The World Professional Association for Transgender Health is an organization responsible for “gender medicine.” Guidelines It is considered authoritative by various U.S. medical organizations and groups, including the American Medical Association, the Endocrine Society, and the American Academy of Pediatrics.
While the UK’s landmark Cass Review and other studies have demonstrated that WPATH’s recommendations are generally indefensible, a report published in March by Environmental Progress found that the organization may not be interested in sound advocacy at all.After all, among WPATH’s members there appear to be some free-spirited extremists who are happy to engage in frightening pseudoscience.
Mia Hughes’ 242-page report said WPATH members “are aware of the debilitating and potentially deadly side effects of cross-sex hormones and other treatments, yet show a lack of consideration for long-term outcomes for patients.”
Internal documents and videos detailed in the report revealed that WPATH members knowingly performed irreversible medical procedures on mentally unstable victims who were unable to consent, allowed minors to understand the long-term effects of so-called gender reassignment surgery, ignored the remorse of sex-change victims, and manufactured fake body parts that “do not exist in nature” during elective surgeries.
Despite WPATH’s obvious lack of science and ethics, the organization still doesn’t seem radical enough for the Biden administration.
be Unsealed court documents In federal court Baugh v. MarshallBiden’s transvestite Health and Human Services Undersecretary successfully pressured WPATH to repeal the minimum age requirement for sex-reassignment surgery.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, and various other left-leaning groups baud Weaken the democratic will of Alabama’s citizens by repealing Alabama’s Compassion and Protection of Vulnerable Children Act, which bans the administration of puberty suppressants, sex-reassignment surgery and cross-sexing hormones to minors.
WPATH’s “Standards of Care Version 8” — and other materials subpoenaed by WPATH Apparently The case in which the cover-up was contested in court was More extensive reporting It was filed in Dr. James Cantor’s lawsuit upholding the Alabama ban.
An internal WPATH message read, “Just spoke with Admiral Levine today. He is very supportive of SOC 8 as always, but is also very eager for its release to ensure its integration into the Biden Administration’s U.S. health policy. Now let’s get to work.”
According to another message from WPATH, not only did Levin try to rush the process, but he also told the organization through his chief of staff, Sarah Boateng, that his “biggest concern is the section below in the youth chapter that specifically lists the minimum age for treatment.”
The New York Times Shown The draft guidelines initially recommended a minimum age of 17 for genital mutilation, 15 for removal of healthy breasts, 16 for breast implants and 14 for hormone treatment.
Levin wanted to do away with these minimum standards and subject vulnerable children to unnecessary surgeries that other WPATH members acknowledged they could not agree with, driven by political rather than scientific evidence.
“[Levine] “Based on the rhetoric we are hearing in Washington and what we have already seen, she believes that a specific age list below 18 would lead to devastating legislation regarding transgender care,” the WPATH internal message stated. “She wonders if a supporting document could be created that removes the specific age and is published or distributed in a less conspicuous manner than SOC8. That would be the best way to go.”
“The issue of age and treatment has been quite contentious (mainly regarding surgery) and has come up again,” another internal WPATH message said. “We have sent the letter to Admiral Levin. … She [sic] She really liked SOC-8, but was very concerned that including age (mainly surgery) would hinder trans youth and possibly adults from accessing medical care. Apparently the situation in the U.S. is terrible, and she and the Biden administration were worried that including age on the document would make it worse. She asked us to remove the age. The WPATH Executive Committee was also in the meeting, and we explained to her that we could not remove the age at this stage.”
In a subsequent message, WPATH confirmed that, at Levine’s request, the organization had changed how it presented the minimum age in the document.
The court documents further noted that when faced with questions about WPATH’s sudden and apparent removal of the recommended minimum age, rather than acknowledging Levine’s influence, the organization “concocted a false narrative.”
WPATH suggested that the change was the result of an effort to “focus on individualized patient care rather than some sort of minimal final hurdle that may prompt superficial evaluation and treatment outside the thorough and comprehensive pathway recommended in the WPATH standards.”
“What has been communicated to the public is completely different from the private discussions at WPATH,” Cantor told the Times.
Mia Hughes, who wrote an exposé on WPATH earlier this year, came to a similar conclusion but went further, stating that Blaze Media co-founder and national radio host Glenn Beck “The Hippocratic Oath has long since been abandoned by these people,” he said last month.
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