'This Is Not Medicine...': RFK Jr Trashes Gender Care for Minors

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr accuses America’s top medical bodies of abandoning science, betraying children, and violating the Hippocratic Oath in the name of ideology.

By TRH World Desk

New Delhi, December 18, 2025 — US Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr has ignited a fresh and deeply polarising debate in America’s culture wars by accusing the medical establishment of committing what he calls a historic betrayal of children. In a sharply worded statement, Kennedy argued that doctors have abandoned their “solemn obligation to protect children” and are instead providing what he described as “needless and irreversible sex-rejecting procedures” that endanger young lives.

At the heart of his indictment is the charge that leading institutions—the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics—promoted what he termed a “lie”: that chemical and surgical interventions could be beneficial for children suffering from gender dysphoria. According to Kennedy, these bodies conditioned an estimated 300,000 American youths aged 13 to 17 to believe that biological sex can be changed, inflicting lasting physical and psychological harm in the process.

“This is not medicine. It is malpractice,” Kennedy declared, framing the issue not as a matter of identity politics but of medical ethics. He accused doctors of violating the Hippocratic Oath to “do no harm” and substituting what he called “junk science” for evidence-based care, driven by ideological pursuits rather than the welfare of vulnerable children.

Kennedy cited a peer-reviewed report published by the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health last month, which he said confirmed that sex-rejecting procedures pose medical dangers and cause lasting harm to minors. On the strength of these findings, he announced six “decisive actions,” including backing an executive order from President Donald Trump aimed at protecting children from chemical and surgical interventions.

Most controversially, Kennedy signed a formal declaration asserting that sex-rejecting procedures are “neither safe nor effective” treatments for children with gender dysphoria. Supporters see his stance as a long-overdue correction to what they view as medical overreach. Critics, however, argue that such rhetoric risks marginalising transgender youth and undermining established clinical guidelines.

What is undeniable is that Kennedy’s intervention sharpens an already explosive debate—one that sits at the intersection of medicine, ethics, science and politics—and ensures that the question of how society treats children with gender dysphoria will remain fiercely contested.