Providing hormone therapy, surgery and other permanently life-altering treatments to kids who identify as transgender has no medical or scientific basis: “Gender-affirming care” is simply a fuzzy label for monstrous practices. Yes, monstrous: How else to describe the surgical and chemical mutilation of children? That’s our takeaway from the final, peer-reviewed federal report released Wednesday; the authors of the government scientific document put it more gently. Crucially, they give critics