Transgender health doctors and activists successfully helped shape NHS policies for more than a decade, with ‘gender-affirming care’ and castration of self-identifying ‘eunuchs’ prominent among the ‘standards’. The Mail has the story.
Standards of Care documents, produced by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, have been used as a basis for guidance to medical practitioners, across the NHS.
Such was the level of WPATH’s influence it saw a Director of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust tell a committee of MPs its treatment protocols were based on the organisation’s guidelines.
It was previously reported that hormones blocking the onset of puberty were given to almost every child referred to specialists by the Tavistock clinic.
The NHS gender identity service’s own data showed 96% of children sent for assessment to endocrinology clinics were given puberty blockers – 98% [of those] then went on to be given cross-sex hormones.
This aligns with the seventh version of WPATH’s Standards of Care – relied on by the NHS and others – [that] calls for trans people to have “gender-affirming care”, including treatments such as hormones, surgeries and puberty suppression.
Its eighth version, which was published to widespread criticism, included an entire chapter on eunuchs and advocated that medical professionals consider whether they should castrate a person who identified as such. …
Professional medical bodies have also published guidance either endorsing or signposting their members to WPATH’s guidance.
The GMC and BMA have directed their members to WPATH’s standards of care, while the BMA cited them in its “core principles of supportive care”.
The Royal College of Psychiatrists made repeated reference to WPATH’s Standards of Care in its ‘Good Practice Guidelines’ report in October 2013. A review of the document was planned in April 2023, although it is unclear when it was due by. …
Hundreds of messages by WPATH members – who include surgeons, GPs and therapists – were published this week after being sent to American activist Michael Shellenberger, who previously published bombshell leaks from Twitter staff.
The material also includes a recording of an internal panel discussion held in May 2022 which featured a lengthy discussion of how to deal with gender-questioning teenagers who want to be prescribed puberty-blocking drugs or cross-sex hormones yet do not understand the consequences for their fertility.
Dan Metzger, a hormone specialist at a children’s hospital in Canada, told the meeting: “I think the thing you have to remember about kids is that we’re often explaining these sorts of things to people who haven’t even had biology in high school yet.”
He later said: “It’s always a good theory that you talk about fertility preservation with a 14-year-old, but I know I’m talking to a blank wall.
“We try to talk about it, but most of the kids are nowhere in any kind of a brain space to really talk about it in a serious way. That’s always bothered me, but we still want the kids to be happy, happier in the moment, right?”
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“Gender-affirming care” is the exact opposite of what it’s meant to mean. It means encouraging people to think they can change their sex and encouraging them to get themselves mutilated and take drugs they don’t need. The use of the word “care” is also a lie because if you cared for someone you would not encourage them to go against nature irrevocably.
If I identify as a millionaire will the NHS help me become one.
You can be whatever you like, faffor, the world is your oyster.
Sadly no Marcus. I contacted the Pensions Minister to tell him I self-identify as an 85-yr old woman and am therefore owed 20 years backdated State pension, which I wanted paid as a lump sum.
But self-identification doesn’t apply to age.
If you have a ready supply of PPE equipment, they will.
“We try to talk about it, but most of the kids are nowhere in any kind
of a brain space to really talk about it in a serious way. That’s always
bothered me, but we still want the kids to be happy, happier in the
moment, right?”
Hey – that tramp is an alcoholic. Buy the guy a drink, somebody, so he’s happy in the moment.
I missread that, I thought is said WARPATH!
same thing I suppose 🤔
On a slight tangent, if it’s potentially illegal to point out that men pretending they think they are women are actually men, is it also illegal to call a man a woman, or vice-versa? If not, why not? Illegal to tell the truth, but fine to lie.
And if you call this person a bloke you’re a ”misogynist”! lol No, but seriously, this apparently is a woman, just with an extremely warped body image. ‘Body dysmorphia’ on steroids;
https://twitter.com/NataliyaAmazon3/status/1759552677975892039
She’s on Only Fans and has a solid fan base, and as you can see from the comments below these posts, men apparently dig the ‘big’ look 😮 No doubt she would have an awesome physique ( and still a solid fan base ) had she stayed natural;
https://twitter.com/AmazonkaNa13845/status/1760636092099821740
Yeah that’s a bit weird to me. I don’t mind a muscly look on blokes or women – actually think it looks better than being slim or weedy looking (or fat) – kind of how our bodies are meant to look. There’s a spectrum from normalish to pretty muscly (heavyweight boxed/rugby player/actor who plays Reacher) that works for me but those body builder people of both sexes who really push it to the max look a bit grotesque to me and it looks like the fitness isn’t functional either – not flexible or athletic.
I do think more people should lift especially as they get older, and women are often apparently reluctant to lift because they think they will get muscly but the brutal truth is most people don’t train hard enough or eat enough protein to get muscly in a “manly” way.
No offence intended to any Arnie clones on DS – whatever floats your boat!
The most caring way of helping a confused child/teenager is to explain, very gently but firmly, that no-one is born in the wrong body. And it is impossible to change your sex/gender.
And they should be given psychological help to deal with the “disappointment” they may feel at not being the sex/gender they would prefer …. but will NEVER be.
It doesn’t matter what I or we believe. It matters what they who control believe, and they seem to worship one thing.
https://youtu.be/PdzPy7cspK0?si=bVEWOPY2WRVi44DR&t=83
Is the answer to this everyone finding a relationship with God? Definitely worth considering.