I've been following this debate for awhile, and based on what I've seen my prediction is that this will elicit some calm, thoughtful discussion touching upon developmental psychology, bioethics, and other areas, with no fiery recriminations whatsoever.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/01/children-who-want-puberty-blockers-must-understand-effects-high-court-rules …
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anyway I wrote a thing about how professional gender clinicians conceive of the question of whether kids are in a position to understand what it means to go on blockers or hormones. if memory serves it was met with universal acclaimhttps://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/07/when-a-child-says-shes-trans/561749/ …
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The Tavistock is arguably more conservative than US clinicians. In the case won by Keira Bell, the idea that a child that age is capable of truly understanding irreversible consequences was seriously questioned. Why would one assume US clinicians are more clinically astute?
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