In a letter to the World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General, Tedros Ghebreyesus, twenty-nine US Congress members urged the UN agency to disband its Guideline Development Group (GDG) on transgenderism, stating that the panel appears more like a “global marketing campaign” than an “honest assessment of the medical evidence.”
Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) and Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS), both Doctors of Medicine, led the charge in calling for GDG to be disbanded.
“[The GDG] has been shrouded in secrecy, irregularities, and profound conflicts of interest,” the letter warned. “Many members of the GDG are embroiled in a scandal involving the manipulation of scientific evidence.”
“Incomprehensibly, the Group bypasses evidence reviews on the safety, effectiveness, risks, and costs of treating gender dysphoria with medical interventions, including cross-sex drugs,” the Congress members continued. “Instead, it moves directly to consider how countries should provide such interventions and impose the highly controversial, sex-denying framework of ‘gender identity,’ including through legal ‘self-identification.’”
According to the letter, which included an extensive list of sources and reports, at least ten individuals appointed to the GDG panel are members of the World Professional Association for Transgender Healthcare (WPATH), which the lawmakers demonstrated “has sought to suppress and manipulate evidence that contradicts its socially ‘woke’ activism.” […]
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