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Good news: The Federal Trade Commission and four states are suing the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, which sold the world a pack of harmful lies about so-called gender-affirming care.

The suit aims to make WPATH, whose members it claims profit from the surgeries and drugs it praises, pay for the devastation its recommendations have wrought.

As FTC chief Andrew Ferguson alleged in an X post, “WPATH made deceptive and unsubstantiated claims about the necessity, safety, and efficacy of certain drugs and surgeries used to medically transition children.”

This seems pretty straightforward: For years, health authorities around the world considered WPATH’s Standards of Care to be the gold standard of recommendations for treating gender-related distress, a leap of faith-thinking-it-was-science led to thousands of prepubescents........

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