December 11, 2024

The Real Issues in the Transgender Debate

In light of the U.S. v. Skrmetti Supreme Court case, about the Tennessee law that protects children with gender dysphoria from destructive hormone treatments and surgery, it is helpful to consider the actual issues involved.  The transgende...

December 9, 2024

Transgender SCOTUS case: ‘Do no harm’ on trial

The issue in the transgender “care” case, U.S. v. Skrmetti, before the Supreme Court is whether the State of Tennessee may prohibit the use of puberty-blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgical mutilation and castration on mentally ill ch...

December 1, 2022

Transgender medical care is unethical pseudoscience

Over the past several years, there has been an explosion in the number of children who are confused about their sexual identity who have been brought under the care of gender medicine doctors.  I am a pediatric neurosurgeon with 35 years of...

October 30, 2022

You just can't justify hormonal castration and genital mutilation

The wave of "transgender affirmation" sweeping our country is an astonishing social and medical phenomenon.  Over the past several decades, "gender specialist" doctors have been treating mentally ill children and adults ...