WPATH unmasked: the WPATH Files

Mar 7, 2024 by Jill

by Mia Hughes, Transgender Trend:

There can be no doubt that WPATH, the World Professional Association of Transgender Health, has had a profound and malign influence on gender healthcare worldwide. This power is wielded through their Standards of Care, guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of gender dysphoria in adults and children, which WPATH claims are evidence-based and best practice. But the recently released WPATH Files reveal an organisation run by activists and ideologues who in private chat forums admit knowing of the harms caused by cross-sex hormones and surgery.

These chillingly candid discussions show that WPATH members are aware that puberty blockers are not reversible as they almost invariably lead to cross-sex hormones, that children will be frozen in an adolescent state, infertile, anorgasmic, and at risk of life-threatening medical conditions. The online chats reveal a cynical lack of compassion for young people who experience acute problems post genital surgery. The WPATH Files include this example: “a gynecologist in the WPATH forum described a patient who, after penile inversion vaginoplasty, was leaking prostate secretions through the urethra and was finding it bothersome. The replies inform the gynocologist that there is no remedy, but one nursing lecturer, who self-described as a “woman of trans experience,” suggested telling the distressed patient to “enjoy the ride,” adding, “It’s the ultimate physical sign of orgasm…what’s not to like?””

The chats reveal positive approaches to performing vaginoplasties on boys under 18, to prescribing hormones for patients suffering from severe mental health problems such as schizophrenia, to treating severely depressed or autistic people with drugs and surgery. They acknowledge that two female patients developed liver cancer caused by testosterone. One of these young women subsequently died. The plight of detransitioners is seen as a problem to be ‘framed’ rather than investigated.

Transgender Trend has documented the harms of medical transition since its inception in 2015, but it is still shocking to read that clinicians know about them and want to keep them secret from their patients and the public.

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