A national family advocacy group condemned an American Medical Association Journal of Ethics paper testing the ethical waters of uterus transplants for biological men who claim female identity.

The American Family Association issued a warning and circulated a petition calling on the AMA to "stop suggesting that taxpayers fund unnatural and irreversible gender-modifying procedures that disfigure the human body."

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"The American Medical Association (AMA) should exist to protect and preserve innocent human life. This is the fundamental reason modern medicine exists," Walker Wildmon, AFA vice president, told the Washington Examiner. "Instead, the AMA is promoting taxpayer-subsidized uterus transplants for men who think they’re women. God created women, and women only, to conceive and foster life in the womb. The AMA is crossing a dangerous line of moral and life-altering significance by promoting this procedure."

As of Monday evening, the petition that started circulating Friday has just over 31,706 signatures, with the main drive to urge doctors and the AMA to "remember your oath - first, do no harm."

"The American Medical Association has basically exchanged the Hippocratic Oath for social and partisan activism," the petition states.

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine professor Dr. Martin Makary previously called out the AMA in a Washington Examiner report and urged the organization to focus on other aspects of the transgender issue, like studying how many children who undergo medical interventions end up regretting it or the suicide rate of those children compared to that of children who pursue psychotherapy instead.

The AMA told the Washington Examiner that it does not have an official position on giving uteruses to men as a form of "gender affirmation," but many doctors say Journal of Ethics articles, which the AMA stresses is "editorially independent" from the organization itself, can signal to the medical community where the next phase of medical treatment is headed.

"The AMA has no position — existing or anticipated — on the issue of uterus transplantation in transgender individuals," an AMA spokesperson said. "AMA policy is established through robust debate and the democratic processes of our House of Delegates, and the work of the AMA remains focused on the art and science of medicine and the betterment of public health.”

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As a model of medical care, gender transitions have become increasingly questionable to many of the Western world's medical professionals despite the AMA advocating genital mutilation surgeries and chemical castration for transgender children.

In 2021, the group called such medical interventions "medically necessary" despite a growing amount of evidence to the contrary.