The United Nations’ World Health Organization (WHO) has assembled a Guideline Development Group (GDG) on “trans and gender diverse people” comprised almost entirely of far-left ideologues.
WHO regulations state that GDG members should not have made any “prior public declaration of a firm opinion or position” on the subject under consideration or be involved in relevant activist organizations.
Nevertheless, roughly 75 percent of the GDG’s panel members are transgender or affiliated with activist organizations such as the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) or both.
“The majority of the GDG clearly have strong, one-sided views in favor of promoting hormonal gender transition and legal recognition of self-asserted gender,” warned Reem Alsalem, UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women and Girls, in a rare example of the UN attempting to hold itself to account.
“Of the 21 announced GDG members, not one appears to represent a voice of caution for medicalizing youth with gender dysphoria or the protection of female-only spaces,” she added.
One WPATH board member attached to the GDG, Chris McLachlan, self-identifies as “gender non-binary” and “transmasculine” and is on record as supporting so-called “gender-affirming” treatments such as puberty blockers and genital mutilation surgery.
Another GDG member, Zakaria Nasser, co-founded a group involved in “trans and queer feminist organizing in Lebanon,” funded by the European Union (EU).
One trans ideologue who has withdrawn from the GDG following media scrutiny is Florence Ashley, a “transfeminine jurist, bioethicist, public speaker, and activist,” who has argued puberty blockers should be the default for young people.
He had also written about his “transition” in graphic detail, describing how he has to “dilate four times a day and wash my coochie” to maintain his mock vagina, comparing the process to “taking it up the ass, minus the fear of pooping everywhere.”
