Medical Ethics Is on Trial in Wyoming

The governor removed him from the medical board. But America needs more physicians like Dr. Cubin.

Wyoming is one of 26 states that have passed legislation against medically mutilating children. Chloe’s Law, enacted by Wyoming’s legislature last year, prohibits physicians from prescribing children puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones under the guise of “affirming gender identity.” These interventions cause children irreversible harm, such as permanent sterility, castration, anorgasmia, and other profound harms. No ethical doctor would inflict such interventions on a child absent a medical emergency. Every ethical doctor would stand firmly against any attempt to mutilate a child’s body.

Dr. Eric Cubin is one such ethical physician. He is a respected, accomplished doctor, appointed by Governor Mark Gordon to the Wyoming Board of Medicine in 2023, and a 15-year member of the Wyoming Medical Society (WMS). During legislative deliberations on Chloe’s Law, WMS leadership publicly opposed the bill—testifying in favor of so-called “gender-affirming care,” which is to say, testifying in fa…