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Mar 6 3 tweets 3 min read Read on X
There's nothing scandalous about the WPATH Files, say supporters of the organization. It's just doctors and therapists engaged in professional conversations about how to provide the best available care.

But anyone who bothers to actually read the WPATH Files will see that there's nothing professional and everything scandalous about them.

The WPATH Files show surgeons, therapists, and trans activists raising concerns about, but also opposing, any obstacle to drugs and surgeries for children and vulnerable adults diagnosed with gender dysphoria.

What is being described isn't just unprofessional. It's profoundly unethical and, in some cases, likely illegal.

On the X Spaces below, everyone agrees that we need to provide the best available care to children, adolescents, and vulnerable adults experiencing gender dysphoria or distress.

But it's clear puberty blockers, hormones, and genital surgeries are the worst form of care, not the best. And yet, they're the first and only form of care that WPATH members are offering.

On the Spaces call below, Jamie Reed @JamieWhistle confirmed that in her 10 years working in a gender clinic, she and her colleagues never turned down a patient seeking drugs and surgery, aka "gender-affirming care."

A medical doctor who fought the opioid epidemic, Dr. Carrie Mendoza @fairinmedi , said professional doctors do not talk like surgeons, therapists, and activists in the WPATH Files.

In the WPATH Files, you see trans activists demanding no barriers or "gatekeeping" getting in the way of giving drugs and surgeries to vulnerable children and adults.

Mendoza suggests it would be like having pharmaceutical salespeople in the room where doctors discuss treatment, urging them to prescribe more oxycontin.

What's happening is madness. Gender ideologues are misdiagnosing anxiety, autism, and being gay as gender dysphoria and prescribing pseudoscientific sex conversion therapy consisting of irreversible surgeries and lifelong medicalization

We all went along with this it because of the culture of caring and the culture of fear.

The culture of caring meant people confused caring with pure affirmation and no gatekeeping.

The culture of fear meant that trans activists sought to destroy the careers and lives of the people who really cared and urged caution.

But things have been changing. Europe is changing. Nations there are reassessing the evidence and increasingly not allowing drugs or surgeries for children, adolescents, and vulnerable adults.

The media is changing. Major new exposes have appeared everywhere, from the Times of London to the New York Times to News Nation, blowing the whistle on the continuing medical mistreatment scandal of "gender medicine."

And now there are the WPATH Files, which are 170 pages of evidence that what's happening is neither medicine nor scientific.

This medical mistreatment will end. The only question now is how many more people it hurts before it does so.

The way forward is demanding honesty and accountability from governments and medical institutions.

There's nothing professional or normal about what's in the WPATH Files. Rather, they expose a shocking scandal and signify the beginning of its end.
Things are changing. We can and should expect more of this below. Indeed, we should demand it.

Your persistence and courage are paying off. Thank you @MForstater

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Dec 18
Biden says there’s no “sense of danger” in the repeated invasions of the air space above homes and military bases by unidentified drones. That’s a ridiculous and terrifying lie. Of course there is. Protecting our air space has been one of America’s highest priorities for 80 years Image
From Biden to Mayorkas to DOD spokesperson, the US government officials are flagrantly lying to the American people and nobody knows this more than US military base commanders and the men and women who work in the military.
If you are in the military, Intelligence Community, or other US government agency and know something about these drones, please contact me to shine the light on the wrongdoing.

Encrypted email: michaelshellenberger@proton.me

I will go to prison to protect my sources.
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Dec 14
Biden officials @AliMayorkas & John Kirby said, " We have not seen drones penetrate restricted airspace" and "There are no reported or confirmed drone sightings in any restricted airspace," but US officials have reported drones at Langley, Edwards, Earle, & many other sites.
Drones penetrated restrict airspace at Langley, Norfolk, Edwards, and Nevada National Security Site.

This was heavily reported and so it's very odd for Kirby to make his claim on Thursday and for Mayorkas to repeat it on Friday.

wsj.com/politics/natio…
Now perhaps Kirby and Mayorkas were only referring to the recent drone sightings in New Jersey.

But in NJ there are official reports from Picatinny Arsenal and Naval Weapons Station Earle of drone incursions in recent weeks.

nypost.com/2024/12/12/us-…Image
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Dec 7
There is an epidemic of white police officers killing unarmed black men, we must block the puberty of children born in the wrong bodies to prevent them from killing themselves, the Russians control Trump through a sex blackmail operation, the Covid vaccine prevents infection, millions or billions will die from starvation and harsh weather from climate change, there's no way a Covid virus could have escaped from a lab, mass migration improves societies with no trade-offs, it's best for addicts if we give them hard drugs to use in special sites downtown, we need the government to fight misinformation online in order to save democracy, Biden is sharper than ever, Kamala is 100% prepared to be president, and anyone who disagrees is racist, sexist, and/or fascist.

While many Americans are increasingly and at least partially aware that all of the above are lies, we are still a long way from coming to grips with their enormity, their monstrous consequences, and the totalitarian ways in which the mainstream news media, many employers, and governments demanded that we believe them. Current and former heads of state, our most-trusted journalists, and full professors at Ivy League universities created and propagated those Big Lies, repeatedly, for years, even after they had been thoroughly debunked, sometimes within days or hours of them being made, by people who ruling elites then sought to bankrupt, shame, and ostracize.

There has not yet been a proper accounting of the very many abuses of power, including the Big Lies, by elected officials, the media, and other governing elites during the Woke Reign of Terror (2013 - 2024). That accounting will need not only to thoroughly debunk all of the major lies, it will also need to explore why elites created and perpetuated them, why so many people believed them, why they lasted for so long, and what can be learned from them, both separately and how they worked together as a whole, constituting the worldview of the people who run Western societies and nations. Historians, sociologists, psychologists and many others will, for centuries, study the Work Reign of Terror as a uniquely irrational and self-destructive period in America's history. Hopefully something good, including wisdom, courage, and improved self-governance, will come out of those studies and reflections.
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Nov 22
The Australian PM @AlboMP wants global censorship to counter misinformation. But only free speech can counter misinformation. Please share this to affirm your opposition to his awful bill!
Was the censorship bill a head fake to jam through Digital ID? 🤔
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Nov 21
I am concerned about the impact of social media on children, but this bill is a Trojan horse to create digital IDs, which is a giant leap into the totalitarian dystopia depicted in "Black Mirror," and already in place in China. And @AlboMP has proven censorial and untrustworthy.
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Nov 18
Lovers of free speech just scored victories in the US, EU, and Ireland. But now we’re in pitched battles in Britain & Australia, which is at dire risk of trying to censor the entire planet. This is about all of us, so I’m flying down. Share this to show solidarity. LFG!!! Image
I am headed directly to Canberra to meet with other free speech lovers and the wise and just representatives of the Australian people, who I am confident will kill the @AlboMP governments aggressive and hostile assault on the freedom that enables democracy and all other freedoms.

Australia belongs to its people and it is up to them and their representatives to decide whether they want to remain a liberal democratic nation or instantaneously become a totalitarian one.

But it is the duty of friends of Australia to bluntly warn that @AlboMP is pushing a censorship law that would not only end free speech for Australians but also be viewed as a hostile assault on the free Internet worldwide by people in other nations, including in the US, its best ally.

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@AlboMP Here is the text from the law that makes clear that the @AlboMP censorship law would apply to the entire global Internet.
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