Mick Hartley

From the man who uncovered the WPATH files:

There's nothing scandalous about the WPATH Files, say supporters of the organization. It's just doctors and therapists engaged in professional conversations about how to provide the best available care.

But anyone who bothers to actually read the WPATH Files will see that… https://t.co/vlMT0t5pg6

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There's nothing scandalous about the WPATH Files, say supporters of the organization. It's just doctors and therapists engaged in professional conversations about how to provide the best available care.

But anyone who bothers to actually read the WPATH Files will see that there's nothing professional and everything scandalous about them.

The WPATH Files show surgeons, therapists, and trans activists raising concerns about, but also opposing, any obstacle to drugs and surgeries for children and vulnerable adults diagnosed with gender dysphoria.

What is being described isn't just unprofessional. It's profoundly unethical and, in some cases, likely illegal.

On the X Spaces below, everyone agrees that we need to provide the best available care to children, adolescents, and vulnerable adults experiencing gender dysphoria or distress.

But it's clear puberty blockers, hormones, and genital surgeries are the worst form of care, not the best. And yet, they're the first and only form of care that WPATH members are offering.

On the Spaces call below, Jamie Reed @JamieWhistle confirmed that in her 10 years working in a gender clinic, she and her colleagues never turned down a patient seeking drugs and surgery, aka "gender-affirming care."

A medical doctor who fought the opioid epidemic, Dr. Carrie Mendoza @fairinmedi , said professional doctors do not talk like surgeons, therapists, and activists in the WPATH Files.

In the WPATH Files, you see trans activists demanding no barriers or "gatekeeping" getting in the way of giving drugs and surgeries to vulnerable children and adults.

Mendoza suggests it would be like having pharmaceutical salespeople in the room where doctors discuss treatment, urging them to prescribe more oxycontin.

What's happening is madness. Gender ideologues are misdiagnosing anxiety, autism, and being gay as gender dysphoria and prescribing pseudoscientific sex conversion therapy consisting of irreversible surgeries and lifelong medicalization

We all went along with this it because of the culture of caring and the culture of fear.

The culture of caring meant people confused caring with pure affirmation and no gatekeeping.

The culture of fear meant that trans activists sought to destroy the careers and lives of the people who really cared and urged caution.

But things have been changing. Europe is changing. Nations there are reassessing the evidence and increasingly not allowing drugs or surgeries for children, adolescents, and vulnerable adults.

The media is changing. Major new exposes have appeared everywhere, from the Times of London to the New York Times to News Nation, blowing the whistle on the continuing medical mistreatment scandal of "gender medicine."

And now there are the WPATH Files, which are 170 pages of evidence that what's happening is neither medicine nor scientific.

This medical mistreatment will end. The only question now is how many more people it hurts before it does so.

The way forward is demanding honesty and accountability from governments and medical institutions.

There's nothing professional or normal about what's in the WPATH Files. Rather, they expose a shocking scandal and signify the beginning of its end.