Since President Donald Trump returned to office in January, federal policy has shifted to promote psychological therapy as the only treatment for transgender youth in distress.

A report issued last month by the Trump administration’s Department of Health and Human Services on care for transgender and nonbinary people analyzed 17 studies out of more than 3,400 looking into gender-affirming care — an umbrella term that can include talk therapy, puberty blockers, hormone treatments and surgeries.

They included only analyses of other studies that didn’t include any patients older than 26. Those that examined mental health generally found improvements from gender-affirming care, though with low certainty, because they didn’t include a large enough group, the effects were small, or other fac

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