There’s been a change of plans at the World Professional Association for Transgender Health. The new standards of care, slated for online release this week, have been postponed “due to unforeseen circumstances,” the organization announced today.
Intrigue!
The thing is, it’s a terribly inconvenient time for WPATH to recommend lowering the age limit for surgeries. And that’s just what the draft standards of care circulated earlier this year propose:
Double mastectomies at 15. Hysterectomies, vaginoplasties, metoidioplasties, and orchiectomies at 17. Phalloplasties at 18 “unless there are significant, compelling reasons to take an individualized approach” (so 18 is no hard limit).
Meanwhile, public-relations departments at children’s hospitals across the US have been swearing up and down that these surgeries aren’t happening (they’re happening). WPATH’s new standards of care won’t help.
Earlier today—a few hours before WPATH announced the “unforeseen” complications—Fox News reported that the “world transgender health org [is] poised to give hospitals green light to lower age for youth surgeries”:
Children’s hospitals nationwide will soon be faced with the decision whether to continue following the guidance of a leading transgender health association that is expected to lower its recommended ages for chest and genital surgeries to minors under 18.
The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) has yet to release its much-anticipated Standards of Care Version 8, which will lower its age recommendations for breast removal to 15 years old, and genital surgery, including womb and testicle removal, to 17 years old – a year earlier than its previous guidance, the Associated Press reported in June, citing an unreleased draft of the new guidance.
There’s no rethink underway. It’s just that the timing could hardly be worse. My guess is WPATH sees this as a PR problem, something wordplay and clever calendaring can fix.
But it’s not a PR problem. It’s a medical scandal unfolding in plain sight. WPATH can sit on the standards of care and hope this storm blows over but there will be other storms.
Hope WPATH and their odious ilk are starting to sweat bullets.
Expect that the "Lawsuits impending against Tavistock", and related incidents are starting to give them some reason to think that they're on the wrong side of history:
https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2022/09/05/lawsuits-impending-against-tavistock/
It just dumbfounds me that organizations like this aren't able to see the harm they are doing. To me it is an obvious thing that children should be allowed to experience normal physical development. Then, as adults, they can mutilate their bodies all they want, and have only themselves to blame. A child isn't mature enough to make those decisions.
I think the day will come when young adults who were maimed as children, and then became detransitioners, will bring law suits against hospitals, doctors and even against their parents. Litigation is what may finally stop what is happening. Frankly, I don't know why it isn't happening already.