#WPATH2022

Excellent (if terrifying) writeup by Eliza Mondegreen here:

elizamondegreen.substack.com/p/so-i-went-to-wpath?r=7w54f&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

I'd pay good money to see that.

I mean, it takes a level of self absorption to appropriate the issues faced by indigenous communities in North America as part of your manifesto for things like free cosmetic surgery to make your face look the way you want it to on demand and without question.

It actually feels more offensive than the sort of things the same people almost certainly criticise as ‘cultural appropriation’ all over twitter. You’ve really lowered the bar when some dodgy ‘cowboys and Indians’ frat party looks less like utterly misguided and overtly racist ‘cultural appropriation’ than your trans activism does.

The TRAP statement is truly ridiculous. it’s almost worth it’s own thread, expect that feels like the wrong response to what is effectively a toddler-style temper tantrum dressed up in a jumble of pseudo academic, social justice words salad.

It takes some doing to make an organisation trying to promote affirmative healthcare for eunuchs out to be dreadful gatekeepers oppressing the most oppressed of all minority groups. And yet, there always seems to be some TRAs out there intent on doing so.

My random thoughts on WPATH and the recent conference.

WPATH is a dying organization that has lost all credibility so I can't see many countries taking much notice of the new Standards of Care and I'm convinced the NHS wouldn't dare be that stupid, again. They blindly followed WPATHs SOC7 when agreeing the service contract for GIDS with huge chunks of the SOC7 cut and pasted but when they had to defend that approach in the Keira Bell case, they couldn't.

WPATH seems to have lost the respect of all sides. GC people certainly do not think much of them but more importantly they have lost the support of the TRAs.

Seeing tweets from this conference is such a contrast to the tweets that came out in 2018, and 2020.

There were no, or very few, incredibly excited delegates crowing about what an honour it was to be there. While none of the mainstream trans organizations seem to be mentioning WPATH let alone talking about the release of what would previously be hailed as 'international best practice'

In previous conferences they published oral extracts. There were video clips, participant reports and numerous slides circulated online of the topics being discussed which gave rise to lots of praise and adoration from trans groups. This time it was all kept behind closed doors.

Finally a group of TW stormed the conference on the first day and police were called in to remove them. The TWs group (TRAPS) feel that WPATH does not represent them and appear to see WPATH as a group of 'gate keeping' medics only interested in making money.

This is the statement that TRAPs attempted to read out at WPATH 2022

drive.google.com/file/d/1wr2SdWIsAKw5bsASvvxaPTVbUV--xqgb/view

Yes, Datun. Threaten to take people's children away - whether forcibly via SS, or in a more insiduous manner, by co-opting them into a movement that threatens to sterilise or subject them to harm, and that kind of reaction should probably be unsurprising.

My god, rogdmum. I'm so sorry. I can't even imagine.

As a parent who was reported to social services by my daughter’s (former) school, I cannot emphasise enough just how evil using the threat of Child Protective Services for parents who wish to be cautious and not affirm is. It puts you under horrific pressure, even where social services are supportive of your position. In our case, I recently discovered (via a SAR) that the school repeatedly approached social services (without our knowledge) up to 8 months after our case was closed. To see this approach pushed at a WPATH conference is not surprising but is horrific.

Bloody hell, the comments under that article. Every single one of them quite prepared to use any violent method at their disposal to deal with those pushing gender ideology.
They'll use guns and face jail if necessary, no hesitation.

So if the narrative about suicide doesn't work, threaten parents with social services. Also working on the premise that parental consent is nice but not essential, I see.

More marvellous stuff from the WPATH conference:

Author Of New WPATH Guidelines Recommends Threatening Parents With Call To Child Protective Services

Massey appeared pleasantly surprised to learn that CPS workers in Georgia had intervened in instances where parents were hesitant to accept their child’s new transgender identity. “And that was educative for me to learn that in my conservative state there are at least some Child Protective Service workers who are willing to enforce the need for affirmation by parents at least with social transition needs, names, pronouns et cetera,” said Massey. “So that may be a resource in states, provinces, regions, countries around the world.”

Massey suggests that threatening to call Child Protective Services on a parent who doesn’t affirm their child’s transgender identity may be all that is needed for the parent to cooperate with socially transitioning their child. “Even before making that call, letting parents know that if that’s true where you are practicing that might get their attention a little bit,” said Massey.

Also noting Dr Kamaruddin is listed on the practise website as 'female'. So anyone specifically looking for a female GP will not be informed that Dr K is in fact male.

Ugh
I can’t say what I think about how Dr Kamaruddin comes across in that tweet because we’re not allowed to talk about it.

As for working more closely with GPs in this area I will be saying ‘no thank you’

NHS England (I don't know the date of this document and whether it is still current):

www.nhs.uk/Livewell/Transhealth/Documents/gender-dysphoria-guide-for-gps-and-other-health-care-staff.pdf

This document is also informed by the seventh edition of the World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH) Standards of Care

NHS Wales link to WPATH on their site:

www.wales.nhs.uk/document/184390/info/

But NHS Scotland seem to have had second thoughts about associating with WPATH after the consultation which included eunuch as a gender identity:

www.nss.nhs.scot/publications/foi-000151-unlicensed-eunuch-procedures-and-the-care-of-the-patients/foi-000151-unlicensed-eunuch-procedures-and-the-care-of-the-patients-html/

That’s incredibly alarming. GPS should not be talking like this about performing intimate examinations on women. It’s beyond unacceptable.

The NHS seem to be pretty closely linked to WPATH. two NHS doctors are senior members.

Would be helpful if Hilary Cass was attending the conference. Do you think she would be, or following it?

Someone on Twitter to Dr Kamaruddin:

'I've stayed for one of your sessions and was appalled. GPs expressing perfectly reasonable concerns about dangers of prescribing 'bridging hormones' B4 pts are seen in sec care, with no clear guidance/pathway - and you dismissing them with "Email me".'

'Because Kamilla is a GP. Not a specialist endocrinologist. The patient won't have seen a specialist before taking exogenous hormones and there would be no shared care agreement in place. Not conducive to patient safety.'

And so contradictory as always!