WPATH standards of care endorse removing testicles from boys who identify as eunuchs
Helen Joyce said:
“1 of the chapters in WPATH standards of care 8 is entitled eunuchs. And it says that people can have a eunuch gender identity. And that it might be appropriate to intervene if a man says he's a eunuch, for example, to remove his testicles or to give him drugs to make his testicles not work.”
WPATH SOC8 does contain a chapter on eunuch-identified people, so the factual basis of the reference is real, and the implication that this shows the guidelines are extreme or unserious will land with many viewers who have not read the document.
The WPATH Standards of Care 8 eunuch chapter exists, and it addresses a small, specific adult population who identify that way. What it does not do is recommend surgery on request, for anyone, at any age: the chapter explicitly requires thorough assessment and mental health evaluation before any intervention is considered. Lifting one chapter out of a comprehensive document and presenting it as representative of what the guidelines as a whole would sanction for children is not a reading of the evidence, it is a way of making careful, internationally endorsed clinical guidance sound extreme to someone who has not read it. The people who pay for that misreading are the trans young people and their families who need those guidelines to be understood accurately, because their access to care depends on it.
What I said at the time:
“I have met thousands and thousands and thousands of transgender people who identify as a different gender and would like to have gender affirming care and that care doesn't medical intervention isn't needed until puberty.”
Trans young people and their families whose access to internationally recognised clinical guidelines is undermined by a distorted characterisation of those guidelines.