Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, R-Fla., filed a lawsuit Tuesday against three of the most insidious organizations pushing the mutilation of children in fealty to “transgender” ideology: the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), the Endocrine Society, and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).
The lawsuit brings a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act case as well as a consumer protection case based on the state’s contention that the organizations knowingly disseminated false information about gender “transition” procedures to children and families. This disinformation campaign then led to children’s genital mutilation, chemical castration, or other irreversible outcomes associated with the interventions — which were very profitable to the organizations recommending them.
“For years, these groups insisted the recommendations were settled science, but behind closed doors, they knew the evidence was weak,” Uthmeier said in a video posted to social media. “They knew the outcomes [were] uncertain, and the risks very real. Parents were not told the full story. In fact, some parents were told that if they didn’t put their kids through permanent, life-altering, sick procedures, like double mastectomies and castration, that their child would commit suicide. Not only is that unethical and dangerous medicine, but it is against the law.”
If successful, the case could be the beginning of accountability for the industry that has made so much money off the physical and psychosocial destruction of children, and could open the door for prison sentences for the predatory groomers involved.
The case, which was filed in St. Lucie County, Florida, states that the three organizations violated the state’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act and have been engaged in racketeering for deceiving “patients, parents, insurers, regulators, and courts about the reversibility and efficacy of pediatric sex interventions.”
The lawsuit also notes how “pediatric gender dysphoria was a rarity a decade ago,” but has now “skyrocketed” as groups like WPATH, the Endocrine Society, and AAP have pledged fealty to an ideology based on doing as much harm to children as possible.
The state AG is asking the court to impose a $10,000 fine for each instance “in which Defendants transmitted false or misleading claims about the safety, reversibility, or efficacy of sex interventions,” as well as a $1 million fine for each of the organizations. Uthmeier is also asking that the court stop the organizations from being able to make those statements in the future.
The lawsuit suggests other punishments the court should impose on the organizations, including, “Ordering Defendants to divest their interests in the enterprise; Imposing reasonable restrictions upon Defendants’ future activities; Ordering the dissolution or reorganization of Defendants’ enterprise; Ordering the suspension or revocation of all licenses, permits, or prior approvals granted to Defendants by any agency of the State; and Ordering the forfeiture of Defendants’ charters and the revocation of certificates authorizing Defendants to conduct business within Florida.”
The predatory groups’ “immoral actions capitalize on the mental distress of children — as well as the natural affections and fears [of] their parents — to help their members sell lucrative surgeries and drugs that irreversibly mutilate and chemically alter children’s bodies without providing any credible medical benefit,” the lawsuit states.
The organizations developed guidelines to push “social transition,” which often leads people down a path to pursue the other things the groups advocated, like puberty blockers, hormones, and mutilation surgeries like double mastectomies for perfectly healthy girls who claim — often by way of coercive brainwashing — that they are really boys.
“Defendants have a problem: there is no credible evidence that sex interventions alleviate pediatric gender dysphoria. To convince patients, insurance companies, regulators, and judges otherwise, Defendants initiated a coordinated campaign to develop ‘clinical guidelines’ recommending sex intervention for pediatric gender dysphoria,” according to the suit.
“Defendants have disseminated multiple misleading advertisements with the same or similar intent (to legitimize and promote sex interventions as treatment for pediatric gender dysphoria), results (the purchase of pediatric sex interventions), accomplices (co-Defendants), victims (minors experiencing gender dysphoria and those paying for their care, such as parents, legal guardians, employers, and insurers), and methods of commission (through representations on their websites and publications).”
