledged what detransitioners, whistleblower clinicians, and parent groups have argued for years: America rushed headlong into an unproven medical experiment, and children paid the price.

"What are we going to tell the young people who can't have children?"

Assistant Secretary for Health Brian Christine, MD, voiced the human cost directly:

"What are we going to tell the young people who can't have children because the medical profession stole that from them? Our report is an urgent wake-up call to doctors and parents about the clear dangers of trying to turn girls into boys and vice-versa."

That is not rhetoric. It is the lived reality of countless teenagers,  including well-known detransitioners like Chloe Cole, who has testified before California state legislators several times on how she was placed on puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and underwent a double mastectomy in California, all before adulthood. She is now suing Kaiser Permanente for medical negligence. (Watch Chloe here, here, and here.) 

These stories are not rare. They are multiplying.

California: The Epicenter of Gender Ideology in Medicine

While nations such as the UK, Sweden, Norway, and Finland reversed course after evidence reviews similar to HHS', California raced ahead, transforming itself into America's most aggressive promoter of pediatric sex-change interventions.

State leaders:

And when parents objected, legislators insisted they were "misinformed."

For years, California Family Council (CFC) warned lawmakers that these drugs sterilize children, that these protocols lack safety data, that minors cannot consent to lifelong medical harm. In 2020, when CFC mobilized parents against AB 2218, legislators mocked them. Former Sen. Connie Leyva declared, "I felt bad for the people who were calling to ask us to vote no because I do think they were misled. There is nothing in this bill that talks about sterilizing children. It really talks about health care for individuals who identify as transgender." Yet here we are, a federal report now acknowledges that sterilization is indeed a routine and foreseeable consequence.

CFC has opposed school-based secrecy policies, radical sex-ed curriculums, and the ideological capture of California's medical institutions. The new HHS report confirms that these warnings were not "fear-mongering."

California politicians can no longer say they "didn't know."

Medical Institutions Are Already Pulling Back

Even in California, the ground is shifting. After a signal from the Trump administration about pending malpractice action, several major medical systems, including the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, announced they would halt new pediatric gender-transition procedures.

Why? Because the science is no longer in dispute. Liability is rising. Evidence of harm is undeniable.

This new HHS report will only accelerate that retreat.

CFC Vice President Greg Burt summarized the moment with clarity:

"California lawmakers ignored evidence for years, hiding behind organizations motivated by a quest to legitimize transgender ideology. This HHS report confirms what detransitioners, parents, and doctors have been saying all along: these procedures are dangerous, irreversible, and never should have been pushed on minors."

For years, CFC has testified in committee hearings, mobilized call campaigns, and partnered with parents and medical professionals to warn that these protocols were unscientific and harmful. Every major claim California legislators made: reversibility, safety, and suicide prevention, has now been contradicted by the federal government's own comprehensive review.

The Era of Denial Needs to End

The HHS report does not merely expose flawed studies or misguided guidelines. It exposes a system, a network of activist-dominated medical organizations, politically motivated legislators, and ideologically driven institutions, that placed children at risk to advance an agenda.

Now the truth is out.

The question is whether California will finally listen.

Will our leaders reverse course, or will they continue promoting the very practices the federal government now acknowledges are unsupported, unsafe, and unethical?

For the sake of our state's children, and for every parent who has been ignored, dismissed, or silenced, we pray California chooses the path of truth.

Because the evidence is clear. The damage is real. And the moment for moral clarity has arrived. Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here