Joondeph: Pediatric gender medicine is cracking under its own evidence
By Brian C. Joondeph, M.D. | Commentary, American Thinker
When ideology overrides biology, it isn’t compassion — it’s harm dressed as progress.
For nearly a decade, Americans were told to deny what biology, common sense, and their own eyes made plain.
Men could become women.
Women could become men.
Children were fully capable of choosing sterilizing hormones.
Puberty blockers were “reversible.”
And anyone who questioned any of it was a bigot.
It was one of the most aggressive campaigns of magical thinking in modern public life.
We were told sex was “assigned at birth,” as if doctors in delivery rooms were rolling dice rather than observing biological reality. Chromosomes, anatomy, and reproductive function were suddenly deemed less important t...