In recent years, there’s been a rapid and significant shift in the medical community’s approach to gender dysphoric, or so-called “transgender” healthcare. Medications and procedures such as puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries are increasingly endorsed as “standard care.” This fundamental claim that a man can become a woman or vice versa is so patently unscientific, and yet somehow it has the endorsement of most of the scientific and medical communities in the Western World. So how did we arrive at this point, and who in the world is driving this “consensus”?
You don’t have to dig too far to see that radical gender ideologues are driving this train, not physicians. Investigations have revealed that the rapid acceptance of these so-called “gender affirming” treatments isn’t based not long-term scientific studies (which don’t exist), but instead on close ties between medical organizations and leftwing advocacy groups. One notable figure is Sue O’Sullivan, co-founder of Veritas Association Management. She holds leadership roles in over two dozen medical associations and yet she also serves as the managing director for the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, or WPATH.
WPATH has been instrumental in promoting gender-affirming procedures, including those for minors. Their guidelines have significantly influenced medical practices and policies. This connection would almost be laughable if it weren’t so ethically horrible and hadn’t resulted in the sterilization and cutting up of so many children. Organizations like WPATH leading along the medical establishment in America has shattered public trust. No amount of revelations or backtracking can undo the damage already done to children, adults, and families.
It’s essential to recognize that medicine should be ethically grounded in rigorous scientific research and sane biological understanding.
This is a deadly warning for us all: Christians, conservatives, Americans who want to uphold truth! Any field of study, even medicine, is susceptible to changes in values and worldview. Right now, what the West needs is an army of doctors and care providers to stand up against ideological organizations, point out manufactured “consensus,” and stop the moral and medical spiral.
This post originally appeared at https://phyllisschlafly.com/constitution/free-speech/the-fake-consensus-on-trans-treatments/