HOUSE COMMITTEE ON ENERGY & COMMERCE | RUMBLE | MJDOC | JUNE 14, 2023
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The US House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce held hearings on June 14, 2023 which included debate over a proposed amendment which would restrict graduate medical education funding to pediatric hospitals that performed certain gender affirmative care. The bill was sponsored by Texas rep Dan Crenshaw and a lively debate over the issue took place in the hearing.

Included was an opening statement and brief testimony by Child, Adolescent, & Adult Psychiatrist Miriam Grossman, MD about the dangers of transitioning children.

She is the author of a 2023 book titled “Lost in Trans Nation: A Child Psychiatrist’s Guide Out of the Madness”. It is a scholarly text with a forward by Dr Jordan Peterson.

The entire hearing is at the bottom of this post.

LINK TO GROSSMAN’S TESTIMONY ON RUMBLE

The full hearing is below.

Testimony given and questions taken by:
Dr. Meredithe McNamara, MD, MS, FAAP, Assistant Professor, Yale School of Medicine
Dr. Miriam Grossman, MD, Child, Adolescent, and Adult Psychiatrist

Key Moments – Chapters:
00:00 Master Edit
00:00 McNamara Testimony
00:09 Professional Background
00:57 Medical Political Issue
02:05 5 Categories of Misinformation
02:33 Gender Dysphoria Medical Condition
03:13 Medical Trainees
04:00 Banning Transgender Kids
04:32 Trans Teen Example
05:15 Grossman Testimony
05:31 Professional Background
05:47 Sex Assigned at Birth
06:31 European Halt on Intervention
08:05 Suicide
08:32 Psychotherapy
08:54 Debate Over Standards of Care
09:59 Experimental Care
10:38 Question to Dr McNamara
12:36 Misinformation
13:01 Conversion Therapy
13:28 Suicidality
14:12 Correction regarding precocious puberty
14:20 Growth of Affirmative Care Clinics
14:37 Q: Is the US an outlier?
14:59 Clarification on Precocious Puberty
17:30 Q: What are the long term impacts?
17:35 New Population
18:24 Q: Shifting Population and Long Term Outcomes
18:42 ROGD Population
19:13 Parental Rights and Privacy
19:42 Question Dr McNamara
20:22 Q: What would be the impact on Care?
22:14 Q: Impact on Training?
23:19 Q: Impact on Pediatric Workforce?
24:16 Question McNamara
24:16 Q: Importance of Pediatric and Mental Health care
26:02 Question Dr. McNamara
26:07 Statement on Politicization
27:36 Statement on Suicide
29:07 Q: How does Affirmative Care improve outcomes?
31:12 Question McNamara
31:12 Q: What impact will bill have on Trans Youth and Peds Workforce?
34:04 Question Dr. Grossman
35:40 Q: What treatments for dysphoria are backed by data?
39:42 Question McNamara
39:46 Statement on Government Role in Healthcare
42:46 Q: Please Explain Informed Consent in Affirmative Care
45:21 Statement from Vice Chair
45:58 Statement on Partisan politics
47:03 Q: What is age appropriate gender affirming care?
48:19 Q: Do Professional Associations Support Affirmative care?
48:33 Q: Is the US an outlier?
50:52 Question McNamara
50:58 Statement about partisan politics
53:06 Q: Anything to add or correct?
54:48 Statement Crenshaw
59:35 Statement on Politicization
01:01:04 Q: What type of care would be disrupted?
01:01:54 Statement regarding Boston Children’s Hospital and Surgery
01:02:45 Q: What of the dangers to healthcare workers?
01:04:05 Statement
01:05:59 Crenshaw Statement about Culture War
01:06:35 Q: Concern for unknown long-term effects of affirmative care?
01:07:00 Q: What do you mean by cherry-picked data?
01:07:41 Q: Wouldn’t you want strong evidence of benefits for therapy?
01:08:18 Q: Is there any strong evidence of benefit at all?
01:08:51 Question McNamara and Grossman
01:09:24 Q: Is an XY Chromosome Assigned at Birth?
01:10:26 Q: Have there been controlled trials of the benefit of affirmative care?
01:12:06 Crenshaw Statement on Affirmation
01:14:16 Q: What of the lack of evidence?
01:15:01 Q: How have professional associations been affected by activists?
01:16:11 Question McNamara
01:17:15 Q: What of Low Quality evidence for Standards of Care ?
01:19:12 Q: What is the process that patients and families go through to get care?
01:19:58 Q: What is the importance of having both medical and mental care?

Sources:

– https://energycommerce.house.gov/events/health-subcommittee-legislative-hearing-examining-proposals-that-provide-access-to-care-for-patients-and-support-research-for-rare-diseases
– Bill text: https://crenshaw.house.gov/_cache/files/7/3/7394a6ec-0490-4e34-a160-cc485e4628c1/99A1262D6DC8161B24BCD8C7C684784C.chgme-reauth-02-xml-35-.pdf

LINK TO VIDEO OF THE FULL HEARING ON RUMBLE

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