America First Legal, a Trump-aligned group, sued for Biden-era records related to its recommended guidance on puberty blockers for gender-dysphoric children. (Getty Images)
Similar to AFL's current FOIA request, the group was required to engage in litigation to compel the release of the first set of documents.
But, eventually, documents were released that seemed to show the Biden-era Division of General Endocrinology at the FDA recommended the agency approve puberty blockers for children despite the knowledge that there were deleterious impacts associated with them, such as increased depression, suicidality and seizure risks.
"There is definitely a need for these drugs to be approved for gender transition," an FDA official from the agency's endocrinology division stated in an email uncovered by AFL. In the same communications, the FDA official also explicitly states that studies they conducted found "increased risk of depression and suicidality, as well as increased seizure risk."
Such findings have been confirmed by other studies as well.
Medical syringes are juxtaposed on top of the FDA logo. (Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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Fox News' Melissa Rudy and Michael Dorgan contributed to this report
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