Yes, it's part of a Tweetstorm where he denies any responsibility for trans youth suicides as the result of being denied transition
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Replying to @sadydoyle @keeltyc and
Are you going to take responsibility for youth who commit suicide post-transition?
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Replying to @MichaShrine @sadydoyle and
"Transition was shown to greatly reduce rates of suicidal ideation and suicide attempt. In total, 67 per cent of respondents thought about suicide more before they transitioned and only 3 per cent thought about suicide more post-transition. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sonja-Ellis/publication/281441727_Suicide_risk_in_the_UK_Trans_population_and_the_role_of_gender_transition_in_decreasing_suicidal_ideation_and_suicide_attempt/links/55f753b908aeafc8abfed03f/Suicide-risk-in-the-UK-Trans-population-and-the-role-of-gender-transition-in-decreasing-suicidal-ideation-and-suicide-attempt.pdf …
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Replying to @AsaZernik @sadydoyle and
I have no doubt that transition is the right thing for some people to do. But for others it is not, and we're really not allowed to fully look into that at this point in history. One is seen as phobic if they feel that not enough is understood yet.
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Replying to @MichaShrine @sadydoyle and
He's pushing a line that *by default* we should *deny* care. Not just transition, but puberty blockers to delay the choice. We don't know everything, but we do know enough to know that puberty blockers and openness to later transition are by far net positives.
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Replying to @AsaZernik @sadydoyle and
Not sure about the claims you're making here, but what do you think of that part of the Hippocratic Oath where it says "first do no harm"?
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Replying to @MichaShrine @AsaZernik and
I'm not asking anyone to "do harm", in fact I don't want them to do anything Sit there on your ass playing Candy Crush or whatever, just stay out of the way of people doing what they want
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AsaZernik and
If I'm not mistaken, you believe that children who believe they want it should never be delayed, let alone denied by anyone. Not their parents. Not by anyone in the medical profession. Never.
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Replying to @MichaShrine @AsaZernik and
I know you guys like the strawman of unattended piles of free hormones in the park but my preferred policy solution is prescriptions dispensed on the informed consent model, which in a decent world would be seen as the compromise position between OTC HRT and medical gatekeeping
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AsaZernik and
Are you okay with a qualified physician dispensing a professional opinion to someone that their dysmorphia is something they will probably grow out of?
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Are you okay with a professional physician telling someone their upcoming abortion entails taking a human life and will inevitably scar them with trauma?
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Replying to @arthur_affect @MichaShrine and
Because people in this country fought pretty hard to protect the "right" of doctors to do that and acted like "Well they still let you get the abortion in the end" was a magnanimous compromise
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