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From "Meet The 'Fringe Extremists' Pushing Flawed Science To Target Trans Kids" [headline/title possibly changed? appears on Twitter as "The Science Behind Those Ant i-Trans Healthcare Bills Is Bullsh*t, According..."]by Aviva Stahl (stahlidarity), Buzzfeed.News, 2021-04-16:

"The policy debates about banning gender-affirming medical care have been really hard to watch because every major medical organization is opposed to these bills," said Jack Turban, a fellow in child and adolescent psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine who focuses on transgender youth. With no support from the mainstream medical community, conservative legislators have gone and found "this handful of people who have 'MD' after their name" but lack the research, experience, and evidence to back their claims, he said.

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Brennan Suen, the LGBTQ program director at Media Matters for America who has tracked the anti-trans legislation and its media coverage, said "the anti-LGBT right" goes to great lengths to highlight the few medical professionals who agree with them because they give a "veneer of credibility" to the supposed dangers posed by gender-affirming treatment.

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"It is completely irresponsible for the media to cite an extreme anti-LGBTQ group with an innocuous-sounding name like American College of Pediatricians," said Brianna January, an LGBTQ researcher at Media Matters for America. "Placing its dangerous disinformation next to credible sources makes it falsely appear that this is a debatable topic, skewing how the public and policymakers understand the issue.

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"This should not be treated as a philosophical debate," [Casey Pick] said. "This is a real concrete concern to real, actual LGBT youth."