A "friend" posted on FB a clip of a man defending his child's right to "gender affirming care" as the right to freedom. I responded with the skinny on WPATH, and have previously posted PITT and numerous other articles of evidence that this is a dangerous social contagion. This should be obvious to everyone and yet, somehow it isn't. After posting sections from the WPATH files, the "friend" responded: "This isn't happening. I don't know why you believe it."
On March 5, the president of WPATH, Dr. Marci Bowers, issued a statement in response to the WPATH Files. It reads:
“WPATH is and has always been a science- and evidence-based organization whose recommendations are widely endorsed by major organizations around the world. We are the professionals who best know the medical needs of trans and gender diverse individuals – and stand opposed to individuals who misrepresent and de-legitimize the diverse identities and complex needs of this population through scare tactics. The world is not flat. Gender, like genitalia, is represented by diversity. The small percentage of the population that is trans or gender diverse deserves healthcare and will never be a threat to the global gender binary.”
WPATH’s executive director, Blaine Vella, states, “This is and will continue to be our response to any media outreach. If any of you [WPATH members] receive inquiries from the media, we request that you DO NOT RESPOND, send the request to us at greenjay@wpath.org, and our media partners will respond WITH THE STATEMENT ABOVE.” (emphasis mine).
In other words, that’s all, folks! They will not be taking questions (nor, apparently, addressing any of the specific concerns raised by the files).
<< An undercover investigation at a Quebec gender clinic recently documented that a fourteen-year-old girl was prescribed testosterone for the purpose of medical gender transition within ten minutes of seeing a doctor. She received no other medical or mental health assessment and no information on side-effects. >>
Can Shannon (or James) give us any more details on this, such as who carried out this undercover investigation? (Even if they can’t be identified by name: a parent? a journalist? a medical staffer?) Stuff like this can get one labelled as a conspiracy lunatic if it turns out it can’t be substantiated.
Was that 14-year-old girl presenting to the clinic for the first time? Or had she already been on blockers?
Some of this stuff truly IS hard to believe (though I've read enough sources to believe it, myself). It seems that "T" is the new nose-ring, the new must-have Nikes.
Nothing but filthy degenerate swine making millions from others grief and backed up by even worse criminals leading this country. These same people would have been put up against a wall and shot not so long ago.
There were just 13 comments on the article (and I’m surprised the Tyee allowed them, as most commenters were opposed to use of puberty blockers in children). Only one, a physician named Isabel Rimmer, mentioned the WPATH leaks.
Here is Dr. Rimmer’s comment:
<< Gio Dolcecore suggests it is important to think critically about the gender issues that we are facing in our society. I could not agree more. As an ER physician, I rely on the "chain of trust" from medical associations to provide evidence-based standards of care. I simply can not keep up with every new advance. The World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH) has for years, been that source of truth for well meaning physicians and other practitioners, sincerely trying to meet the needs of gender questioning youth and adults. So it was with dismay that I and many others have read the recently leaked "WPATH papers". It turns out that the treasured values of ethics and consent, intrinsic to the "do no harm" philosophy that all physicians should aspire to, have been abandoned by this group. These revelations and many new, well done, methodologically sound studies are casting enormous doubt on everything we have been told about transgender care. It turns out the regret rate is MUCH higher than we have been told. It turns out that suicide rates in youth are similar in trans and non trans groups. It turns out that over 90% of kids started on puberty blockers go on to cross sex hormones. It is not a "pause" to think. It sadly condemns children, well below the age they can drink, vote or get a tattoo, to a lifetime of infertility and anorgasmia. Given all this, I challenge the author to truly think critically and to really, truly, "do no harm." >>
Although I certainly don't think of this author in this way, I have run into parents who seem to "need" their kid to be gay or trans. It was a long time ago, bit I remember things I struggled with at 14. There was a great deal wrong in my home, and it was a very confusing time. It still is for many kids, especially perhaps, for girls.
I firmly believe that it is possible to support young people around questions they have regarding their sexuality and gender identity without endorsing hormones and surgeries for them. Such questioning is entirely normal for many young people. For some it has to do with rejecting gender roles. For most, it's about becoming sexually aware and they will eventually settle themselves as straight or gay (or whatever). Responding with hormones and surgery, making an irreversible commitment, is the wrong thing to do.
(I add the caveat that there are very rare situations, recognizable in a combination of approaches that must include DNA studies, in which an individual's sex really is ambiguous or "misaligned" and that person will actually benefit from earlier intervention, particularly if they are mature enough to participate fully in those choices.)
This sounds freakishly bizarre and completely incongruent with the Canadian Medical Association's professional code of ethics and conduct. The physicians creed explicitly compels doctors to follow a strict professional code of conduct, as dictated by the Canadian Medical Association, with conscience and dignity, paramount to the health of the patient. What I take away from this article is more a case of a negligent breach of the CMA's standard of patient care amounting to potential malpractice "res ipsa loquitur".
In selling as in medicine, prescription before diagnosis is malpractice.
A "friend" posted on FB a clip of a man defending his child's right to "gender affirming care" as the right to freedom. I responded with the skinny on WPATH, and have previously posted PITT and numerous other articles of evidence that this is a dangerous social contagion. This should be obvious to everyone and yet, somehow it isn't. After posting sections from the WPATH files, the "friend" responded: "This isn't happening. I don't know why you believe it."
On March 5, the president of WPATH, Dr. Marci Bowers, issued a statement in response to the WPATH Files. It reads:
“WPATH is and has always been a science- and evidence-based organization whose recommendations are widely endorsed by major organizations around the world. We are the professionals who best know the medical needs of trans and gender diverse individuals – and stand opposed to individuals who misrepresent and de-legitimize the diverse identities and complex needs of this population through scare tactics. The world is not flat. Gender, like genitalia, is represented by diversity. The small percentage of the population that is trans or gender diverse deserves healthcare and will never be a threat to the global gender binary.”
WPATH’s executive director, Blaine Vella, states, “This is and will continue to be our response to any media outreach. If any of you [WPATH members] receive inquiries from the media, we request that you DO NOT RESPOND, send the request to us at greenjay@wpath.org, and our media partners will respond WITH THE STATEMENT ABOVE.” (emphasis mine).
In other words, that’s all, folks! They will not be taking questions (nor, apparently, addressing any of the specific concerns raised by the files).
https://unherd.com/newsroom/the-wpath-files-fallout-is-just-the-beginning/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Unfortunately these reports will be ignored by most of the media because they are pushing an ideology and not facts.
<< An undercover investigation at a Quebec gender clinic recently documented that a fourteen-year-old girl was prescribed testosterone for the purpose of medical gender transition within ten minutes of seeing a doctor. She received no other medical or mental health assessment and no information on side-effects. >>
Can Shannon (or James) give us any more details on this, such as who carried out this undercover investigation? (Even if they can’t be identified by name: a parent? a journalist? a medical staffer?) Stuff like this can get one labelled as a conspiracy lunatic if it turns out it can’t be substantiated.
Was that 14-year-old girl presenting to the clinic for the first time? Or had she already been on blockers?
Some of this stuff truly IS hard to believe (though I've read enough sources to believe it, myself). It seems that "T" is the new nose-ring, the new must-have Nikes.
Nothing but filthy degenerate swine making millions from others grief and backed up by even worse criminals leading this country. These same people would have been put up against a wall and shot not so long ago.
This is a late comment here, but I'm hoping it can be relayed to Shannon Boschy.
The WPATH files made it into The Tyee, an independent and markedly progressive (new left) online paper – but only because one reader, a physician, raised the issue of the WPATH revelations in an excellent comment, which I’m sharing below. This is the article in question: https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2024/03/21/Gender-Affirming-Care-Explained/?utm_source=weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=250324 Mar 21, 2024, by Gio Dolcecore (an assistant professor of social work at Mount Royal University).
There were just 13 comments on the article (and I’m surprised the Tyee allowed them, as most commenters were opposed to use of puberty blockers in children). Only one, a physician named Isabel Rimmer, mentioned the WPATH leaks.
Here is Dr. Rimmer’s comment:
<< Gio Dolcecore suggests it is important to think critically about the gender issues that we are facing in our society. I could not agree more. As an ER physician, I rely on the "chain of trust" from medical associations to provide evidence-based standards of care. I simply can not keep up with every new advance. The World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH) has for years, been that source of truth for well meaning physicians and other practitioners, sincerely trying to meet the needs of gender questioning youth and adults. So it was with dismay that I and many others have read the recently leaked "WPATH papers". It turns out that the treasured values of ethics and consent, intrinsic to the "do no harm" philosophy that all physicians should aspire to, have been abandoned by this group. These revelations and many new, well done, methodologically sound studies are casting enormous doubt on everything we have been told about transgender care. It turns out the regret rate is MUCH higher than we have been told. It turns out that suicide rates in youth are similar in trans and non trans groups. It turns out that over 90% of kids started on puberty blockers go on to cross sex hormones. It is not a "pause" to think. It sadly condemns children, well below the age they can drink, vote or get a tattoo, to a lifetime of infertility and anorgasmia. Given all this, I challenge the author to truly think critically and to really, truly, "do no harm." >>
Although I certainly don't think of this author in this way, I have run into parents who seem to "need" their kid to be gay or trans. It was a long time ago, bit I remember things I struggled with at 14. There was a great deal wrong in my home, and it was a very confusing time. It still is for many kids, especially perhaps, for girls.
I firmly believe that it is possible to support young people around questions they have regarding their sexuality and gender identity without endorsing hormones and surgeries for them. Such questioning is entirely normal for many young people. For some it has to do with rejecting gender roles. For most, it's about becoming sexually aware and they will eventually settle themselves as straight or gay (or whatever). Responding with hormones and surgery, making an irreversible commitment, is the wrong thing to do.
(I add the caveat that there are very rare situations, recognizable in a combination of approaches that must include DNA studies, in which an individual's sex really is ambiguous or "misaligned" and that person will actually benefit from earlier intervention, particularly if they are mature enough to participate fully in those choices.)
This sounds freakishly bizarre and completely incongruent with the Canadian Medical Association's professional code of ethics and conduct. The physicians creed explicitly compels doctors to follow a strict professional code of conduct, as dictated by the Canadian Medical Association, with conscience and dignity, paramount to the health of the patient. What I take away from this article is more a case of a negligent breach of the CMA's standard of patient care amounting to potential malpractice "res ipsa loquitur".
In selling as in medicine, prescription before diagnosis is malpractice.
Tony Alessandra