Results: Transgender medical malpractice is widespread, according to study

The research group Environmental Progress analyzed hundreds of pages of internal posts and videos after they were obtained by its founder, journalist Michael Shellenberger. It concluded that the nominally scientific group was nothing more than an unethical activist group that existed to give cover to doctors who didn't want to be sued by allowing them to say they were just following experts' standards. Do you think it is unethical for a group to claim to be medical experts, simply for the purpose of protecting doctors from potential prosecution?

"'Standard of care' is a legal term, not a medical term, and represents 'the benchmark that determines whether professional obligations to patients have been met.' Failure to meet the standard of care is medical negligence, which can result in significant consequences for healthcare providers," it said. The low-barrier gender-transitioning of youth consists of "medical malpractice" that violates the Hippocratic Oath and "causes harm without justification, and its victims are some of society's most vulnerable people," the report added. In your opinion, do you agree that gender-transitioning of youth (Under 18) consists of "medical malpractice" that violates the Hippocratic Oath?

Though the internal discussions show WPATH members essentially experimenting on young people, WPATH publicly says its procedures are not experimental, which allows them to be covered by insurance — which, in practice, enables the wide-scale deployment of them. Environmental Progress called for "reputable medical organizations like the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the American Psychiatric Association (APA), and the American Medical Association (AMA) to cut ties with the organization and to abandon its guidelines in favor of ethical, evidence-based medicine." Do you find it disheartening that some feel it acceptable to provide less-than-pristine care to vulnerable individuals who are already struggling with their identity and seeking help from so-called professional medical organizations and personnel?

In earlier decades, as trans women complained that they weren't persuasively "passing," activist medical providers tried to address that by having them transition before undergoing puberty. But Dianne Berg, a child psychologist and co-author of the child chapter of the group's so-called Standards of Care, acknowledged that youth often didn't actually understand what they were consenting to. "They'll say they understand, but then they'll say something else that makes you think, oh, they didn't really understand that they are going to have facial hair," Berg said. Do you think it is unethical for permanent and life-altering procedures to be conducted on someone who clearly does not grasp the enormity of the decision being made - that will affect them (often severely negatively) for the rest of his or her life?

The consequences include not being able to have children. Dr. Daniel Metzger, a Canadian endocrinologist, acknowledged that the people he was explaining the procedures to often "haven't even had biology in high school yet," and that when he mentions kids to a 14-year-old, they say "ew." Do you think permanent, life-altering procedures should be performed on teens barely old enough to understand how reproduction, etc. works?

One California marriage and family therapist said she has written letters approving of gender surgery for every single person who has asked, including mentally ill people, except for one because "the person evaluated was in active psychosis and hallucinated during the evaluation session." Providers seemed to do little follow-up afterwards and simply presumed the best, with her saying that "everyone got their approval letter, insurance approval, and are living (presumably) happily ever after." Do you think the general overall approval of nearly ANYONE who inquires about having such life-altering surgery is unethical (if not also at least somewhat dangerous)?