(ProsperNews.net) – An organization charged with developing international standards for transgender patients has engaged in experimental treatments, according to a recent report. Files belonging to the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) were analyzed by journalist Michael Shellenberger and his Environmental Progress group. The group described WPATH as an activist rather than a medical organization and said its primary purpose is to prevent malpractice accusations against pro-trans physicians.
The files included acknowledgments that many patients are too young to understand the consequences of their decision to take puberty blockers and other hormones frequently administered to children undergoing gender transition.
Dr. Marci Bowers, the organization’s leader, is noted as stating that a young person’s ability to enjoy intimacy is significantly hindered or impossible if they are subject to hormone treatment at a young age. Furthermore, the possibility of liver cancer development in patients as young as 16 is discussed, as well as surgical interventions that result in a complete lack of genitals.
WPATH has set the global standard for “transgender care” since 1979 and advocates an “affirmation only” approach. This means that any person who believes they are transgender will immediately have that confirmed without any psychological investigation or discussion.
It recommends irreversible surgeries on young people who have had no psychiatric assessment, including the removal of young girls’ breasts and the castration of young boys.
Leaked files included notes from a messaging forum in which members admitted that some young people who undergo these surgeries regret doing so in later life. On the forum, Dr. Daniel Metzger pointed to a study from the Netherlands that found that 27% who had undergone radical gender treatment were sorry they had done so because it left them infertile.
Other dangerous side effects noted included vaginal atrophy (inflammation of the vaginal walls), pelvic inflammatory disease (a potentially fatal condition that requires hysterectomy), and lack of sexual ability for males. WPATH doctors also acknowledged a heightened risk of several kinds of cancer.
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