The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) under Trump has unleashed a devastating probe on the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). These trans cult pillars now face scrutiny for deceptive claims about "gender-affirming care" for kids. This is no minor audit – it's a full exposure of an ideology that's scarred children with irreversible harm.
The FTC has asked WPATH and the AAP to turn over documents to determine whether or not the groups made unsubstantiated claims either in marketing or advertising about gender transition treatment. The consumer protection probe has already received pushback from WPATH, which issued a petition to "quash" the FTC's investigation. WPATH claims that the FTC doesn't have the authority to investigate them and that the investigation violated their "constitutional rights."
But this investigation, and putting WPATH on the back foot, emphasizes the collapse of the trans boom. That collapse reveals it's all been ideological hype – not biology or evidence-based, as they like to claim. Evidence shows identification rates plummeting since 2023, tied to real mental health fixes over affirmation delusions. On January 15, 2026, the FTC issued civil investigative demands (CIDs) to both groups – compelling them to produce documents, answer interrogatories, and testify back to 1979, WPATH's founding year.
For more than a decade, the debate over pediatric transition has been framed as moral, political, or cultural. The FTC reframes it in far simpler terms: were medical claims made to parents that were not adequately supported by evidence? This shift cuts through the noise, putting accountability where it belongs.
The focus zeros in on guidelines for puberty blockers, hormones, and surgeries for minors – plus internal emails, evidence for efficacy claims, and risks like infertility and bone loss. All under consumer protection laws – treating "trans health" as falsely marketed junk. WPATH's desperate petition to quash screams overreach and First Amendment foul play – nonsense, this is accountability, pure and simple.
The probe builds on Trump's bold moves – with executive orders defunding child transitions and restoring mental health sanity. Top priorities include banning ideological poison in schools and medicine. The FTC's 2025 workshop on "dangers of gender-affirming care" set the stage – spotlighting low-quality evidence that echoes the U.K.'s Cass Report and HHS reviews.
Under Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act, organizations can be investigated for deceptive or unfair practices. If puberty blockers were described as reversible without long-term outcome data to back it up, that could spell trouble. The same goes for presenting mental health benefits as strongly evidence-based while internal documents admitted low-quality data, or minimizing risks like infertility, bone density loss, and cardiovascular complications. These aren't abstract concerns – they're the core of how parents get misled into irreversible decisions.
Florida's lawsuit against WPATH and AAP adds fuel, charging them with ignoring comorbidities like 75% mental health issues and 35% autism traits in dysphoric kids. Now, the FTC amplifies this – potentially unraveling a scheme where memberships and provider lists hype demand while hiding horrors. WPATH's SOC-8 is a sham: no age minimums for interventions – despite "very low" evidence ratings on most recommendations.
They demand blind affirmation – manipulating parents with baseless suicide threats. This "dead daughter or live son" coercion is crumbling under facts. The entire myth is dead – along with trans ideology's grip.
The AAP fares no better – their 2018 policy prioritizes dysphoria, shoving kids toward permanent damage over therapy. This approach bombed in tragedies like the Minnesota school shooter, where gender ideology amplified untreated delusions with lethal fallout. Affirmation failed spectacularly – proving the cult's dangers.
Parents make life-altering decisions based on representations from professional medical bodies, and the law allows regulators to examine whether those representations were accurate. WPATH argues federal overreach and constitutional concerns in their quash petition, but the Commission isn't questioning whether gender identity exists. It's asking whether medical interventions were marketed with claims that meet federal consumer protection standards. That's a different question – and a far more dangerous one for these institutions, as it strips away the ideological shield and exposes the raw deception.
When those claims fall apart, the real damage becomes undeniable. The harm is real and raging: puberty blockers stunt growth – weaken bones – and sterilize futures, not "reversible" at all. Hormones hike heart risks; surgeries yield no lasting mental wins – just waves of regret and detransition. Kids become victims of a demonic trend – with parents facing emotional blackmail and clinicians being canceled for truth-telling.
This FTC win changes everything: deception findings could trigger bans, lawsuits, and justice for detransitioners. Thank God for warriors exposing evil. Victory is ours; let's claim it fully.
Soad Tabrizi is a licensed marriage and family therapist with a private practice based in Orange County, CA (www.soadtabrizi.com). Soad is also the founder of www.ConservativeCounselors.com.
