WPATH - A House Of Cards
“Gender-affirming care are unethical medical experiments” done without consent
Earlier this week, The WPATH Files, authored by Mia Hughes was released by Michael Shellenberger on Twitter (X). It completely dismantles the notion of “gender-affirming care” based on internal files obtained from a whistleblower, or whistleblowers from within the World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH).
The report shows that WPATH is neither a scientific, nor a medical organization, but are more acting as political activists. WPATH is a house of cards and those cards have come crashing down based on this blockbuster report.
As Shellenberger states, the “American Medical Association, The Endocrine Society, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and thousands of doctors worldwide rely on WPATH. It is considered the leading global authority on gender medicine.” WPATH was established way back in 1979 with three-quarters of its members based in the USA and has become the key organization promoting gender medicine. Gender medicine that most critical thinking observers see as Frankenstein-esque in nature.
A key finding in the report is that “WPATH advocates for minors to have access to gender-affirming care, which is the treatment pathway involving puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries that are intended to align the young person’s body with their self-declared transgender identity. Implicit in this endorsement is the fact that adolescents can sufficiently comprehend the full implications of these treatments, and their parents can provide legal informed consent.”
But what is informed consent really? That word “consent” shows up in this report 106 times, so it seems to be the critical component of the issue at hand. As stated in the report, “Informed consent in medicine is the process by which a healthcare provider educates a patient about the risks, benefits, and alternatives of a given procedure or intervention. The patient must be competent to make a voluntary decision about whether to undergo the procedure or intervention.”
This is where a doctor is supposed to provide all the potential risks and uncertainties. Healthy minors aren’t competent to make life-altering decisions let alone minors struggling with mental health issues. Are these doctors really telling kids about the impacts on their health, sexual function, fertility and other long-term complications of often becoming Big Pharma patients for life? Many detransitioners like Chloe Cole say she was never really informed of what was to become of her body, when at age 15 she was advised to take cross-sex hormones and have her breasts cut off to affirm to be more like that of a boy.
Even if she was “informed,” how could someone that young really know what she wanted in the future? She now has massive regret as to what they did to her. Chloe however is very brave and is trying to raise awareness about this mutilation by speaking up. “Chloe’s Law” passed both chambers in Wyoming just a few days ago, which will restrict minors from “gender-affirming care.” It all seems so basic to protect these minors from their self-inflicted harm. But not all states feel this way.
As you dig in deeper on this WPATH report behind closed doors, what we think is happening, is actually happening. “WPATH-affiliated healthcare professionals confess that their practices are based on improvisation, that children cannot comprehend them, and that the consent process is not ethical.” Of course it’s not!
Billboard Chris standing in front of the American Academy of Pediatrics on October 7th, 2022.
Minors, who’s frontal lobe has yet to fully develop and won’t until their mid-20’s cannot join the army, vote, sign a legal contract, give blood, purchase cough suppressants, buy fireworks, gamble, rent a car, get a tattoo, buy alcohol, cigarettes, or scratch off tickets. But, WPATH is ultimately pushing them down the irreversible road to “gender-affirming care” to get their breasts, or penis cut off. It’s pure madness. It’s mental health madness in fact, as this all starts with pronouns being pushed in schools, which evolves into sexual narcissism and often is combined with a clear mental health issue like dissociative identity disorder.
But, rather than deal with the mental health issue, or another underlying trauma, they push for drugs, or surgeries.
The examples listed in the report are harrowing tales. “In the files, the chief medical officer from Texas advised a concerned therapist to allow a troubled 13-year-old girl to begin testosterone therapy; a therapist discussed starting a 10-year-old girl on puberty blockers; WPATH President Marci Bowers openly admitted that natal male children are being left anorgasmic for life; and one surgeon reported performing 20 vaginoplasties on minors.” We come back to, informed consent of a minor is impossible, given their lack of understanding.
“During one panel of obtained video footage, Dr. Daniel Metzger, a Canadian endocrinologist, discussed the challenges faced when attempting to obtain consent from adolescents seeking this medical treatment. Metzger reminded those assembled that gender doctors are ‘often explaining these sorts of things to people who haven’t even had biology in high school yet,’ adding that even adult patients often have very little medical understanding of the effects of these interventions.”
Minors who often may not have any real understanding of sterility must be told by doctors in the WPATH SOC8 (the latest Standards Of Care Version 8) about “the potential loss of fertility and available options to preserve fertility.” They are implying that an adolescent in early puberty has any understanding of their “cognitive capacity to make such a decision about their future.” It seems unconscionable that this type of activity would be taking place from Doctors who have taken an oath to do no harm. How can they look a child in the eyes and tell them to make these types of decisions?
In the report it is stated, “Dr. Ren Massey, a psychologist and co-author of the adolescent chapter of the latest standards of care, told the panel that, according to SOC8 ‘it’s encouraged, and ethical, to talk about fertility preservation options,’ stressing that it is ‘even important for youth who are going on puberty blockers because many of those youth will go directly onto affirming hormone therapies which will eliminate the development of their gonads producing sperm or eggs.” They know they are sterilizing children!
A somewhat similar situation happened to Maine Source Of Truth podcast guest Ted Hedacko, who’s minor child was told to preserve semen before undergoing chemical castration, in case down the road he wanted to attempt to have children. As the WPATH report indicates, “The combination of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones could leave a young patient sterile for life, and the drugs come with a host of known and anticipated side effects, including brittle bones, cognitive impairment, and heightened risk of cancer and cardiovascular disease, as well as uncertainty concerning resolution of gender dysphoria.” So, what’s the benefit?
Graphic provided by Courage Is A Habit on Twitter.
But, it just keeps getting worse. During a recorded video conference, one doctor described children making these life altering decisions to permanently chemically castrate themselves, or perform medical butchery often come with debilitating side effects and regret. They simply don’t know what they don’t know. Metzger told the panel, “I follow a lot of kids into their mid twenties, I’m always like, ‘Oh, the dog isn’t doing it for you, right?’ They’re like, ‘No, I just found this wonderful partner and now we want kids.’ So you know, it doesn’t surprise me.”
It then falls upon the parents to ultimately make this ominous decision. Many parents who may have been inaccurately told things like, do you want a trans-son, or a dead daughter? It is emotional blackmail and medical malpractice that is occurring inside these doctor’s offices. This constant push toward chemical, or medical intervention versus suicide being the only alternatives to decide upon is unreasonable for any ill informed parent to understand.
Of course, there is no diagnostic testing for gender dysphoria, like there is diagnostic testing for diabetes. And as stated, “If you have a known condition, like diabetes, you don’t have to understand every nuance about what the insulin is going to do to you in order to give informed consent.” Also, as noted, diabetes left untreated, will kill you, unlike gender dysphoria. This seems to be the only medical subject in our world that is simply based on the force-fed social contagion feelings of a child and many states won’t allow a doctor to do anything but affirm this fantasyland.
Another prominent WPATH member, Diane Berg, a child psychologist and co-author of the child chapter of Standards of Care, version 8 (SOC8) “provides evidence that even some parents do not have sufficient levels of health literacy to comprehend the effects of this treatment protocol, and she admits that current practices are not ethical.” For most parents, this is a tidal wave crashing over them. They are being crushed by the notion that their son, or daughter wants to affirm as an alternate sex. How would you feel having this pushed upon you?
Some states are using WPATH specifically as the bedrock of “gender affirming care” bills. Maine’s LD227 and Rhode Island’s S2262 proposed bill, both of which have almost identical language, use WPATH for their guiding star.
Maine’s proposed LD227 which makes gender-affirming care a state right, uses WPATH standards of care.
Rhode Island’s S2262 uses WPATH Standards of Care 8 in their bill proposal as well.
Based on both Maine and Rhode Island’s bills, they rely on WPATH information, yet even go further down an ominous road. They will allow any adult to transport minors across state lines to obtain transgender drugs and surgeries, even if the minor is “incapacitated.” This action does not need to be disclosed to parents. Parents can’t use authorities to get their children back.
These bills also offer layers of protection for advocates, schools, clinics, surgeons and mental health professionals to shield them from malpractice and lawsuits by providing them all immunity. It makes anyone trying to seek civil reconciliation a “hostile litigator” where the tables can be turned back on those wanting to seek justice. These bills ensure medical providers cannot refuse irreversible drugs and surgeries. That it has to be covered by insurance, or taxpayer funds.
What is ultimately stated about these concerns in this WPATH report is that “The psychiatric condition of gender dysphoria is not a fatal illness, and the best available studies show that in the case of minors, with watchful waiting and compassionate support, most will either grow out of it or learn to manage their distress in ways less detrimental to their health.” So why do they all of a sudden not want to “follow the science?”
Because this is becoming a billion dollar business, where the product is children. If the far-left democrats running states like Maine and Rhode Island have their way, they will become sanctuary states for this harmful and ill conceived “treatment.” Parents will be even more powerless to stop this madness.