In September, Canadian news organization The Post Millennial reported on a World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) child transgender summit that was held in Montreal. A team of mental health professionals from Minnesota gathered with other “experts” for panel discussions about treating “pre-pubescent children who have been led to believe they are transgender.” During the conference, these so-called “professionals” referred to young children as “the littles.”

The Millennial exposed a session called “Navigating the Changing Landscape with Littles And Their Families: Exploring The Role Of Mental Health Across Different Practice Settings With Transgender And Gender Diverse Pre-Adolescent Children,” wherein summit participants discussed the various therapeutic approaches to dealing with such children.

“These ‘littles’ are often as young as three years old,” the Millennial reported, and conference participants admitted that many of them “are perfectly fine and don’t need mental health treatment before being socially and medically transitioned.” This may be construed to mean that entirely normal children who express an innocent wish to play with toys of the opposite sex, play dress up, or proclaim on any given day that they are a member of the opposite sex have somehow come to the attention of adults with an agenda, and are marked as needing to be transitioned.

According to the Millennial, summit participants actually appeared to be perplexed that topics such as the risks and benefits of “puberty” suppression, the endocrine system, and future fertility did not come up with children they have worked with, and that, according to a Minnesota psychologist “these important discussions either didn’t happen at all or the knowledge just didn’t stick.” The Millennial observed: “Perhaps [this] is because the average nine-year-old doesn’t have the mental capacity to grasp the complexities of the human endocrine system, nor the implications of an experimental treatment protocol that leads to sterility and a whole host of serious health risks.

“The Minnesota psychologist thinks that therapists are in a unique position to help children understand puberty suppression,” the article continued, “given that they have more time with their patients and more of a relationship. [The psychologist] says she always jokes with ‘her little kids’ saying ‘you know what, I think you’re going to be a pediatric endocrinologist when you get older because you really know a lot of cool stuff.’”

The Millennial observed that “this was met with laughter from the audience because clearly to this crowd, the thought of small children grappling with the intricacies of their endocrine system and their future infertility is highly amusing.”

The same psychologist went on: “I also think that since we are sitting on the floor, playing with kids that ultimately trust us because we’ve talked to them about their video games ... they trust me to talk about things. They need to be able to trust someone to talk about genitalia and to talk about fertility issues in the future.” But the question is why should strangers be talking about sex and genitalia to other people’s young children, even if they purport to be “experts.” Such activities were punishable with jail time not so long ago.

Summit participants also discussed prescribing puberty blockers as though they were antibiotics used to treat an ear infection. But as the Millennial pointed out, the US Food and Drug Administration “has issued warnings for the use of Lupron, and other puberty blockers, after having found that the drugs contribute to bone loss, result in brain swelling, and [may even cause] blindness. These conditions are not reversible and do not come back after the desired pubertal pause. The drugs also cause sterility.”

A California therapist who participated in the summit had a great tip for families struggling with getting their child’s pronouns right. “I encourage them to do a pronoun jar. Every time that somebody gets the pronoun wrong, they put a dollar in the jar, and then you can use the money at the end to buy a [chest] binder.” This frightening advice was met with approval by summit participants, even though when worn consistently by young girls, these binders can impact lung development and cause abnormalities to a child’s ribs and spine.

The therapist from California, who operates her own private practice, made clear that in transitioning “littles” it is important for the “unschooled” to understand that “the pathology is not being trans; the pathology is the transphobia that the kids and their families are winding through the world with. So we’re there as a mental health support if that causes really normal stress.”

Censorship swoops in on The Post Millennial

Shortly after exposing the WPATH summit, The Post Millennial received a legal demand from the participating Minnesota health system to take down its conference report, which included videos that named the experts who spoke or made presentations.

“Children’s Minnesota” publicly claims to be the “seventh largest pediatric health system in the United States,” contends the Millennial, and promotes itself as “the kid experts.” WPATH is “an international non-profit organization which describes itself as being devoted to transgender health, and The Post Millennial “intended to inform readers as to what is going on in the world of trans-affirming mental health care for prepubescent children.” This news source “believes that the footage meets every criteria of fair use.”

The legal letter demanded that the Millennial remove the article and videos from its website, claiming that they “disclosed identifying information of WPATH panelists without proper consents.” The Millennial counters with the obvious: “The information they objected to was provided in person at the conference, as well as via a live stream of the panel,” so it was hardly a secret. In the end, The Post Millennial removed the video of the full panel discussion and replaced it with a three-minute clip.

The author of the letter, Associate General Counsel for Children’s Minnesota Michael Waldrop, has actively posted on social media against anyone or any entity not fully supportive of the radical gender transition agenda. The Post Millennial noted that in 2021, he chastised on Twitter the AT&T Stadium in Dallas, Texas “for allowing the Christian men’s group the Promise Keepers to host an event at the stadium. [Waldrop] asked for ‘Texas queens’ to help stop this event from happening.”

Playing the ‘suicide’ card

Invoking the familiar theme of “suicide prevention” is a mainstay of radicals who lead dysphoric children and their families into accepting drastic and irreversible transgender procedures in the name of “health care.” Similar to the circumstances described last month in Education Reporter, The Post Millennial described the process revealed during the WPATH summit whereby children become subjects for transgender grooming.

One therapist spoke about the difficulty of identifying kids in schools because “while schools are ‘trying to be supportive,’ and ‘trying to do the right thing,’ [they] only have ‘a little bit of knowledge,’ and she worries about the ‘level of binary structure and thinking that happens in the school system.’”

She described parents who attend kindergarten orientation and find that their child’s name has been changed without their knowledge, noting: “You get the parents who agree and the parents who don’t agree, right? I mean, there’s that whole issue.” She continued as her nodding, agreeing panelists looked on: “[W]e’re always working against that heteronormative binary transphobic kind of framework... It’s up to us to help parents push against some of that to give their kid as much space as their kid needs to be whatever their kid is going to end up being. And I think if we don’t do that, society is going to do it for us.”

As always, when parents push back against this extreme agenda, they are told their children will eventually commit suicide if they do not agree to transition them. Dr. Rachel Levine, keynote speaker at the WPATH summit, said much of the work of transgender advocates and medical care (e.g., puberty blockers, hormone treatment, mastectomies, and other disfiguring surgeries) was about “suicide prevention.” She repeated the mantra that children who are not permitted to undergo social and medical transitioning will simply kill themselves.

But is this necessarily so? Researchers say not even close, and the testimony of children, now adults, who have been harmed by these transitions bear this out. (See Flawed Science Behind the Push for Transgender Treatments in this issue of Education Reporter.)

As for the summit, it concluded with panelists discussing how great it is to work with children. The moderator stated: “I don’t think we talked nearly enough about joy, and the joy that comes from this work and the joy that our kids, you know, bring to the conversations and lighting up the conversations with families, and challenging us and pushing us.”

It is just this type of exposure Children’s Minnesota evidently does not want parents and concerned citizens to see.

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