1/ Norman Spack, who was first to use puberty blockers in the US: "If nobody does anything or provides support to the kids who happen to be transgender, between age 16 and 25, 45% will attempt suicide in that interval." Apart from the questionable stat,http://www.aappublications.org/news/2018/10/18/ncetransgender101818 …
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10/ Ray Blanchard called out the emotional blackmail in this interview. He was talking about trans activists, but nowadays it's hard to tell the difference between them & some gender doctors.https://twitter.com/4th_WaveNow/status/1051180038362714115 …
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11/ Returning to the above point about lack of a control group, any reputable doctor should be highly interested in the population of young people (even if a minority) who have desisted or detransitioned. If ...
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12/ ...If there are other ways to treat gender-dysphoric kids that is less drastic than irreversible med intervention and sterilization, why aren't they recruiting THOSE kids? What are the factors, familial & otherwise, that contribute to desistance? The intentional exclusion...
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13/ ...of youth who desisted or detransitioned would be analogous to an oncologist ignoring or excluding patients who were successfully treated by less drastic means than radiation & chemotherapy. Trans activism's toxic effect on medicine is so obvious here. They have succeeded..
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14/ ...in convincing a large swathe of the med profession, media, & government that it's "transphobic" to value desistance over persistence--in kids. How topsy-turvy is that? How can anyone seriously believe that avoidance of lifelong medical treatment is not a better outcome?
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15/ Even if desisters are small minority, their experience matters. In medicine, patients who heal via less drastic treatment are sought & studied. Why? To understand how OTHER patients might benefit. The (very) few HIV+ patients who spontaneously became virus-free are 1 example.
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16/ "Almost no one changes their mind" is the trans-activist mantra. If this is true, are you saying those regretters don't matter? At the very least, STUDY THEM to avoid false positives. We're talking irreversible sterility/removal of body parts, so this should be a no-brainer.
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