‘Damning’ Information About Trans Medical Group Expected To Reach Supreme Court, as Justices Consider Challenge to Ban on Gender Treatments for Minors
Unsealed internal communications from the trans medical organization WPATH will likely undermine pediatric gender-transition treatment in litigation, including a Supreme Court case.
The World Professional Association for Transgender Health, a 44-year old medical group, has for years been at the forefront of promoting and defending access to gender-transition treatment for minors. Amid a burgeoning storm of litigation over these controversial and politicized medical practices, though, the organization’s leaders now find that their own words threaten to undermine this mission.
Last month, a federal court began unsealing an abundance of subpoenaed internal communications among top members of the group, known as Wpath. The documents concern Wpath’s recent revision of the chapters in its trans-medical-care guidelines concerning pediatrics, or medical care for children and teens. At stake is the credibility of these widely observed protocols for treating gender-related distress in minors with puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and sex-trait modification surgeries.
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