The Three Reasons Why The FTC Can Put WPATH On Trial For Fraud
And put an end to pediatric gender interventions in America
Litigation filed this week promises to break the spell of protection that pediatric ‘gender medicine’ has enjoyed in American discourse.
WPATH “has provided the means for medical providers to make false and unsubstantiated claims to parents in order to sell pediatric medical transition services”, the Federal Trade Commission says on their announcement page.
“Children, but especially their parents, must have complete and truthful information when making decisions to purchase medical services”, Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson explained.
FTC joins the attorneys general of four states, Alaska, Iowa, Nebraska and Texas, in charging the World Professional Association of Transgender health with “unfair or deceptive acts or practices” and “unfair methods of competition” in violation of the FTC Act.
Fraud. WPATH is charged with fraud.
The trial will be held in Texas because WPATH never filed the necessary legal paperwork to leave the state where it was incorporated in Illinois. After I attended the FTC panel in July 2025, I was very confident that federal action would take down the pediatric transition industry during Donald Trump’s second term. I am more confident than ever, now.
My confidence has grown for three reasons.
First, because the powers of the FTC are unassailable. The First Amendment does not protect WPATH from fraud laws. Wearing the label of a “medical association” does not grant a protective immunity. Fraud is a crime.
I have frequently compared pediatric gender medicine to patent medicine fraud in the 19th and 20th century, a phenomenon that FTC has banished from the American landscape.
“For decades, the FTC has taken action against entities that make deceptive and unsubstantiated health-related claims”, Ferguson said in a brief announcement. “The complaint filed today reflects that same long-standing mandate: when an entity makes a claim about a medical treatment, the claim must be truthful, evidence-based and not misleading.”
The WPATH “Standards of Care” (SOC) are a joke. No evidence basis has established a special group of children exist that need hormonal interventions or surgeries to alter their sex characteristics, or else they will die.
Citing WPATH standards, clinicians across America have prescribed these interventions to children, telling parents they risked their child’s death unless they agreed.
‘Nice trans kid, would be a pity if something happened to it’ is mafia talk. This sociopathic behavior has been encouraged and enabled by the entire medical establishment for years now on the basis of WPATH standards that, again, are an absolute joke.
Presented with the evidence, a fair court will have no choice but to conclude that WPATH misrepresented its science, its guidelines, and its goals as an organization to the public for decades.
Under pressure from the Biden administration and the American Academy of Pediatrics, WPATH removed age limits for almost all surgeries. WPATH contracted Johns Hopkins for systematic reviews of their evidence, then buried the studies when the evidence showed no improvements in mental health or suicidality.
Meanwhile, the population of children being ‘treated’ grew all the time. WPATH encouraged overdiagnosis. “Between 2017 and 2021, the number of children who were diagnosed yearly with distress about their sex traits in the U.S. nearly tripled from around 15,000 in 2017 to about 42,000 in 2021”, according to the complaint.
These figures are consistent with information that has come to light before. I have confidence that these numbers are right because the fingerprints of Glenna Goldis are all over this complaint, and she is always in command of the facts when she speaks.
Glenna Goldis lost her job with the New York State attorney general because of her advocacy against pediatric gender medicine. This made her a free agent, and FTC has been the recipient of her wisdom since February. Now she will destroy WPATH in detail.
“Please define the word ‘gender’ for the court.”
“Define the term ‘gender identity’ for the court, please.”
“How many genders are there? Can you name them all for the court?”
“What is ‘gender fluidity’? Please explain for the court.”
Glenna Goldis can take up an entire morning, and probably an afternoon, with an excruciating examination of a witness on the terminology that does all the heavy lifting for WPATH. She will make them seem ludicrous, highlight their contradictions, and unpack the organization’s decisions.
“Please define the term ‘reversible’ in reference to puberty blockers for the court.”
“What evidence did your organization use to establish that puberty blockers are ‘reversible’?”
“Why did your organization fail to follow normal standards of evidence-based medicine when you formulated your claims that puberty blockers are ‘reversible’?”
Glenna Goldis is very good at her job, which is prosecuting fraud. No one in the world will be better at this particular job than she is. Moreover, she is very good at telling other lawyers how to unravel the linguistic frauds of genderwoo. A whole team of lawyers can do this to any number of witnesses. Her involvement gives me tremendous confidence.
The lawsuit very neatly lays out the elements of fraud. WPATH was created to access insurance payouts for ‘gender medicine’ in adults. When WPATH re-issued their standards of care (SOC) in 2008, this organizational purpose was expanded to minors.
“As a result of WPATH’s claimed status as the authority on medical transition, WPATH has secured substantial insurance coverage for its members’ pediatric medical transition drugs, surgeries, and services”, the complaint explains.
The 2008 SOC revision succeeded in convincing medical insurers to cover pediatric transition by calling it “medically necessary”. WPATH leadership was “amazed” at the “powerful effect” this had on insurance companies, and the market was soon exploding.
This claim of ‘medical necessity’ has no scientific backing. It is a strong recommendation made on very weak evidence, and explicitly justified in pursuit of “embodiment goals”. Embodiment. Goals.
Cosmetic results, not mental health, are paramount to this ‘treatment’. Minors are embodying themselves as adults through medicine. The latest version of WPATH’s standards of care, SOC-8, “directs doctors to honor these [embodiment] goals as ‘medically necessary.’”
The child must be allowed to change their body to look the way they want it to as an adult, otherwise the child will die: this extortion scheme has been carried out in thousands of medical offices across the country.
After holding their panel last July, the FTC reached out to parents’ organizations and received thousands of stories. Many of them are in the lawsuit. I know a lot of these people. I have read their anguished Substacks and met some of them in person. When the FTC called, the community answered.
This is the third reason I was confident in the outcome of the FTC process: I knew the community would respond.
The FTC has received hundreds of reports from consumers of medical transition services, including patients and parents, as well as healthcare professionals. In particular, numerous parent and patient declarants have complained to the FTC about serious medical complications arising from medical transition services—and that the risks and side effects that they incurred were often not, or not adequately, disclosed to them.
History is made of people in motion, and the history of ‘gender critical’ organizing consists of families impacted by patent ‘gender medicine’ fraud. Angry parents, siblings, grandparents, uncles, aunts, and ex-trans adults responded to the FTC. No right wing conspiracy was necessary.
The effects of this fraud impacted families across society. “Regardless of where they end up, children and parents are unlikely to avoid being influenced by WPATH’s deceptive claims and omissions.” Doctors, nurses, counselors and therapists — all of them have followed WPATH standards.
Clinicians use deceptive words, phrases, and themes from SOC 8. They fail to disclose side effects because the WPATH SOC does. Worse, “SOC-8 permits disregarding and leads clinicians to disregard other causes of distress and encourages proceeding to medical transition as soon as possible.” All roads lead back to WPATH.
Emphasis added: “Despite providing no tools to determine the source of a child’s distress, SOC-8 tells clinicians that, when faced with a child who expresses that they are the opposite sex, clinicians need not — indeed, should not — seek to resolve a child’s issues regarding mental health and trauma before administering cross-sex hormones and performing medical transition surgeries.”
Every systematic review of the evidence has found that psychotherapy should be the first line of treatment for children with gender distress. Instead, because of WPATH, the gender diagnosis overshadows every other problem a child may exhibit.
Hormones and surgeries are prioritized. Mental health and adolescent turmoil take a backseat while the body of a child is altered to fit adult goals.
A right wing extremist could not write that paragraph. Like most people in the community of parents and affected minors, however, Glenna Goldis is urbane and liberal. She did not come from a conservative Christian values conference. She came from the bike lane with a vengeance.
The historical process unfolding here is a community reaction against systemic fraud. Because “WPATH's activities go beyond educational speech to seek to enhance the profits of its members through deceptive speech, then the activity can satisfy the elements of an FTC Act claim.” They are cooked.
Conflicts of interest, circular citations, and admissions against interest show that WPATH was always a fraudulent scheme. The victims of that scheme want justice. WPATH exists because gender doctors wanted insurance coverage for their patients, and then expanded their pool of patients to children, through fraud.
Across society, media, and medicine, we were told it was all evidence-based, medically necessary, and life-saving, so questioning it was practically criminalized.
Now it can potentially all unravel in a single judgment. Assuming that the court gives the evidence a fair hearing, an injunction against WPATH will likely have ripple effects throughout the insurance-industrial medical complex, undercutting the work of gender identity activists and leftist politicians.
Without WPATH, the cult of the ‘trans child’ must wane in America. It has been a mad time, and we shall look back on this fraud with horror. I shall be watching the progress of this case with an historian’s interest.
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I am so grateful for Glenna!!!
She is one of the very few TERFs who understands that progress on fighting genderwoo in this country can ONLY come when Republicans have control of government.