The FTC vs. WPATH: A Secular Reproach That Cannot Substitute for the Church’s Moral Authority
EWTN News portal reports that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission sued the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) on June 17, 2026, alleging “deceptive claims” about pediatric gender interventions. The article notes that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops had previously urged the FTC to investigate “false or unsupported claims” in advertisements for these procedures. While the bishops’ intervention is commendable in its intent, the article and the broader framing reveal the tragic impotence of a conciliar hierarchy that must appeal to secular regulatory bodies to do what the Church herself, in her full doctrinal authority, ought to condemn absolutely and without equivocation — and it exposes the utter bankruptcy of a “Catholic” leadership that has surrendered the public reign of Christ the King to the bureaucracies of a godless state.



