https://justthenews.com/accountability/whistleblowers/gender-transition-side-effects-include-death-patients-have-severeGender transition side effects include death, patients have severe mental illness: leaked convos
A tranche of internal discussions among leaders and practitioners in the so-called gender-affirming-care industry stands to amplify concerns about the safety and effectiveness of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and genital surgeries on children with gender dysphoria.
They show members of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health admitting that some young patients or colleagues developed life-threatening medical conditions or even died after years of treatment.
These are more serious than the sexual dysfunction and developmental problems, such as sterilization, inability to orgasm, weaker bones and sudden spikes in brain pressure, already reflected in research and even federal guidance on gender affirming care.
"The WPATH Files" came from "one or more" people with access to the organization's member discussion forum, whose conversations confirm that "transgender medicine is neither scientific nor medical," Twitter Files journalist and contrarian environmentalist Michael Shellenberger wrote.
Shellenberger's Environmental Progress group summarized and posted communications, which have been copied from printouts based on the skewed orientation, squished spacing and degradation of forum pages.
"WPATH contributes nothing beneficial to the field of gender medicine, and leads medical and mental health professionals astray," says the report, written by journalist Mia Hughes. "Several European nations have already abandoned the group’s guidelines"
A 16-year-old patient developed "two liver masses" after several years on a menstrual-suppression drug and one year of testosterone, "and the oncologist and surgeon both have indicated that the likely offending agent(s) are the hormones," a doctor wrote in the forum.
