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.”
One scandal involving WPATH came to light during a lawsuit brought before the US District Court of Alabama. When the WPATH commissioned reviews from Johns Hopkins University, the lawsuit showed that the group demanded that researchers not publish results that were “unfavorable” and did not promote recommending cross-sex hormones.
Members of the GDG panel directly participated in pressuring the researchers to suppress the data showing the harms of gender ideology.
The letter stated that the conduct of WPATH includes actions even more egregious than working to conceal scientific evidence.
“WPATH, for financial and political reasons, removed age limits from its guidelines for hormones and most surgeries,” the letter underscored. “Correspondence shows that WPATH sought to label cross-sex interventions as ‘medically necessary.’ This change was not based on evidence. Its purpose was to compel insurance companies and government health plans to provide them.”
Why would WPATH benefit from pushing the funding of cross-sex hormones? The letter highlighted that the WPATH is managed by a group whose clients include “companies that manufacture hormones and surgical equipment as well as surgeon groups that practice gender ‘reassignment’ procedures.”
The congressmen stress that this suppression of medical evidence and blatant conflict of interest showcase why these individuals “cannot serve as an unbiased and ethical custodian to develop WHO guidelines on these procedures.”
Additionally, several members of the panel are in leadership positions of the activist group Global Action for Trans Equality (GATE), which the letter emphasized: “exists to promote, not assess gender transition interventions.”
The WHO has blindly promoted transgender surgeries and gender ideology on a global scale, regardless of evidence demonstrating its dangerous and permanent medical ramifications—not to mention the emotional aftermath and regret that often follow for the individual.
The global agency’s panel for “guidelines” on transgender “health” was assembled by three departments:
- Departments of Gender, Rights, and Equity – Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (GRE-DEI)
- Global HIV, Hepatitis, and Sexually Transmitted Infections Programmes (HHS)
- Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research (SRH).
The WHO has also driven similar efforts in the areas of abortion and homosexuality, specifically targeting their forced promotion in “developing countries.” All three of these initiatives—sterilizing gender procedures, abortion, and same-sex relationships—unsurprisingly produce harmful effects on birthrates and the moral fabric of the nations they are implemented in.
Within the United States, these agendas have been among the favorite tools used by progressives and globalists to chip away at the Biblical values America was founded upon.
LGBT ideology and abortion seek to reject God’s design, denigrate the value of human beings created in His image, as well as tear down the sexual moral boundaries that the Lord has established (Genesis 1:27, Matthew 19:4-6, Romans 1:18-32). It turns the individual away from their loving Creator and toward a life of lies, confusion, rebellion, and often suicide.
As the lawmaker pointed out in their letter, the GDG panel appears to be a “global marketing campaign” because that is precisely what it is. The WHO has proven that they are willing to employ whatever corrupt means necessary to promote their anti-God agenda.
Senator Marshall on Tuesday took his call to action a step further, writing on X that “the WHO’s ‘gender identity’ cult and its embrace of irreversible mutilation surgeries are just one of the many reasons why the U.S. needs to walk away from this globalist organization.”
