Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. denounced “chemical and surgical sex-rejecting procedures” during a press conference Thursday announcing a ban on taxpayer funding for doctors conducting them.
Kennedy accused the gender clinicians of betraying “the estimated 300,000 American youths ages 13 to 17, conditioned to believe that sex can be changed,” and violating “their Hippocratic oath to do no harm.”
“This is not medicine — it is malpractice,” the HHS secretary declared. “We’re done with junk science driven by ideological pursuits and not the well-being of children.”
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