The American Academy of Pediatrics is e prime example of a broader phenomenon: "expert" organizations' tendency to hew the Party Line superseding their commitment to promoting the cause to which they are nominally committed. 

Not long ago, I wrote about the American Heart Association coming out strongly in favor of using SNAP benefits to pay for cookies, chips, and sodas. In that case the AHA was hewing to the Party line of its funders, while in the case of the AAP the motivation is partially based on financial concerns and partially political. 

I have written about the corruption of the AAP a number of times. During COVID the organization went all in on masks, and totally reversed course on the question of in-school learning one they got the word from on high that kids were going to be kicked out of schools. Pediatricians explicitly chose to back the politicians and fake public health authorities, abandoning the needs of children who were at almost no risk from COVID. 

The AAP is a massive advocate of gender ideology--backing the sterilization and mutilation of children, medicalizing a mental health disorder to the great profit of hospitals and the pharma companies. They have done the same on plenty of issues, and are now recommending Ozempic--a massively expensive and profitable drug--for young children. 

At this point I consider the American Academy of Pediatrics to be a major threat to the health of kids in America. They seem to want a world where an average kid is on anti-depressants, Ritalin and Ozempic before they’re even 16. If you think this is normal, YOU are the problem. https://t.co/XJMzQm4Qh8

— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) April 16, 2025

In its current form, the AAP is a huge booster of pharmaceutical solutions to problems that should be addressed through other forms of medical or psychological therapy. They promote the COVID vaccine for infants, despite their being at essentially no risk and despite known risks of the vaccine.

Despite there being precisely zero evidence or even reliable long-term studies on the use of therapies such as puberty blockers and hormone therapies, they promote them for gender dysphoria that is known to self-resolve in almost all cases. The Cass Review has been actively suppressed in America, and the AAP won't even allow skeptics to present evidence at AAP-sponsored conferences. 

"I'm embarrassed to be a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics."

Dr. Patrick Hunter exposes how the medical profession has lost public trust. He calls current treatments for children with gender dysphoria one of the greatest ethical scandals in medical history. pic.twitter.com/dO5386p7KX

— Genspect (@genspect) April 4, 2025

There are very few "settled" issues in science, and almost none in medicine. Lobotomies were once considered the gold-standard treatments for a range of problems, and one day soon gender bending treatments will be viewed with the same horror with which lobotomies are today. There will be no Noble Prizes, one hopes, given for doctors who chop off the genitals of children.