"The country's largest organization that represents doctors has updated its recommendations for gender-affirming care, endorsing certain limitations on surgery for minors. The American Medical Association (AMA) is now the second major medical organization (following the American Society of Plastic Surgeons) to walk back its full-fledged support for whatever gender-affirming treatments a doctor and a minor's family determine the minor needs."
""In the absence of clear evidence, the AMA agrees with ASPS that surgical interventions in minors should be generally deferred to adulthood," AMA said. Surgical interventions, however, are already almost never performed on minors. Trans minors virtually never receive bottom surgery, though some teenagers ultimately do get top surgery or facial procedures. The AMA still endorses other gender-affirming care for youth, such as puberty blockers and other hormone therapy."
The American Medical Association updated guidance to generally defer surgical gender-affirming interventions for minors while continuing to endorse puberty blockers and other hormone therapy. The AMA is the second major medical organization, after the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, to recommend limiting surgeries for people under 19. Surgical interventions on minors are already rare; trans minors virtually never receive bottom surgery, though some adolescents receive top surgery or facial procedures. The ASPS statement cited two recent reports that transgender healthcare advocates criticized as biased. The policy shift may increase stigma and strengthen anti-trans political efforts.
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