opinion
The World Health Organization (WHO) has assembled a team of 21 people to help develop transgender health care guidelines for use by the medical community around the world. This news in itself is alarming, but the makeup of the group is more than just a slap in the head.
Stacked with transgender activists with little to no medical background, the group's guidelines will undoubtedly allow for the most extreme and lasting care advice for transgender individuals. One board member received the most media attention due to tattoos on their bodies and previous comments advocating the use of puberty blockers for minors regardless of age without any restrictions whatsoever.
Let's take a closer look at what the WHO is up to and what it might mean for individuals and potential children who believe they have gender dysphoria.
What crimes?
The World Health Organization has appointed Florence Ashley, a professor of transgender criminal law, to a 21-member group tasked with developing guidelines on “the health of transgender and gender diverse people.” Florence is also an author and has a tattoo that says “Be gay, commit crimes.”
Florence likes to use the pronouns “they, them, that, whore” and has written a book called Sex/fucking: The pleasures and politics of living in a gendered body. The book explores:
“…eroticism as a site of knowledge about the self and the world.”
RELATED: Gillian Anderson wears vagina-covered dress to Golden Globes — 'for a lot of reasons'
In the book Florence:
“…draws on their experiences as trans activists, academics, and queers to interrogate what it means to live in a gendered body in our difficult and sometimes loving world.”
What does it all mean? No one knows, but it's provocative, so obviously it's important.
Treatment and operation
Florence believes that:
“Puberty blockers should be treated as the default option for all minors.”
Basically, what you believe is that no other treatment should be considered for minors other than preventing the normal progression of puberty. In fact, Florence believes that the natural evolution we have all witnessed since the dawn of time:
“…strongly supports the embodiment of cis by leveraging the psychological and medical tool for transition.”
By far, the most egregious arguments made by Florence for the use of puberty blockers are:
“Although much remains unknown about the long-term effects of puberty blockers, the limited experimental evidence and clinical experience make us more than justified in assuming that any risks that puberty blockers may pose do not preclude future life trajectories as much as adulthood does.” .
Lost? Don't worry, I'll break down the “bitch” argument for you.
RELATED: 'James Bond' is the latest in a long list of classics labeled with 'trigger warnings'
Since we don't know the full extent of the irreversible medical harm that puberty blockers cause to children, we have to use them anyway because puberty is annoying. Sure, the human race has been going through puberty since the beginning of time, and we know what happens during the process… but sure… let's throw caution to the wind.
What could go wrong?
Why?
It's easy to focus on the most extreme member of the group, but the truth is that the bulk of the 21 members of the WHO team are just as bad. Half of the group had no medical experience at all, and most of the group was made up of gender activists.
Psychotherapist Stella O'Malley explains why this is worrying:
“The WHO committee is made up mostly of social justice and human rights lawyers who believe that a gender-affirmative approach is the only option…”
What Ms. O'Malley means is that the majority of the committee members do not believe in other methods of treating transgender individuals, including mental health methods. Ms. O'Malley continues about the committee:
“They will set care guidelines for transgender people, yet they don’t have anyone who represents the critical balance on their committee.”
And here's the problem: the committee, and by extension the WHO, is not interested in the actual full care of transgender individuals; They care about paying the most extreme and irreversible care. The question is why?
The power of the World Health Organization
The guidelines that these “experts” will help formulate according to the World Health Organization will:
“…provide evidence and implementation guidance on health sector interventions aimed at increasing access to and utilization of quality and respectful health services by transgender and gender diverse people.”
That's right, non-medical or healthcare professionals will help shape the guidance the health sector uses based on the “evidence” they provide. The WHO explains that the guidelines will focus on specific policy areas to include:
- Provisions for transitional care, including hormone therapy
- Health policies that support gender-inclusive care
- Laws that respect the individual's rights to express his or her gender in a way that suits him or her
Let's play a game which one isn't like the other. It's like asking governments to issue different forms of identification that allow for gender flexibility.
I'll leave you with this nugget for those who think what happens at the World Health Organization doesn't matter within our borders. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, the United States is one of the largest donors to the World Health Organization:
“Between FY 2014 and FY 2023, the U.S. assessed contribution was fairly stable, ranging between $110 million and $123 million.”
What we invest in is what we care about.
RELATED: Biden administration replaces statue of Pennsylvania founder, William Penn, to be 'inclusive'
It's time to support and share the sources you trust.
The Policy Insider ranks third on Feedspot's “Top 100 Political Blogs and Websites” list.
