WPATH's standards of care include a eunuch gender identity chapter
Helen Joyce said:
“they bring out a standards of care that has an entire chapter about eunuch gender identity. That's why I don't pay any attention to WPATH and why I prefer to listen to Hillary Cass Rita Kotugaldialla”
Pointing to an unusual-sounding chapter title is an effective rhetorical move: it implies the whole document is fringe or absurd, and a viewer unfamiliar with WPATH would have no reason to question that inference.
WPATH Standards of Care 8 is a comprehensive clinical document covering assessment, informed consent, hormonal care, surgery, and mental health support across the full range of people who seek gender-affirming care. It includes a chapter on eunuch-identified people because some people present with that identity and clinicians need guidance on how to support them: that is exactly what a thorough set of medical standards is supposed to do. Including a population in clinical guidance is not an endorsement of any particular intervention, any more than a chapter on intersex conditions endorses intersex surgery. Selecting one chapter title, describing it as strange, and using that to dismiss the entire evidence base those standards represent is a rhetorical move, not a clinical argument, and the people who pay for it are those whose care depends on clinicians having access to the best available guidance.
Anyone who relies on WPATH-aligned care and is told by this framing that the organisation producing their clinical guidelines is not credible.