‘Damning’ Information About Trans Medical Group Expected To Reach Supreme Court, as Justices Consider Challenge to Ban on Gender Treatments for Minors

Unsealed internal communications from the trans medical organization WPATH will likely undermine pediatric gender-transition treatment in litigation, including a Supreme Court case.

Paul Morigi/Getty Images for PFLAG National
A report by the psychologist James Cantor found that Admiral Rachel Levine, center, the assistant secretary for health at the Department of Health and Human Services, pressured the World Professional Association for Transgender Health to remove age restrictions on pediatric gender-transition treatment. Paul Morigi/Getty Images for PFLAG National

The World Professional Association for Transgender Health, a 44-year old medical group, has for years been at the forefront of promoting and defending access to gender-transition treatment for minors. Amid a burgeoning storm of litigation over these controversial and politicized medical practices, though, the organization’s leaders now find that their own words threaten to undermine this mission.

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