A federal judge has just delivered a major blow to efforts aimed at restricting irreversible medical interventions on minors.

In a ruling out of Oregon, U.S. District Court Judge Mustafa Kasubhai blocked Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from limiting so-called “gender-affirming care” for children — siding with a coalition of 18 states and effectively protecting the continued use of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and irreversible surgical procedures in minors.

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RFK Jr. had issued a December 2025 declaration stating that pediatric gender-transition interventions are “neither safe nor effective”:

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“Sex-rejecting procedures for children and adolescents are neither safe nor effective as a treatment modality for gender dysphoria, gender incongruence, or other related disorders in minors, and therefore, fail to meet professional recognized standards of health care.”

The court ruled that this statement — and associated pressure on providers — exceeded his authority and improperly threatened federal funding streams.

This ruling was a foolish mistake.

Here it’s important to remember that a large proportion of transgender youth are autistic. These vulnerable autistic children with gender dysphoria are then routinely placed on psychiatric drugs and puberty blockers, which may irreversibly lower their IQ:

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Finally, these manipulated children are funneled into irreversible genital mutilation procedures, which increase mortality by 180% and suicide risk by 1800%.

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More than 13,000 genital mutilation procedures on minors were conducted between 2019-2023. 40% of them were performed in just four states: California, New York, Washington and Ohio.

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The madness never ends, and radical federal judges are poised to undo all progress made by the current HHS administration.

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Nicolas Hulscher, MPH, Epidemiologist and Foundation Administrator, McCullough Foundation

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