There has lately been a lot of justified handwringing about elite college students who either can’t or won’t do the reading before class. Such shirking of collegiate responsibility is a travesty; but at least those students can blame their behavior on the heedlessness of youth. Otherwise, what is the excuse of adult professionals who have served in at least halfway-prestigious posts in the federal government failing to do the reading necessary to pen an editorial in a national media outlet about a subject of profound importance?

I was dismayed yesterday to read an editorial published in Newsweek in which two LGBTQ policy advocates set out, in their minds, to correct the record about pediatric gender medicine; but, as it happens, the authors only served their readers a buffet of false claims about the recent mammoth U.S. Department of Health and Humans Services (HHS) report about this controversial medical field. The Newsweek authors betrayed a woeful lack of knowledge about…