The Truth About Gender Affirming Care: A Growing Tsunami of Tragedy
For over 2,500 years, physicians have been guided by the Hippocratic oath to first ‘Do No Harm.’
Recently, “leaked files from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health—better known as WPATH—reveal “widespread medical malpractice on children and vulnerable adults,” according to a 241-page report disclosing emails, documents, and an 82-minute video.”
“The WPATH medical practitioners are fully aware that the gender-affirming care they’re pushing is based on shaky and inadequate medical research, but they continue to push it, ignoring the growing body of scientific evidence that is distancing mainstream medicine from these procedures.”
Independent Journalist Blows Whistle
A non-profit organization, Environmental Progress, led by its president, Michael Shellenberger, (an author of the Twitter Files) obtained the files and released them in an expose on March 4, 2024. What is called ‘gender medicine’ is neither science nor medicine, Shellenberger states. “The experiments are not randomized, double-blind, or controlled. It’s not medicine since the first rule is to do no harm. And that requires informed consent.”
Failure to Obtain Informed Consent from Young Patients
Behind closed doors, WPATH members have admitted to not getting informed consent for hormonal and surgical interventions from young patients who have been mutilated by doctors when they were children. The Center for American Liberty has taken on three pro-bono cases for clients who are suing Kaiser Permanente and the doctors who performed double mastectomies on young women.
Healthcare professionals have confessed that their practices are based on improvisation and that children cannot comprehend them. The consent process is not ethical. The doctors, when prescribing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones and additionally performing surgeries that alter children’s bodies, know that the children should be able to understand the full ramifications of the drugs and procedures.
Children Can Neither Consent nor Understand the Consequences of Hormone Therapy
However, no child is capable of understanding all this, because they are children. And no parent, no matter how sympathetic to their children’s plight, is capable of understanding the full ramifications of the procedures. Once hormonal manipulation is begun there is no turning back.
“Dr. Daniel Metzger, a Canadian endocrinologist, said gender doctors are “often explaining these sorts of things to people who haven’t even had biology in high school yet,” adding that even adults have limited knowledge of many of these medical interventions.
European Countries are Moving Away from Transitioning Children While California Presses Onwards
Following the release of the WPATH files, Britain's National Health Service stopped the use of puberty blockers on children. They concluded there is not sufficient evidence to support the safety or clinical effectiveness of these puberty-suppressing hormones. Other European countries such as Sweden, Finland, Norway, and France are also growing skeptical of gender-affirming treatments.
In the meantime, doctors and politicians in California continue to push puberty blockers as safe and effective. They are saying it’s the only way to prevent suicide among gender dysphoric youth, but the facts say otherwise.
A California law enables children to run away from home and seek refuge in LGBTQ homes to emancipate themselves in pursuing the medical interventions without parental consent. This is all being justified by unethical pseudo-medical standards. Doctors openly admit they don’t know all the long-term effects of their procedures because they don’t follow the patient during their remaining lifetime.
The Center for American Liberty litigation has shed light on the fact that puberty blockers are “absolutely permanently damaging.” It is known that sexual pleasure could be destroyed as a result of ‘gender affirming care.’
Gender Mutilation of Children is Unethical and Violates the Hippocratic Oath
In any other field of medicine, cutting off body parts would be considered malpractice and illegal; however, in this ‘sexual manipulation field’ the same standards of ethical and scientific standards do not seem to apply.
The WPATH Files reveal just how far medical experiments in gender medicine have gone, with discussion about surgeons performing ‘nullification’ and other extreme body modification procedures to create body types that do not exist in nature. And no one is stopping this insanity.
If WPATH were indeed a scientific organization dedicated to ensuring that its members provide the best possible care for patients suffering from gender dysphoria, including minors and those with serious psychiatric comorbidities, it would fund proper clinical trials to assess the safety, effectiveness, risks, and benefits of the treatment protocol for which it so strenuously advocates. An essential part of these trials would be long-term follow-up to measure the impact of allowing adolescents to compromise their health, fertility, and sexual function at such a young age.
Every single doctor who knowingly lied to patients and did not fully explain informed consent or adequately explain the long-term effects of hormonal manipulation and mutilating surgeries on innocent children should be sued for medical malpractice. California has to step up and put an end to this travesty. Parents need to fully do their homework before subjecting their children to what could be a lifelong tragedy.
