World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) Files

Your mistake is seeing this through an ideological "warfare" lens.

It's a strange and frankly sick way of viewing the medical treatment of children in distress. What I've 'won' through this review it that children suffering with gender confusion will now be treated with the same care and careful consideration that other children are, will have their additional needs and issues considered as contributing factors, will receive evidence-based medical and psychological treatment, and will not be dragged down an irreversible path by a medical establishment in thrall to an activist-derived "affirmation only" model.

Ultimately, we have the same goal - the proper, holistic care of children in distress. I really do believe that this is what you want.

The difference is that I accept new, good-quality evidence as it arises. You first check if it aligns with activist demands and your own politics, attacking it along vectors other than content and evidence when it doesn't.

Its a common tactic with activists across multiple sites it seems. Drop in and throw around accusations of transphobia and wanting to get rid of trans people and then disappear again, never providing any evidence of these claims. Wait a few more days / weeks then rinse and repeat.

I know that the Gay Men's Network in the UK are releasing their response to the Cass review tomorrow and I believe they are planning to call for an investigation to the ways in which transgender ideology has operated as a form of gay conversion therapy. I suspect The Lesbian Project will do something similar re: girls, but I don't think there's any solid research in this area yet.

Bill Maher, who can hardly be accused of being a far right extremist, did a clip about paedophilia in US TV, particularly Nickelodeon and Disney, about a programme called "Quiet on set". He points out how Ron De Santis was called a bigot for accusing Disneyworld Florida of child abuse when many of the very same people were involved in the Disney Channel as well.

He says there's a real problem with some adults who are so deep in the culture wars about right vs left that they are prepared to ignore paedophilia (he uses a blunter term) if the "wrong" person, ie Ron De Santis, is calling it out.

The link with transgender healthcare is from about 5'30 on, where he explains that telling six year olds that they might be a different gender to their biological sex is indoctrinating them, because children believe what adults tell them.

And this is after having done another one a couple of weeks ago about Canada where he mentioned the teacher who identified as a woman with ZZ-size (fake, natch) breasts "Kayla" Lemieux - and that the problem is not even really with the person as with the fact that the school board supported them in such inappropriate behaviour when in charge of minors.

I know Bill Maher is quite daring in his take-downs, unlike most celebs, but I think to see it repeated like this is indicative that there has been a sea change in attitudes.

Bill Maher, who can hardly be accused of being a far right extremist

This sort of presupposes that these people ever have a valid reason when they accuse the people they accuse of being far right extremists. They don't. It's a reflexive response to realising they've found themselves in an argument they have no ammunition for, because they didn't arrive at their opinions through any sort of critical thought process. Like all cult thinking, trying to make an argument is seen as a heretical departure. It's accusations of bigotry all the way down.

There are pros and cons. The main pro is that it is so obviously farcical to scream that the likes of Hillary Cass and JK Rowling are alt-right Nazi bigots that it helps the opponents of gender ideology tremendously when they burst the membrane of their bubble screaming the sort of nonsense that's commonplace within it. The main con is that progressive types have so abused the social stigma that comes along with accusations of bigotry that the accusations have lost much of their (useful) power, and now it is much harder to tell who's actually proposing terrible things and who's just today's 24-hour hate figure for hitting up against a dogmatic diktat of the totalising secular religion that progressivism has become. At least without doing more additional research than most people are prepared to do. For a while, that birthed the societal monster that was "cancel culture" - but that's dying back now and "boy who cried wolf" apathy is beginning to set in, so some pretty awful people manage to get a pass. Which should concern anyone who's in favour of equality and the tenets of classical liberalism (individual autonomy, freedom of speech, economic freedom, etc.) more broadly.

https://nypost.com/2022/06/18/detransitioned-teens-explain-why-they-regret-changing-genders/

One of the detransitioners in the article above is Chloe Cole, who says she still struggles with bodily and facial hair. Can biological females who have detransitioned take oestrogen supplements to stop the hair growing?