Today Is Make Your Local Newspaper Cover The WPATH Files Day
Circumvent the corporate media filter
Look up your local newspaper’s op-ed email address. Copy and paste the text below into your email. It is optimized for a 250-word limit. (Always find out what the word limit is and respect that limit, which actually matters to them as column inches.) This letter was published in the Florence, Alabama Times Daily last week.
I am disowning all copyright to the text, so feel free to use every word other than the name of the newspaper, which you will of course need to alter. And no, this is not a dirty tactic, me telling you to copy and paste. Letter-sharing has been a basic political campaigning tool since the days when newspapers still used actual scissors and paste.
To the editor:
Recently, journalist Michael Shellenberger released an extensive trove of internal documents and recorded conversations from the organization WPATH, or World Professional Association of Transgender Health.
They are evidence of criminal contempt for principles of informed consent and medical ethics. Readers can access the WPATH files at EnvironmentalProgress.org.
WPATH clinicians discussed the loss of reproductive and sexual functions. They conferred over negative health impacts.
At the same time, the organization was downplaying those very problems in public. Privately, they admitted children and parents do not understand the risks.
They discussed the existence of “detransitioners” who give up on “trans identity.” Meanwhile, the organization denied and minimized the very existence of detransitioners and dismissed their health issues.
“Gender” overshadowed mental health issues. No one was ever allowed to question the announced “identity” of any patient for any reason. These were activists, not therapeutic professionals, and they were making it up as they went along.
In one shocking email chain, clinicians discussed how to obtain informed consent from psychiatric patients expressing “multiple personalities.” Their solution: consult all 500 “alters” on what “gender” their shared body should be.
WPATH’s primary institutional concern was not the health of young or adult patients, but how to avoid being sued for the inevitable results of their experimental “medicine” on healthy bodies.
For two decades, medical associations, activist entities, and media organizations have all cited WPATH as the “gold standard” in “gender affirming care.” It was a brutal lie.
The Times Daily must investigate and report.
Local newspapers are not what they used to be. They still exist, however, so we can use them to circumvent the Big Media filter that refuses to acknowledge the WPATH files. The major newspapers that don’t want to cover this story need to hear from us, too. A lot of new information has also come out recently about the harms of puberty blockers and social transition. This week, we are expecting the Cass Review to land at last in the UK. These are all great topics for a second, follow-up letter.
Most newspapers will limit the number of letters they accept for publication from any one reader. Every month, I will be publishing another letter in the Times Daily in order to share it here. Why? Because even with the decline of newspapers, just about everyone who is anyone in Democratic politics reads their local newspaper.
We are no longer simply fighting to be heard, now. We are fighting to be heard by the people who need to hear us most of all. The time has come to systematically confront the legacy media with the real costs of this luxury belief. The supposed science of pediatric sex trait modification is becoming very unsettled, right now. This is the year we relentlessly demand — not ask, demand — fair and impartial coverage of the issue.
In Australia many of the local newspapers are owned by Big Media. I would need to research which are independent. In the meantime I have less than a week to write a submission to a parliamentary committee to fight against an outrageous (in)equality bill proposed by a TQ ally for new legislation in NSW (https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/bills/Pages/bill-details.aspx?pk=18460p) that would significantly erode more sex based rights by amending 20 different laws. We’re fighting fires on many fronts.