It's Been a Big Month for the Truth about Trans
ICYMI, here's some of March's important headlines!
“Gender affirming care” has been in the headlines this month, and if you share our concern about chemically and surgically altering the bodies of vulnerable minors in the name of gender ideology, that’s good news. It’s good news because these stories highlight what many of us have long suspected: that “gender affirming care” really isn’t CARE at all, and that medical organizations that turn a blind eye to the valid concerns raised against these procedures are operating in a state of grievous error.
But since life is busy, we know you might have missed these headlines. So here are three top stories, all in one place. Read them, and then share them with your friends. But more importantly, share them with the folks in your life who still believe that “gender affirming care” is settled science, that all doctors agree that transing kids is medically necessary, and that anyone who objects to it is “phobic.”
We’re not afraid of anything, other than kids getting their developing bodies permanently harmed. And frankly, everyone should have a phobia of that.
Without further ado, here’s the news!
The WPATH Files
A startling revelation emerged with the release of leaked files from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH). These documents, obtained by journalist Michael Shellenberger and published as The WPATH Files: Pseudoscientific Surgical and Hormonal Experiments on Children, Adolescents, and Vulnerable Adults by researcher Mia Hughes, decisively expose what many conservative voices have been saying for years: that so-called “gender-affirming care” is the greatest medical scandal of our time.
“The WPATH Files show that what is called ‘gender medicine’ is neither science nor medicine,” said Shellenberger, President and founder of Environmental Progress, the think tank that published the report. “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.”
Read the whole report HERE.
To learn more about WPATH’s Massachusetts connections, read MFI’s blog post about this report HERE.
Children to stop getting puberty blockers at gender identity clinics, says NHS England
Have you been told that “the science is settled” when it comes to “gender affirming care?” According to England’s National Health Service (NHS), that couldn’t be further from the truth.
In fact, the NHS released a new policy statement on March 12, 2024 that says: “NHS England has carefully considered the evidence review conducted by NICE (2020) and has identified and reviewed any further published evidence available to date. We have concluded that there is not enough evidence to support the safety or clinical effectiveness of PSH to make the treatment routinely available at this time.”
To read the whole NHS paper, click HERE.
To read about it in the Guardian, click HERE.
For an article from Quillette with even more background, click HERE.
Transgender ‘Treatments’ for Children One of the ‘Greatest Ethical Scandals in Medical History’, French Report States
The French are hardly known for being conservative, and yet, a landmark report produced at the behest of the centre-right Les Républicains in the French Senate found that the medical industry embarked upon the practice of giving children life-altering transgender treatments with little evidence of its effectiveness while ignoring the side effects.
To read the article, click HERE.
To check out the report for youself, click HERE (it’s in French, but if you don’t speak the language, online translation tools are a great help!).
And now, for a bonus article. This one’s not from March, but if you were busy in February too, you might have missed it:
As Kids, They Thought They Were Trans. They No Longer Do.
If you are part of the population that has been tracking the concerns about gender ideology for a while now, there might not be many surprises in this article for you (other than the fact that it was published by the New York Times!). But it’s still a solid piece of authentic journalism you won’t want to miss (regardless of the fact that the NYT published it under “Opinion.”)
This article talks about detransitioners, the “affirm trans youth or they will kill themselves” myth, the fact that a growing number of medical and psychological professionals have reservations about gender affirming care, and more.
If you subscribe to the NYT (or you want to), click HERE.
Not a subscriber? Read it in the Wayback Machine HERE (desktop only).
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