Recently released files from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) show a lack of informed consent and scientific evidence.
The battle over transgender care continues as a new report published by Environmental Progress (EP) highlights the potential dangers of “gender-affirming” medical care, based on internal files from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH).
Michael Shellenberger, independent journalist and founder of EP, posted on X that WPATH’s internal files “reveal that its members know they are creating victims and not getting ‘informed consent.’”
The 242-page report by EP journalist Mia Hughes includes unedited content from WPATH over the past four years, an introduction from Mr. Shellenberger, and commentary and analysis of the internal WPATH files. Leaked discussions show doctors, therapists, social workers, and activists discussing specific cases and sharing advice on how to treat youth and adults with gender dysphoria.
In the report, Ms. Hughes states that the organization has abandoned the Hippocratic Oath to “do no harm.” She details how she believes WPATH has misled the public and why it should not be considered a medical or scientific group but rather an advocacy group.
Sounding the Alarm on ‘Gender-Affirming Care’
The report supports those who have been sounding the alarm on “gender-affirming care” and the movement against prescription hormones and life-altering surgeries for children under the age of 18. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), “gender-affirming care” encompasses a range of social, psychological, behavioral, and medical interventions “designed to support and affirm an individual’s gender identity,” particularly when it conflicts with their biological sex.
Mary Margaret Olohan, a reporter for the Daily Signal who spoke to multiple detransitioners for her upcoming book, “Detrans: True Stories of Escaping the Gender Ideology Cult,” believes the WPATH files vindicate those who were pushed toward “gender-affirming care” by doctors and therapists at a young age.
Ms. Olohan told The Epoch Times, “[Destransitioners] have been saying for so long that these surgeries and hormones are experimental, that the doctors are aware that they’re experimental, and that the doctors don’t know what to do to help them once they are trying to detransition.”
