Coauthor of gender-affirming care reviews says they've been misused to justify bans

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A scientist who’s coauthored several reviews of gender-affirming care says his work has been misused to justify bans on the care. A Ph.D. student led the reviews, and Guyatt’s task was to assure they were “as objective as possible,” Stat10 reports. The reviews found the evidence for these treatments had “either low or very low certainty,” the site notes. It submitted a friend-of-the-court-brief in the U.S. Supreme Court case on Tennessee’s law banning this care for transgender youth, and it “was in support of neither party, but called gender-affirming care ‘experimental,’ highlighting its ‘remarkably weak scientific foundation,’” the outlet explains. When he realized the reviews were being used to justify bans, he decided to speak out.