World transgender health org poised to give hospitals green light to lower age for youth surgeries

Children's hospitals nationwide follow WPATH, which is expected to lower age requirements for mastectomies, hysterectomies.

Children’s hospitals nationwide will soon be faced with the decision whether to continue following the guidance of a leading transgender health association that is expected to lower its recommended ages for chest and genital surgeries to minors under 18.

The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) has yet to release its much-anticipated Standards of Care Version 8, which will lower its age recommendations for breast removal to 15 years old, and genital surgery, including womb and testicle removal, to 17 years old – a year earlier than its previous guidance, the Associated Press reported in June, citing an unreleased draft of the new guidance.

WPATH’s earlier guidance, Standards of Care Version 7, released in 2011, specified that genital surgery should not be carried out until patients reach the "legal age of majority in a given country," and until "patients have lived continuously for at least 12 months in the gender role that is congruent with their gender identity." It also stated that chest surgeries for females transitioning to male could be performed on individuals younger than 18.

WPATH President Dr. Walter Pierre Bouman issued a statement in late July saying the new Version 8 guidance would likely be released online prior to the organization’s annual conference in Montreal on Sept. 16 but that they were in a "very tight race against time" to meet the deadline.

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What I am most stunned about is that childrens' hospitals are actually even following the guidelines set out by a pro transgender based organization.

The brain is not fully developed until the age of 24 so it should be raised not lowered.

The world has gone bonkers.

It's child abuse. I hope states start stepping up against this.