Dr. Susan Bradley, founder of Toronto's gender identity clinic for children, has decades of clinical experience with gender dysphoric and autistic youth. She knows whereof she speaks. Listen to her interview on "Wrongspeak" here.https://twitter.com/BarbaraRKay/status/1077189849482973185 …
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Bradley: "If you have a culture where trans has a high profile and is more respectable, wouldn't you rather be trans than an ordinary homosexual?" She goes on to acknowledge that many LG kids don't feel "normal" & see trans as a way out.
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Bradley says many modern clinics don't offer adequate psychological support & assessment for youth, & parents are frustrated. (Our followers are well aware of this problem, but Dr. Bradley makes it clear how things have changed radically & not for the better in recent years.)
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Soh asks Bradley: Where will these girls be in 10 years? Bradley expresses concern, and notes "we don't have the data" on detransitioners. All we have are anecdotes. "The numbers are growing and that's what's worrying."
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Bradley: "The first part of the Hippocratic oath is Do No Harm....this is an area where there is no evidence-based treatment [for the rapid-onset girls]. We may have a population where there is a much higher level of desistance than earlier studies."
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