Eli Coleman, the doctor behind the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) has professional ties with multiple academics who advocate for or support the legalization of sexual relationships between adults and children, and he himself has previously drafted Standards of Care for sex offenders, according to the media outlet Reddux.
Coleman is an American sexologist who headed the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Minnesota, where WPATH was based for several years. The papers he drafted served to review the specific age limits in the prescription of puberty-blocking medications to children.
On December 3, 2021, WPATH published a document that categorizes "eunuch" as a protected "gender identity". This document states: "Individuals identified as eunuchs may share with other gender-diverse individuals the desire for reduction or elimination of male physical traits, male genitals, or genital functioning."
The writing also asserts that "individuals identified as eunuchs may experience the same minority stress as other stigmatized groups," and cites research taken from a fetish forum called Eunuch Archive, a website that contains fantasies of child sexual exploitation centered on preventing young children from going through puberty, as well as erotic stories about child sexual abuse.
The Eunuch Archive was co-founded by a man, Thomas Pidel, who would later be convicted and sentenced to 15 years in prison for his involvement in a pedophilia network based in Belarus. This degenerate described himself as a "lover of children" and was active in multiple internet forums dedicated to pedophilia activism and castration fetishism in the years leading up to his arrest in 2004.
Three academics working for Coleman were responsible for gathering the opinions of anonymous members of this forum and then published them in research that was disseminated by WPATH's academic journal in May 2010. A year later, at a WPATH conference held in Atlanta, the decision was made to declassify Gender Identity Disorder as a psychological condition based on this research.
But the disturbing connections between Coleman and academics sympathetic to pedophilia do not end there, as an influential WPATH member, Dr. Vern Bullough, maintained formal correspondence with Lawrence Stanley, the founder and attorney of the North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), an organization that advocated for homosexual relationships between adult men and children.
Stanley complains in his articles that law enforcement, in their effort to "protect children," have spent millions of taxpayer dollars investigating and prosecuting potential consumers of child pornography, as many of them "do not pose any immediate danger to children."
Bullough, who passed away in 2006, said in 1981: "I have known Lawrence Stanley for four or five years and worked closely with him for part of that time editing a newsletter for the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality." Bullough's obituary was written by Eli Coleman. "It would be very difficult to find someone who has studied so extensively so many areas within sexuality," Coleman expresses in his tribute.
During the late 1980s and 1990s, while directing the Human Sexuality Program at the University of Minnesota, Coleman led the development of clinical care standards for adult sex offenders, and partnered with a nun, Margretta Dwyer, to promote medical treatments for sex offenders, as well as with a Norwegian sexologist, Thore Langfeldt, known for his pro-pedophilia activism.
