Thread by @benshapiro

EXCLUSIVE: Secretly recorded call with American Medical Association President, Dr. Bobby Mukkamala, reveals an alarming abdication of responsibility on "gender-affirming care" at the highest level of medicine.

Confronted with 'puberty blocker' side effects, Dr. Bobby evades:

2/ MI State Rep @BradPaquetteMI was told that his effort to protect children from castration, sterilization and mutilation ran contrary to the position of the AMA, so he grabbed Dr. @EithanHaim and the two went directly to the top—the AMA President.

3/ CLAIM: The AMA’s Dr. Bobby asserts that so-called “puberty blockers” are “reversible,” dismissing Dr. Haim’s attempts to correct him—despite Dr. Haim having worked with patients who need puberty blockers for actual endocrine disorders and being well versed in their harms.

4/ FACT: “The assumption that… Puberty Blockers are reversible remains largely untested… outcomes (including suicides, fractures, fertility, growth, and neurocognitive development) leaves substantial uncertainty about the effects of Puberty Blockers.” - HHS Systematic Review

5/ CLAIM: Dr. Bobby insists there is only a 2% regret rate among those who medically ‘transition,’ and cites his source as the doctors who perform the transing of the kids. An unbiased group if ever there was one…

6/ FACT: The 2% figure often cited is from a systematic review called "Bustos et al." It has too many problems to list in full, but here are three:

- The largest contributing study to Bustos only included genital surgery. Meaning, patients like @ChoooCole who was given a mastectomy at 15 and now dedicates her life to preventing the same thing from happening to others, would not count as a regret case.

- Bustos studies largely counted follow-up as 1-2 years, when regret can take an average of 8 years to develop.

- The drop out rate was extremely high in most studies — nearly 40% — making conclusions absolutely meaningless. If you killed yourself post-surgery, you may have been counted as lost data, not a regret case.

A serious medical organization wouldn't engage in sophistry like this. But for the head of the AMA, it apparently comes naturally.

7/ CLAIM: Dr. Bobby claims that the rate of suicide for trans-identifying people is 50%+. Not thoughts of suicide, which studies show 20% of normal teenagers (unrelated to transgenderism) experience anyway, but the actual suicide rate. This is simply not true.

8/ FACT: There isn’t a single study showing a suicide rate of 50% for people who present to their doctor with gender dysphoria. JAMA—the AMA’s own medical journal—cites a completed suicide rate of 75 per 100,000 trans-identifying people. @PresAmerMed Did you fail statistics, or did you just decide that 75 is a close enough number to 50,000 to justify your claim?

9/ If you’re beginning to think that Dr. Bobby Mukkamala and the AMA are, like all gender ideologues, resting on a bed of misinformed pseudoscience, allow me to present the biggest absurdity yet—Dr. Bobby and the AMA can’t even decide on the nature of “gender identity.”

10/ When opposing “conversion therapy” the AMA says the idea that gender identity can be changed “is not based on medical and scientific evidence.” But, in another issue brief educating doctors, the AMA says “neither gender nor sex are stable, objective categories.”

11/ When confronted with this glaring contradiction by Dr. Haim, the AMA’s Dr. Bobby claimed he was unable to read the slides quickly enough on the screen, but that “gender identity is something that comes from here” *points to head.*

12/ But of course, Dr. Bobby’s own statements don’t align with the AMA’s even more contradictory positions. The AMA doesn’t think gender identity is in the head, and sex is a stable chromosomally decided reality. The AMA treats sex the same way it treats gender, claiming:

“Sex” is a “social construct” that can change
Your doctor should “affirm” your self-determined sex
The existence of reproductive related birth defects and medical conditions means sex isn’t exclusively male and female

A woman who has her ovaries removed due to cancer or goes through menopause means that sex isn’t a stable, objective category

13/ Apparently, according to the @AmerMedicalAssn, a woman going through the natural and extremely female experience of menopause is basically the same as Will ‘Lia’ Thomas (allegedly) getting his testicles removed.

QT:

https://x.com/JakeCrain_/status/1625866945508655104

14/ If you find yourself wondering how the AMA could still think all this after the Cass Review and the HHS Report debunking the house of cards that is transgender ‘care,’ it’s because Dr. Bobby disregards them and will only listen to pro-transgender doctors.

15/ Is this the AMA’s position on everything put out by @SecKennedy and @HHSGov? How are our elected officials and health agencies supposed to partner productively with the entity in charge of our nation’s healthcare coding if this is how they behave behind closed doors?

16/ The hour-long conversation with Dr. Bobby displays a level of institutional ideological capture that is so outrageous we have an obligation to release the full length call — so here it is: AMAExposed.com

17/ Tomorrow, we’ll be releasing our next video — Dr. Bobby connected Rep. Paquette to one of the infallible ‘trans’ experts the AMA relies on. Here’s a preview of that call: