The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) — a group that promotes sex-change drugs and surgeries for minors — lamented the Supreme Court’s decision on Wednesday upholding Tennessee’s law banning those experimental practices for minors.
WPATH, in a joint statement with United States Professional Association for Transgender Health (USPATH), claimed that sex-mutilating drugs and surgeries for minors are “evidenced-based” while also insisting that laws protecting minors from such practices will “make it much more difficult to create an evidence base.”
“Today’s Supreme Court ruling is a dangerous setback for transgender health and human rights in the United States. This decision will effectively allow states to ban evidence-based gender-affirming healthcare for thousands of transgender and gender diverse youth and their families,” the organization claimed
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