The Shaky Foundation of Childhood Gender Transition

Commentary The debate around childhood “gender transition” has become so toxic as to render calm and rational discussion nearly impossible. Each side is quick to smear their opponents as malevolent or ignorant—or both. It’s easy to lose sight of the fact that most of us simply want what’s best for our kids. It’s high time we reverted to that principle as our guiding star, particularly in the immediate aftermath of the explosive “WPATH Files.” These leaked files shine a bright light on the troubling quality of the “Standards of Care” issued by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) and the questionable—and often outright lack of—science underpinning those “standards.”...