WPATH Said Trans Treatments Were ‘Medically Necessary’ Just to Get Insurance Coverage – HotAir

We’ve covered the activities of WPATH (The World Professional Association for Transgender Health) here in the past. Their dubious interpretations of medical science, focusing almost exclusively on the burgeoning transgender medical industry have somehow become the “industry standard” recognized by other increasingly dubious medical associations like the AMA and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). But recently revealed court documents demonstrate that the way they make their decisions and word their widely cited guidance for doctors and caregivers is heavily dependent on things completely outside of actual medical science. So what is it that drives their approach to developing and publishing medical guidelines? If your first guess was “money,” give yourself a cookie. The Free Beacon reports that WPATH updated their standards of care in 20022 to describe hormone therapy and…