The WPATH Files: Report Derides Influential Trans-Medicine Group As ‘Unethical’

A damning report based on leaked internal communications depicts the major transgender advocacy group as expressing confidence about gender-transition treatment in public but uncertainty in private.

A damning new report based on a trove of leaked internal communications from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health has lambasted WPATH as “neither scientific nor advocating for ethical medical care.”

The report is based on a WPATH internal-message forum and an internal panel discussion. These were leaked by at least one member of the highly influential transgender medicine and advocacy organization to journalist and climate advocate Michael Shellenberger, known for the so-called Twitter Files.

The resulting report, called The WPATH Files, was published by Mr. Shellenberger’s nonprofit, Environmental Progress, and spearheaded by British journalist Mia Hughes.

A weighty 216 pages, the report pulls no punches, characterizing WPATH as unscientific, unethical and guided by an improvisational attitude toward providing high-risk, often irreversible medical treatments to children, adolescents and vulnerable adults with gender-related distress. Quoting liberally from WPATH mem…