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New Research Raises More Doubts About Safety and Benefits of Gender Transition Treatments for Minors   

The most rigorous academic analysis to date of the research backing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones as treatments for gender-related distress in young people has found it has produced ‘very uncertain’ evidence.

AP/Jacquelyn Martin
A young person cheers as supporters of transgender rights rally by the Supreme Court, December 4, 2024. AP/Jacquelyn Martin
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BENJAMIN RYAN
BENJAMIN RYAN

Benjamin Ryan is an independent health and science reporter who also contributes to The New York Times, The Guardian and NBC News and has also written for The Atlantic and the Washington Post.

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