False claims: Transgender promoters taken to court for wild statements about ideology * WorldNetDaily * by WND Staff

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There’s an international organization that has built itself on the claims that body mutilating procedures for children, vainly attempting to change boys into girls and vice versa, are “safe.”

The group, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, also claims those chemicals, those surgeries, are “medically necessary.”

But those statements are not true, according to a new lawsuit by the Federal Trade Commission and the states of Alaska, Iowa, Texas, and Nebraska.

A report at the Post-Millennial said it is the FTC and attorneys general from several states have gone to court over WPATH’s “false and unsubstantiated claims” about sex change procedures for children in order for doctors to “sell those procedures to children and parents.”

Andrew Ferguson, of the FTC, said, “Since President Trump was sworn in, the FTC has been aggressively protecting children and the rights of parents across every part of the economy.

“Today, the FTC took another huge step in defense of children and parents. We have filed an enforcement action against the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) for making false and unsubstantiated claims about the safety and efficacy of medical transition procedures, and for providing doctors with the means to sell those procedures to children and parents. The lawsuit alleges that WPATH made deceptive claims about the ‘necessity, safety, and efficacy of certain drugs and surgeries used to medically transition children.'”

Actually, the lawsuit documents how those “transgender” procedures result “in permanent changes to the bodies of the children treated, often at significant personal cost.”

“Parents have a right to make informed decisions about their children’s health. The FTC will not allow parents and children to be deceived by medical organizations and providers who are prioritizing profit over children’s health and safety. While we can never undo the many harms caused by WPATH’s deception, we can prevent WPATH from making false and unsubstantiated medical claims in the future, and that’s what we intend to do,” Ferguson continued.

Among the issues cited in the complaint is the fact that transgender profiteers often claim that the “transgender” child would commit suicide if not provided the body alterations.

But there is an “absence” of evidence for the claim.

The case cites almost a dozen “misrepresentations or omissions by WPATH, including that puberty blockers “are fully reversible” and that such treatments “improve mental health.”

“WPATH made each of these ten misrepresentations or omissions expressly or by implication, WPATH knew they were false or misleading, and WPATH further knew—and intended—that they would provide WPATH members and other providers of medical transition services with the means to mislead consumers. Each of these ten misrepresentations was, and is, important to WPATH members and other providers of transition services. Each of these representations were, and are, important to the children, who receive, and parents, who pay for, those services. As a result of these ten central misrepresentations and omissions, and as pleaded herein, unlawful deception occurred and continues to occur.”

WPATH responded with a claim that the case was “pure retaliation” that is part of the government’s “targeted campaign to undermine gender-affirming care by attacking the First Amendment rights and the independence of professional medical organizations.”