HARBIGERS DAILY–
Just before Christmas, the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced that it would publish new transgender health guidelines.
A panel of 21 experts will meet between 19 and 24 February this year at the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland to work on the guidelines. The membership of this panel has been criticised for being biased towards policies allowing gender self-identification.
WHO has a ‘Department for Gender, Health and Equity’
The organization responsible for these guidelines is the WHO’s Department for Gender, Health and Equity – Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. It says volumes about the WHO’s attitude to healthcare that it uses the term ‘gender’ instead of acknowledging biological sex.
Other WHO departments involved are the Global HIV, Hepatitis and Sexually Transmitted Infection Programmes department, along with the Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research department.
Guidelines will promote gender self-identification
The guidelines are said to focus on five different interrelated areas. As is evident from the wording, these are clearly skewed towards normalising gender self-identification.
“provision of gender-affirming care, including hormones; health workers education and training for the provision of gender-inclusive care; provision of health care for trans and gender diverse people who suffered interpersonal violence based in their needs; health policies that support gender-inclusive care, and legal recognition of self-determined gender identity.” Continue reading…
