Montana to probe nation's leading pediatrics group for claim puberty blockers are 'reversible'

FIRST ON FOX: Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen is launching an probe into a starring pediatrics enactment implicit its "gender-affirming" attraction argumentation connection that claims treating children with puberty blockers is reversible.

The civilian investigative request (CID) comes a small implicit a period since attorneys wide from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas and Utah sent a missive to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), accusing the enactment of abandoning "its committedness to dependable medical judgment."

"Puberty blockers tin person superior and irreversible consequences for children, but AAP appears to disregard those consequences and alternatively promotes them arsenic ‘reversible'. That's unacceptable and could beryllium a usurpation of Montana law," Knudsen told Fox News Digital successful a statement.

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Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen is launching an probe into the starring pediatrics enactment implicit its 2018 "gender-affirming" attraction policy. (Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

"The accusation AAP provides indispensable beryllium close and based successful technological information arsenic parents and aesculapian professionals trust connected them for guidance successful making healthcare decisions for children," the AG added.

The 2018 AAP argumentation states that "Gonadotrophin-releasing hormones person been utilized to hold puberty since the 1980s for cardinal precocious puberty."

"These reversible treatments tin besides beryllium utilized successful adolescents who acquisition sex dysphoria to forestall improvement of secondary enactment characteristics and supply clip up until 16 years of property for the idiosyncratic and the household to research sex identity, entree psychosocial supports, make coping skills, and further specify due attraction goals," the connection reads.

Gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogues are the astir wide utilized people of drugs for puberty blocking. Regular usage of these puberty blockers prevents the assemblage from producing testosterone and estrogen.

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Among the demands successful the CID, Knudsen seeks each documents related to the AAP's 2018 Policy Statement connected transgender aesculapian care, including communications regarding its interaction connected AAP products. The bureau is besides asking for records connected to the intermission connected the work of "Pediatric Collections: Gender-Affirming Care," pending a reappraisal of the 2018 policy.

Additionally, Knudsen is seeking details astir the reappraisal process for the 2018 policy, including the individuals involved. The investigation seeks to clarify the AAP's decision-making processes and its interactions with stakeholders regarding input connected argumentation reviews.

A transgender emblem unfurled connected a pole.  (Getty Images)

The AAP volition besides beryllium required to respond to a September missive from attorneys wide crossed the state that called connected the enactment to rescind its enactment for transgender aesculapian attraction – specified arsenic puberty blockers and surgeries – connected children. 

Last year, the AAP recommitted its pledge to enactment alleged "gender-affirming care" and expanded its guidelines for pediatricians to "ensure young radical get the reproductive and gender-affirming attraction they request and are seen, heard and valued arsenic they are," AAP CEO Mark Del Monte said astatine the time.

"The AAP opposes immoderate laws oregon regulations that discriminate against transgender and gender-diverse individuals, oregon that interfere successful the doctor-patient relationship," the AAP wrote successful a quality release.

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A idiosyncratic displays trans pridefulness flags during the NYC Pride March successful New York connected Sunday, June 25, 2023. (Bing Guan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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AAP has published respective reports connected reaffirming transgender younker successful their preferred sex identities. In January, the AAP published a study titled, "Prohibition of Gender-Affirming Care arsenic a Form of Child Maltreatment: Reframing the Discussion," which claimed many bills aimed astatine restricting transgender treatments for children pb to mediocre intelligence health. 

The AAP, on with salient aesculapian organizations specified arsenic the American Medical Association, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and the World Health Organization, advocates for providing transgender treatments to minors.

Knudsen's missive comes arsenic transgender surgical procedures and hormone treatments for children has go a civilization warfare contented successful the 2024 election. According to unsealed documents published implicit the summer, wellness officials successful the Biden administration successfully pressured the World Professional Association for Transgender Health to omit the property bounds successful its guidelines for transgender surgical procedures for adolescents. 

Fox News Digital has reached retired to the AAP for comment.