It's Monday, May 5, 2025. I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events

from a Christian worldview. When it comes to the issue of children and teenagers and the transgender

agenda, there is no doubt this is one of the most important issues we can consider.

And once again, it is back in headline news.

And that is because last Thursday, the Department of Health and Human Services, issued a report entitled

Treatment for Pediatric Gender, Dysphoria, Review of Evidence and Best Practices.

Why is this so important? By the way, the report's over 400 pages long, and then lots of documentation.

It's a lot to process.

But the bottom line is this.

The Department of Health and Human Services ordered by the Trump White House to conduct this kind of

evaluation of available data on what's called pediatric gender dysphoria treatments,

most importantly, hormonal and medical treatments.

It has come to the conclusion that the documentation for this being good for children and

teenagers doing help is actually inadequate while the evidence about it posing harm is very clear. Therefore,

the Trump administration has released this report, again, more than 400 pages. Back on January 28th,

President Trump signed what was known as Executive Order 14187 entitled Protecting Children from

Chemical and S surgical mutilation.

The White House text said that the order, quote, prohibits federal departments from funding,

sponsoring, assisting, or facilitating the chemical and surgical mutilation of minors and directs them

to stop these immoral unjust and disproven practices more broadly to the greatest

extent possible."

The White House said that this report would be forthcoming within 90 days, and here it is,

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