Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

Well, among the most significant developments of the past year has been a strong pushback against radical gender ideology

and the growing evidence that has emerged against so-called gender-affirming care.

It was early in 2024 that internal files were leaked from the World Professional Association of

Transgender Health or W-Path.

That's a self-annointed medical association that has pushed for the chemical and surgical,

so-called gender transition treatments of minors.

For years, clinical, political, and pop-cultural

activists cited W-Path in order to claim that the science on so-called gender-affirming care

has been settled, and that social, chemical, and surgical transition interventions are safe,

reversible, and life-saving. Well, the leak files from W-Path revealed a much different

and far more damning story. Far from being settled science, these so-called treatments were known

to be experimental and also known to lead to painful complications, including life-threatening

conditions like cancer. In one leaked video, a leading W-path doctor admitted

that a minor could not fully understand the implications of treatment, especially when it comes

to his or her future fertility. In other words, this pseudoscience was being pushed on minors

who were unable to grant actual consent. And then a few weeks later,

the UK's National Health Service released an almost 400-page report on the state of, and I quote

here, gender identity services for children and young people. The Cass Review was an absolute

bombshell. Contrary to the standard narrative long peddled by activists,

this report affirmed that so-called gender affirming care is built on shaky foundations,

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