<p>The Federal Trade Commission and four states sued the East Dundee-based World Professional Association for Transgender Health Wednesday, in the latest push by President Donald Trump’s administration and others to <a class="Link" href="https://www.wbez.org/gender-identity/2025/07/29/chicago-hospitals-are-scaling-back-trans-care-for-youth-a-rapid-response-team-is-stepping-in" target="_blank" ><u>limit gender-affirming care</u></a> for transgender youth.</p><p>The <a class="Link" href="https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/WPATH-Complaint-Redacted.pdf" target="_blank" ><u>suit</u></a>, filed in Northern Texas federal court, alleges WPATH made deceptive claims about gender-affirming care for minors and profited from it.</p><p>In the complaint, the FTC — along with Alaska, Iowa, Nebraska and Texas — asked a federal judge for a permanent injunction against WPATH for potential “future violations of the FTC Act,” and to award civil penalties and other financial awards to each of the states.</p><p>The suit follows an attempted investigation by the agency into WPATH. The group sued to block the probe, alleging the agency was violating its First Amendment rights. A federal judge in May ruled in favor of WPATH to temporarily block the probe from continuing.</p><p>WPATH said in a <a class="Link" href="https://wpath.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/06.17.2026-WPATH-Statement-on-FTC-Statess-Announcement-of-New-Complaint.pdf" target="_blank" ><u>statement</u></a> that a federal court has already ruled against the FTC over this when it blocked the investigation, and that the agency had “brought a similarly baseless actual complaint and has enlisted the administration’s go-to, obedient state attorneys general to help do its unlawful bidding.”</p><p>“WPATH is in a strong position to prove that the FTC is acting out of pure retaliation as part of the federal government’s relentless and targeted campaign to undermine gender-affirming care by attacking the First Amendment rights and the independence of professional medical organizations,” the statement said.</p><p>The FTC has also launched investigations into the <a class="Link" href="https://publications.aap.org/aapnews/news/34382/New-AAP-lawsuit-argues-FTC-investigation-into?autologincheck=redirected" target="_blank" ><u>American Academy of Pediatrics</u></a> and the <a class="Link" href="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72288700/1/endocrine-society-v-federal-trade-commission/" target="_blank" ><u>Endocrine Society</u></a> over their guidelines on gender-affirming care, both of which also sued.</p><p>The lawsuit is part of a larger Trump administration push to label gender-affirming care as “harmful,” putting the government at odds with dozens of major medical organizations.
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