Concerning: Michael Shellenberger Posts Journalist's Damning WPATH Report on 'Gender-Affirming Care'

Get comfy and brace yourselves. This is a long, and often heartbreaking, thread. Journalist Michael Shellenberger is reporting on the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) report and it is eye-opening.

Advocates of ‘gender-affirming care’ say it’s safe and necessary. This thread shows it’s anything but.

First, a shout out to Mia, the woman who put months of work into this:

Just so we’re all clear on a few things: I’ve spent the last six months working on this report, and I’m the sole author. But the whole project wouldn’t have been possible without the steadfast and unwavering support of Michael @Shellenberger, who saw something in me that I didn’t… https://t.co/nnQp0iLm6S

— Mia (@_CryMiaRiver) March 5, 2024

Excellent work.

THE WPATH FILES

Advocates of gender-affirming care say it’s evidence-based.

But now, newly released internal files from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) prove that the practice of transgender medicine is neither scientific nor medical.

American… pic.twitter.com/mcJ2E7TezW

— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) March 4, 2024

The tweet reads:

American Medical Association, The Endocrine Society, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and thousands of doctors worldwide rely on WPATH. It is considered the leading global authority on gender medicine.

And yet WPATH’s internal files, which include written discussions and a video, reveal that its members know they are creating victims and not getting “informed consent.”

Victims include a 10-year-old girl, a 13-year-old developmentally delayed adolescent, and individuals suffering from schizophrenia and other serious mental illnesses.

The injuries described in the WPATH Files include sterilization, loss of sexual function, liver tumors, and death.WPATH members indicate repeatedly that they know that many children and their parents don’t understand the effects that puberty blockers, hormones, and surgeries will have on their bodies. And yet, they continue to perform and advocate for gender medicine.

The WPATH Files prove that gender medicine is comprised of unregulated and pseudoscientific experiments on children, adolescents, and vulnerable adults. It will go down as one of the worst medical scandals in history.

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Wow. ‘Victims’ is the right word.

Why I Am Publishing WPATH Files And How I Got Them

The written WPATH Files come from WPATH’s member discussion forum, which runs on software provided by DocMatter.

Ninety seconds of the 82-minute video was made public last year. We are making the full video available for the… pic.twitter.com/3AP0pVUTxy

— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) March 4, 2024

Part I: Children and Adolescents

“We’re explaining things to people who haven’t even had biology in high school…”

“I think the thing you have to remember about kids is that we’re often explaining these sorts of things to people who haven’t even had biology in high school yet,”… pic.twitter.com/eCjNbkVuOT

— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) March 4, 2024

“14 year old trans female who started transition since she was 4… wants to have Gender Affirming Surgery” pic.twitter.com/XTP6x16X57

— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) March 4, 2024

FOUR YEARS OLD.

“I’ve recently received questions from an [‘Assigned Female At Birth’] pre-menarche 10 y/o patient about whether blockers will ‘stunt’ his growth…” pic.twitter.com/zkCLedclp6

— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) March 4, 2024

“It is very difficult to ask that they wait until age 16…” pic.twitter.com/h05aXKGAGM

— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) March 4, 2024

A “16 y/o patient…found to have two liver masses… the likely offending agents were the hormones…”

The problem is that drugs can cause tumors, even, apparently, in people as young as 16 years old. pic.twitter.com/IAat1gaKXR

— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) March 4, 2024

Tumors. At 16 years old.

“To what degree… providers discuss actual rates of surgical complications… (e.g., pain…additional surgeries, necrotic tissue, infection, hematomas…”

Many young patients experiencing gender distress do not appear to understand that they may suffer serious consequences from… pic.twitter.com/hQ6U6qFIiz

— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) March 4, 2024

Informed consent is so important in healthcare, and that’s not happening here.

“I feel the best time for surgery in the U.S. is the summer before their last year of high school.”

Despite the widespread and growing expression of concern within the WPATH Files over the negative side effects of gender medicine, WPATH members urge that irreversible surgeries… pic.twitter.com/dv9tKq80VM

— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) March 4, 2024

Think back to the summer before your senior year of high school. Is there anything you wanted then that you still want or have now?

Now imagine making permanent, irreversible changes to your body at that age.

“Most of the kids are nowhere in any kind of brain space to really talk about it seriously.”

One WPATH member says, “It’s out of their developmental range sometimes to understand the extent to which some of these medical interventions are impacting them.”

“We try to talk about… pic.twitter.com/cn1Q0YvhXF