The Federal Trade Commission has launched a public inquiry to gauge the harms consumers may have experienced from false or unsupported claims about gender-affirming care. A Monday press release asks for public comments on any issues or concerns related to alleged unfair or deceptive trade practices regarding gender-affirming care for minors. Related Court says Christian mom can discriminate against LGBTQ+ foster kids She wont affirm their gender identity or call them by their preferred name but claims she has no problem loving them and accepting them as they are. Throughout the release, the term gender-affirming care is in quotations, making it clear the administration does not find its existence at all legitimate. Insights for the LGBTQ+ community Subscribe to our briefing for insights into how politics impacts the LGBTQ+ community and more. Subscribe to our Newsletter today The press release also brought up a July 9 workshop hosted by the agency on The Dangers of Gender-Affirming Care for Minors and claimed the series of doctors, parents, ethicists, and detransitioners who spoke indicated that practitioners of gender-affirming care may be actively deceiving consumers.Speakers at the workshop included Jay Richards, Senior Research Fellow at the anti-LGBTQ+ Heritage Foundation, the group known for being the architect of Project 2025; and Jamie Reed, executive director of a small advocacy group called the LGBT Courage Coalition, which opposes gender-affirming care for minors.Against this backdrop, the release continued, the FTC seeks to evaluate whether consumers (in particular, minors) have been harmed and whether medical professionals or others [failed] to disclose material risks associated with gender-affirming care or making false or unsubstantiated claims about the benefits or effectiveness of gender-affirming care.' The request is in keeping with the current administrations attack on gender-affirming care and the GOPs continued quest to enact laws that punish medical professionals who provide this care to minors. In January, the president signed an executive orderbanning trans youth and adults under the age of 19 from accessing puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and surgical procedures or, as the order calls them, chemical or surgical mutilation as gender-affirming care.Across the country today, medical professionals are maiming and sterilizing a growing number of impressionable children under the radical and false claim that adults can change a childs sex through a series of irreversible medical interventions, the order states, omitting the fact thatgender-affirming care` has been safely provided to cisgender and trans children for decades and is suggested as a best medical practice by most major American medical and psychological associations. Even more, gender-affirming surgery is rarely performed on minors. Instead, minors with gender dysphoria are often aided through social transition and are sometimes given puberty blockers, which are reversible. Recently, the Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Skrmetti that Tennessees ban on gender-affirming care for minors can remain in place. The administration is already using the ruling to justify its attacks on the practice, such as in a recent Department of Education order that five Virginia school districts immediately end their trans-inclusive bathroom policies.Subscribe to theLGBTQ Nation newsletterand be the first to know about the latest headlines shaping LGBTQ+ communities worldwide.