STAT: Sen. Rand Paul misunderstands transgender medicine. Here’s the truth! Really?

Of course, it would not take 24 hours for some apologetics of "transgender medicine/health" to come out to oppose U.S. Senator Rand Paul's questioning of cause celebre and Biden nominee Rachel Levine (I blogged here about it).

If somebody claims to know "the truth" that is almost always a big warning sign!

"... Paul’s line of questioning reflects a wider set of misconceptions around transgender medicine — namely, that there is an epidemic of youth hastily undergoing sex changes that they later come to regret. Levine aptly responded that transgender medicine has “robust research and standards of care” — peer-reviewed standards of care designed to prevent Paul’s doomsday scenario. ...
In fact, puberty blockers, along with hormone therapy and gender-affirming surgery, are medically effective in treating gender dysphoria in youth without generating any long-term desire for reversals [???]. ...
Pausing puberty is effective. Most youths who receive gender-affirming care choose to further their physical treatment and do not opt to restart natural puberty, thereby circumventing some surgeries that would alter their post-pubescent secondary sex characteristics. ..."

You cannot make this up!

Then these authors mention the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH). If this does not sound impressive, reputable, and authoritative? However, this association did not exist before 1979 and it was founded under a very different name. It appears before 1995 it was not even an international organisation, but rather a California/San Francisco based one! Moreover, it appears WPATH did not even have conferences before 2020. Looks obscure to me!

Sen. Rand Paul misunderstands transgender medicine. Here’s the truth

Sure enough, according to the authors of this pamphlet, "transgender medicine" is just like a look in the mirror (image appears in above article)! What a nonsense!