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Trans Activists and Doctors From WPATH Have Secretly Shaped NHS Policies for More Than a Decade, Documents Reveal

by Will Jones
9 March 2024 11:00 AM

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?”

Worth reading in full.

Tags: NHSThe TavistockTrans ActivismTransgenderismWoke Gobbledegook

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