Politico July 21, 2024
Stanley Goldfarb and his group, Do No Harm, say Republicans need new advisers because major medical groups have embraced progressive ideology.
A retired kidney doctor has become Republicans’ go-to source for medical expertise in making the case to ban gender-affirming care for kids.
Twenty-five states led by Republicans have enacted laws banning or restricting that care for kids with gender dysphoria. They’ve often relied on nephrologist Stanley Goldfarb and his organization, Do No Harm, to argue that hormone treatments, puberty blockers and rare surgeries to change physical characteristics are medically harmful.
Goldfarb, a former dean at the University of Pennsylvania’s medical school, and Do No Harm have staked out a position on gender care opposite to that of mainstream doctors’...