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Dear Editor:

Your May 24 editorial (“The decisions we make,” Weekly News) suggests that concerns about sex-change interventions on minors arise from “madness and meanness” and “fear and hate,” spread by the “false prophets” of “a religion of limited vision, of control, fear and intolerance.”

On February 23, the prestigious British Medical Journal published a review by its investigative team of the medical evidence. It found that medical experts and public health authorities in Sweden, Finland, France, Australia, New Zealand and Great Britain are moving away from such treatments for minors, bec...