The controversial World Health Organization (WHO) has weighed in on transgenderism, gender, and sex, declaring that gender is more of a “continuum” than anything, and sex is more than male or female.
In an update to its website posted this week, the WHO pledged to uphold “intersectionality” and go “beyond non-binary approaches” to understanding what it means for someone to have a penis or a vagina, something the WHO calls “gender and sexual diversity.”
The document reveals that the WHO now believes that “the concepts that gender identity exists on a continuum,” and sex is not merely a biological fact of chromosomes and reproductive organs, but instead “sex is not limited to male or female.”
As part of this, the WHO is “Introducing new gender, equity and human rights frameworks and tools to further support capacity building around these concepts and the integration of their approaches in the work of WHO.”
WHO building in Switzerland (Guilhem Vellut / Flickr)
This new framework of understanding gender and sex will replace or supplement the WHO’s current model that was released in 2011, according to The Gateway Pundit.
That model contains more mundane goals, including “improve the health of women and girls as set out in several international agreements” and “promote gender equality and health equity by addressing the broader determinants of health for men and boys, women and girls.”
It did not mention transgenderism or the determination of gender.
Support for the WHO became a major political issue in the United States during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, when the organization’s close relationship with China and Bill Gates helped make it a target of criticism for the right.
I can’t figure out why people don’t trust the WHO?
Oh, that’s right, because science has proven that there are TWO GENDERS.
Not a biologist, just sayin.
https://t.co/QPQKGKWGxf— Andrew H. Giuliani (@AndrewHGiuliani) July 12, 2022
45th President Donald Trump ultimately pulled the country’s support for the internationalist health body in a move that was celebrated by his supporters and framed as an attack on science by his critics.
Joe Biden resumed the country’s participation in the WHO in one of his first moves as president.
Trump’s concerns about China’s influence over the WHO may not be without merit, as reports surfaced last month indicating that Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told people privately that he believes COVID-19 likely leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.
Ghebreyesus reportedly believes that China’s international cooperation is more important than learning the truth about the origins of COVID-19.
“The only way this scientific work can progress successfully is with full collaboration from all countries, including China, where the first cases of SARS-CoV-2 were reported.”
