Trans kids on puberty blockers maintain pretty stable bone density during a period when cis kids rapidly gain bone density. Researchers conclude "there was no significant change in [bone density]," further scans are not needed, and trans kids should have their own reference group https://twitter.com/will_malone/status/1148000551608750080 …
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This is just so *dishonest.* If there's evidence that puberty blockers reduce bone density relative to the gains expected, we should be figuring out whether kids catch up once they're either taken off of them or switched to hormones, whether the effect can be mitigated, etc.!
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I'm sure I look anti-trans to some folks when I post this stuff, but I'm just ALARMED by the extent to which it seems like some researchers/clinicians feel a greater loyalty to the *current* transition process than to scientific rigor or actual trans people, including KIDS.
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Replying to @webdevMason
Another interesting metric to see would be the ultimate effect on suicide rate that transition therapy (hormone blockers) has on ult suicide rate. I had read that 80% of kids w/ gender dysphoria spontaneously resolve w/o treatment, and that 40% who do not resolve kill themselves
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Also read that 40% of trans ppl kill themselves both PRE and POST gender reassignment surgery. So apparently later interventions don't work so well. Perhaps medicine needs some way to identify the 20% of kids that won't spontaneously resolve and treat early.
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IMO, this is a VERY hard problem. Assuming dysphoria persists & would resolve w/ transition, early transition is FAR better. But I worry about politically motivated research & I can't write off detransitioners; the claims that they're exceedingly rare are just not well-supported
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FWIW, *very* few claims about trans people & transition are well-supported, so I'm skeptical of a lot of these numbers. It seems increasingly difficult to do honest research about these questions, and *that* I find particularly concerning
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Yes, highly politicized issue, w/ lots of PC, and probably more than a few financial conflicts of interest to boot. I find it really hard to understand this issue since I don't actually have any close friends who are trans. I know plenty of gay/lesbian ppl, but trans are rare.
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