HHS review: No evidence gender procedures are effective (05-02-2025--Hour2)

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At the beginning of the year, President Trump announced an executive order that directed the Secretary of Health and Human Services to publish a review of quote the existing literature on best practices for promoting the health of children who assert gender dysphoria, wrap it on set gender dysphoria or other identity based confusion. He gave them a ninety day deadline, and they have done that. They reviewed the existing literature on best practices, and you may want to sit down for this, people, but it turns out that the best practices for so called gender affirming care are simply to not do it at all. That's that's the best practice. Just don't do what we've been doing. The HHS review was published yesterday, and the results shouldn't be surprising, but I guess probably to about you know, twenty five percent of the population. They are. The researchers found that the available studies on gender affirming care for minors was poorly conducted and there is indevidence to show that such interventions effectively treat gender dysphoria or improve mental health. Have you been listening to this show for any period of time, you would already know this because I've been covering this ever since this stuff first started, you know, becoming the mainstream, and there are reasons for it becoming mainstream. I've gone over that too. I've talked about you know, the dare I call it intersectionality, but no, how the LGBTQ plus two, IA SL whatever, the movement needed another focus after it achieved gay marriage legalization, because you had an entire infrastructure that made up a very influential and well funded portion of the Democrat Party. And so you had these nonprofits. You had people working for the nonprofits, activist organizations and such. They were doing fundraising all the time. Right there. There were people who had their paychecks dependent on the gay marriage issue. And once they achieved what they set out to do, you then end up. And this happens in any organization that you know is trying to achieve a goal of some kind. You you achieved theory, and then the people who were motivated simply to do that that achievement, and once they achieve it, then they're done. Then it's like, okay, you know I was here, I was writing you checks every year for a million dollars to get gay marriage approved. And now it's approved, and so now I'm gonna I'm not going to write you any more checks because that's what I was in it for, and we won. Or that's why I was showing up at the rallies. That's why I was, you know, sending emails and letters to elected officials. This is why I was yelling at Grandma and Grandpa Thanksgiving I don't have to do that anymore, you know. So you end up with a lot of people that start falling away from these organizations, from the movement, and that is an existential threat to these organizations. They are now losing power. Right. The dog that chases the car has no idea what it's going to do when it finally catches it. And these organizations and activists caught the car. So what now, what do you do? How do you refocus the organization? Well, we got the l's and the g's and the b's, and there is that t at the end there, and so the focus then shifts. But what happens again, this is any organization or movement, This happens once you achieve the stated gold, right, you achieve that victory, then the more let's say moderate, the people who aren't as radical as others might be inside the movement, they fall away, they go do other things because they weren't. They weren't the most radical group to begin with. So once they get their goal done, they start walking away. And what's left then are the most radicals, Right, that's who's left in your group. And that's what happened with the rise of the transgender phenomenon that we have been witnessing. Okay, so back to the National Review piece. More importantly, the researchers noted what hasn't been published in the scientific literature, which is the studies largely fail to appropriately consider the possible harms of these medical interventions. And this is a very important point. I talked about this during COVID. It's the same thing. If you are going to do an accounting of all the lives you saved by locking people down, and all the lives you've saved by telling people to wear a mask and stand six feet apart and take the shot and do all of that, you want to claim all this credit for all the lives saved. Okay, fine, what's the other side of the ledger? See? Because that's how an accounting is actually done. It's not all good. There are things that you've traded off here in order to save all the lives. There were costs. People did die, deaths of despair, drug addiction, alcoholism. People were forced to die alone, people were given treatments that they shouldn't have been given. People were locked in nursing homes, for example, with COVID infected peers. There's another side of the ledger. And if you want to do an accounting and you want the credit, then you got to look at the costs as well. And that's what these studies that are always out there promoting, like the you know, we should be we should be transing the twelve year olds. Is there a downside to doing that, which of course there is. And by the way, people in the medical community know this. They've known this. Psychologists, psychiatrists, they know this. For the love of me. It was a list. It was a category in the DSM. That's the was it the Disorder's list, right, It was officially listed as a mental disorder and they then changed it like about a minute ago. Seriously, they changed it like I don't know, three, four years ago or something because everybody fell in line. Just like with COVID, you know, the herd starts moving some way, and then you get the constant beatdowns on social media. Maybe they're throttling your accounts, maybe they're firing you from your job. Right, does that happen during COVID too? This tyrannical approach to disagreement, and that's what we're seeing in this topic as well. The HHS report is an umbrella review of seventeen pre existing systematic reviews on pediatric gender related medicine. Okay, so it's just looking at kids pediatric trans medicine. Right. The studies, these systematic reviews were already done, So this took all of those and reviewed all of those, and the finding in our the American report here mirrors what the CAST Review found. The CAST Review was an independent review commissioned by the United Kingdom's National Health Service on these similar medical treatments, and what the Cast Review determined was quote this is an area of remarkably weak evidence. The HHS report notes that the common defenses of gender related medicine for miners, such as the claim that it is life saving, that claim is unsupported by the data. It is unsupported. And this is what they've been telling parents in order to bully the parents and shame them into letting their kids get these these surgeries, procedures, therapies, whatever procedure is probably the best word. Although I guess if you're doing the if you're taking like a puberty blockers and it's like a you know, pills or something, I don't know, they're not therapies because they're not making you better. They're just changing you. Parents were told would you rather have a dead son or a living daughter in order to scare them and bully them into agreeing to mutilate the kid. And this is what one of the activists who won the big court case in the UK the other day, Helen Joyce, And she's been phenomenal on this for years. I've played many of her sound bites rhetor works, and she has pointed out that for parents that have transd their kids, they can never acknowledge this stuff because to acknowledge that they were wrong about this like that really would be an awful thing. I can't even imagine. All Right, So spring is here a time of renewal and celebrations. You've got graduations, weddings, anniversaries and especial days for mom and dad. Your family's making memories that are going to last a lifetime. But let me ask you, are all of those treasured moments from days gone by? Are they hidden away on old VCR tapes, eight millimeter films, photos slides? Are they preserved? Because over time, these precious memories can fade and deteriorate, losing the magic of yesterday. At Creative Video, they help you protect what matters most. 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What the HHS found was that the seventeen reviews arrived at positive evaluations of gender related interventions even when the studies in question and contradicted or did not support such an outcome. What does that mean? So at the base level, you have a study, a study of a particular intervention. Right, And let's say say like what is the effect of puberty blockers on ten year olds? Right? And so you do a study, and that study can have flaws of all kinds. So you start with that study, and then there's a another study that also looks to replicate what you did or builds upon the work that you did, or whatever. There's another study looking at kind of the same thing, maybe another study, maybe five studies, ten whatever. Then a review comes in and takes all of those studies and they review the studies, or maybe they just review one study. Either way, that review, that systematic review of the study. That systematic review is then what the a HS examined. And what they said was that the systematic review came to conclusions that the studies did not. There is a word for this. It's called lying. This is corruption of the science. The most valuable insight of the AHHS report is that the available studies neglect important outcomes. Right, So the baseline studies that were done, they ignore certain outcomes. The researchers note that design flaws throughout the literature, ranging from small sample sizes to really short periods of monitoring. What that means is that important questions are left unanswered, like what is the long term impact of these treatments? All right, so you want to start juicing kids with hormones at age ten, you want to block puberty from happening at age ten or whatever. And they're like, I feel so much better. I got what I wanted. And they're like, Okay, you feel so much better. This is obviously a positive outcome. Okay, but how about ten years from now, how about twenty, how about thirty? I really want to have, you know, the male genitalia, So yes, please scrape off all of the muscle and tissue from my forearm and construct one for me. Or the alternate, remove my junk and create a hole inside my pelvis which will continuously for the rest of my life. Attempt to close up very painful from what I understand. Right, there's another side of the ledger. The fact is there's very limited day about the long term effects of these gender related interventions on sexual function, cognitive abilities, bone density, cardiovascular diseases, and other areas of physical health. The absence of evidence of harms in these published studies is not equivalent to the evidence of absence of harms. Right. The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Does that make sense? It's an age old axiom. Just because the studies didn't see evidence of harm doesn't mean that there isn't any They just didn't look for it. It's easy to miss what you're not looking for, all right. 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I use the Vantage plan to get unlimited access to every feature your subscription. Then not only helps my podcast, but it also supports ground news as they make the media landscape more transparent. National review reporting on the Department of Health and Human Services systematic review of seventeen other systematic reviews on gender affirming care. It's not affirming, it's not care. These are procedures that are conducted on kids. And what they found was some of these systematic reviews arrived at positive evaluations of gender related interventions even when the studies in question contradicted or did not support a positive outcome. So a study finds that, yeah, we can't really make any determination about whether this is a good thing or not or not enough evidence to support this as a positive treatment or procedure. And then the review comes along and says, well, that study said it was positive and it didn't. No new policy can undo the harm that has already been inflicted on young, vulnerable children. These kids arrived at the doctor's office for treatment, only to be further damaged when they most needed help. The report notes that kids with gender dysphoria often present at gender medicine clinics with what's called co occurring. In other words, yeah, you have gender dysphoria, but there are all these other things going on too. And I have said this for years, and sometimes I get yelled at by leftists who think I'm like denigrating children. You're picking on kids because I say the gender dysphoria that the kids with the gender dysphoria they usually have some mental disorder going on, and they're like, oh, you're calling them crazy or something like. No, I'm saying that the gender dysphoria is virtually never alone. There are other things going on, neurodevelopment disorders, mental health conditions like depression, anxiety, eating disorders, suicidality, among others, and there is this belief that the gender dysphoria is disconnected from these other things. Or you will hear the argument that, oh, well, they're suffering from these other things because of the way they're treated and they're not accepted, they're not being affirmed, and if you just go along with their desires delusions, you go along with that, and then all of these other things will be corrected. But that's not what the evidence shows. That's why the countries that were at the forefront of this gender affirming model. That's why they've where they're not just pumping the brakes, they're actually reversing. They're stopping this stuff over in Europe because this stuff corrects like don't so people say, well, what should we do? Don't do anything, Just let the kid develop, and as studies show, most of the time, virtually all of the time, they grow out of it. Right. Being confused as a teenager is the whole point of being a teenager. Have you met a teenager like they're confused about like everything all the time? I know I was a teenager. It's part of the deal. And telling people that they are not, that they are not in the right body, is an incredibly destructive thing to do to them. In a similar vein out in California talking about the tip of the spear and crazy, California lawmakers gutted a bill this week. The bill would have made paying for sex with sixteen and seventeen year olds a felony. You did not hear that incorrectly. You heard that right. There was a bill to make it a felony to pay for sex with a sixteen or seventeen year old and California Democrats killed it. Under current state law, trying to buy sex from miners under sixteen you get extra fines, jail time, misdemeanor or felony charge. Right, but that's just under the age of sixteen. See, you can't pay for sex with miners if they're under the age of sixteen. And what a Democrat lawmaker who wrote the bill, Maggie Krell, she has spent two decades overseeing human trafficking cases for the state, so she was like, we need to include seventeen and eighteen year olds paying for sex all the way up to eighteen years old should be felony charges. And Democrats were like, no, I mean, well, like, I mean, there's a lot of examples where we shouldn't ruin somebody's life. Yeah, I think what's the guy's name? Wiener? Is his name? He's like this radical sex crazed guy out in California. Not Anthony Wiener. That's the the sex crazed guys up in New York, Scott Wiener, I think is his name out in California. I don't know why there are always Wieners, but he threw out an example of a seventeen year old offering a sixteen year old twenty dollars to have sex, and that's now a felony, and that shouldn't be a felony. We should allow a seventeen year old to be able to offer a classmate twenty bucks for sex. That should be that should not be a crime, let alone a felony like Okay, that definitely is an argument to make. I guess. There was a new bill that was meant to protect sex trafficking victims, and it would have increased the age to eighteen, but Democratic committee members demanded that the clause be cut before they let the bill move forward to the full California State Assembly. The author of the bill, Democrat Maggie Krell, called it a disgrace. Nick Schultz, the chairman of the Public Safety Committee, said quote, we are not saying no, but what we're saying is, if we're going to be thoughtful policy makers, we really need to dive deep into this issue. Check that guy's laptop. Okay, check his laptop. I don't know what kind of deep dive and he's already doing on his own. Just FBI, maybe want to look at that guy's home computer or something. Check us hard drives, here's a great idea. 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I will continue to vigorously oppose all efforts to allow male athletes to compete in female athletic competitions and to demand that President Trump's executive order be enforced in Maine to ensure fairness for all female athletes. And look, maybe now the people up in Maine will be able to figure out that men and women are different and that men should not be permitted into women only spaces now that there is that big landmark ruling from the uk that men and women are different, and a woman is a biological female. Like, that's what a woman is. Now we have an actual definition. Thank god, the court's weighed in right. So, but maybe not, maybe not because in retaliation for that soul social media posts she posted on Facebook, and in retaliation, the Democrat controlled House passed a party line resolution censuring her. The resolution required her to quote accept full responsibility for the incident and publicly apologized to the House and to the people of the state of Maine. This is a struggle session. This is a Maoist struggle session. That's what this is. We are going to censure and try to shame you. And the only way for you to make the pain stop is to give us a confession. Right, confess your sins. This is why, like Marxism is a religion. Okay, these tactics are the same sorts of tactics that you would get in any kind of a tyrannical, hierarchical religious order. The only way to be saved is by the people who hold the power to then, you know, grant you absolution. And now you are saved because this person said you were and she's not folding and kudos to her, she refused to apologize, and because she refused to apologize, the Speaker of the House, Ryan Fecteur, I think is how he pronounces that barred her from even speaking from the floor. She's a state representative elected, she is banned from speaking from the House floor, and they banned her from voting. So who are you actually punishing here? Now? A censure doesn't require the recision of voting rights. In fact, I thought you Democrats were like all the time, interested in protecting everybody's voting rights. But what did you just do here? You robbed not just this one woman of her voting rights, You've robbed everyone in her district of representation right like they do not have now an elected representative because you want her to apologize for offending you. How absurd. The leftist in Maine are completely out of control. While it's certainly not this, by the way, is from David Strawm at hot air dot com. While it's certainly not unusual for legislatures to censure their members, it is quite unprecedented to deny a legislator her right to vote. There were in Maine's entire history, there were three lawmakers who have been censured in the States two hundred history, none of them have ever been stripped of their vote, and the same is true across the entire country. Nobody, no lawmaker, has ever been stripped of their right to vote, even when they've been censured. So now Libby is making her appeal to the US Supreme Court the anti democratic nature of her punishment for not complying with a demand that she recant. That she that she say, Okay, fine, I didn't mean it when I said it. I apologize, I take it back. No, she refuses to do that by stripping her of a right to speak and to vote to represent her constituents. The Democrats in Maine are doing what they what they do best, sense or speech, and then oppress anybody who disagrees with him. This is why I have said for years on challenged ideas are easy to hold if you listen to this program. Nay, if you listen to every show on WBT going back decades. Ever since I came to work here in nineteen ninety nine, I have never heard any opposing view be censured from the air. Here. People call in and challenge the hosts all the time. They bring different news stories all the time, call us all sorts of names all the time. And by the way, you don't get that over on NPR. You do not. I've listened to that station. Heck, before I came here, I used to work at that station. I don't know if they even do a live call in show at all anymore. Seriously, all their national shows are basically podcasts. The closest thing I have heard over there is like, they'll give you a phone number, you call it, and then you leave a voicemail, and then they'll they'll listen to your voicemail and if they think it comports with the ideology that they are representing, then they will put that on the air. You never get challenges. Even c SPAN takes live calls and takes people with different opinions, but to the left, they cannot countenance this. So yeah, I have no problem, no problem defunding NPR, which now the federal government is looking to do. Trump just did an executive order on it. It's well past time to do that. You can survive on your existing model, selling your advertising and getting people to donate voluntarily. You do not need to confiscate tax dollars from the half of the country that thinks you have lost the plot. But we also saw this during COVID Right, you had a vast government effort that was undertaken to show dissenters up. The District Court chose not to force the main legislature to reinstate the voting rights of Libby. So now she has appealed to the US Supreme Court, unfortunately her emergency appeal, and it's an emergency because Maine is still in session. Their legislature is in session and hundreds of votes have already been taken without her participation. The problem is she's got to go before Justice Kaitanji Brown Jackson KBJ and Jackson will decide whether or not to grant the emergency status. So remember, as Strong points out, when Democrats talk about preserving the democracy, this is what they really mean. They mean, sit down, shut up, and comply. All right. 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