Last year, the mother of a transgender reality TV star, Jazz Jennings, triggered a controversy after she described waking Jazz up in the middle of the night to address medical complications from genital surgery.
I was shocked by the clip but didn’t think much about it afterward. In truth, I didn’t want to think more about it.
But then someone gave me internal discussion files of an organization called WPATH, which stands for the World Professional Association for Transgender Health. We released those files, all 170 pages, yesterday.
What they show is the widespread medical mistreatment of children, adolescents, and vulnerable adults. They show that WPATH members and gender medicine practitioners aren’t getting informed consent from their patients.
That appears to be the case with Jazz Jennings, who was not old enough to understand the implications not only of becoming sterile but also of never being able to have an orgasm. As such, trans isn’t what many of us thought it was.
