Last summer, Dr. Eli Coleman, lead author of WPATH's Standards of Care, wrote in :
* "When developing the SOC-8, we followed the most rigorous protocol in the world to ensure these standards reflect scientific evidence and meet the needs of transgender patients."
* "Developing the standards of care was a long and painstaking scientific review process."
* "What bothers me the most is that politicians and legislators believe that they can assess the scientific literature and make treatment recommendations."
* "When it comes to gender-affirming care, it’s time we trust the experts."
Newly disclosed internal communications within WPATH show that WPATH privately acknowledged the low quality of research on which it was relying, wrote its SOC with a view to helping Chase Strangio (a lawyer) litigate them in court, and was pressured by HHS's Rachel Levine to remove age minimums.
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