Laura Harris – Natural News Feb 7, 2026
- The American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) announced it opposes breast removal and other gender transition surgeries for minors, citing insufficient evidence of benefit.
- In a Feb. 3 position statement, ASPS recommended delaying gender-related breast, genital and facial surgeries until patients are at least 19 years old.
- The move marks a reversal from ASPS’s 2019 stance and follows growing uncertainty acknowledged by the group in 2024 about the long-term effectiveness of such procedures for adolescents.
- ASPS said its updated guidance was influenced by recent studies, including a 2025 HHS report that found limited evidence supporting these surgeries and favored psychotherapy instead.
- U.S. health officials and advocacy groups praised the decision as a shift toward evidence-based medicine and a step to protect children from irreversible harm.
A leading professional organization representing plastic surgeons in the United States and Canada has announced that it opposes performing breast removal and other gender transition surgeries on minors.
In a nine-page position statement released on Tuesday, Feb. 3, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) said available research does not sufficiently support carrying out gender-related surgeries on children and adolescents.
“ASPS concludes there is insufficient evidence demonstrating a favorable risk-benefit ratio for the pathway of gender-related endocrine and surgical interventions in children and adolescents. ASPS recommends that surgeons delay gender-related breast/chest, genital and facial surgery until a patient is at least 19 years old,” the organization, which represents more than 1,000 plastic surgeons worldwide, said in the statement shared with its members.
The position marks a shift from the group’s earlier stance. In 2019, ASPS said states should not restrict access to such surgeries for minors diagnosed with gender dysphoria, the distress some individuals experience when their gender identity differs from their sex at birth. By 2024, however, the organization acknowledged “considerable uncertainty as to the long-term efficacy” of chest and genital surgeries for adolescents and said it was reexamining the available evidence.
ASPS said its updated guidance was influenced by recent studies and reviews, including a 2025 report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). That report found limited evidence supporting gender-alteration surgeries for minors and concluded that psychotherapy should be the preferred approach for treating children with gender-related distress.
Furthermore, the HHS report also noted that some children diagnosed with gender dysphoria improve over time without surgical intervention, reinforcing the need for a “precautionary approach.”
U.S. health officials praise ASPS’s stance on surgeries for minors
BrightU.AI‘s Enoch noted that the issue of transgender surgeries for minors is a critical one, as these procedures are often irreversible and can have severe long-term consequences. Hence, the ASPS’s decision to oppose gender transition surgeries for minors is a significant step toward prioritizing long-term well-being and protecting vulnerable children from irreversible harm.
U.S. health officials and advocacy groups welcomed the ASPS’s decision to oppose gender transition surgeries for minors, calling the move a significant shift toward evidence-based medicine.
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said it pushed back against excessive medical intervention. “We commend the American Society of Plastic Surgeons for standing up to the overmedicalization lobby and defending sound science,” Kennedy said. “By taking this stand, they are helping protect future generations of American children from irreversible harm.”
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz also applauded the group, comparing the surgeries to discredited medical practices of the past. “When the medical ethics textbooks of the future are written, they’ll look back on sex-rejecting procedures for minors the way we look back on lobotomies,” Oz said. He added that the plastic surgeons’ group had placed itself “on the right side of history” by opposing “dangerous, unscientific experiments.”
Support also came from advocacy organizations that have long opposed gender-reassignment procedures for children. Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, chairman of Do No Harm, said the ASPS was “the first major medical organization to support evidence-based and ethical medicine and reject, in their words, these harmful and irreversible procedures.”
Listen to Health Ranger Mike Adams explaining how transgender surgeries for teenagers are tantamount to medical child abuse.
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> The move marks a reversal from ASPS’s 2019 stance and follows growing uncertainty acknowledged by the group in 2024 about the long-term effectiveness of such procedures for adolescents.
So the mutilators who made billions from mutilating change their “stance” and it all goes away. Next stop, murderers who “become christian” get let off, rapists who take up flower arranging become pope and black becomes white.
But they already got away with murdering and mutilating millions with jew jabs, so why care?
The news that Mrs JK Rowling was on Epstein’s hit list like Virginia Giuffre
surprises me, maybe he did not like Harry Potter ?
It could be that many top nobs at the BBC went to the ” Pleasure island”
it is known that Jill Dando was collecting info in the BBC pedo ring
which was connected to Epstein, and it is alleged that Mrs Rowling
had much knowledge of the LBGT pedo activities
Who knows ?
LOL…
‘Gender Transition Surgeries’…what a load of old tavistock cobblers…
…surely this is genital mutilation…you see, when abdul gets a choppin’ on the young uns that’s abuse and unacceptable…moslem crimes…which of course it is…but when you have a gaggle of credentialed quacks doing the mutilating and sexualising that’s the ‘science’… and for the good of the lol ‘individual’…
of course it is.
which of course makes no fucking sense at all, it’s magikal thinking and the preserve of demented sexual deviants and just goes to show these slope heads in scrubs are just religious fanatics..
after all..
Here’s what’s happening in Canada:
Please invade and rescue us!
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“We have nothing with the outcast and the unfit: let them die in their misery.” –Liber AL II:21
A.A.
666
What an epiphany for these trained professionals! But I guess if they’ve grown up within the context of a veiled ‘do what thou wilt is the whole of the law’, it really is an epiphany.
Here in BC ,Canada we have this psycho MD named Dr Wiebe who has murdered over 400 people via assisted suicide . She just killed off a 20+ year old male with psychological problens she diagnosed was eligible to be euthanized by her.
Program is called MAIDs = “Medical Assistance In Dying.”
These mutilators noted above should be tried ,sued and in many case jailed .
I watched a video of one transgender genital operation and luckily I have strong stomach. It was painful to watch and later witnesses speak of the huge regret attempting to re-design genitals that nature had deemed were either (i) Male OR (ii) Female = The End !
Maybe Medicine will go back to the Hippocratic Oath and denounce and avoid the junk science that is Rockefeller Medicine.( Research the Rockefeller- funded Flexner Report)
Peace Out !
LONDON CALLING LONDON CALLING
“GOVERNMENT LIES”
” some children are born in the wrong bodies and need surgical correction”
Wes Streeting
“Joining the fight against Hitler, will unite the British people” Winston Churchill
“closing down our industries will not damage our economy” Margaret Thatcher
“Blue sky thinking will encourage more immigrants to come
to our shores and multiculturalism will benefit us all ” Tony Blair
” devaluing the British currency will not affect the pound in your pocket” Harold Wison
” muliculturalism will mean British jobs for British people” Gordon Brown
“legalising homosexuality will not mean a rise in child rapes ” John Major
” everyone and i do mean everyone
must protect themselves by having the covid jab” Boris Johnston
” by giving of £300 million to the Ukraine means we are doing our bit for the people ” Boris Johnston
” we will have to borrow huge sums to take us through the difficult times ahead” Kier Starmer
Lies on this scale to their own own people translates as a hate crime of monumental proportions,
this is institutional racism at its very worst, only a fool would go out and vote for these
traitors who filled out islands with migrants
‘End of the monarchy’ may be at hand, says US congressman
A member of a US congressional committee investigating the Epstein spy ring has said: “Maybe this will be the end of the monarchy.”
Congressman Ro Khanna says he thinks King Charles has questions to answer about the scandal that has embroiled his younger brother, adding: “I think this filth is the most vulnerable the British monarchy has ever been.”
There were dozens and dozens of names of high flyers but only Andrew has been named again and again
it is believed Rothschild is using him as a lever to be rid of the Royals, something Lord Victor Rothschild
promised royal spy Anthony Blunt, who supplied boys to the Royals in ww 2
Rothschild will also want to protect all the jews in the spy ring