Global trans group axes age limits for ‘sex swaps’

An international pro-trans group has removed minimum age recommendations for sex swap drugs and surgery in its latest ‘best practice’ guidelines.

The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) now recommends that children can receive puberty blocking drugs and cross sex hormones from the first physical signs of puberty, which can be as young as nine.

Under the new guidance children could undergo irreversible surgeries as long as they have been on cross-sex hormones for at least 12 months in order “to achieve the desired surgical result”.

Accept and promote

WPATH recommends that parents should be involved in the process “unless their involvement is determined to be harmful ”.

Susie Green, Chief Executive of the controversial trans-activist group Mermaids, who has no known medical experience, was one of the committee members responsible for writing the new guidance.

Green avoided UK restrictions when she took her 16-year-old son to Thailand for a full sex-change operation.

‘No change’

The NHS England has modelled its approach to gender identity services on previous versions of WPATH’s standards of care.

But following the latest release, a NHS spokesperson said: “An independent review into the development of gender services for children and young people, led by Dr Hilary Cass, is currently underway.

“The NHS’ service specification for children and young people does not permit surgical interventions until the age of 18 and the NHS will not be changing this position.”

‘Highly ideological’

They are clearly highly ideological and I would say totally irresponsible.

Professor Kathleen Stock OBE told The Telegraph that the “medical community internationally have got to stop outsourcing their brains to these organisations under the guise of medical best practice”.

Stock, who resigned from Sussex University after facing harassment over her belief in biological sex, added: “they are clearly highly ideological and I would say totally irresponsible.

“This is a document that is taken to be the gold standard and it doesn’t seem to take seriously the many medical and ethical implications of these procedures.”