WPATH has been extraordinarily discredited once again. An unsealed court document has revealed communication between the Biden administration and senior WPATH staff asking WPATH to remove age restrictions from their newly released SOC 8 (“standard of care” version 8). WPATH initially released SOC 8 with age restriction recommendations for gender affirmation medical treatments including surgeries and then removed these days later.
The court document that reveals this bombshell information is the expert testimony of James Cantor, a Canadian clinical psychologist. All of the email communications were obtained by court order. Cantor was engaged by the lawyers to examine the court-ordered email communications and his report filed with the court outlining the contents is now a public document.
Cantor has taken up a personal mission to shine a light on how WPATH and the AAP (American Association of Pediatricians) have twisted evidence and spread misinformation to promote medical gender transitioning of children and young people. His clinical practice specializes in sexuality and gender transition. Cantor began to question the “medical consensus” around gender-affirmation treatments for minors after he thoroughly fact-checked the 2018 AAP policy statement on gender-affirming care for children. His conclusion of the 2018 policy statement was that the AAP was recommending medical gender transition for children and young people “despite the evidence”. His realization of the misinformation being spread by a supposedly reputable medical society drove him to become involved as an expert witness in many of the US court cases seeking to challenge unquestioned access to medical interventions for gender-distressed youth.
His report exposes emails that reveal both WPATH and the AAP’s wanton disregard for ethical standards of medical care and evidence-based best practice. The following excerpts are taken from Cantor’s affidavit filed for the US case Boe vs Marshall.
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