This UK MD's practice is the "affirmative" standard in US., where cross-sex hormones are often started under age 16 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/gp-gave-child-12-sex-change-drug-qtbqqsthz …
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Guideline co-authored by 2 recipients of 5.7 mill NIH grant. They routinely recommend hormones/surgery to under 16s. http://transhealth.ucsf.edu/trans?page=guidelines-youth …pic.twitter.com/NYzFvySZmh
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This rationale (UCSF link above) is EXACTLY the same as Webberley's. So in UK this is under investigation. In the US?
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US promoters of early transition are lionized by press/funded to keep on at "specialty clinics" to the tune of $5.7 mill taxpayer dollars.
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When they publish in a few years, no doubt they'll report happy adolescents who've never known anything different than ...
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...the inevitability of a life of injections, surgeries, & sterilization, ironically lauded as "medically necessary" to be their true selves
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The "research," from the get-go fatally tainted with confirmation bias, will be used as rationale to cut, drug, and sterilize even more kids
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The decades-old body of data showing most gender-dysphoric kids outgrow it if allowed to will be tossed in the rubbish bin as "outdated"
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And voila: the Brave New World of chemically and surgically created trans-humans will continue apace.
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Their other coup: They claim the lack of a control group (ALL of their research subjects are socially transitioned young) is because ...
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...it would be "unethical" to deny social transition to gender dysphoric kids. Even though we KNOW there are plenty of kids who resolve it;
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Plenty of parents who don't buy that their kid is "in the wrong body" and never come near a "gender clinic." To do a REAL study these docs
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...should recruit actively for such families & kids (the non-socially transitioned kids who are just fine now), but they won't because
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...the entire purpose of their research is to justify early social & med transition. If they actually sought out the kids who desisted...
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....it would blast a huge hole in their hypothesis-in-hand that their interventions are absolutely necessary. Their lopsided "data" should..
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...be laughed out of peer-reviewed journals because there is NO CONTROL GROUP & they are literally experimenting medically on kids.
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...AND longterm results won't be known for years, even decades. With stakes this high (irreversible surgeries/child sterilization), ...
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...a control group of gender-dysphoric kids who resolved sans treatment should be mandatory. But media assisted in peddling message that...
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...NOT socially transitioning tots, blocking puberty, etc. is "unethical"--even though all these practices are still controversial.
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THIS is what clinical controversy looks like--from around the world. "Affirmative" treatment of "trans kids" is NOT SETTLED SCIENCE.pic.twitter.com/gXWr66snju
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Read above links & the reasonable opinions therein. Compare & contrast with the words of "affirmative" genderists. https://4thwavenow.com/2017/01/26/shriveled-raisins-the-bitter-harvest-of-affirmative-care/ …pic.twitter.com/dprD18O15b
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