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Last week brought the wonderful news, expressed most forcefully by Justice Clarence Thomas, that the citizens of our free society do not have to bow to the authority of people who hold themselves out as experts. The case at hand involved credentialed academics and their ideological support for the sexual “transitioning” of minor children. Not that the Court’s wise decision required any further vindication, but this week brings evidence that even experts on the left are increasingly doubting the wisdom of such treatments. A few even have the guts to express these doubts in public. This week in the San Francisco Chronicle, Catherine Ho employs the usual politically correct language and reports the following news as if it’s a denial of clearly valuable medical treatment: Stanford Medicine has stopped providing gender-affirming surgeries for patients under 19 years old — becoming the second major health care provider in California to scale back transgender care for youths amid efforts by the Trump administration to restrict access to the specialized care… Some Stanford patients received notifications this month that surgical procedures were being canceled, according to one parent of a child undergoing care for gender dysphoria at the gender clinic… The child had been receiving care at the clinic for more than a year, and the abrupt cancellation of the procedure is leaving the family scrambling to figure out how to get the care elsewhere. But is this “care” actually beneficial? MIT professor Alex Byrne writes in the Washington Post:
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