Long, interesting read by @madeleinekearns on the James Younger case, as well as many of the lesser-known aspects of pediatric transition as it is practiced in the United States of America. Not to be missed. /1
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Kearns' article contains a partial transcript of the court deposition of Johanna Olson-Kennedy, who was present at the Younger trial. In it, she refers to the females as young as 13 she has recommended for double mastectomy: /2pic.twitter.com/MS6T5CTu7y
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Olson-Kennedy, as many of our followers are aware, is principal investigator on a $5+million
@NIH study begun in 2015.@madeleinekearns writes about a recent conference where she joked about not having a control group in a study of top surgery recipients. "Audience laughter." /3pic.twitter.com/vYfoCizZ4v
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Olson-Kennedy often provokes laughter at gender conferences. At USPATH 2017 she told how she convinced an 8-yr-old girl that she was like a "pop tart in the wrong wrapper"--a child who (per Olson-K) had been misinformed that her body determined her sex. /4https://4thwavenow.com/2017/07/23/i-just-gave-him-the-language-top-gender-doc-uses-pop-tart-analogy-to-persuade-8-year-old-girl-shes-really-a-boy/ …
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Kearns' story covers other little-known aspects of Olson-Kennedy's work, including the 40% "lost to followup" from one of her published studies that included many young homeless and/or "sex worker" youth seen at her clinic. /5pic.twitter.com/lJJZ03ew61
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@madeleinekearns@NRO cover story is Olson-Kennedy's frustration (expressed in public Facebook posts) that insurance companies sometimes request mental health notes before approving her interventions on minors. /6pic.twitter.com/E3bNmo7hvX
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Frustration with insurance company hurdles (and how to get around them) is a frequent topic in the public International Transgender Health Facebook page that Olson-Kennedy (and others in the field) post on . /7https://twitter.com/4th_WaveNow/status/1106919369869852673 …
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4thWaveNow @4th_WaveNowA tip-of-the-iceberg post. There are many more like this. Many threads include posts by well-known activists (who are group members), offering to help pressure US insurance companies into paying for hormones/surgeries at younger & younger ages. The pressure is often successful. pic.twitter.com/eV5z1eW3KcShow this thread1 reply 2 retweets 7 likesShow this thread -
Kearns reveals some of the more disturbing posts from a Facebook group of "affirming" parents, including mastectomies performed on Down Syndrome females, testosterone administered to 8-year-olds, and physically/sexually abused children undergoing gender transition. /8pic.twitter.com/v1EVsDMaqL
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This stuff has been going on for a very long time. When it comes to the "affirmative" model, no situation or condition is a barrier when it comes to medical transition.https://twitter.com/4th_WaveNow/status/1080876093945438208 …
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Truly terrible. It's like medical ethics are so last century.
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