How WPATH reviewed every paper on gender affirming care
Dr Helen Webberley on Heretics: the gender debate, with Andrew Gold, Heretics
The evidence for gender-affirming care is thin, cherry-picked, or based on a handful of sympathetic studies. People assume that supporters of this care are simply ignoring the research that cuts the other way.
What WPATH actually did for Standards of Care 8 was spend two years going through every research paper that exists on this subject, good quality and poor quality alike, with a team that included gender specialists, endocrinologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, and paediatricians. That is not cherry-picking. That is the most thorough kind of review medicine produces. And after all of that, their finding was that gender-affirming care improves both mental and physical health. The next time someone tells you the evidence isn't there, it's worth knowing exactly how much work went into finding it.
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