WPATH invokes Supreme Court precedents upholding "conversion therapy," state bans on medicalized gender transitions for kids, to claim FTC is persecuting it for "opinions" on care. "It's possible the FTC just got its win," expert says.
Regulators are using WPATH standards as a set of absolutely certain and inflexible scientific rules at the exact moment that WPATH is shrugging and calling the whole thing a highly debatable guess.
A lawsuit accuses WPATH of making deceptive claims about transgender medical "treatments" for minors, minimizing the ethical and safety risks of such interventions.
A lawsuit accuses WPATH of making deceptive claims about transgender medical “treatments” for minors, minimizing the ethical and safety risks of such interventions. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: The Federal Trade Commission (FTC ) and four Republican-led states have filed a lawsuit against the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), alleging the organization misled parents and doctors about the safety and effectiveness of transgender “treatments” for minors . The suit claims WPATH made deceptive assertions regarding puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries while failing to adequately disclose risks. DETAIL: The complaint alleges the group removed age-based recommendations from its standards of…Open
World Professional Association for Transgender Health blasts FTC and its "go-to, obedient" state attorneys general for interfering in medicine and group's "noncommercial speech," which FTC deems very lucrative.