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Unmasked At Last: The 9 Authors of the Trump Administration Report On Pediatric Gender Medicine. So Who Are They?

The authors, all of them skeptics or opponents of pediatric gender medicine, were finally revealed today after HHS published the final, peer-reviewed version of the controversial report on this field.

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Nov 19, 2025
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The unmasked nine authors of the Trump administration’s critical report about pediatric gender medicine. From left to right: Top row: Dr. Farr Curlin, Dr. Kristopher Kaliebe, Dr. Kathleen McDeavitt; Middle row: Yuan (Ray) Zhang, Moti Gorin, Leor Sapir; Bottom row: Evgenia (Zhenya) Abbruzzese, Alex Byrne, Dr. Michael Laidlaw

Substacker and transgender activist Erin Reed has a busy day ahead of her.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services this morning published the final, peer-reviewed version of its controversial, highly critical report about pediatric gender medicine. A new 240-page supplement to the report includes peer reviews and responses to those reviews from the coauthors.

Importantly, the supplement for the first time reveals the identities of all nine coauthors.

The report, which was initially published May 1 and included a so-called umbrella review of all previous systematic reviews of pediatric gender medicine, suggested that even limiting providing puberty blockers, cross-sex…

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