Medical Society Resists Gender‑Care Review

A major state medical association (Texas Medical Association) is blocking internal transparency measures and rejecting mandates to reassess its pediatric gender‑medicine policies, even as other medical groups and recent legal events raise questions about the evidence base. The society appointed an LGBTQ‑care clinic CEO to a top post and tightened meeting recording rules while siding with councils that resisted aligning policy to a federal report and independent evidentiary standards. — If professional societies resist evidence‑aligned review, they can lock in clinical norms that shape state law, insurer coverage, and patient care across large populations.