For many years, I have written dozens of articles condemning Bob Ferguson and Chris Reykdal for being national leaders of the Trans Drug Cult – a cult that makes billions of dollars – paid for by tax payers – by telling fraudulent lies to parents and kids to get kids addicted to toxic Trans Drugs. This cult has severely harmed thousands of kids and their families here in Washington state. In these articles, I provided a mountain of scientific evidence confirming that the claims made by Ferguson, Reykdal and other leaders of the Trans Drug Cult are provably false. In particular, Reykdal and Ferguson have repeatedly claimed that giving troubled kids toxic Trans Drugs and cutting off their body parts reduces their suicide rate. In fact, several studies have shown that giving kids toxic drugs like puberty blockers and cross sex hormones INCREASES their suicide rate!
In September 2025, I filed a 64 page complaint with the Federal Trade Commission summarizing this scientific evidence. These efforts are finally starting to pay off and the truth is finally being exposed. On June 17, 2026, the Federal Trade Commission, along with the states of Alaska, Iowa, Nebraska and Texas, filed a 123 page lawsuit against the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), providing scientific evidence that they have made false claims to parents and children - in order to make billions of dollars by misleading parents to get their kids addicted to toxic Trans drugs.
For those new to this issue, WPATH is not a medical organization. It is a mouth piece for extremely dishonest, corrupt and crazy people who make up lies and try to pass it off as science. WPATH is the foundation of the entire Trans Drug Cult House of Cards. Exposing their claims as lies will eventually bring down corrupt politicians like Reykdal and Ferguson who have been repeating and promoting the WPATH lies.
In their complaint, the FTC provides evidence that claims made by WPATH regarding the safety and effectiveness of Trans Drugs are blatantly false and therefore in violation of the FTC Act. If the lawsuit is successful, it could spell the end of WPATH and the entire Trans Drug Cult.
Here are quotes from the FTC Press release:
“Today, the FTC filed a lawsuit against WPATH alleging that the organization made false and unsubstantiated claims regarding the necessity, effectiveness and safety of puberty blockers, hormones and sex-change surgeries,” said Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson. “Children, but especially their parents, must have complete and truthful information when making decisions to purchase medical services. For decades, the FTC has taken action against entities that make deceptive and unsubstantiated health-related claims. The complaint filed today reflects that same long-standing mandate: when an entity makes a claim about a medical treatment, the claim must be truthful, evidence-based and not misleading.”
“When an organization provides guidance designed to mislead families about the risks, benefits, or medical consensus behind a treatment, it undermines trust in those responsible for providing medical care,” said Commissioner Mark R. Meador. “Our action today is a straightforward application of the law to ensure that families receive accurate, evidence-based information as they seek to make some of the most important healthcare decisions for their children.”
The complaint further alleges that WPATH failed to disclose side effects of certain pediatric medical transition services, including the harms from puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones (aka Trans Drugs).
As described in the complaint, in several instances, parents seeking help for their children were asked by clinicians whether they “would rather have a live daughter or a dead son,” based on WPATH representations that pediatric medical transition services are “lifesaving.” As the complaint argues, there is no competent and reliable scientific evidence to suggest these interventions reduce the risk of suicide.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton stated: “Any group that illegally promotes irreversible, life-altering ‘transitioning’ procedures to kids as safe and necessary will face the full force of the law for harming children. We will not allow WPATH or any other organization to illegally promote or perform dangerous ‘transitioning’ procedures on our kids that leave them with permanent trauma and lifelong health consequences.”
Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers said: “WPATH has long represented itself as the final authority for the gender-related treatment of children, advancing profit-driven ideology unsupported by science and withholding crucial information from children, parents and doctors. We’re proud to work with the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general to hold WPATH accountable for deceiving parents and medical professionals and causing harm to children in Nebraska and nationwide.”
Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird said: “WPATH recommends permanent irreversible treatments and surgeries on children without solid medical science. Patients and their families have been deceived into believing the organization is an authoritative, medical body, when, in truth, their recommendations are based on politics and ideology. Parents and children deserve better.”
Alaska Attorney General Cori Mills said: “Our laws demand real transparency and full disclosure of risks—whether it’s a defective product that harmed consumers or powerful drugs like opioids. This is especially vital for irreversible treatments with lifelong consequences, and it must be held to the highest standard when minors are involved. Unfortunately, WPATH failed that test by prioritizing ideology over sound science, downplaying serious long-term harms. They must be held accountable like we have held countless other companies and organizations accountable when they fail to follow the laws that protect consumers.”
The goal of the FTC complaint is to put the Trans Drug Cult out of business for the severe harm they have inflicted on parents and children across the US. Our goal in sharing this complaint is to put Bob Ferguson and Chris Reykdal out of business for the severe harm they have inflicted on parents and kids here in Washington state.
Here are some quotes from the 123 page FTC complaint:
“WPATH’s professional members have profited immensely from the organization’s work. But this profit has come at the expense of children and their parents. To advance its members’ financial interests, WPATH has made false, misleading or unsubstantiated statements—both in the SOC and other public-facing materials—regarding medical consensus and medical necessity, as well as the safety and efficacy of medical transition.”
“WPATH further represents that puberty blockers are fully reversible despite internal admissions from SOC-8’s authors that this claim required an “asterisk,” and it repeatedly asserts that cross-sex hormones and breast amputations improve children’s mental health even though WPATH’s own leaders privately acknowledged “gaps in research,” lack of “research basis,” and very low quality evidence. WPATH also misleadingly characterizes pediatric medical transition as “lifesaving” and “medically necessary,” despite the absence of evidence that these interventions reduce the incidence of suicide.”
“WPATH has also failed to disclose material information about the significant risks and life-long side effects associated with medical transition drugs, surgeries, and other interventions. “
“These misrepresentations and deceptive omissions have caused unspeakable physical and psychological harm to countless children, as reflected in the sworn statements attached hereto and described below.” “For example, parents and children have reported being told by clinicians that puberty would resume as normal if puberty-blocking drugs stopped being administered. Others were not informed of the various side effects of puberty blockers, such as brain fog and an inability to concentrate, hot flashes, anxiety or depression, urinary incontinence or bloody urine and genital pain. Serious side effects of cross-sex hormones also were frequently undisclosed or not adequately disclosed such as experiencing psychotic episodes and other mental-health problems, genital atrophy and pain, leaking from the nipples, inhibited body height and sexual dysfunction or inability to orgasm. Complications from breast amputation were similarly undisclosed such as extreme pain, bruising and internal bleeding.”
“Through this lawsuit, the FTC is taking action to stop the unconscionable harm inflicted by WPATH’s ongoing furnishing of the means necessary for its members and other clinicians to make deceptive claims about the necessity, safety and efficacy of pediatric medical transition drugs, surgeries, and other treatments on children and their parents. The FTC has received hundreds of reports from consumers of medical transition services, including patients and parents, as well as healthcare professionals. In particular, numerous parent and patient declarants have complained to the FTC about serious medical complications arising from medical transition services—and that the risks and side effects that they incurred were often not, or not adequately, disclosed to them.”
“The methodology WPATH used to create SOC-8 does not satisfy accepted medical standards of evidence. Consequently, WPATH’s assertions about the necessity, safety and efficacy of pediatric medical transition drugs, surgeries, and other interventions are not supported by competent and reliable scientific evidence. WPATH’s SOC-8 fails to meet these criteria for multiple reasons: WPATH selected authors who had conflicts of interest; WPATH failed to adhere to proper protocols both in evaluating scientific and medical evidence and in making recommendations based on that evidence; and WPATH made material changes to its recommendations in response to external pressure rather than scientific evidence.”
“Far from attempting to manage or minimize conflicts of interest, WPATH’s author selection process ensured that SOC-8’s drafters would harbor biases and conflicts of interest. Thus, SOC-8 is a product of bias and financial conflicts of interest, and therefore not based on a reliable methodology that follows established scientific procedures.”
“These conflicts of interest were not merely intellectual—SOC-8 authors often stood to benefit personally and financially from guideline recommendations. WPATH’s former president and current board member Dr. Marci Bowers is a prime example of the conflicts of interest that affected SOC-8’s development. Dr. Bowers, who has advocated for performing genital surgeries on children, made more than a million dollars in a single year from transition surgeries.”
“WPATH’s recommendations are false and misleading because they represent that they are supported by high-quality evidence and that the treatments in question have few downsides. In reality, WPATH’s recommendations are unsupported by high-quality evidence, and the recommended procedures often have severe and permanent negative physical and psychological side effects.”
“WPATH commissioned an evidence review, then blocked the results from being published Johns Hopkins examined “multiple types of [pediatric medical transition] interventions (surgical, hormone . . .),” and “found little to no evidence about children and adolescents.” WPATH rejected multiple Johns Hopkins manuscripts, causing Dr. Robinson to express frustration that WPATH was “trying to restrict our ability to publish.”
“His was not the only notable evidentiary exclusion from SOC-8. For example, two preliminary articles regarding a study by later USPATH president Dr. Johanna Olson- Kennedy and others formed the evidence base of SOC-8. Two subjects of that study committed suicide during the period of observation. Yet SOC-8 did not disclose or discuss those deaths and how they might undermine SOC-8’s conclusion that pediatric medical transition improved psychological well-being.”
“WPATH’s representation that medical transition is necessary and effective to prevent suicide in children is false, misleading, or unsubstantiated. WPATH’s representation that puberty blockers are fully reversible is false, misleading, or unsubstantiated.”
“During adolescence, the brain undergoes substantial reorganization that involves profound structural and functional changes aimed at increasing efficiency and maturity. At least one study has found that children who undergo puberty blockers for more than one year have decreased executive function compared to those who do not block puberty, prompting concerns that puberty blockers may temporarily or permanently disrupt brain maturation and cause significant neuropsychological consequences.”
“WPATH’s representation that cross-sex hormones are safe, effective, and improve mental health is false, misleading, or unsubstantiated. WPATH represents, expressly and by implication, that the administration of cross-sex hormones to children is lifesaving, safe, effective, and improves mental health… WPATH makes these representations despite a panoply of side effects that it acknowledges exist, along with additional side effects that it fails to disclose. Among the side effects that WPATH acknowledges are hyperkalemia, hypertriglyceridemia, weight gain, cardiovascular disease, cerebrovascular disease, meningioma, hypertension, erectile dysfunction, type 2 diabetes, low bone mass, hyperprolactinemia, polycythemia, infertility, acne, and androgenic alopecia.”
“SOC-8 fails to adequately disclose the existence and severity of additional effects for children treated with cross-sex hormones, which include mood disturbances, vocal pain, pelvic pain, pelvic floor dysfunction, clitoral discomfort, vaginal pain, persistent sexual dysfunction continuing after cessation of use, and erectile pain. Cross-sex hormones halt a child’s normal pubertal development. Cross-sex hormones do not induce opposite-sex pubertal development. Continued use can suppress or eliminate entirely the child’s potential for sexual maturity and fertility.”
“WPATH’s representation that the administration of testosterone to girls is safe and effective and improves mental health is false, misleading, or unsubstantiated, including because of side effects that WPATH has failed to adequately disclose. In girls, high doses of testosterone may cause serious health risks include high blood pressure, worsened cholesterol and lipid blood levels, insulin resistance, vaginal atrophy, persistent pelvic pain and discomfort, pelvic floor dysfunction, and cardiovascular problems.”
“Testosterone use in girls can cause reproductive organ atrophy, including thinning of vaginal epithelium; symptoms mimicking polycystic ovary syndrome; persistent pelvic pain and dysfunction leading to incontinence, constipation, and chronic pelvic pain. SOC-8 discloses "pelvic floor dysfunction" as a potential side effect only in connection with vaginoplasty, not the administration of testosterone or other cross-sex hormones.”
“People using cross-sex hormones for medical transition have reported mood disturbances including anxiety, depression, mood swings, suicidal ideation, and homicidal ideation. Testosterone causes weight gain, which in turn causes more health problems.”
“WPATH's representation that the administration of estrogen and progesterone to boys is safe, effective, and improves mental health is false, misleading, or unsubstantiated, including because of side effects that WPATH has failed to adequately disclose. Side effects of estrogen use in boys include blood clots; high blood pressure; potential cardiovascular issues like a stroke, heart attack, or venous thrombo-embolism; decreased libido; erectile dysfunction; erectile pain; infertility; weight gain; mood swings; fluid leaking from nipples; and pain near the nipple.”
“WPATH’s representations that breast amputation for girls is safe, effective, and consistently results in better health and quality of life are false, misleading, or unsubstantiated. Parents and children do not hear about how, for example, cross-sex hormones may cause fatal cardiovascular issues or how puberty blockers may lead to long-term cognitive deficits.”
“WPATH misrepresents scientific and medical consensus and makes false, deceptive, or unsubstantiated claims regarding pediatric transition services for a simple reason: WPATH’s members generate significant profit because of the organization’s representations and guidance.”
“Dr. Marci Bowers, WPATH’s former president and current Executive Committee member, earned more than a million dollars in net income in 2023, mostly from performing transition surgeries. Each of these WPATH members, among many others, profits from WPATH’s misrepresentations.”
“WPATH’s statement of “medical necessity” was proposed and drafted by WPATH board member Jamison Green. Green did not have a medical degree, but rather a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing and was at the time engaged in what Green termed “lucrative” work “consulting with many corporations negotiating trans health with their insurance companies.”
“The Congressional Budget Office estimated in 2025 that Medicaid alone would pay transition providers $445 million over ten years, just for the medical transition of children.”
“Clinicians profit from the procedures that otherwise would not have been performed, and they further profit from what is likely to be a lifetime of medical appointments, hormone prescriptions, and further procedures. The cost of transition procedures from childhood through adulthood for a single male patient, including puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgical interventions, as between $87,300 and $410,600 over one’s lifetime. That cost for a female patient is estimated between $66,500 and $605,500.”
“WPATH’s advertising efforts have been effective at increasing demand for its members’ services. According to the Centers for Disease Control, 2% of high school students identified as “transgender” by 2017.”
“WPATH’s false, misleading, or unsubstantiated representations have caused substantial consumer injury, including grievous bodily and psychological harm, to children experiencing dissatisfaction with or distress about their sex traits. WPATH also has injured these children’s parents who paid for harmful medical transition treatments either out-of-pocket or in co-pays or insurance premiums. These injuries have occurred primarily through the means that WPATH supplies to clinicians.”
“Clinicians emphasize the need for pediatric medical transition by stating that if parents do not consent to medical transition, their child will commit suicide. Clinicians often ask parents if they would "rather have a dead son or a living daughter," or vice versa. Some clinicians attempt to drive a wedge between parents and their children by sabotaging their relationship. If parents disagree with one another about consenting to treatment, clinicians have encouraged the consenting parent to obtain an attorney.”
This case is ongoing and will likely take years to resolve
To keep track of the latest filings, go to THIS LINK. The case file currently includes Declarations of Harm from 16 victims who were fooled into taking toxic Trans Drugs as kids without being told the drawbacks of these drugs - and are now suffering severe lifelong harm because of it. Subscribe to our newsletter and we will keep you posted as this case develops.
If you want to help put an end to state-sponsored child abuse by the Trans Drug Cult, please share this article with your friends and neighbors. Also, please take the time to attend our next monthly meeting of our Washington Parents Network – on Sunday, July 5, 2026 from 4 to 5 pm. We will review this case as well as the Supreme Court Girls Rights decision and the Girls Rights Initiative and our plan to eventually restore both Girls Rights and Parents Rights here in Washington State. If you are interested in attending this meeting (and are not already on our meeting list), send me an email and I will email you a link to the meeting. We look forward to meeting you!
Regards,
David Spring M. Ed.
David (at) WashingtonParentsNetwork.com