Their statement emphasized the lack of long term research to support this medical intervention, as well as ethical concerns surrounding potential harms and the fact that adolescents don't have the capacity to fully consent to these harms. Other Western countries, including the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, are also taking steps to restrict these operations. The least the United States Congress could do would be to halt government funding for providers of these controversial procedures and related treatments that rest on a dubious, if maybe even non existent scientific backing. (10:28–10:36)
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Asserts that the UK and the Netherlands are taking steps to restrict gender transition operations.
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