Why Europe Is Putting the Brakes on Gender Interventions: Leor Sapir

American Thought Leaders

Jan Jekielek

Government, News, Politics

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🗓️ 19 January 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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“The UK has now banned puberty blockers—probably will ban cross-sex hormones too, is my prediction, in the next few years,” said Leor Sapir, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute.

He has been following the massive increase in children identifying as transgender and undergoing what’s known as “gender-affirming care” treatment—from puberty blockers to double mastectomies.

“[The World Professional Association for Transgender Health] commissioned systematic evidence reviews as part of the process of developing [Standards of Care Version 8]. When it found out that the evidence reviews, specifically for minors, were unimpressive and did not get them the results that they wanted—that would support their medical approach, they suppressed them. They basically instructed the researchers at Johns Hopkins University who were doing these systematic reviews to not publish them,” said Sapir. “Any way you look at it, WPATH greatly deviated from how responsible, trustworthy medical guidelines are supposed to be developed.”

His current area of focus is the pushback to gender interventions for minors, including state bans, lawsuits, and a landmark case now at the Supreme Court.

“This case has tremendous consequences for what’s going to happen in the 26 states that have banned these interventions in minors,” said Sapir.

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0:00.0	The UK has now banned puberty blockers.
0:02.0	Probably will ban cross-sex hormones too, as my prediction in the next few years.
0:06.0	Lear-Sapier is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute,
0:09.0	where he has been following the massive increase in children identifying as transgender
0:13.0	and undergoing what's known as gender-affirming care treatment,
0:17.0	from puberty blockers to double mastectomies.
0:20.0	Any way you look at it, W-Path greatly deviated from how responsible, trustworthy,
0:24.6	medical guidelines are supposed to be developed, and they suppressed this information
0:28.6	and tried to conceal it from the public.
0:30.6	His current area of focus is the pushback to gender interventions for minors, including
0:35.6	state bans, lawsuits, and a landmark case now at the Supreme Court.
0:40.3	This case has tremendous consequences for what's going to happen in the 26 states that have banned these interventions and minors.
0:49.3	This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Yanya Kellogg.
0:53.3	Your Sipir, such a pleasure to have you on American Thought Leaders, and I'm Yanya Kellick.
0:58.5	You are Sipir, such a pleasure to have you on American Thought Leaders.
0:59.5	Thanks for having me.
1:13.6	Tennessee has banned what's dubbed gender-affirming care-type treatment for children experiencing gender distress. This is in front of the Supreme Court right now. With this new Trump DOJ coming in, they could just walk away from this case
1:19.6	and let that Tennessee law stand. You're arguing against that though. Explain that to me,
1:25.6	please.
1:26.6	That's right. So the Trump DOJ could, in theory,
1:28.9	let this case, or I should say back away from the case, drop it. And I argue that they shouldn't do
1:35.9	that. I think the facts of the case and more importantly the arguments of the case are heavily
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