National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya praised Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s announcement Thursday of proposed regulatory actions aimed at ending sex-rejecting medical procedures for children.
He told Newsmax on Thursday the move is a decisive break from what he described as a long-standing distortion of scientific evidence.
Bhattacharya told “Carl Higbie FRONTLINE” that Kennedy’s directive undercuts what he characterized as a false narrative that children faced a heightened risk of suicide if they did not undergo gender-transition-related medical interventions.
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