No to mandatory child transition: thousands of US paediatricians sue the Biden administration The number of doctors opposing the medical transition of girls is growing. Two American paediatricians' associations are challenging the Biden Act, which replaces sex with gender identity, and are asking not to be forced to prescribe experimental and harmful procedures against their medical judgment, ethics or religious beliefs.
A group of more than 3,000 paediatricians sued the Biden administration over its reinterpretation of the Affordable Care Act that requires doctors to provide drugs and surgeries to 'gender transition' minors. In May, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that its Office for Civil Rights would interpret and apply Section 1557 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act differently: prohibiting [...]