Britain’s National Health Service on Wednesday banned the use of puberty blockers for the treatment of gender dysphoria in transgender minors — while the US medical establishment and the Biden administration remain committed to deadly junk science.
Crucially, US “science” here is dominated by the claims of the supposedly expert World Professional Association for Transgender Health, though internal WPATH communications show it ignores science to push not just hormone treatments for kids, but life-altering surgery — even as its own members privately acknowledge devastating and permanent side effects.
The leaked messages show WPATH doctors admitting that some patients given puberty-blocking drugs are too young or mentally ill to understand, for example, that they risk never being able to have kids as a consequence of their treatment — utterly violating basic medical ethics when it comes to informed consent.
As the premier advocacy group for “gender-affirming” care, WPATH for years set the line for the World Health Organization, European agencies like Britain’s NHS, and top US medical organizations including the American Academy of Pediatrics.
But the United Kingdom and much of Europe have moved away from the junk science, especially on pediatric gender transition — because independent research disproves virtually all the claims that supposedly make it a no-brainer, including the idea that it’s vital to preventing suicide.
We now know that when WPATH adopted its 2022 Standards of Care guidelines, it scrapped a chapter about ethics and removed minimum-age requirements for children starting puberty blockers or undergoing sexual modification surgeries.
Yet the US medical establishment remains in the grip of WPATH, with the AAP still recommending hormones and surgery for kids and the American Medical Association supporting rules to keep parents in the dark about the social transitions of minors.
How much does this matter?
Meanwhile, Scarsdale’s public schools just added “discussion of gender expression and gender identity” to the 5th-grade sex-ed curriculum, citing “guidance from the American Academy of Pediatrics’ inclusive approach to puberty education.”
And a WPATH member, trans woman Dr. Rachel Levine, serves as US assistant secretary for health — not just advocating for pseudo-science, but symbolizing the Biden administration’s commitment to it.
Envy the Brits, Swedes, and so on for having public health establishments that can heed the science and reject this trendy nonsense.
And worry about what other snake oil the guardians of American medicine are buying.
This story originally appeared on NYPost
