That article was the first in the mainstream media to include the words of young female desisters & their parents. That Singal also interviewed pro-transition therapists & families is irrelevant to the scolds who don't want anyone to know some young people desist or detransition.
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Atlantic editors even approved a quote by an Internet activist who encourages youth to obtain puberty blockers online, behind their parents' backs.https://twitter.com/4th_WaveNow/status/1038881907834908672?s=20 …
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Singal's article, by any honest measure, is balanced, advocating for thorough and skilled assessment (which Jenny's daughter Delta received) for young people with gender dysphoria. But OMG!!!! can you believe a mother who wrote for 4thWaveNow was interviewed!
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Singal profiled Delta's therapist Laura Edwards-Leeper in his article, covering not only Delta's experience, but that of a young person who the same therapist recommended for transition.pic.twitter.com/0FPtWSJvVk
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Singal's piece managed to annoy everyone--from those of us who would prefer young people to wait until adulthood if they are going to contemplate medical transition, to pro-pediatric-transition advocates (both reasonable and unhinged)--and everyone in between. But:
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Only one of those factions have continued screeching in a state of perpetual outrage over that
@TheAtlantic article for the past 2 years, attempting to cancel not only Singal for writing it, but anyone who dares to cite or discuss it in a reasoned manner.pic.twitter.com/hkAN7gz5N0
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Hint: The group still screeching & cancelling aren't the ones who actually give a crap about the happiness of females. They want to suppress the words of women & girls who are happy they no longer ID as trans. Those women aren't useful to their narrative.
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Read it if you haven't already. "They" don't want you to. They still wish they could get
@TheAtlantic to take it down. But they can't do anything about all the printed copies already read and contemplated by thoughtful people on all sides of the issue.https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/07/when-a-child-says-shes-trans/561749/ …Show this thread -
Full disclosure (not a secret, thread is 2 yrs old), 4thWaveNow founder (also mother of a desister) was interviewed. In today's climate, it's a wonder (and triumph) the Atlantic piece was published at all, but some info was still deemed too hot to handle.https://twitter.com/4th_WaveNow/status/1060934001798434817?s=20 …
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