New from me in The New York Sun: "Leaked Files From Influential Transgender Medicine Group Cause Uproar, Could Imperil Liberal Efforts to Undo State Bans on Gender-Transition Treatments for Children"

I cover the implication to high-stakes litigation over pediatric and young-adult gender-transition treatment of the damning WPATH Files report from Michael Shellenberger's Environmental Progress.

I have a new article in The New York Sun today about pediatric gender-transition treatment. This article, my fourth on the subject for the Sun, examines The WPATH Files, which were published last week by Michael Shellenberger’s think tank, Environmental Progress. They are based on leaked files from the highly influential transgender-medicine and activism group, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health. In particular, I look at how the damning report may impact litigation. This includes district-court battles over state bans of pediatric gender-transition treatment. And it includes medical-malpractice cases waged by so-called detransitioners, which I’ve reported about before.

I spoke with seven current or former WPATH members who were critics of WPATH, some of whom said that this public-relations crisis is of the organization’s own making, because WPATH:

• Has expressed excessive confidence and certainty about the science backing pediatric gender-transition treatment, des…