Federal Trade Commission hosts conference, “The Dangers of Gender-Affirming Care for Minors”

Exposing the fraud and deception of the gender industry

Did you know that on July 9th the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) hosted a day-long conference called The Dangers of “Gender-Affirming Care” for Minors? Did you watch?

The conference description from the FTC website:

This workshop will focus on unfair or deceptive trade practices in “gender-affirming care” for minors. Doctors, medical ethicists, whistleblowers, detransitioners, and parents of detransitioners will share perspectives grounded in research, expertise, and personal experience. The workshop will help the FTC to understand whether consumers are being or have been exposed to false or unsupported claims about “gender-affirming care” and to gauge the harms consumers may be experiencing.

“For decades we’ve acted against deceptive health claims, from shyster shake-oil salesmen to powerful pharma companies,” said FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson. “The issue we address today is no different.” He’s right! What could be more deceptive than to tell a child or vulnerable adult that they were born in the wrong body, and that extreme, irreversible body modification is safe and reversible, and lifesaving and medically necessary? Or to tell parents that they can either have a live son or a dead daughter? Finally! Someone with authority is willing to listen about the harms of gender ideology.

You may recognize some of the names from the panels and presentations including: Drs. Miriam Grossman, Michael Laidlaw, and Patrick Lappert; attorneys Glenna Goldis, Edmund LaCour, Jordan Campbell, and Josh Payne; Leor Sapir and Jennifer Lahl; whistleblowers Jamie Reed, Leta Boylan, and Eithan Haim; champion of parents Brandon Showalter; and more importantly, the survivors and parents (one who acknowledge being a PITT parent)- Prisha Mosley, Soren Aldaco, Forrest Smith, Claire Abernathy, Simon Amaya Price and his father Gareth, Kayla Lovdahl, Beth Bourne, Elvira Syed, Helen Siegel Lee, Gwen Turecki, Erin Friday; and more.

Each speaker revealed detailed and often shocking accounts of the fraud, deception, and abuse inflicted by the multibillion dollar gender industry. I cried while watching, sometimes out of sadness for all the pain and suffering, and sometimes out of relief that the truth was being heard. The authorities at the FTC got an earful. Maybe they can’t believe that some of what they heard is even real. But PITT parents know very well that it is.

Great news was announced at the conference. The Department of Justice has already started to issue subpoenas, 20 so far, to doctors and clinics involved in harming children. Additionally, in coming days the FTC will be seeking via a hotline to hear from anyone with information or personal experience. This is the perfect opportunity for PITT parents to share the terrible impact that gender ideology has wreaked on their families. What I most hope the FTC understands is, that while there is abuse and deception to uncover at every level of the gender industry, there is really no need to get deep into the weeds to document fraud. That’s because the most fundamental premises of “gender-affirming care” are false - people cannot in fact change sex and there is in reality no coherent definition of gender identity - and this alone renders every single part of the gender industry fraudulent. Tear it all down!

Watch the conference here.

Read coverage of the conference here and here.

· When I examine gender-affirming care, and the history that led up to it, I see fraud and deceptive practice everywhere, going back decades. Miriam Grossman, MD

· They told my son to lie to me. They tried to emotionally blackmail me into affirming his delusions. Gareth Price

· Modern medicine cannot work without high levels of trust. This trust has been abused by proponents of gender affirming care and it needs to stop. Leor Sapir

· WPATH authors’ understanding of terms “medically necessary” and “evidence-based” evacuates those terms of any real meaning. Alabama Solicitor General Edmund LaCour

· There is no doubt in my mind that the gender transition industry has perpetrated one of the greatest medical frauds in history to the detriment of our nation’s children. Department of Justice Chief of Staff Chad Mizelle

· Puberty is not a disease, the absence of normally timed puberty is a disease. Michelle Cretella, MD

· Once I mentioned “trans” to doctors all medical ethics was thrown out the window. My consent was stolen from me. Prisha Mosley

· I dove into research. I found Dr. Grossman, and I found Jennifer Bilek, and crucially, Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans. I connected to other parents and quickly realized this is a cult. Gwen Turecki

· It’s so simple that people forget. For an assessment to have diagnostic efficacy there must be a statistically significant group of people who do NOT meet the criteria. And that never happens. Jamie Reed

· “Gender” was the original lie. Glenna Goldis

· My goal is this, to see the decimation of the deceitful gender industry for both minors and adults. Erin Friday