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WPATH is attempting to make a distinction between between two groups of of castrated males that I find dubious. Males who have had their balls removed for any reason are all eunuchs. It's just that males who get castrated as part of "gender affirming" surgeries in which doctors patch together empty scrotal sacs, flayed penile skin, male urethras and tissue taken from other parts of male bodies such as the colon into weird configurations meant to mimic the appearance of female genitals - aka fauxvulvas and fauxginas - are eunuchs with extra steps and more lying.
Interestingly, Wikipedia - which usually promptly updates its pages to reflect the latest developments in gender woo - has not yet gotten the memo from WPATH that males who have a kink for getting their balls - and dicks - removed without pretending they are turning into women in the process are now "trans." The Wiki page still says:
WPATH's expansion of the "transgender" category to include nullos seems like another land grab into areas far beyond WPATH's original remit. Just goes to show that the ever-expanding fungus of gender identity ideology and tyranny of "trans rights" have never encountered a boundary they didn't want to cross or a sex-linked community or subculture it didn't try to encroach upon, take ownership of, and exert authority over. The foot-stamping, temper-trantrumming, dick-waving, hissy-fit havers known as "trans rights activists" really are the new conquistadors.
In the Mermaids versus LGBA court case, Bev Jackson or Kate Harris (I can't remember which) brilliantly remarked that the gender identity ideology movement is like Japanese knotweed. I think an even better comparison is to the invasive species known as Dog-strangling vine because the very name dog-strangling vine makes what it's about so patently clear.
https://www.invasivespeciescentre.ca/invasive-species/meet-the-species/invasive-plants/