Sweden cuts ties with WPATH

We knew this day would come. Nevertheless, it is satisfactory after all the "worldwide standard of care" nonsense the lobbyists have been harping on about for years.

Halle-fucking-luhjah indeed!

Goodo! Glad to be of service. Recommend the whole podcast series btw

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I'll set some time aside later to listen to this, I really need to get my head around all the players.

Hm, this report from ForWomen on 'SPATH' suggests they may be talking bullshit about not working with or basing policy on WPATH

forwomen.scot/16/11/2022/spath/

That was my first thought too. Good to see that „progressive“ doesn’t always necessarily mean uncritically accepting of any new ideas/ ideologies.

This is great. Lefties love progressive Sweden so maybe will help to get through.

Excellent news.

I'm really heartened by Sweden and the way they have begun rowing back over the past couple of years. I hope other countries including the UK are watching and learning.

twitter.com/genspect/status/1468207956353331204?lang=en

WPATH 'experts' linked to child pornography/BDSM
grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/top-academic-behind-fetish-site-hosting

After NHS Scotland shared the WPATH SoC v 8, with links to the Eunuch Archive (wherein much CSA material) they conducted an 'investigation'.

This resulted in NHS Scotland saying categorically that they do not use WPATH SoC or work with WPATH anymore:

'On the 15th of June, NHS National Services Scotland’s National Services Division became aware of a third-party document hosted on the National Gender Identity Care Network for Scotland (NGICNS) website. The document has since been removed and the website taken down pending the outcome of an investigation.

NHS Scotland did not author the document, contribute to it or comment on it. The document’s content does not reflect current policy or guidance on standards of care for NHS Scotland.

The document was part of a public consultation led by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) and as such is unrelated to NHS Scotland and the NGICNS. NHS Scotland and WPATH do not have a working relationship, and any concerns about the content should be raised directly with WPATH.'

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/

Good. Bring it all down, bit by bit, piece by piece.

Just checked show notes. Yes. They cover the history. Fascinating

Pretty sure they cover it in here. Check out the links under the video too

A question for anyone who knows - how (and where and by who) did WPATH get started? How did it become an "internationally respected professional association"?

This is MASSIVE!

"puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones will only be available to youth in the strictest of clinical trial settings from now on, given the “extremely weak” evidence for their use."
So they will still be available. But "strictest of clinical trial settings" at least means data will be gathered, and presumably patients followed up.

And it looks as if WPATH has seriously overreached itself! Updating its guidelines from SOC7 to SOC8, which included 'eunuch' "as an innate gender identity even children can possess."

I love this:

"Reimer, as well as many other experts, believes this is a sign that WPATH is not a scientific organization but instead an activist group.

"Had this been published anywhere other than in a supposedly scientific article, it would have been thought that it was satire," said Reimer."

Halle-fucking-luhjah!

Great news. Let's hope it's the beginning of the end of WPATH.

Yet the whole of this field is led by shysters and scammers. The dark heart of it is a hatred of the body and a penchant for sex with children.

Obviously this is good news but even a cursory glance at WPATH would have told anyone with any sense that it is an activist group rather than a credible organisation with expertise in the field of trans healthcare.

They see the lawsuits that are in the pipeline.

Eugenics in Scotland apparently perfectly fine.

I am glad they are in reverse but it was a bit dumb for medical professionals to be doing this in the first place.

This gives us some much needed hope. Thanks for posting OP!
Sweden seem to be a step ahead. The UK still has the potential to be in the lead with them at this point. It's so difficult to predict which way we might go at this point though!
I do hope Hilary Cass is following Sweden's decision here.

Well done, Sweden. I'm sure other countries will follow suit, given time.

From OP:
Gender clinics will no longer be attempting to perform experimental sex changes on under-18s but will instead offer “psychological support to help youth live with the healthy body they were born with.”

This is abhorrent! This is conversion therapy! They want trans people to not exist. This is literal genocide.

Isn't that what we've been told when we've suggested that the best outcome for a gender questioning child is that they reconcile with their sexed body? But also, if this is the desired outcome for children it does throw a different light on what it is to be trans, doesn't it? Maybe we can return to some sanity? I echo others' calls for other countries to follow suit.

Excellent news