A United Nations draft report on sex-based violence against women and girls calls gender dysphoria socially contagious while disparaging social and medical transitioning for young people.The advanced edited version of the report from the U.N. Human Rights Council claims kids with autism are particularly vulnerable to turning to the so-called social contagion of gender dysphoria as a coping strategy, which it says puts them at risk of erroneously adopting stereotypes as their core identity while experiencing dissociation from their sexed bodies. Related The Supreme Courts latest cruel blow could make it a lot harder to win trans rights cases Out lawyer Shannon Minter talked about how the Court flip-flopped on trans rights in just the last five years while Democrats hold strong. The report also claimed there are long-lasting and harmful consequences of social and medical transitioning for kids, even though almost all gender-affirming medical care available to minors is reversible, and even though social transitioning merely means wearing clothes and hairstyles that reflect ones gender identity and perhaps going by a new name or pronouns. Never Miss a Beat Subscribe to our newsletter to stay ahead of the latest LGBTQ+ political news and insights. Subscribe to our Newsletter today The Human Rights Council praised countries that have restricted access to gender-affirming care for trans youth, specifically calling out the Netherlands, the U.K., and Brazil.Allowing children access to such procedures not only violates their right to safety, security, and freedom from violence, but also disregards their human right to the highest standards of health and goes against their best interests, the report claims. Children are also not able to provide informed consent for such procedures. In situations in which such procedures have been found to have caused grave and lifelong harm, consent would be meaningless for both adults and children.The council also cited data claiming that female detransitioners overwhelmingly were sexually attracted to women and convinced themselves they were trans to avoid shame from being gay. It also claimed a whopping 80 percent of cases of childhood gender distress will recede with puberty. That statistic came from a study led by Finnish doctor Riittakerttu Kaltiala, whom U.S.-based trans journalist Erin Reed eviscerated in a 2023 article where she called out Kaltialas gender clinic for harmful practices designed to steer young people away from their trans identities. The 80% statistic, Reed said, is based on decades-old data that has beenwidely debunkedbynewer studies.Dr. Kaltiala cannot be characterized merely as an impartial medical researcher, Reed explained. She has emerged as a key figurehead for an anti-trans movement. She has been deeply involved with many of the key players in trans care bans. Shes appeared in a podcast by Genspect, an entity known for opposing gender affirming careup to the age of 25,teasing transgender childrenon social media, andpromoting Moms for Libertya staunchly conservative anti-LGBTQ+ parental rights organization in the U.S.'In reality, a minuscule number of trans people end up detransitioning, and many who do say it is due to discrimination by friends and family, and not because they realized they were not trans. In a 2025 article, Reed also slammed the weaponization of neurodivergence by bad-faith and anti-LGBTQ forces to invalidate the existence of transgender people.Southern Poverty Law Center-designatedhate groupshave used ADHD, autism, and psychiatric mental health issues to write off all trans youth, she wrote, framing transness and gender diversity as a mere symptom of neurodivergence that needs to be snuffed out. Alternatively, such talking points falsely imply that all people with ADHD and/or autism have intellectual disabilities so profound that they are unable to assert their gender identity.Today,leading expertson the intersection of autism and gender say that attempts to restrict autistic transgender peoples access to gender care are unsupported by existing research, anddenounced the misrepresentationof their work to support anti-trans agendas, Reed added. The U.N. report also cited the anti-trans organizations LGB Alliance and LGB Courage Coalition, as well as For Women Scotland (FWS), the anti-trans organization behind the legal challenge that resulted inthe U.K. Supreme Courts rulinglast month that the legal definition of a woman under the countrys 2010 Equality Act is based on biological sex. Notoriously anti-trans author JK Rowling made headlines in February 2024 when she pledged a 70,000 (about $89,000) donation to FWS.The report defends its focus on gender dysphoria and trans identities by claiming that they threaten to erase women and thus make it harder to fight violence against them. If the category of biological females is erased or fundamentally decoupled from sex-based oppression, that oppression becomes increasingly difficult to identify and, thus, to combat, it said. In sum, what is not defined cannot be protected.The reports conclusion stated that these alleged attempts to erase women are their own form of violence against women and girls. Subscribe to theLGBTQ Nation newsletterand be the first to know about the latest headlines shaping LGBTQ+ communities worldwide.