The United Nations medical agency, the World Health Organization (WHO), will not develop transgender medical guidelines for minors, citing “limited” evidence about long-term outcomes.
agency announced January 15th:
This scope is intended only for adults and does not address the needs of children and adolescents. This is because research shows that the evidence base for children and adolescents regarding the long-term outcomes of gender-affirming care for children and adolescents is limited and variable.
Prominent health and transgender activist organizations are promoting so-called “gender-affirming care” for gender-confused minors, including puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and mutilating sex-reassignment surgeries. This move is important considering thatOf these cause Infertility and other side effects.
The WHO has revealed that announcement The WHO has announced that it will extend the public comment period for its planned health guidelines on transgender and gender diversity until February 2. The WHO said the guideline development process could take up to another two years.
the agency's Department of Gender, Rights and Equity (GRE); Global HIV, Hepatitis, and Sexually Transmitted Diseases Program (HHS). The Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research (SRH) is developing the guidelines. The agency said the guidelines would likely “address specific health challenges that would adversely impact transgender and gender diverse people's rights to access quality health care services and impair their quality of life and life expectancy.” “It is aimed at that.”
The agency stated:
The new guidelines will focus on five areas: Providing gender-affirming care, including adult-related hormones. Education and training of health care workers in the provision of gender-inclusive care. Provide needs-based health care to transgender and gender diverse people who have suffered from interpersonal violence. Health policies that support gender-inclusive care. and legal recognition of self-determined gender identity for adults.
The agency extended the public comment period because it needed “more time for feedback” to the Guidelines Development Group (GDG). announced WHO said the selection had been broad-based so far, saying it had “received extensive feedback from local communities and stakeholders.” criticized For having a bigoted and blatantly pro-trans agenda.
At least 11 of the 21-member commission have no formal medical training. Seven are transgender, and only 10 have medical backgrounds. according to report by daily mail. The remaining panel members include activists, social justice advocates, human rights lawyers, sexually transmitted disease researchers, and policy advisors.
Although WHO has now confirmed that its guidelines do not concern minors, some member states have“Local officials have spoken about government support for allowing children as young as 13 to receive such medical procedures,” Breitbart News previously reported.
Reem Al-Salem, UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, said: daily mail She said she believed the WHO's new committee was too “one-sided” and that it contained “serious unmanaged conflicts of interest.”
“It appears that stakeholders whose views differ from those of transgender activist groups were not invited,” Al-Salem said.
“Such stakeholders include experts from European public health authorities who have led the development of prudent, evidence-based approaches to gender transition in young people (e.g. the United Kingdom, Sweden and Finland).” she added.
Stella O'Malley, psychotherapist and executive director of Genspect, said: daily mail That the panel is a “hoax” Most of them are social justice and human rights lawyers who believe that a gender-affirming approach is the only option. ”
“[They] “It will determine care guidelines for transgender people, but there is no important balance represented on the panel,” she added. She said: “Gender-affirming approaches are presumed by the WHO to be the only way forward, thereby dismissing traditional psychotherapy.”
“This is a narrow-minded and very biased approach,” O'Malley asserted. “WHO [is] make a serious mistake. [it] You should pause this process and consult many experts with different approaches. ”
WHO said GDG members are likely to be finalized after a public comment period. WHO states that member states “I act in my personal capacity (not on behalf of any organization I am affiliated with) and do not receive any financial compensation as per standard procedure. ”
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Katherine Hamilton is a political reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow her at @thekat_Hamilton.
