Stella...I think this is overly harsh and also inaccurate, which doesn't help. First of all, the lead author of the important paper in Pediatrics was de Vries, not Thomas. And their paper is not the only one out there. The recent flurry on twitter has motivated me to compile a... https://twitter.com/stellaomalley3/status/1366844290945662979 …
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list of all relevant studies (I need to find an 8th day of the week to do that!). Second, to say that Thomas has "come out of retirement" is not a very kind thing to say. Thomas works very hard in the Amsterdam gender clinic. Third, I think what Thomas was saying in that article
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is that it is important for others to do similar studies and there are such studies out there. Fourth, although one might be critical of the Dutch model, I think it is more than fair to say that they do careful assessments and, in that respect, may well be different from some
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From what I've read they were (are?) also cautious about recommending social transition for prepubescent kids, which may partly explain desistance rates they reported?
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