Important interview (April 2019) with Dr. Alexander Korte, a German Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist. In it, he describes recent changes in the population of patients presenting with gender dysphoria. This is clearly a worldwide phenomenon. https://www.kjp.med.uni-muenchen.de/video/interview_sub_final.mp4 …
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Korte on puberty blockers: "I have taken a clear stance. I am critical of the treatment. I think it needs to be reconsidered." Why?pic.twitter.com/jAjikaPO8S
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Dr. Korte says what many of us have also pointed out: The fact that nearly 100% of puberty-blocked kids go on to cross-sex hormones is concerning, & suggests blockers may fix a trans identity that "at this very early age cannot be certain."pic.twitter.com/lATBy59Bd2
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Korte goes on to say children tend to be impulsive ("hasty") & he does not believe they are capable of understanding the decision to block puberty "which has lifelong consequences" and is not a harmless intervention.pic.twitter.com/7lRyKPdgW3
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Korte says, as he has in his published studies, that blocking puberty may interfere with psychosocial development, and may even be a "homosexuality averting project."pic.twitter.com/9wPqPkqre6
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Korte "goes there," suggests the increase in youth identifying as trans may be a trend, and compares it to the explosion of people claiming to have multiple personalities in the 1990s.pic.twitter.com/6qP8uhgEtn
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Then (as now with trans issues), there were conferences, workshops, and uncritical coverage of "multiple personality disorder" in the media.pic.twitter.com/5AX0cANmY0
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Korte is asked about broader social causes and conditions that may be contributing to the explosion of youth identifying as trans. He summarizes: "Modern society's utopian belief...that promises the total satisfaction of needs."pic.twitter.com/znUM6ripn7
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Korte has much more to say about how post-modern, neoliberal societies have paved the way for the youth gender trend--including that it's a logical result of an economy built around consumerism.pic.twitter.com/kqTTNCoLEB
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Finally, Korte addresses the backlash he's received from some activists. He defends scientific inquiry, as well as transsexuals who aren't represented by the current activism, & says he's "too much of a scientist" to believe in the social constructivism inherent in queer theory.pic.twitter.com/AtsstrztGr
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One important tweet was inadvertently left out of this thread: Korte worries that many young people now "hope that gender-affirming treatments will solve all their problems...an illusion that cannot be fulfilled."pic.twitter.com/r4rBEMw6Nk
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