Overview

• WPATH held its 2025 symposium in New Mexico last month, with the schedule showing multiple sessions on policy and a daily screening of Heightened Scrutiny about the Supreme Court’s Skrmetti ruling upholding Tennessee’s youth-treatment law.
• The Capital Research Center review counts 18 WPATH events focused on children and highlights mini-symposia on responding to court challenges and legislative restrictions.
• A Genspect conference in Albuquerque last weekend featured detransitioners, parents, clinicians and journalists, according to a Spectator World op-ed by a listed speaker, which also described heightened security.
• Critics at both events invoked the 2024 WPATH Files leak, which they say revealed internal doubts about minors’ capacity for informed consent.
• The CRC article also points to wider shifts, citing the Supreme Court decision and reporting claims of institutional pullbacks in the United States as well as a UK break with WPATH guidance on youth care.