Thank you, Diane Ehrensaft and all the other "affirmative" clinicians who have planted this in parents' heads.pic.twitter.com/UmWakCPflU
Pediatric transition skeptics. 'Like samizdat for the sane & ideologically uncowed'. Free speech. Science. Head tweeter: Denise aka Marie (Founder)
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Thank you, Diane Ehrensaft and all the other "affirmative" clinicians who have planted this in parents' heads.pic.twitter.com/UmWakCPflU
And there we have it. Why be a lesbian when you can be a medicated enby or trans man? Only your bigotry stops you from injecting T, removing your breasts, & getting in line for a neopenis made from your butchered arm flesh. (Says the mum of a child who "came out" as trans at 5.)pic.twitter.com/B606vbfdPQ
Combine just these two tweets, and the lack of concern for accidentally trans'ing proto-gay youth is palpable. Never mind the study of ~5K youth indicating childhood gender nonconformity is a sign not of "being in the wrong body" but of possibly growing up to be non-heterosexual.pic.twitter.com/7lWoB9nGWy
Yes--it's striking how many of the more well known "trans kids" profiled in the US media are from conservative families who THEMSELVES admit to feeling consternation at the gender-atypical behavior of their children prior to identifying them as trans.
And the activists at forefront of the push to lower age for all kinds of transition are adult-transitioning MTFs, many of whom had successful careers and fathered children prior to transition. Not at all the same population as the "early-onset" kids crowding gender clinics today.
Interesting. Do you have more information on Dutch detransitioners/desisters?
Will look. In at least one study, they note no one on blockers desisted and they called for more research to see if there is an iatrogenic effect (or not). Only way to really do that is with a control group that ISN'T blocked.
1/ I don't think they actually said they were GOING to study it, but I may be mistaken. In today's activist atmospher, a study that "denies" a group of children puberty blockers would be frowned upon. The study many of us would like to see would consist of...
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