A transgender member of a new UN panel setting global health rules has a kinky record on everything from bestiality to slavery, drugs and nudism, DailyMail.com can reveal.
Teddy Cook, an Australian female-to-male transgender activist, began working on the World Health Organization’s 20-expert body this month, drafting healthcare guidelines for trans and non-binary people.
Cook, 45, who describes himself as a “professional queer, man with trans experience,” has a controversial backstory.
He advocates taxpayer-funded surgery for all trans Australians, and has collaborated on a study into trans people having better sex when high on drugs.
Teddy Cook, a female-to-male trans Australian, may seem out of place in UN offices in Geneva
Many of Cook’s posts show him having fun with friends at kinky parties
Cook’s social media posts are even more revealing.
He’s posted about everything from public nudity to bondage parties, trans orgies, and even a photo of a man apparently having sex with a dog.
These revelations do not necessarily disqualify Cook from employment at the UN.
But for many, his antics are too dirty for a straight intergovernmental body.
They also reinforce concerns about the WHO’s trans health panel, which met for the first time in Geneva this month.
Critics say the group – which is made up of trans campaigners and advocates – is biased.
One trans activist member has already quit the panel amid controversy, while another has been exposed for sharing X-rated Grindr hookup posts.
Cook and the WHO did not return DailyMail.com’s request for comment.
Cook is director of LGBTQ+ community health for ACON, a community group in Sydney.
Addressing the New South Wales parliament in 2021, he said transgender people deserve “dignity” and are not a “threat”.
Others show him naked on the beach, covering his genitals with his hands
Cook likes to show off his tattoos and his original choice of party clothes
He regularly posts material on social media that some may find rude and inappropriate.
That includes photos of himself, naked on the beach, with his hands covering his genitals.
Others show him in bondage gear in nightclubs, or in T-shirts with explicit text, such as “COME IN ME BRO.”
Another post appears to show a large, black dog penetrating a man from behind.
Cook also co-founded a safe sex campaign group called Grunt, which promotes ‘hot, informed sex between transgender men and cis boys’.
The group published a booklet with photos of transgender people wearing bondage clothing in explicit sex scenes with multiple partners.
It advises female-to-male trans members to tell male sex partners what to expect when they get between the sheets.
They might say, “Just to clarify, I’m trans.” That means I have a bonus hole/front hole,” the booklet suggests.
Cook’s academic research is also in the spotlight.
Cook co-founded a safe sex campaign group called Grunt
A booklet for the campaign contains photos of transgender people wearing bondage clothing in explicit sex scenes with multiple partners
Cook has a collection of t-shirts with X-rated language that might be out of place at the WHO headquarters in Geneva
He worked on a 2022 article in the International Journal of Transgender Health about the sex lives of transgender people.
They are more likely to enjoy sex when they are high from “using illegal drugs,” Cook and his research colleagues found.
He also co-wrote a 2021 paper for ACON on gender reassignment procedures.
It concluded that transgender people struggle to access care, and that “all transgender people in Australia should have full and free access to gender affirmation medical services, including surgical procedures.”
This is controversial. Critics of gender ideology say transgender people are often pushed into life-changing surgeries too quickly, when they could do better with social transition and guidance.
The UN panel on which Cook now sits has been dogged by controversy from the start.
Nearly two-thirds of the panelists are human rights lawyers, activists and policy advisors, while just over a third of them are trained doctors.
Members of the WHO’s trans health panel were due to meet for the first time in Geneva this month
Nearly two-thirds of the panelists are human rights lawyers, activists and policy advisors, while just over a third of them are trained doctors
It includes several members of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), a nonprofit organization that sets guidelines for trans care that critics say steers too many people toward risky drugs and surgeries.
The WHO says the panel will set global guidelines for how doctors and other professionals can improve “quality and respectful healthcare services (for) trans and gender diverse people.”
But critics say it is “biased” because it only involves proponents of hormones and surgery, and no one who says such procedures are extreme, dangerous and not always in the best interests of patients.
Nearly 12,000 professionals, organizations and others have done so signed a petition calling on panelists to reflect a broader range of views on trans healthcare.
Reem Alsalem, a Jordanian human rights lawyer at the UN, has condemned the WHO for including more activists than medical experts.
She said: ‘Stakeholders whose views differ from those of transgender activist organizations do not appear to have been invited.’
Another WHO panel member, Cianán Russell, has also posted lurid messages on social media
Florence Ashley, a law professor in Canada, left the panel amid revelations that they said puberty blockers ‘should be treated as the default option’ for trans children
One of the original WHO panel members, Canadian activist and law professor Florence Ashley, withdrew from the panel in recent weeks.
It turns out they had published several articles calling for trans children to be given puberty blockers without mental health evaluation.
They co-authored a study that argued that puberty blockers and hormone therapies should be the ‘default option’ for children with gender dysphoria.
Another panelist, Cianán Russell, a contributor at ILGA-Europe, an LGBTQ+ group, regularly posts about their bizarre and explicit interactions with suitors on the dating and hookup app Grindr.
Opinions are divided worldwide over whether gender-affirming drugs and surgeries should be provided to transgender people, especially children, and whether people should be allowed to choose their own gender on official papers.
Trans campaigners say society needs to be more inclusive of trans and non-binary people.
Critics say sex is an immutable biological fact and that transgender people often need mental health care, not medication.