Tell Medical Societies: Resist Trump’s Attacks on Trans Kids

The Trump administration is trying to strong-arm doctors into abandoning transgender youth, and medical societies must fight back.

A new report reveals that TV doctor Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, summoned leaders of major medical organizations to a meeting where he demanded they walk back their support for gender-affirming care. These groups—including the American Psychiatric Association and the American Medical Association—have spent years affirming this care as safe, evidence-based, and lifesaving. Now they’re being pushed to trade science for politics.

If they cave, the consequences will be immediate. Care could disappear. Insurance coverage could vanish. And kids could be left with nowhere to turn.

Tell the American Medical Association and leading medical societies: “Stand by science and reject political pressure. Defend gender-affirming care.”

Trump, Oz, and RFK Jr. are leading a coordinated attack on healthcare itself. Gender-affirming care isn’t experimental—it’s backed by decades of research and every major medical authority in the country. It lowers depression, reduces suicide risk, and gives young people a chance to live with dignity. Taking it away doesn’t protect kids—it puts them in danger.

But Trump’s strategy is clear: don’t ban it outright—pressure trusted institutions to legitimize the rollback. If medical societies hold the line, the attack fails. If they fold, it gives politicians cover to strip care nationwide.

That’s why this moment matters. These organizations don’t just set guidelines—they shape laws, insurance decisions, and what doctors can legally provide. Their stance can either protect patients or abandon them. And we need to make sure they stand up for science.

Add your name now to demand that America’s leading medical societies reject Trump’s pressure campaign and defend gender-affirming care. Lives are on the line—and silence is not an option.

The petition to the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the American Academy of Family Physicians, and American Psychiatric Association reads: “Stand by science and reject political pressure. Defend gender-affirming care.”