Dispute arises over World Professional Association for Transgender Health’s involvement in WHO’s trans health guideline
October 30, 2024
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Dispute arises over World Professional Association for Transgender Health’s involvement in WHO’s trans health guideline
WHO says that it adheres to standard protocol for its transgender health guideline, but the process has been criticised for lacking transparency and an association with WPATH—an organisation under fire for meddling with its own guideline development.
Which has itself commissioned several forthcoming relevant systematic reviews, and the Clinical Advisory Network on Sex and Gender (CAN-SG), a network of mainly UK and Irish clinicians, raised the question of whether WHO would be evaluating the benefits and harms of hormonal treatments for gender incongruence—or if instead it “has taken a policy position on this without critically appraising the evidence,” as a letter from CAN-SG put it.