1/ My understanding of the scientific consensus, including Zucker's is you need to balance two competing concerns https://twitter.com/CrimsonFlax/status/714196128540073984 …
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2/ one is that most people who are gender dysphoric as kids will eventually ID as cis. This has been attacked as a "myth," but it isn't.
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3/ There is solid evidence. BUT for the group that is going to "persist," meaning ID as trans when they are adults, there are benefits to
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4/ an earlier social transition, and to not forcing them to go through cis puberty. We're talking SOCIAL transition, not, as some people
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5/ with agendas argue, doing surgery on really young kids. Common line among folks with agendas is that trans activists are itching to
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6/ put 8-year-olds under the knife, but I really think that's a fringe position. But yeah: signs of benefits to earlier social transition
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7/ for persisters. Challenge is figuring out who will persist, as Devita Singh notes in her important 2012 dissertation on GIC.
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