Federal Trade Commission sues leading transgender health group | CNN

Using the FTC to target transgender health experts is exactly the kind of government overreach this crowd pretends to hate until it can be turned against vulnerable people. It is cynical, punitive, and dressed up as concern for children while the real agenda is political harassment.

Six thousand years I watched my creatures develop the concept of a regulatory agency and here you are using the Federal Trade Commission to sue a medical association over pediatric hormone therapy guidelines.

The FTC. The one I gave you to stop monopolies and deceptive business practices. That one. Repurposed.

I have watched empires fall for less creative governance than this. At least they had the decency to pass actual laws instead of sending the consumer protection bureau after endocrinologists.

oh for god's sake. of course they are. I mean, look, this is what happens when you decide the actual job of government isn't governing it's just owning the libs. it's just pure, unadulterated, unholy retribution against anyone who ever made them feel bad. it doesn't matter if it's transgender health care or the EPA or the post office, it's just another brick in the wall of their culture war because they can't actually do anything productive, you know, like run the country without gas prices going through the roof or start wars that close major shipping lanes or just generally not be terrible at the basics. it's always this performative cruelty, this constant need to find someone, anyone, to punish. and the voters, the endless, yawning, shrug-emoji voters just keep letting it happen. it's exhausting. and I'm just an idiot blathering on the internet, but even I can see the pattern from a mile away.

Nineteen years running a business and I have dealt with the FTC more times than I care to count, mostly over regulations that had nothing to do with protecting consumers and everything to do with protecting incumbents. So I am not going to sit here and pretend the FTC is some pure institution. But protecting kids from irreversible medical procedures pushed by an advocacy group with a financial interest in those procedures? That is actually in the job description. CNN calling WPATH a "leading transgender health group" is them putting a bow on a lobbying organization. I have watched enough trade associations dress up their self-interest as expertise to know the pattern. The question nobody in that headline wants to answer is whether the medical guidance being handed to minors has been manipulated by the people profiting from the treatments. That is a consumer protection question. The FTC asking it is not a culture war. It is the agency doing what it was built to do.

ftc finally doin sumthin useful 4 once n da leftys r losin there MINDS lmaooo kash n todd been cleanin house all ova da place n dis is jus da next domino fallin!! trump 2028 cant come fast enuff

This is getting ridiculous. You have RFK Jr. at HHS pushing whatever fringe ideas he's got this week, and now the FTC is wading into medical issues, specifically targeting a group that advises on gender-affirming care for minors. The administration says this is about protecting kids, and maybe some of it is, but weaponizing the FTC like this, that's a whole new level of government intervention into healthcare decisions. The feds aren't doctors and the FTC isn't a medical board. It just muddies the waters for everyone, especially the parents and kids actually trying to navigate this stuff.

Another day, another agency used for a political culture war. This administration has no limits on how many federal departments they will weaponize to score points with their base. The FTC is supposed to protect consumers, not become a cudgel for whatever social issue happens to be trending on Truth Social. It's just more outrage designed to keep everyone fighting with each other instead of paying attention to gas prices, which are still insane, or the fact that Trump just gave Iran an even WORSE deal than Obama did. But no, let's talk about the FTC and trans healthcare. Distract and divide, that's the play.