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The Leaked WPATH Files Expose The Pseudoscience Of Transgender Care
Leaks from inside WPATH, the leading organization for transgender care, show that doctors know children can’t consent to the risks and side effects of the care they’re receiving.
By Kristen Marshall4 min read
“Transgender care” has meant a lot of different things over the years. Gender dysphoria, or someone’s feeling that they were born in the wrong sex body, has historically been treated like a mental health condition rather than an identity. Due in large part to political and ideological developments, these days, medical treatment for gender dysphoric patients focuses more on aligning their bodies with their minds rather than their minds with their bodies, which has ushered in a new era of medicine, mostly reliant on new and experimental surgeries and treatments.