2. Translation: We DON'T know what the outcomes will be for the medical interventions we're administering to minors. This is a live, ongoing experiment on the bodies of children. But it's much more than puberty blockers:
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3. The US-taxpayer-funded studies Ehrensaft & other celebrity gender doctors are engaged in also involve permanently sterilizing youth (via blockers followed immediately by cross-sex hormones) & irreversible surgeries. What will be the regret rate in 20-30 years for this cohort?
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4. Ehrensaft & Olson-Kennedy, quoted in this puff piece, tout medical transition based on "ages not stages"--no lower age limits for their patients who "know their gender" at a young age. Meanwhile, the Dutch group who pioneered blockers are spun as old fashioned/too cautious.pic.twitter.com/EuAJwikcAM
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5. The only skeptical view
@mercnews included was that of one conservative MD, once again perpetuating the falsehood that the growing pushback/controversy vis-a-vis underage transition is confined to conservatives.pic.twitter.com/WrOM9ueB4k
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6. The spin: Yeah, we have no longterm data to justify the mass experiment on underage patients, but pioneering US gender docs are stepping in to fill the research gap...via sterilizing, irreversible drug & surgical interventions on a younger cohort than ever studied before.pic.twitter.com/KPlXWIxWSw
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7. And in case you have any doubts: "Ehrensaft said one of the UCSF clinic’s goals is to allow the patient to express their 'authentic gender, which lies between your ears, not between your legs'."
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8. Olson-Kennedy gets the last word: "I have a fundamental problem w/the way autonomy is stripped from trans people...it’s frustrating to me the idea that someone else could know your gender better than you do.”
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9. Any questions? The
@mercnews journo didn't seem to have any (e.g., about the maturity level/executive function capacity of the 13 year olds Dr. Olson-Kennedy reported on in her recent studies of "chest surgery" and cross-sex hormones).pic.twitter.com/3svU27Je0b
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10. We'll give the last word in this thread to one of the few sane voices in the medical-research establishment, Dr. Eric Vilain.https://twitter.com/4th_WaveNow/status/1087911955103387648 …
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