Labour's losing it
We all know that WPATH's latest and 8th Version even offers a chapter on eunuchs with plenty of mention of castration. It's not what most of us would consider "healthcare". And "gender affirming care" is an oxymoron.
Today in the Dáil the Labour Party's motion to "improve trans healthcare" was debated.
In yet another attempt by our political elite to aspire to being best boys and girls in class Deputy Marie Sherlock said in a statement
“Ireland could be and should be in a position to provide a model of gender-affirming care in primary care settings, with a focus on GP-led care, based on informed consent as set out by the WPATH and WHO guidelines and international best practice."
A comment like this demonstrates just how far behind her party is on what's been happening in the real world regarding "gender affirming care", that euphemism for prescribing puberty blockers and opposite sex hormones for those who believe they are really the opposite sex to the one described in every cell of their body. No one can change sex, even with hormones or surgery. We remain the sex we were conceived as no matter what we believe or do to our bodies.
"In the current Programme for Government, the commitment on trans healthcare is far vaguer than was in the prior 2020 Programme for Government, and removes the reference to WPATH and multi-disciplinary teams."
This was a sensible move by the Government given the activist nature of WPATH, (the "World Professional Association for Transgender Health"). WPATH is not a professional organisation, issues political statements (e.g. Black Lives Matter) and criticised the judgement in the Keira Bell case which should alert anyone to the nature of this lobby.
Why did the Government and HSE ever embrace WPATH when, as Genspect's founder Stella O'Malley points out
Excellent speech by @Toibin1 in Dáil Éireann this morning. Ireland is the only English speaking country in the world to reject WPATH, we have managed to maintain some sanity in our national services; but we’re now gearing up to throw it all away, 10 years after everyone else pic.twitter.com/hYdPdXxKzD
— Stella O'Malley (@stellaomalley3) December 3, 2025
The HSE also required applicants for the position of Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist four years ago to adhere to WPATH's 7th Version of its "Standards of Care":
Now of course we all know that WPATH's latest and 8th Version even offers a chapter on eunuchs with plenty of mention of castration. It's not what most of us would consider "healthcare".
However if Labour's TDs have only informed themselves by listening to transactivists it's not surprising that their speeches today betrayed their lack of research on this issue. "Gender affirming care" is an oxymoron: interfering with a body by prescribing hormones which are not needed is not care and an individual's belief doesn't require a physical change to his or her body.
"We are angry that so many people had to go down the DIY route. It is estimated that some 30% are self-medicating with medicines bought on the black market, with no proper GP or clinical monitoring, and all the risks that entails." said Deputy Sherlock today.
Letting consumers demand the "treatment" they want is not medicine of any sort. Why should the taxpayer fund breast tissue enlargement for men with a sexual fetish who get aroused thinking of themselves as women (autogynephiles)? And why should the State fund young women to have their breasts amputated to satisfy a fashionable social contagion?
As Sinn Fein's David Cullinane put it
"Clinicians deserve space to do their job properly and society as a whole deserves public discussion that is humane, truthful and responsible."
