#WPATH2022

[WarriorN]

Genspect have just raised my awareness of the current WPATH 2022 conference going on and can be followed on twitter via the above hashtag.

For anyone interested.

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

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.

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.

I'd pay good money to see that.

I hope your random thoughts are correct thingy.

I'm not allowed to say my thoughts on the org.

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