The trans cult built its entire political and medical empire on lie after lie. Not only did it claim that sex is fluid and that people can be born in the wrong body, but then it pushed the idea that gender transitions are medically necessary, even for children, and that doctors all agreed on this point. As a result, parents were emotionally manipulated into letting their children undergo grotesque and dangerous procedures to “affirm” their gender identity. But, now, even the trans cult is admitting that it’s selling snake oil, and there have to be consequences.
You may remember that during President Joe Biden's administration, U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health Richard "Rachel" Levine insisted there was a consensus among medical professionals that "gender-affirming care is medically necessary, safe, and effective." There was never any such consensus. Now the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), the group that has spent years dictating trans health care policy to doctors worldwide, is admitting its guidance is pure bunk.
WPATH has conceded in a court filing that its influential transgender treatment guidelines are merely "opinions."
Opinions. Not medical fact. Not a reflection of medical consensus. Opinion.
The Federal Trade Commission led a lawsuit filed in June accusing WPATH of writing its Standards of Care to help health providers fraudulently obtain insurance coverage for sex-change procedures by falsely calling them "medically necessary." Texas, Alaska, Iowa, and Nebraska joined the suit under their own state trade laws. WPATH responded on July 28 with a motion to dismiss, complaining that the government wants to "silence one half of a scientific debate."
By calling their guidance “opinion,” the organization is effectively undercutting its own claim to be an untouchable medical authority. Make no mistake about it, this is the scam admitting it was a scam.
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WPATH's attorneys argued in the filing that the government's real goal is to "prohibit WPATH from expressing scientific opinions" through "censorship," a curious complaint from a group that spent a decade calling skeptical doctors bigots. WPATH even leaned on the same "medical and scientific uncertainty" language the Supreme Court cited in its June ruling in United States v. Skrmetti, which upheld Tennessee's ban on child sex-change procedures. The motion also claimed that the Trump administration is overstepping federal authority, since many states already reference WPATH’s standards in their laws.
WPATH wrote in the filing, "Plaintiffs seek to brand one side of a scientific debate as 'deceptive' without even considering the science. No court has ever permitted that. For good reason: The government does not get to silence one half of a scientific debate."
Leor Sapir, who co-wrote a 2025 federal government report on gender medicine, explained exactly what just happened. "It's possible that WPATH just gave up the game," Sapir said in a Tuesday post. "If its recommendations are merely one 'opinion' in a legitimate debate defined by 'uncertainty,' and if doctors should judge independently whether to follow them, why should insurers follow them? Why should judges defer to them as the accepted standard of care?"
From where I sit, the trans cult is admitting it's full of crap. If WPATH really believed what it's been selling for years was settled, science-based medicine, it wouldn't need to hide behind the First Amendment to try to survive a federal fraud lawsuit. Science would be all the evidence it needs.
