Transgender Health Care and the Scandals Revealed in the WPATH Files: Mia Hughes

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🗓️ 6 May 2024

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Mia Hughes, a journalist for the think tank Environmental Progress, discusses the controversy surrounding pediatric medical transition and the collision of trans rights with the rights of women and the LGB community. She authored the recently released WPATH files, which expose the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) as an activist group with questionable medical practices. The conversation delves into the history of WPATH, its influence on healthcare for trans-identified people, and the lack of evidence supporting its treatment protocols. Mia highlights the ethical dilemmas and potential harm caused by the medicalization of gender identity and the irreversible interventions performed on minors. The conversation delves into the harmful effects of gender-affirming medical treatments, particularly on adolescents. Mia discusses the leaked internal discussions from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) and highlights the lack of scientific evidence and the political activism within the organization. They emphasize the importance of informed consent and the need to protect vulnerable individuals, especially minors, from irreversible medical interventions. The conversation also touches on the potential for future lawsuits and the contrasting approaches to gender-affirming care in North America and Europe. Support Theology in the Raw through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theologyintheraw

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0:00.0	Hey friends welcome back to another episode of theology in the raw my guest today is Mia Hughes who is an Ottawa-based journalist for the think tank environmental progress and she primarily covers issues related to gender with a particular focus on the controversy or controversy of
0:15.4	pediatric medical transition and how trans rights collide with the rights of
0:19.4	women and the LGBT community. Mia previously covered the gender issue
0:24.5	for the post- millennial
0:26.6	and has been published in the critic,
0:28.4	lesbian and gay news, and gender dissent.
0:31.4	Mia is a British mother of three living in Ottawa, Canada.
0:35.2	This is going to be a bit of a more serious conversation and a very controversial conversation. I reached out to me because she authored the recently released
0:46.8	W path files. And if you know nothing about what that means, we talk about it very early on in the conversation so we should catch you up to speed
0:55.8	W path stands for World Professional Association for Transgender Health and it is the
1:01.6	leading global organization dealing with health care for trans identified
1:06.8	people. It's become a very controversial organization and a very controversial
1:12.3	topic whenever I give any talk on anything related to the
1:16.3	transgender conversation I just get that out of the way from the very beginning.
1:21.1	Anybody who dares to speak publicly about anything related to the transgender conversation is dealing with controversy.
1:27.5	So the whole, you know, you can't talk about that because it's controversial.
1:30.5	You can't say that. You can't do it. It's controversial. So it's just the way it is.
1:34.4	The key is can you go about engaging in this conversation graciously, kindly, and very thoroughly researched in your knowledge.
1:44.3	Whatever you claim to say or believe or whatever, I do think we need way more thought and
1:49.1	research that goes into how we engage this conversation. And I found Mia to be extremely well researched in her work on the
1:59.6	W path files. That's why I reached out to her. I mean I was reading this, I read a good chunk of the W path files. That's why I reached out to her. I mean I was reading this I read a good chunk of the
2:04.4	W Path files. It's very long and I was just really impressed with how thorough it was.
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