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'Full-scale collapse': Gender transition group calls kid guidelines 'opinions' to defeat FTC suit
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/general...r-AA2aBP8c
EXCERPT: WPATH, the creator of the 2022 "Standards of Care for the Health of Transgender and Gender Diverse People," now claims the SOC-8 guidelines – covertly and crucially shaped by the Biden administration pertaining to minors – are just "statements of opinion," not settled science, and that states have the prerogative to regulate the industry.
WPATH's surprising concessions, in its July 28 motion to dismiss the FTC lawsuit, were flagged Aug. 10 by the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine. Its generally liberal members played a leading role in the Trump administration's systematic review of youth-gender medicine, concluding that such interventions are not supported.
"It's possible the FTC just got its win, regardless of how this case turns out," the Manhattan Institute's gender-medicine researcher Leor Sapir wrote.
By conceding the "medical and scientific uncertainty" around treatment for minors specifically – quoting the Supreme Court's ruling for Tennessee's ban on the practice – WPATH gave insurers ammunition to deny claims for puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgeries and judges and doctors reason not to defer to WPATH claims, Sapir said.
The organization undermined its own arguments before SCOTUS against Tennessee's ban, that the "widely accepted view of the professional medical community" is that gender-affirming care is "appropriate" and even "necessary" for some adolescents, said Alliance Defending Freedom President Kristen Waggoner.
WPATH even compared SOC-8 to the gender-critical talk therapy derided by gender-affirming care proponents as "conversion therapy" but upheld by the Supreme Court, saying each is free speech even if critics deem them "substandard care," SEGM marveled.
"Overnight, WPATH went from defender of the medical consensus to one voice among many in a disputed debate," Waggoner said, illustrating that "the case for childhood medical 'transition' is in full-scale collapse." (MORE - details)
WPATH’s stunning admission could unravel the trans medical industry ... https://youtu.be/AWxzphb-ATM
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/AWxzphb-ATM
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/general...r-AA2aBP8c
EXCERPT: WPATH, the creator of the 2022 "Standards of Care for the Health of Transgender and Gender Diverse People," now claims the SOC-8 guidelines – covertly and crucially shaped by the Biden administration pertaining to minors – are just "statements of opinion," not settled science, and that states have the prerogative to regulate the industry.
WPATH's surprising concessions, in its July 28 motion to dismiss the FTC lawsuit, were flagged Aug. 10 by the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine. Its generally liberal members played a leading role in the Trump administration's systematic review of youth-gender medicine, concluding that such interventions are not supported.
"It's possible the FTC just got its win, regardless of how this case turns out," the Manhattan Institute's gender-medicine researcher Leor Sapir wrote.
By conceding the "medical and scientific uncertainty" around treatment for minors specifically – quoting the Supreme Court's ruling for Tennessee's ban on the practice – WPATH gave insurers ammunition to deny claims for puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgeries and judges and doctors reason not to defer to WPATH claims, Sapir said.
The organization undermined its own arguments before SCOTUS against Tennessee's ban, that the "widely accepted view of the professional medical community" is that gender-affirming care is "appropriate" and even "necessary" for some adolescents, said Alliance Defending Freedom President Kristen Waggoner.
WPATH even compared SOC-8 to the gender-critical talk therapy derided by gender-affirming care proponents as "conversion therapy" but upheld by the Supreme Court, saying each is free speech even if critics deem them "substandard care," SEGM marveled.
"Overnight, WPATH went from defender of the medical consensus to one voice among many in a disputed debate," Waggoner said, illustrating that "the case for childhood medical 'transition' is in full-scale collapse." (MORE - details)
WPATH’s stunning admission could unravel the trans medical industry ... https://youtu.be/AWxzphb-ATM