HHS letter tells health care providers to disregard treatment protocols for trans people, adhere to report by unnamed authors | CNN
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The US Department of Health and Human Services said Wednesday that Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sent a letter urging health care providers and medical boards to update treatment protocols for youth with gender dysphoria based on a controversial HHS review of scientific literature that was released earlier this month.

The HHS report, released May 1, says it is “not a clinical practice guideline,” but Kennedy’s letter warns providers against relying on science-based professional guidelines and urges them to use the government document to inform their practice instead. The letter also said that HHS is committed to protecting whistleblowers and may soon create new policies and oversight actions to “hold providers that harm children accountable.”

Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz said CMS “will not turn a blind eye to procedures that lack a solid foundation of evidence and may result in lifelong harm.”

“These and other guidelines based on the so-called ‘gender-affirming’ model of care should not be relied upon to harm children any further,” the letter says.