Evan Urquhart

Fair enough, but isn't "gender dysphoria" the medical condition and becoming a trans person a response that many people take?

Gender dysphoria is the medical condition, transition is the only evidence based treatment. If an alternative treatment would have let me to remain in my birth-assigned gender w/o gender dysphoria I'd have availed myself of it. I have no sentimental connection to my transness.

* "letting them grow out of it" has evidence as an effective treatment for non-adults.

** some (highly contested) significant percentage of non-adults....

Yeah, we could have a good old convo about the desistance numbers (spoiler alert- I've directly interviewed Steensma), but I was just talking about adults, here.

I was making reference to your addressing "trans kids" and sports in your article. If most of them do not become trans adults, it's not honest to label them that. "Confused kids likely fixated on something they'll grow out of..."

Most important word in this tweet is "if". Like I said, I've personally interviewed Steensma. He agreed that desistance numbers have been going steadily downward as diagnostic criteria have improved, and really downplayed the difference between his method and affirming methods.

He believes approaches should be individualized and blockers etc can be good tools in the right context, but you have to look at what's best for the individual child & family.