Experts say leaked messages present false link between gender-affirming care and cancer
Messages leaked by a think tank inflate cancer risk of gender-affirming hormone therapy. Experts say hormone treatments have been used safely for decades.
Hundreds of messages from an internal chat board for an international group of transgender health professionals were leaked in a think tank report last week and framed as revealing serious health risks associated with gender-affirming care, including cancer. But experts say this correlation is false and oversimplifies the complex role of hormones in the body.
The report was released by Environmental Progress, a think tank focused on energy and environmental policy and founded by Michael Shellenberger, a writer who has previously been critical of gender-affirming care and said he wants to shut down the World Professional Association for Transgender Health. He and other critics of gender-affirming care claim that two particular messages from the WPATH system — where any of the organization’s more than 2,700 member clinicians can go to discuss care — prove a connection between hormone therapy and cancer.
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