State AGs demand AMA stop hormone treatments for minors

by Greg Richter

A coalition of 20 state attorneys general has written to the American Medical Association, requesting that it stop recommending hormonal therapy for gender dysphoria in minors, The Daily Wire reports.

The move, led by Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, comes after the AMA dropped its support for gender reassignment surgeries.

“We thus find it concerning that the AMA continues to support the use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to treat gender dysphoria in minors,” the group wrote in a letter to AMA President John Whyte. “The quality of evidence is the same as it is for surgeries: low and very-low quality.”

Marshall expanded on that concern in comments to The Daily Wire:

The American Medical Association has finally admitted what many have warned for years: its recommendations for surgeries on children were not grounded in solid evidence, despite telling doctors and families otherwise. Yet the same weak science underpins puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. You cannot dismiss one intervention as unsupported while continuing to push the rest. When children’s lives and futures are at stake, anything less than full scientific honesty is reckless. The AMA must follow the science completely, not selectively.

Marshall cautioned that inconsistencies in the AMA’s statements could mislead the public and potentially violate Alabama’s consumer protection laws. Those laws make it illegal for an organization to claim that goods or services have uses, benefits, or qualities they do not possess, the letter states.

“We remain concerned that providers, patients, and their families in our States are being confused or misled by the AMA regarding the safety and efficacy of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to treat gender dysphoria in minors.

If you agree that there is insufficient evidence to support using surgical interventions to treat gender dysphoria in minors — as your recent statement indicates — we do not understand how you can find that there is sufficient evidence to support using hormonal interventions to treat gender dysphoria in minors.

These interventions have not been shown to be any safer for children than sex-change surgeries are, and in fact may be all the more dangerous precisely because they are viewed as not as serious. But hormones can leave a child sterilized just as surely as surgery can.”

 

Marshall gave the AMA 30 days to answer questions clarifying its stance on the treatments or face a “formal investigation.”

The letter was joined by attorneys general from Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and West Virginia.

American Thinker contacted the AMA for comment.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/02/state_ags_demand_ama_stop_hormone_treatments_for_minors.html