World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) Files

Seems legit to me: the front page has a number of environmental projects. There's also a California group working on the Fentanyl scandal there. The WPATH files don't seem to be particularly highlighted at all:

But of course shooting the messenger is always so much simpler than dealing with the issue itself.

I had to do a search for the WPATH files, but here they are with direct links:

So anyone who's claiming the original files aren't linked to is just wrong. I'm sure they'll all immediately look at them so we won't have to reply on tweets from people like Gerald Posner (who has written exposés into, among other things, the US Oxycontin scandal and the Sackler family's role in it).

So now it's not an anti trans NGO masquerading as an environmental group, but a pro fossil fuels group masquerading as an environmental group.

That's progress I suppose. 😄

What they actually say about themselves is that they show case a wide ranging group of opinions, rather than push a single "authorised" view. It's surprising to me how controversial an idea that is for some people.

Anyway, now that we've established that they are NOT just an anti trans NGO masquerading as an environmentalist group, and that they have done that shocking thing of making to information on WPATH available for anyone to consult, maybe you'd put aside how much you dislike differences of opinion being allowed to be expressed for the moment and consider the information the WPATH leaks have put into the public domain?

Things like doctors seriously looking for information as to whether it's okay for a man to take viagra while he is "breastfeeding" a baby thanks to a cocktail of drugs, at least one of which is known to cause heart problems and to pass into breast milk?

When women are breastfeeding they're told not to take aspirin FFS, and not to eat cabbage, never mind drink alcohol - but unless there's actual data about the risks of giving viagra to babies, the default position is to try to enable the man to do this??

Why? It's obviously not about the baby's best interests. It's about "validating" a man's feelings. In fact the proof that they know he's a man is that a woman would never be allowed prioritise her feelings and "need for validation" over the baby's needs. Never.

Yes, sorry I got confused who I was replying to: it wasn't you said "An anti-trans front NGO. Call yourself something totally unrelated and innocuous to deflect the underlying reality."

Why do you think they're a culture war lobby, and more importantly, what does it really matter considering they have made the source material available to all to judge for themselves? Is the source material now itself dependent on who has put it out there??

IOW, can we discuss the actual issues, rather than badmouth the people who've made it available for public scrutiny? That seems very much like shooting the messenger.