It’s Wednesday, December 4. This is The Front Page, your daily window into the world of The Free Press—and our take on the world at large. Coming up: Olivia Reingold’s dispatch from an anti-Israel training conference, Eli Lake on Trump’s FBI wrecking ball, and Tina Brown on selling your soul to fly private.
But first: two blockbuster cases on the issue of “gender-affirming care.”
The treatment of children with gender dysphoria should be a matter of evidence-based science. But like so much else in our world, it has become a cultural and political flashpoint that has led to multiple lawsuits. Now, in two courtrooms—one the highest in the land, the other in Houston, Texas—the Biden administration is fighting for the right of children to medically transition their gender.
In the first suit, the administration argues that Tennessee’s ban on these treatments is unconstitutional. In the second, it claims a doctor who blew the whistle on young people being transitioned at a Texas hospital broke federal law by violating patient privacy.
But increasingly, many people are speaking out and saying the government is not only wrong about gender-affirming care, it is enabling the greatest medical scandal of our time.
Jamie Reed is one of those people. Almost two years ago, she became the first whistleblower from a youth gender clinic in the United States to come forward, raising the alarm about the dangers of pediatric gender transition in The Free Press. Now, she’s cited in an amicus...
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