Azeen Ghorayshi

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Azeen Ghorayshi |Amy Harmon

The H.H.S. review may set the stage for additional restrictions on gender-affirming care. Critics described it as an ideological statement. Federal health officials published a report on Thursday declaring that the use of hormonal and surgical treatments in young people with gender dysphoria lacked scientific evidence and expressing concern about long-term harms, a stark reversal from previous agency recommendations and the advice of top U.S. medical groups.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Azeen Ghorayshi

Despite a 1 percent increase in 2024, U.S. birthrates remained in a historic slump, a trend that worries demographers and cultural critics. Births in the United States increased by just 1 percent in 2024, still near the record low rates that have alarmed demographers and become a central part of the Trump administration's cultural agenda, according to data released on Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Maggie Astor |Azeen Ghorayshi |Dani Blum

People in the community called the remarks dehumanizing and warned they could perpetuate harmful stigma. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s remarks this week that autism "destroys" children have prompted outrage among many autistic people and their families. They said that they had done things he claimed were impossible - hold a job, write a poem, play baseball, go on a date - and added that the lives of people who did need help performing daily activities were still worthy of respect.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Karoun Demirjian |Dani Blum |Azeen Ghorayshi

In remarks laced with scientific inaccuracies, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, said on Wednesday that autism was preventable while directly contradicting researchers within his own agency on a primary driver behind rising rates of the condition in young children.

1 month ago | myheraldreview.com | Azeen Ghorayshi

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