WPATH: Is the End Nigh?
Two years on the Best of Genspect presents Michael Shellenberger on the end of WPATH
At the Bigger Picture Conference 2023 in Denver, Michael Shellenberger discussed how the gender battles fit into the larger war for the preservation of free expression and, crucially announced the release of the #WPATHfiles. Two years on the landscape around medical transition, especially pediatric transition is changed forever. Now is a good time to reflect on our progress and what still needs happen for WPATH to end.
Michael Shellenberger is a Time Magazine “Hero of the Environment”, Green Book Award winner, and the best-selling author of San Francisco: Why Progressives Ruin Cities and Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All. Michael has broken major stories including San Francisco’s cash incentives for homelessness; Amazon Forest ‘lungs of the world’ myth; climate pseudoscience; climate anxiety; the U.S. government support for fracking; forest management; climate change; and California’s fires. Michael offers testimony as a journalist and policy expert to the U.S. Congress on a range of issues covering free speech, censorship, and the environment
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