Uncertainty and Ethical Permissibility in Youth Gender Care
This Viewpoint discusses how misuse of evidence-based medicine displaces the pediatric ethical principles of proportionality and shared decision-making and risks precluding both access to care and generation of evidence needed to reduce uncertainty.
Authors
- Meredithe McNamara (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0275-0852)
- Ian Wolfe (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3308-3749)
Institutions
- University of Minnesota (US)
- Yale University (US)
- Children's Minnesota (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
- Published
- 2026-08-03
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapediatrics.2026.2928
- Primary Topic
- Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00