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Major News Outlets Can't Bring Themselves to Call Conversion Therapy What It Is

Headlines about Trump's HHS anti-trans report show how the media keeps failing the most vulnerable

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Parker Molloy
May 05, 2025
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Last week, the Trump administration's Department of Health and Human Services, now led by conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., released a 409-page document about transgender health care. The document, which HHS is calling a "report," mischaracterizes the state of transgender health care, pushes debunked theories, cites retracted studies, and recom…

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