Reading The WPATH Files As History

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WPATH, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, “is not a scientific or medical group,” Mia Hughes writes. What they do is “not consistent with medical ethics.” Their “approach to medicine is consumer-driven and pseudoscientific, and its members appear to be engaged in political activism, not science.”

Released last week by Michael Shellenberger’s environmental nonprofit, the WPATH files are evidence of the greatest medical crime since lobotomy, Hughes writes. She compares it to three more historical episodes of doctors harming patients, including “Battey’s operation,” in which tens of thousands of women had their ovaries removed in the belief that it would cure a variety of issues.

The WPATH files reveal an activist organization committed to practicing and defending sex lobotomy on children and adults without real informed consent. “A medical experiment based upon an untested article of belief was unacceptable in the 19th century,” Hughes argues. “It is unforgivable …