Maya Forstater

Alexia, I was at an event at the House of Lords this week. Clinicians from GIDS incl. Marcus Evans and Dr Bell, as well as other GPs and specialists expressing grave concerns about pressure to socially & medically transition children, with lack of evidence from long term studies

None of these Drs, who were compassionate, careful said "children know their true gender". They said children experiencing emotional distress & hatred of their sexes body need time and support to explore the reasons and potential responses

These wise doctors are intersectional feminists, Maya? Who have a really good understanding of the lives childhood experiences of LGBTIQ+ people? Medicalised approaches to human nature is always sceptical at first. Feminist health analysis is littered with examples

Thus is about the question of whether children experiencing gender dysphoria "know their true gender", not LGB or I...

These doctors work with children experiencing GD and with adults undertaking medical and/or social transition, and are being pressured to affirm the idea of true gender identity and to medicalise young people on that basis

Doctors being asked to treat children in the gender identity they express?! How harmful! Shocking to treat children as the most informed person in the room about themselves... Children’s rights are human rights

Drs are being pressured to put children on hormone blockers and on a pathway to taking cross sex hormones and having surgery that will leave them sterilised and with compromised sexual function, with poor evidence of long term benefit