Perhaps you were already familiar with WPATH, or the World Professional Association for Transgender Health. Formerly known as the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association, it touts itself as the premiere “interdisciplinary professional and educational organization devoted to transgender health.” They issue guidelines for medical professionals to follow when treating transgender patients. That certainly sounds impressive, at least if you don’t look too closely under the covers. That’s what investigative journalist Michael Shellenberger and his group Environmental Progress did, examining hundreds of internal posts and videos from WPATH. Their conclusions were alarming, to say the least. As the Daily Wire reports, WPATH has been engaged in “fly-by-night experimental treatments” and unethical practices of dubious scientific merit. They mostly exist to provide cover to doctors providing transgender “care” who want to avoid lawsuits by claiming that they are simply following established best practices.
Internal files from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), which purports to be a medical association that develops “standards” for transgender treatment, show members engaging in fly-by-night, experimental treatments — contradicting the public line that its recommendations are governed by evidence and science.
The research group Environmental Progress analyzed hundreds of pages of internal posts and videos after they were obtained by its founder, journalist Michael Shellenberger.
It concluded that the nominally scientific group was nothing more than an unethical activist group that existed to give cover to doctors who didn’t want to be sued by allowing them to say they were just following experts’ standards.
There are some true horror stories in the linked report, so consider yourself having been warned in advance if you click through and read it. The bottom line is that there is very little evidence of any serious, in-depth clinical studies having been done to determine the final outcomes for patients who undergo puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and transgender surgery. Doctors using WPATH guidelines regularly approve treatment for patients even if they clearly exhibit other psychological trauma. And aside from talk therapy and counseling (which many patients don’t even receive), those other procedures are not reversible, regardless of what you’ve heard repeatedly from the mainstream media. Many of these doctors are simply “performing experiments” on young people as they go.
Environmental Progress is calling on the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the American Psychiatric Association (APA), and the American Medical Association (AMA), to cut ties with WPATH. The problem is that I’ve been writing about those medical associations here for years and they have been fully captured by the transgender social contagion and have fully embraced this lucrative new field of medical practice. It seems unlikely they will walk away now.
That’s because the primary purpose of WPATH appears to have been the creation of a globally accepted “standard of care.” But a standard of care is a legal term, not a medical one. It establishes an unregulated bar of performance that all medical facilities can point to when patients and their families attempt to hold them legally accountable for the results they produce. “See? We’re just following the globally accepted standards.”
I’m fairly sure that this is something that was already understood by most of the laymen among us even if we’ve never attended a single class in medical school. You don’t need a medical degree from Harvard to conclude that if you give an otherwise physically healthy child a drug that was only ever approved for the supervised treatment of precocious puberty for years on end, bad things will happen. Giving people endless supplies of a drug designed to prevent the growth of tumors in cancer patients (which is what most of the rest of the puberty blockers are) also won’t end well. And chopping off the breasts and genitals of children is the sort of damage that can never be undone aside from a few attempts at cosmetic repairs. Yet WPATH approves all of these things and most (though thankfully not all) of the rest of the medical profession simply nods their heads, bills the insurance companies, and goes on about their business.