The World Health Organisation is set to call for people to have the right to self-identify as the opposite sex in its first global guide to transgender care.
The UN agency has been accused of choosing a group of 'blatantly biased' activists and medics to develop its guidance on improving access to 'quality and respectful health services by trans and gender diverse people'.
The WHO said 21 experts will meet at its headquarters in Geneva next month to work on the guide, which will focus on the 'provision of gender-affirming care, including hormones' and also 'legal recognition of self-determined gender identity'.
But it is already facing criticism as many of the group's members are trans activists and medics who work on 'affirming' healthcare.
The group does not include any of the growing number of professionals who have raised concerns about the impact of puberty-blocking drugs on young people.
