The WHO blasted for 'trans bias' after calling for self-ID to become a human right in global guide for trans care

The World Health Organization has apparently pushed for people to have the right to self-identify as the opposite sex in its first international guide to care for transgender people.

In a recent release, the WHO stated that the new guidelines "will provide evidence and implementation guidance on health sector interventions aimed at increasing access and utilization of quality and respectful health services by trans and gender diverse people."

"The guideline will focus in 5 areas: provision of gender-affirming care, including hormones; health workers education and training for the provision of gender-inclusive care; provision of health care for trans and gender diverse people who suffered interpersonal violence based in their needs; health policies that support gender-inclusive care, and legal recognition of self-determined gender identity."

However, SEGM — which stands for Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine — published a response to the WHO's announcement.

The group tasked with putting together the care guide is set to meet at the WHO headquarters in Geneva on February 19-21, 2024 "to evaluate and interpret the evidence, formulate guideline recommendations, and suggest implementation strategies," according to SEGM.

"Since adolescents and young adults are the largest and fastest-growing group of transgender-identified individuals, it is likely that the WHO guidelines will apply to this vulnerable group as a target population," SEGM said.

The group noted that there are several issues with the WHO's recent announcement, specifically the "biased guideline panel composition," an "inappropriately handled public comment period," and a "rushed guideline development process overall."

The Daily Mail reported that the WHO has not added a single professional who has raised concerns about the potentially negative impact of puberty-blocking drugs on children.

The report noted that Helen Joyce, from Sex Matters, said: "The WHO has chosen a blatantly biased global expert group to write this draft guidance on treating trans-identified people. Almost all its members are known to support medical interventions for gender distress that have no evidence of efficacy, and growing evidence of harm."

"This is part of a disturbing pattern worldwide, in which trans healthcare guidance and programmes are written by small, ideologically driven groups behind closed doors, and then presented as definitive."

Joyce continued: "The WHO should abandon its current draft and start over with a panel of genuine experts. The scientific evidence on risks and outcomes should be assessed rigorously and impartially, not through the lens of trans dogma, as it would be with any other public health issue."

There is a petition going around that already has 1,800 people calling on the WHO to "go back to the drawing board," according to the Mail.

"The majority of the panel members have expressed strong views in favour of hormonal and surgical interventions for transition, dismissed known and potential risks associated with these interventions, and denigrated psychotherapeutic approaches as 'conversion therapy,'" the petition states.

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