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What's Happened Since Michael Shellenberger Dropped the WPATH Files?
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What's Happened Since Michael Shellenberger Dropped the WPATH Files?

A roundup of articles and other media on the leaked WPATH Files and accompanying report

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Mar 06, 2024
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Earlier this week Michael Shellenberger dropped The WPATH Files, along with an astounding report authored by Mia Hughes. Many of you might know Mia from Twitter/X as @_CryMiaRiver.

You can read and download a pdf of Mia’s entire report here.

Soon after the files were released, we jumped to our microphones to put out a live episode of Gender: A Wider Lens. (This was our first live episode ever!) Dr. Carrie Mendoza from FAIR in Medicine joined us. Carrie and Stella were both involved in helping with the launch of the WPATH Files.

You can watch the live episode on our YouTube Channel. It’s completely un-edited so please forgive a couple of technical snafus:

We are curious to see how the press will respond in the coming days and weeks.

Here are some good articles that have been written, so far. Nothing, yet, from the left-leaning US media outlets.

From the New York Post

Secret files show how international group pushes shocking experimental gender surgery for minors, by Gerald Posner

From the Daily Mail

Trans healthcare doctors are exposed admitting that some patients are too young or mentally ill to understand the consequences of their treatment, by Martin Beckford and Alex Ward

From Newsweek

Transgender Hormone Drugs Linked to Cancer, by Aleks Phillips

From The Economist

Leaked discussions reveal uncertainty about transgender care: The files shed light on a controversial area of medicine that has largely retreated into the shadows

From The Daily Signal

‘Let the Reckoning Begin’: Detransitioners Vindicated by Expose of WPATH Experimentation on Minors, by Mary Margaret Olohan

Andrew Doyle’s piece is excellent:

Andrew Doyle
The WPATH Files
The ideological march through the medical institutions was rapid and unexpected. In recent years, we have seen leading paediatric specialists asserting that children who say they are “in the wrong body” must have their feelings immediately affirmed. We have been told that if a boy claims to be a girl, or vice versa, they must be believed and fast-tracke…
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a year ago · 158 likes · 39 comments · Andrew Doyle

And WPATH Files report author, Mia Hughes, along with friend of the podcast Dr. Julia Mason, were featured on NewsNation

How about you? Have you read the files or found any other articles interesting or illuminating? What impact do you think this will have? Please let us know in the comments.

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