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Hate group talking heads, dark money beneficiaries, and career anti-trans activists have been revealed as authors behind a screed against trans health care, disguised as a Health & Human Services review.

Absent among the authors: Any actual transgender people, medical professionals with notable experience treating trans people, or any academics who have conducted principal research on patients with gender dysphoria.

This is unsurprising given the report was created for the explicit purpose of manufacturing the appearance of scientific rigor in support of transphobic legislation. It was commissioned via a January executive order calling life-saving gender-affirming care “chemical and surgical mutilation” and a “stain on our Nation’s history” that “must end.”

In other words, the 400+ page report was never meant to be a sincere academic endeavor. It is propaganda dressed up as science and, as per the order, its conclusion was pre-determined: “It is the policy of the United States that it will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called ‘transition’ of a child from one sex to another,” the order reads. (There are not actually any federal laws banning gender-affirming care.)

The original report, released in May, immediately came under fire for its shoddy methodology and dubious sourcing. At first, it did not even disclose its authors.

Now, nine author names have been released as part of the report’s final iteration—and it reads like a who’s-who of conservative gender extremism. Most of the authors are paid to travel the country providing “expert” testimony against gender affirming care, regardless of whether or not they have any credentials in that demographic of medicine.

The finalized report was accompanied by a bizarre 240-page addendum detailing its b*stardized version of a “peer review” process.

The majority of the “expert” comments cited in the “peer review”—save input from representatives of the American Psychiatric Association, who excoriated it—seem to be just as ignorant as the authors about the reality of trans people’s care.

Meanwhile, actual experts in peer-reviewed journals found “numerous violations of scientific norms” in the HHS report, calling it “a dangerous example of government incursion into the provision of evidence-based medical care.”

Another peer reviewed article notes that leading medical groups—such as the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Psychological Association, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health—“condemned the misrepresentation of scientific evidence in the HHS review and reaffirmed that GAC is the evidence-informed and ethical standard of care for children and adolescents with gender dysphoria.”

These papers were counted in the HHS report as incorporated “unsolicited peer reviews” despite being wholly independent and separate ventures.

The HHS report’s “peer review” process was riddled with other abnormalities, too. One contributor admits to creating a rubric for evaluation using Google Gemini AI, a language learning model.

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