FTC to Investigate Whether Transgender Procedures Are Being Sold Through Deceptive Practices

Gender-Affirming Care for Minors in FTC's Crosshairs

(MedPage Today) -- Critics of gender-affirming care for minors made their case at a day-long workshop before a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that, under the Trump administration, has warmed to their views. The Wednesday workshop was meant to...

FTC to investigate trans industry's threats of child suicide * WorldNetDaily * by Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell, The Daily Signal

The federal government’s foremost consumer protection agency has an “unequivocal basis” to start investigating the transgender medicine industry after a workshop highlighting stakeholders’ horror stories, Mark Meador of the Federal Trade Commission told The Daily Signal. The FTC hosted a daylong workshop on Wednesday called “The Dangers of Gender-Affirming Care for Minors” to hear from parents and patients and determine whether the transgender i…

FTC to Investigate Trans Industry’s Threats of Child Suicide

The federal government’s foremost consumer protection agency has an “unequivocal basis” to start investigating the transgender medicine industry after a workshop highlighting stakeholders’ horror stories, Mark Meador of the Federal Trade Commission told The Daily Signal. The FTC hosted a daylong workshop on Wednesday called “The Dangers of Gender-Affirming Care for Minors” to hear from parents and patients and determine whether the transgender i…

Trump’s FTC Lays the Groundwork to Charge GAC Providers with “Fraud”

Erin In The Morning is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a subscriber.The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) hosted a July 9 “workshop” on what it called “unfair or deceptive trade practices in ‘gender-affirming care’ for minors.” However, others might call this descriptor false advertising. The 6-hour long event, held in Washington, DC, was arguably more like another avenue for stoking stoch…

FTC to Investigate Whether Transgender Procedures Are Being Sold Through Deceptive Practices

A federal agency is launching an investigation to see whether so-called “gender transition” procedures are being offered under unfair or false claims.

FTC hosts anti-trans workshop LGBTQ+ advocates call ‘government-sponsored disinformation’

The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday held a workshop that public health experts and LGBTQ+ advocates condemned as “a government-sponsored disinformation campaign,” bringing together a lineup of anti-trans activists, attorneys, and right-wing medical professionals to attack gender-affirming care for transgender youth.