In early March 2024, "Environmental Progress" - a non-profit organization founded and managed by
Michael Shellenberger - published leaked files.
The documents and a video reveal the inner workings of the organization "World Professional
Association for Transgender Health", better known as "WPATH".
Kla.TV has summarized and commented on the German "Epoch Times" publication for you,
together with excerpts from the "WPATH" files.
The WPATH Association is recognized as the leading authority on the care and treatment of people who identify as
transgender or who suffer from gender dysphoria, which is a discrepancy between their biological and perceived gender.
According to its own statements, "WPATH" publishes internationally recognized standards of care that represent
a professional consensus on the psychiatric, psychological, medical and surgical treatment of gender dysphoria.
Professionals should recognize these guidelines as the best resources to guide them in the treatment of transgender patients.
But check for yourself, dear viewers, what kind of "guidelines" we are actually talking about.
Sex surgery without proper information
Most "patients" are generally unaware of what they are getting involved with by agreeing to
puberty blockers or gender reassignment surgery.
The leaked files show that "WPATH" doctors and other medical professionals are admitting behind closed doors
that they cannot get properly informed consent from parents and children in the first place.
The Shellenberger report states: "WPATH publicly supports minors and their families consenting to these hormonal and
surgical treatments based on a nebulous inner sense of self.
Privately, some members admit that consent is not possible."
In plain language, this means that young people or parents agree to a treatment that they have not understood.
They have no way of estimating the consequences and extent, e.g. lifelong infertility, pain, infections, a
voice that will never return, incontinence and much more.
The leaks reveal that Dr. Daniel Metzger, a Canadian endocrinologist and senior "WPATH" member, said among his peers
that gender doctors are “often explaining these sorts of things to people who haven’t even had biology in high school yet,”
Metzger added that even adults have very limited knowledge about many of these medical procedures.
As Shellenberger notes in his publication: "It's not medicine since the first rule is to do
no harm. And that requires informed consent."
This is unethical and negligent! Nevertheless, "WPATH" doctors continue their treatments -
which should actually be called "mutilations".
Education on loss of fertility
The "WPATH" guideline states that doctors must inform their patients about the possible loss of
fertility and the options available to preserve fertility.
Dr. Metzger, however, explains to the "WPATH" panel behind closed doors: "It's always a good theory that
you talk about fertility preservation with a 14-year-old
but I know I'm talking to a blank wall. Most of the kids are nowhere in any kind of brain space to
really talk about it really - in a serious way."
Dianne Berg, a child psychologist and also a "WPATH" speaker, openly admitted on the panel that experts do not
expect children and adolescents to fully understand the actual effects of transgender interventions.
We state clearly and emphatically: children and adolescents verbally consent to gender reassignment
treatments, but are in no way able to assess their extent.
The myth of: "Everything is reversible"
So-called "gender affirming doctors" are doctors who are supposed to support and confirm a person's gender identity.
These doctors and supporting politicians in California publicly propagated that the administration of puberty
blockers was a safe and, above all, reversible treatment.
It would serve to reduce the risk of suicide among young people who are at odds with themselves.
The Center for American Liberty's lawsuit, however, shows that taking puberty blockers is "absolutely
permanently damaging", according to Ms. Dhillon .
A California law even allows 12-year-olds “to run away from home and seek refuge in LGBTQ homes to emancipate themselves”.
Medical interventions, such as the use of puberty blockers, hormone replacement therapy and surgery, can be
carried out without parental consent, and this is fixed by law.
The consequences of such irreversible interventions (such as lifelong infertility, irreversible voice
positions, medical problems in everyday life, and much more) are completely disregarded in the legislation.
"WPATH" doctors admit (some privately, some publicly) that they don't know all the
long-term effects of gender reassignment surgery.
The duty of care that applies in other fields of medicine - with comprehensive information for patients - doesn't prevail in "this
sexual experimentation field", Ms. Dhillon explains further.
To put an end to these practices, she believes that doctors who have knowingly lied to their
patients should be charged with medical malpractice.
Erin Friday, attorney and co-director of "Our Duty" , also testified that the "WPATH" files are an admission
that gender reassignment procedures are a huge experiment.
Friday referred to the case of a 16-year-old girl who developed large liver tumors after taking testosterone and other drugs.
An oncologist and a surgeon attributed this to the hormone administration.
Many other known or potential complications were also discussed in the leaked "WPATH" documents.
An equally glaring lack of necessary research and in particular the lack of long-term studies shake the "WPATH" façade.
According to Erin Friday, the "WPATH" files are not only the revelation of an organization that has
overstepped its bounds; they are above all the revelation of gross medical misconduct and widespread lies.
Politicization and lobbying
American psychologist Shannae Anderson emphasizes that the "WPATH" standards are the only treatment
allowed in many states. She finds this worrying.
The main problem is that politics prevents therapists from talking freely with patients about gender dysphoria .
This tramples on freedom of opinion and any attempt to help.
Like other critics, Anderson expects the revelation of the "WPATH" files to lead to hearings
in the US Congress and further legal disputes.
She hopes that this will restore freedom of speech so that therapists can do their work.
They were even threatened with the revoking their licenses if opinions were expressed
that differed from the current "WPATH" ideology.
Anderson further argues that openly addressing and teaching transgender ideology in schools
is inappropriate and dangerous for children.
Political activism and medicine should not mix.
An organization that pursues political goals does not care about the health of patients.
Again, the "WPATH" files contain ample evidence that the organization is an
activist group and not a scientific organization.
According to psychologist Anderson, it is also alarming that "they’re conducting these radical life-altering
procedures on individuals with severe mental health disorders".
Surgical interventions without consideration of mental disorders
Lawyer Friday also criticizes that "gender-affirming doctors" ignore the mental health problems of
patients, although the "WPATH" guidelines stipulate that they should be treated holistically.
Serious mental illnesses, such as severe schizophrenia, depression or bipolarity, are not being
sufficiently taken into account in the "treatment".
Friday also says that children were unable to make informed decisions about gender-specific treatments.
The majority of gender dysphoric minors would eventually accept their natural body at a later stage.
According to Anderson, there is also a lack of sufficient research into the long-term psychological effects of such procedures.
Against better judgment
In an interview between Jordan Peterson, a world-renowned Canadian psychologist and author, and Michael
Shellenberger, who published the leaked "WPATH" files, Shellenberger accuses the "WPATH" doctors:
"And then they just sort of throw up their hands and say: 'We don't really know how to solve this problem .
What is wrong with them that they are so in the grip of an ideology that they are doing these mistreatments
and never questioning - effectively never questioning that perhaps they shouldn't be doing them at all."
Studies by psychologist Ken Zucker showed that of the 2- to 12-year-old boys and girls who, in two separate studies, were
clinically classified as gender dysphoric but did not socially transition, 88 percent reported later as adolescents
and young adults that they no longer suffered from the condition and were comfortable with their original gender.
"Leave them the hell alone till they’re 18."
That was Ken Zucker's recommendation for the treatment, but he was pushed out of business by radicals 10 years ago.
Now the exact opposite is common practice, he said.
"We're gonna take the most extreme possible imaginable surgical intervention.
They tell people if they don't listen, their children are gonna die, they're gonna
commit suicide- which is a complete bloody lie.
And then to top it all off, you are going to offer this absolutely cataclysmic treatment with unimaginably dire consequences ."
This would be tantamount to one of America's biggest medical scandals: the lobotomy, even surpassing this.
Small insertion: Lobotomy was a brutal surgical procedure in the mid-20th century in which sharp instruments were inserted
into the brain to sever the connections of the frontal lobes.
Sometimes an ice pick was hammered into the brain through the eye socket. This resulted in many mutilations and deaths.
It would be too much to go into more detail about lobotomy at this point.
That is why we have produced a follow-up program for you, dear viewers, about lobotomy in comparison to
gender surgery , which you should definitely watch.
But "WPATH" does it anyway
Despite all these warning voices, the acting president of "WPATH", Dr. Marci Bowers, justified herself and the
organization and issued the following statement on March 5, 2024:
"WPATH is and has always been a science- and evidence-based organization whose recommendations are widely
endorsed by major medical organizations around the world.
We are the professionals who best know the medical needs of trans and gender diverse individuals—and stand opposed to individuals
who misrepresent and de-legitimize the diverse identities and complex needs of this population through scare tactics. "
A few days after Shellenberger's "Environmental Progress" published the "WPATH" files, even the British "National
Health Service" stopped the use of puberty blockers in children.
They probably suspected bad things.
While some European countries are at least critical of surgical interventions or treatment with hormones in minors, or have even
banned them, the Self-Determination Act that has now been passed in Germany is intended to make it
as easy as possible to change to the opposite sex.
Even the Deutsche Ärztetag (German Convention of Physicians) confirms that no one can foresee the risks and
long-term consequences at present, probably in order to pull their heads out of the noose in time.
They have spoken out against the treatment of adolescents with puberty blockers or
sex-changing hormones outside of scientific studies.
The administration of puberty blockers or opposite-sex hormones, they say, is "a form of experimental
medicine on children which, among other things, results in the loss of reproductive capacity".
The treatments are "irreversible interventions in the human body of physiologically primarily healthy
minors. Concern for the child's welfare must prevail."
In addition, the delegates to the Convention of Physicians, Ärztetag, also passed a draft resolution calling on
the Federal Government to amend the Self-Determination Act.
We summarize:
While in Germany children and young people under the age of 18 are not allowed to drive or consume alcohol because they
lack the foresight for possible consequences, the gender lobby is promoting gender reassignment surgery for minors.
Children are expected to make decisions effecting their entire lives that they can neither oversee nor assess.
WPATH doctors blindly mutilate healthy bodies, allegedly without knowing the long-term consequences.
But if they were to take a serious look at the existing facts, such as the tumors after hormone administration and
the lifelong disfigurements and disabilities after surgery, they would have to admit an enormous guilt.
In male patients, for example, the best-case scenario after a surgically reconstructed vagina is at best a
cavity that has to be widened for life, as well as a drastically restricted sexual function.
Others suffer serious complications such as blood-filled pelvises, problems urinating and fistulas.
"You can't live like this with dignity," said a 32-year-old victim of this medical crime, who suffers
from constant pain, numbness and urinary tract problems.
Living in a nightmare!
Experts who could really help those suffering are being silenced.
Parents wanting to protect their children from short-sighted decisions with unforeseeable,
lifelong consequences are deprived of custody.
In conclusion, the apt statement by renowned speaker Laura Aboli summarizes it like this:
"The transgender movement is not a grassroots movement, it comes from the top.
It is an evil psyop with a clear agenda to get us closer to transhumanism
by making us question the most fundamental notion of human identity, our gender.
The sad reality though is that in the gaslighting process to get us closer to a post-human future, they have mentally
and physically harmed an increasing number of young children and people. And it's only going to get worse.
This must be stopped!