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EXCLUSIVE: Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird is doubling down on her calls for the country’s leading pediatric association to update its guidelines for transgender youth to include warnings about the risks of puberty blockers and other hormone treatments.
Bird said the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) “is involved in children’s healthcare in Iowa and all around the country, and we want them to update their policies right now.”
“They say that puberty blockers are safe for kids and that it’s reversible, and the science doesn’t support that irreversible and causes permanent changes to children should they change their mind later,” Bird, who joined a letter signed by 20 state attorneys general this week to the AAP, said.
‘ABUSIVE’: PEDIATRICIAN GROUP’S SUPPORT FOR TRANS THERAPIES REBUKED BY STATE AGS
Iowa attorney general Brenna Bird speaks during the second day of the 2024 Republican National Convention. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon/AFP) (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images))
On Tuesday, Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador sent a letter Tuesday to the AAP accusing the organization of abandoning “its commitment to sound medical judgment.” Bird, along with AGs from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas and Utah, as well as the president of the Arizona Senate and the speaker of the Arizona state House of Representatives, signed the letter.
“That halt on what is fairly described as medical experimentation on children is long overdue – particularly since the majority of children initially diagnosed with gender dysphoria desist and ‘grow out’ of the condition by the time they are adolescents or adults,” the letter reads. “It is abusive to treat a child with biologically altering drugs that have an unknown physiological trajectory and end point. It is also inhumane to endorse such experimentation without a confident safety…
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