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New video from an internal discussion by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, known as WPATH, an interdisciplinary medical association devoted to transgender health and gender medicine, shows the group discussing issues around trans medicine. To understand the group’s significance in this space, major American medical groups recognize WPATH’s standards of care as the authoritative standards for the provision of transgender health care. In the video, members are seen discussing the challenges of explaining medical concepts to kids who may not have even taken biology yet and data about transitioning and reproductive regret. The footage, released in a report...

According to leaked documents, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health is pushing hormonal and surgical transitions for minors. Getty Images Newly leaked files from the world’s leading transgender health-care organization reveal it is pushing hormonal and surgical transitions for minors, including stomach-wrenching experimental procedures designed to create sexless bodies that resemble department-store mannequins. The World Professional Association for Transgender Health documents demonstrate it’s controlled by gender ideologues who push aside concerns about whether children and adolescents can consent to medical treatments that WPATH members privately acknowledge often have devastating and permanent side effects. Yet the US government, American doctors...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Tuesday responded after President Biden criticized Florida for making efforts to protect children from transgender surgeries and so-called “gender-affirming” treatments. “It is not ‘sinful’ to prohibit the mutilation of minors,” DeSantis said in response to Biden, who lamented the state of affairs in Florida during an interview on The Daily Show. “What’s going on in Florida is, as my mother would say, close to sinful. It’s just terrible what they’re doing,” Biden told Kal Penn. “It’s not like a kid wakes up one morning and says, ‘You know, I decided I wanted to become...