WPATH Releases New Guidelines for Transgender Care, Recommendations for Children Grow Increasingly Grotesque
The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) has just released the newest online document of guidelines for practitioners who provide medical intervention for gender dysphoric individuals and children. The newest release, Version 8 or their “Standards of Care” further dives into unnatural chaos, whereby human beings are treated like guinea pigs in medical experimentation.
WPATH’s “Statements of Recommendations” include practices like chest binding — which has been widely criticized for causing a multitude of harmful side-effects. The Cleveland Clinic lists the following negative effects of (yet for some reason still encourages) chest binding:
- Respiratory Problems
- Loss of muscle mass
- Postural changes
- Rib fractures
- Shoulder popping
- Headaches
- Lightheadedness
- Numbness
- Digestive issues
- Fatigue
- Heartburn
- Overheating
- Bacterial infections
- Fungal infections
- Itching
- Scarring
- Swelling
- Tenderness
Cleveland Clinic also notes that “88.9% of respondents experienced at least one negative side effect related to the practice, and nearly 15% sought care related to binding.” But WPATH still recommends the practice for young girls who are susceptible to corrosive lies like this that destroy bodies and lives.
The new guidelines also state that parents do not need to be informed or involved when physicians are prescribing hormone medications to minors (at developmental Tanner stage 2, which typically occurs from ages 9–11) stating the following:
“We recommend health care professionals prescribe sex hormone treatment regimens as part of gender-affirming treatment for eligible* transgender and gender diverse adolescents who are at least Tanner stage 2, with parental/guardian involvement unless their involvement is determined to be harmful or unnecessary to the adolescent.
WPATH Standards of Care Version 8, page S111
WPATH advises physicians to facilitate “the exploration and expression of gender openly” so that “no one particular identity is favored,” but criticizes the practice of affirming patients in their biological sex. In other words, WPATH encourages confused individuals to find their gender identity anywhere except within their true biological sex.
“We recommend against offering reparative and conversion therapy aimed at trying to change a person’s gender and lived gender expression to become more congruent with the sex assigned at birth.”
WPATH Standards of Care Version 8, page S48
Under the new guidelines, WPATH also claims that “counseling or psychotherapy specifically focused on [the patients] TGD [transgender and gender-diverse] identity is not a requirement for the assessment or initiation of GAMSTs,” (GAMSTs are gender-affirming medical and/or surgical treatments). Put simply, this means that prior analysis of a person’s mental health and stability is not required before undergoing medical treatments, even surgeries, according to the organization.
Co-founder of Thoughtful Therapists, James Esses posted on Twitter regarding the updated care standards, “We are told there is no basis to withhold hormones simply because a child has a neurodevelopmental condition.” However the guidelines suggest that it may go further than hormonal treatments for individuals with neurodevelopmental conditions, stating the following:
“There is no evidence to suggest a benefit of withholding GAMSTs from GD people who have gender incongruence simply on the basis that they have a mental health or neurodevelopmental condition.”
WPATH Standards of Care Version 8, page S37
Additionally, patients who have undergone a Frankenstein-like surgery such as a phalloplasty or metoidioplasty, as well as a vaginoplasty, are encouraged to seek “lifelong” medical follow-up care. WPATH blatantly admits that these procedures will force individuals to be dependent on the medical establishment for the rest of their lives, due to the removal and disfiguration of formerly functioning body parts. Not that they needed to say this, because ‘de-transitioners‘ have already pointed out the endless misery and pain caused by these irreversible surgeries.
Worst of all, WPATH seems to remove age recommendations for “gender-affirming” surgeries, simply stating that adolescents must reach Tanner stage 2, and sometimes must undergo hormone therapy for 12 months prior to receiving surgery. Assuming hospitals adopt the new guidelines, this means in many places, children as young as 9 years old would be eligible for irreversible surgeries — when they do not even have the ability to understand the ramifications of their actions, or consent to the changes being made to their bodies.
The rapid acceleration towards a total abandonment of all medical ethics and societal morals is disturbing, considering the number of medical institutions within the US alone that follow the WPATH standards of care, especially pertaining to gender-dysphoric minors. Just recently, Boston Children’s Hospital came under scrutiny for opening the nation’s first pediatrics center for transgender patients. The hospital’s website boasted “a full suite of surgical options for transgender teens and young adults,” and made it clear that they strictly abide by the WPATH guidelines.
Boston Children’s hospital isn’t alone, medical institutions nationwide follow these guidelines, which are becoming increasingly more radical each year. The implementation of this ideology will do irreparable damage to thousands of individuals, both children and adults. Doctor’s swear an oath to “do no harm,” and the removal and butchering of perfectly healthy body parts on anyone, of any age, is a clear violation of that promise.
