LANSING, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – Michigan Representative Brad Paquette (R-Niles), a former teacher, has been on a mission to protect children from gender care medical experimentation and has introduced bills to criminalize gender-affirming care for minors. According to a May press release, Paquette’s three-bill package would “prohibit health care providers from conducting hormone treatments, surgeries for sterilization, and surgeries that alter genital appearance on minors, with an exception for minors with medically verifiable disorders of sex development or those facing imminent danger from physical condition.”
Paquette said, “It is time for the experimentation on children in the name of care to come to an end. Children are not born in the wrong body. No one has the right to maim a healthy child’s body to try to achieve the unachievable.”
AMA’s “evidence-based” claims crumble under pressure.
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Paquette’s push for stricter legislation comes while the medical establishment’s stance on gender care remains unchanged in support of the practice of medicalized gender transition for minors. That conflict was on full display earlier this year during a Zoom meeting between Paquette, whistleblower Dr. Eithan Haim, and AMA (American Medical Association) President Dr. Bobby Mukkamala, revealing an organization driven by arrogance than science.
A video of that meeting, released by American conservative political commentator and Daily Wire’s co-founder Ben Shapiro, wasn’t just a political courtesy call – it became a masterclass in exposing the AMA’s hollow claims that transitioning minors is safe and based on science. Paquette and Haim pressed the organization’s top boss on the AMA’s so-called “evidence-based” stance, and it revealed just how little science the nation’s most powerful medical group actually relies on.
AMA president’s behavior: “a complete prick,” says Whistleblower surgeon.
Haim, a Texas surgeon known for exposing Texas Children’s Hospital’s secret gender program, said the AMA’s president dismissed credible research showing the dangers of puberty blockers and gender surgeries for minors. Mukkamala also made a dismissive hand gesture during the Zoom meeting, signaling disinterest or impatience as Haim presented evidence against gender interventions. The gesture came across as unprofessional and disrespectful to Haim, especially given the gravity of the topic.
“It was shocking,” Haim said on the podcast Morning Wire. “Here you have the President of the AMA, who, for lack of a better term, is acting like a complete prick when he has such a significant role in taking care of America’s sick citizens.”
Michigan News Source reached out to Mukkamala about the leaked video but he did not return our request for comment.
No science, no shame.
When pressed about evidence on puberty blockers, Mukkamala admitted in the Zoom call, “I’m not an expert at all in the science that you’re talking to me about. I defer to the experts.” Haim said the exchange highlighted “generational trust” abused by doctors wielding ideological power. “They abuse that trust and just think they can call themselves ‘experts’ and we’re supposed to believe them,” he said.
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This ideological commitment isn’t new. The AMA officially backed gender-affirming care in 2008
in a resolution supporting public and private health insurance coverage for treatment of Gender Identity Disorder (“GID”) for “evidence-based gender-affirming care as recommended by the patient’s physician.”
On the podcast, Haim criticized the AMA for labeling gender surgeries and hormone treatments as safe and effective while refusing to acknowledge their experimental nature. He argued the group’s stance relies on “the lowest quality evidence, which means it’s valueless.” His assessment draws on the Cass Review, an independent review of gender identity services for children and young people. The review found that research supporting puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for minors is weak, with studies lacking the rigor needed to form solid conclusions.
The Cass Review examines gender identity services for youth and found weak evidence for puberty blockers, hormones, and social transition. It urged caution, mental health assessments, and restricting puberty blockers to trials, influencing UK policy and sparking global debate.
Still the AMA’s stance on gender “care” for minors hasn’t softened over time including in 2021 when the AMA doubled down, sending a letter urging state governors to reject bills restricting transition- related care for minors and calling such legislation “a dangerous intrusion into the practice of medicine.”
Michigan’s “expert” is without a framework.
Paquette followed up with Mukkamala after the Zoom call, requesting to speak directly with the AMA’s designated expert. Mukkamala referred him to Dr. Jessie Krikorian, a physician affiliated with the University of Michigan, whom Haim described as “a woman who believes she’s a man,” noting that Krikorian is on hormones and “has a full beard.”
Haim didn’t hold back when discussing Krikorian’s “expert” designation saying, “It is as clear as day that this person has no idea what she’s doing, how to evaluate the evidence… (and) has no ethical framework that instructs her care of these patients.” He added, “That’s terrifying, because these (pediatric) patients are vulnerable.”
Despite this, the AMA continues to promote Krikorian as an authority which Haim calls “unconscionable.”
Monopoly on medicine.
The AMA’s influence extends beyond ideology. With its monopoly on CPT medical codes (Current Procedural Terminology), the group earns hundreds of millions annually and essentially dictates what
insurance covers. “If they say some 14-year-old girl should get a mastectomy, the insurance company will cover it,” Haim explained.
On the podcast, he called for the federal government, and Health and Human Services secretary RFK Jr. specifically, to end the AMA’s financial stranglehold on medical coding. CPT codes are a standardized set of medical codes created by the American Medical Association that describe medical, surgical, and diagnostic services. They’re used nationwide for billing and insurance purposes, meaning the AMA effectively controls what treatments get covered and reimbursed.
Haim said Kennedy could strip the AMA of its control over coding by issuing an executive order to change the regulation. He added that the move should align with Kennedy’s stated goal of removing financial interests from the nation’s medical system.
AMA’s credibility crisis.
The interviews exposed by The Daily Wire paint a bleak picture: the AMA’s leadership openly admits ignorance, hides behind “experts” like Krikorian, and uses its influence to normalize experimental procedures on minors.
“This is the reason that no one trusts doctors anymore,” Haim said.
