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@GorinMoti

Moti Gorin

1 year

I wrote a short essay describing the very unusual and ethically troubling differences in clinical guidelines between the US and some other LGBT+ friendly countries in pediatric gender care. The US should commission systematic reviews of the evidence.

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The Cure for Politicized Pediatric Gender Care

Children and adolescents diagnosed with gender dysphoria receive radically different treatments depending on where they live. With intense politicization of pediatric gender medicine, the U.S. needs...

www.thehastingscenter.org

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@GorinMoti

Moti Gorin

11 months

The most striking thing about the “What is a Woman” documentary is how Matt Walsh—Matt Walsh—is able to make highly educated “progressives” look stupid. And it’s not due to entrapment or selective editing. It’s because the ideas are fundamentally incoherent.

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Moti Gorin

1 year

One of the letters to the editor responding to the recent NYT piece on the use of puberty blockers, written by one of the principal researchers of Lupron (puberty blocking drug).

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Moti Gorin

1 year

Sweden and Finland are more LGBT+ friendly than the US. They conducted systematic reviews of the evidence for gender-affirming care and concluded the risks outweigh the benefits.Have advocates of GAC explained anywhere why Sweden and Finland are wrong? I have seen no discussion.

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Moti Gorin

1 year

I believe this is the first US pediatric gender clinic employee who has publicly spoken out. She's not the last. Medical historians, start doing your research. There's an important story to be told here about how this area of medicine was captured.

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I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle.

There are more than 100 pediatric gender clinics across the U.S. I worked at one. What’s happening to children is morally and medically appalling.

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Moti Gorin

11 months

When Matt Walsh makes you look like a fool, it’s time to look inward.

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Moti Gorin

2 years

Old enough to remember when “male lesbian” was a kind of frat boy sexist joke.

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Moti Gorin

8 months

People who genuinely believe they will be harmed by ideas presented at an academic conference may have chosen the wrong profession. You cannot be a responsible researcher or teacher if you cannot tolerate ideas with which you expect you might disagree.

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Kathleen Stock

8 months

That thing that never happens in academia, happened again.. Presidents of @AMericanAnthro and @CASCATweet deplatform a conference panel on biological sex in anthropology, on grounds of "harm to Trans and LGBTQI". An open letter from those deplatformed follows in next tweet.

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Moti Gorin

1 year

Lots of accusations of bigotry directed my way today. But I still haven't heard anyone claiming my views on pediatric gender medicine are bigoted explain what's happening in Sweden, Finland, England (with Norway recently moving in a similar direction.) This never gets addressed.

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Moti Gorin

1 year

This…gender identity. Is it in the room with us right now?

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Moti Gorin

1 year

An example of how reporters and clinicians distribute misinformation. One of the doctors here claims research shows reduction in suicidal ideation and attempts. The link goes to a NEJM study that did not even report on these measures. Also, two kids in the study committed suicide

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1 year

“There are some days that you look at everything going on and you are just paralyzed by fear of what's coming at your kid next.” Parents, trans kids, & doctors talked w/me about Florida’s new ban on gender-affirming care. My latest for @NPR :

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Moti Gorin

2 years

In the not-too-distant future, it will become clear to all that the model adopted in the US for the treatment of kids with gender dysphoria has been misconceived. If only for political reasons, it would be better if more people on the left started speaking out before that happens

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Moti Gorin

1 month

I have not finished reading the final Cass Report. But one thing Dr. Cass says in this recent interview struck me as worth posting. It's about how the familiar tactics of the most aggressive activists and the cowardice of the rest of us have undermined science and harmed children

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Moti Gorin

1 year

This is what happens when academics and researchers fail miserably at defining our terms, and when the lessons of second-wave feminism are forgotten. Conforming to gender norms becomes "gender affirming care," on a par with cross sex hormones and double mastectomies for teenagers

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i’m so julia

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Any dudes out there got a hair transplant? Used viagra? Taken preworkout or protein shakes to improve effects of exercise? Gotten a haircut? Congratulations on your gender affirming care, did it make you feel more like yourself? How you want to feel and appear?

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Moti Gorin

5 months

@SwipeWright @splcenter @LeorSapir Must have taken hundreds of hours and they ended up with:

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Moti Gorin

1 year

Gretchen Felker-Martin has repeatedly and publicly fantasized about the grisly sexualized murder of journalists and authors. She is a signatory to the letter to the NYT. When will the other signatories distance themselves from The Gretchen Felker-Martin letter?

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Jesse Singal

1 year

Sorry -- make that *NYT Letter Signatory Gretchen Felker Martin*!! Congrats to all involved

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Moti Gorin

8 months

@PhilipMertz1 @BrianLeiter @SandisBertaitis This understates things a bit. She was ostracized by her department, emails calling her a bigot were circulated, she lost the TA she relied on to help teach her course, and Harvard refused to defend her academic freedom.

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Moti Gorin

1 year

One of the odd implications of construing sexual orientation in terms of gender identity rather than sex is that one's sexual orientation is determined by other people's mental states.

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Moti Gorin

1 year

And no one seems interested in the recent BMJ piece that included interviews with leading experts in evidence grading, who looked at US guidelines (WPATH and Endocrine Society) and concluded they aren't evidence based. Why no interest?

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Moti Gorin

1 year

In this article, Burns claims that "dozens" of studies on adolescents show improvements in "mental health and life outcomes" "resulting from" gender affirming care. This is demonstrably false. Where are these dozens? How does this get published?

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How Journalists Can Responsibly Report on Trans Kids

Trans kids are more than a topic to debate — they're humans. Here's how journalists can do better when covering their medical care.

nbcuacademy.com

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Moti Gorin

7 months

Finland’s top adolescent psychiatrist on what’s gone wrong in the world of pediatric gender medicine. Compare her clear and accurate language to the kind of talk we get from US authorities, which has been distorted by the activist capture of the field.

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‘Gender-Affirming Care Is Dangerous. I Know Because I Helped Pioneer It.’

My country, and others, found there is no solid evidence supporting the medical transitioning of young people. Why aren’t American clinicians paying attention?

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Moti Gorin

1 year

After years of watching various institutions--media outlets, professional societies, universities, medical orgs, etc.--buckle under the slightest pressure from the most unhinged activists, it's refreshing to see this kind of commitment to a core mission. It will spread.

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Max Tani

1 year

Memo from Joe Kahn to NYT staff responding to yesterday's letter re: trans coverage. Times leadership says the paper "will not tolerate, participation by Times journalists in protests organized by advocacy groups or attacks on colleagues on social media and other public forums."

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Moti Gorin

8 months

Yes, this is an incredibly callous comment. But it’s also a concession that medical transition can “screw up” someone’s life. And this is supposed to be impossible because as affirming clinicians tell us, kids “know who they are.”

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Moti Gorin

2 years

@runthinkwrite What I find so odd about such cases is that the “winners” seem genuinely proud. Like they really believe it.

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Moti Gorin

8 months

It should be easy, then, for people to attend and clearly show the falsehoods, the “unethical research practices” etc. But no, instead they advance vague and unsubstantiated claims of “harm.” It’s ok to hate academic freedom. There are other jobs out there.

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dr caitlin green (offense archaeologist)

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it is not “ideas” that are harmful, it is the well-documented pattern of falsehoods being legitimized by an academic organization platforming faulty and unethical research methods, which is then cited in legislation that harms, disenfranchises, and discriminates in tangible ways

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Moti Gorin

1 year

The best reason to take Jamie Reed's testimony seriously isn't that she gave it in a sworn affidavit. The best reason is that she is simply describing the approach that's openly endorsed by many US gender clinicians themselves: Gatekeeping is bad, "affirm" ASAP-it's their model.

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Moti Gorin

1 year

@jessesingal @christapeterso Typical behavior from this one. Just machine gun-style spray of massively uncharitable and misleading Tweets aiming to tar perceived enemies. The speculation on privacy law minutia does add a comedic element this time around.

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Moti Gorin

1 year

Sweden and Finland are very low on the list of religiosity worldwide. Their decisions cannot be understood through the US prism of religious conservatism. Often, liberals look to those countries as models. And yet here we are supposed to believe they are genocidal against LGBT?

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"A surprising percentage of their patients with the TikTok tics identified as transgender or nonbinary. But without hard data in hand, multiple attendees said, the doctors worried about publicly linking transgender identity and mental illness."

How Teens Recovered From the ‘TikTok Tics’ (Published 2023)

A wave of teenagers who developed tics during the pandemic has receded, illustrating the powerful influence of stress on the body and the resilience of adolescents.

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Moti Gorin

1 year

@MattWalshBlog If wives leave their husbands when they start to earn more, maybe this suggests that economic precarity plays some role in explaining why some women stay bound to their husbands, rather than because they want nothing more than to cook and clean for their men. Ever consider this?

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Moti Gorin

9 months

Denmark follows England, Sweden, Finland, Norway in stepping back from the medically aggressive model endorsed by US clinics and American major medical organizations. The former countries are practicing evidence-based medicine, grounded in systematic reviews. The latter is not.

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SEGM

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The journal of the Danish Medical Association Ugeskrift for Læger has confirmed that Denmark is restricting medical transition of gender-dysphoric minors. Only 6% of the gender clinic referrals were approved for transition in 2022, down from 65% in 2018./1

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Moti Gorin

20 days

Not everyone knows this but if you go around collecting small dog turds, and you collect a bunch of them, and you put them in a big pile, you actually end up with a delicious, nutritious meal.

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Assigned Media (Evan Urquhart)

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This right here. Another principle being ignored is that at a certain point, a mountain of lower quality evidence that nevertheless all shows the same results combines to create a larger picture.

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Moti Gorin

1 year

Ok, good. A simple empirical claim. Easy to assess. Where are the dozens of studies showing that adolescents’ mental health and life outcomes improve as a result of gender affirming care?

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Katelyn Burns

1 year

I wrote that there are dozens of studies showing this because there are dozens of studies showing this.

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Moti Gorin

2 years

@jessesingal Wait a minute. Are you telling me Lewis—a journalist—just flat out asked someone if they wanted to talk about a story? Literally shitting my pants in vicarious terror.

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Moti Gorin

1 year

Regarding the Roald Dahl "sensitivity readers" changes: it's unclear to me how this can be done without violating obvious authorship and publication norms. Dahl did not write those words; how can the publisher represent him as having done so when the books come out?

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Moti Gorin

5 months

The most important thing here aren't the findings, but rather the prior fact that our institutions have proven so vulnerable to activist capture and the insertion of their pseudo-intellectual bullshit that academics have to waste their time doing studies like this.

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John Armstrong

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5 months

Which is more important sex or gender identity? In a study published today we used data on non-binary athletes' performance in road races to compare the power of gender-identity theory and gender-critical theory.

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Moti Gorin

8 months

@jessesingal It's weird that in 2023 there are still people who are nominally smart and informed and who speak publicly on this issue but who seem completely in the dark about the developments in the field. The US has to be way down on the list when it comes to elite competency in this area.

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Moti Gorin

13 days

A deep oddity confronting anyone who starts thinking about these issues is that if "gender affirming care" affirms gender, then gender must be directly related to one's sexed body, but it's also an axiom of the pro-affirmation view that one's gender is independent of one's body.

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Tomas Bogardus

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I am once again reminding us that in order to know whether these surgeries affirm someone's "gender," we'd have to first know what a gender is. And, embarrassingly, nobody seems to know that.

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Moti Gorin

1 year

Twitter “communists” may not like this, but what they say here about sex and gender and capitalism is true.

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@colwight

Colin Wight

1 year

Well, this throws a spanner in the works of the GC Nazi narrative. The British Communist party coming out as TERFs. (Actually, just reaffirming true socialist materialism). Can someone ping Owen Jones?

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Moti Gorin

7 months

Isn’t it just awful how those greedy and ethnocentric Arabs want all the land from the river to the sea? Why can’t they be more like the modern, secular, democratic Israelis, who just want to live in peace with their neighbors?

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Moti Gorin

1 year

I would think at least the more serious writers who signed that letter to the NYT would be curious about this. Ron DeSantis is not governor of Europe.

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Moti Gorin

10 months

Authors argue strategies that minimize risk to “offspring” (babies, future people) are potentially harmful to trans people and society more generally. Forget morality: strategically, it’s probably a mistake to pitch one’s own interests as being in conflict with those of babies.

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Colin Wright

10 months

This new paper arguing that "precautionary" and "safety first" approaches during pregnancy to prevent developmental conditions in the fetus is "eugenicist" and "inscribe binarized notions of sex" needs to be seen to be believed. It's truly demented.

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Moti Gorin

1 year

@transscribe Do you mean to tell me that your claim that dozens of studies have shown improvements for adolescents, caused by GAC, is based on your simply counting the number of search engine results using queries that don't even include "adolescent"? I can't tell if you're serious.

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Moti Gorin

1 year

There are other misleading claims, but this one is so easy to verify by spending just a few minutes actually checking sources. Of course the vast majority of people do not check sources. Then, when someone raises questions about this care, they get labeled anti-science, or worse

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Moti Gorin

1 year

@jessesingal I hope normal people who don't follow this stuff closely but who care about the basic human element (children's welfare) read this story and then see some of the activist responses calling the NYT bigoted, genocide-adjacent, etc.

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Moti Gorin

1 year

Norway joins Sweden, Finland, UK in rejecting the American/WPATH aggressive medicalization model, which is not supported by systematic reviews, in pediatric gender care. Informative thread:

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SEGM

1 year

The Norwegian Healthcare Investigation Board, (NHIB/UKOM) has deemed puberty blockers, cross-sex-hormones & surgery for children & young people experimental, determining that the current “gender-affirmative” guidelines are not evidence-based and must be revised. /1

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Moti Gorin

11 months

@jessesingal Scenes of Jews being rounded up, forced on trains. Old Jewish man getting beaten by Nazi soldier: “My lived experience sucks right now.”

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Moti Gorin

1 year

Here's an article from 2017 discussing some of the longer-term risks of puberty blockers. Nothing to do with the trans issue--these people got it for precocious puberty or off-label to add height--so hard to call it transphobic.

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Drug used to halt puberty in children may cause lasting health problems

A number of women attribute their chronic health problems — including brittle bones and faulty joints — to use of Lupron while they were children.

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Moti Gorin

11 months

I have to stop responding to the "cis" stuff because it gets really repetitive. But this is an important point: "cis" is not synonymous with "non-trans." People may use it that way, but if you look up how it's defined, it carries far more metaphysical baggage than "non-trans."

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Felicia Hart, She-Dog of Anarchy

@felicia_hart13

11 months

All day yesterday Moti pretended he didn't understand what people were asking when they wanted his alternative to cis. And here he is demonstrating that he fully understands and uses "non-trans", which means the exact same thing as cis, but he refuses to use cis.

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Moti Gorin

1 year

@Docstockk It's far from obvious that we'd be reading about this now if you and others hadn't spoken out earlier and taken that flak. Perhaps there's not much solace in that for you but it's true, and important.

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Moti Gorin

1 year

@LeorSapir It’s virtually impossible to find an account of gender identity, beyond “a sense one has.” It is truly remarkable to see so much policy and law constructed on the basis of such an impoverished notion.

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Moti Gorin

1 year

My language is “rhetorically aligned” with some other naughty language. This is two parts literary theory, three parts vague and careless accusations of bigotry, all delivered as a sermon.

@shengokai

Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Sword Bisexual

1 year

This language is also rhetorically aligned with the language used by Moti Goran in the linked tweet below:

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Moti Gorin

7 months

Recent Dutch public television report on the "Dutch model" of pediatric gender medicine, with English subtitles. Very important. We need this kind of reporting in the United States.

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The Transgender Protocol (2023) Dutch with English Subs

Worth watching! Includes rare coverage of trans regret from a mainstream channel, and also an interview with Hannah Barnes. Pro-Trans Doctors are given enough rope to hang themselves. This is from...

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Moti Gorin

7 months

@colwight For the same reason they ask for a ceasefire rather than asking Israel to surrender. A ceasefire is meant to stop bloodshed, to save civilian lives, without requiring any side to concede. It’s about humanity not victory.

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Moti Gorin

10 months

It’s not unusual, historically, for medical scandals to be brought to public attention not by clinicians or researchers but by journalists. What’s more unusual is to see this kind of response.

@jessesingal

Jesse Singal

10 months

very tiny fraction of the folks telling me to kill myself the other night in the wake of the noah kulwin thing

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Moti Gorin

1 year

We hear from activists that the problem with reporting on this issue is that it misses the perspectives of trans people.Getting those perspectives is important.But it's irrelevant in cases like this, where basic facts are (mis)reported.This is about literacy, not gender identity.

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Moti Gorin

1 year

Dr. Guyatt is one of the world’s very top experts and authorities in the evaluation of medical evidence. He helped establish the criteria used to determine what counts as evidence-based care.

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Gordon H. Guyatt

1 year

Current American guidelines for managing gender dysphoria in adolescents untrustworthy. Don’t acknowledge the very low certainty evidence regarding alternatives and do not make the very guarded weak/conditional recommendations appropriate for such evidence

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Moti Gorin

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I’m gonna cut to the chase: I’m not leaving twitter, but it’s nevertheless vital for me to believe that you believe that I’m still a very good, principled person.

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Moti Gorin

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@LeorSapir @AmJSurgery Helpful primer on what a systematic review is. Appraisal of evidence is a necessary component. Otherwise SRs wouldn’t provide stronger evidence than the studies they evaluate, and would be largely epistemically pointless.

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VIDEO: What are systematic reviews?

A video resource explains what Cochrane Reviews are and how they work.

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Moti Gorin

6 months

@elizamondegreen "It was really hard for me to reign in the emotions I was feeling, particularly feeling triggered (and angry - my inner "protector" very much wanted to lash out and be all 'I'm not going to let a fuckin 6yr old tell me how to live my life')" Bizarre.

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Moti Gorin

1 year

Several years ago even very careless accusations of bigotry carried a certain weight. But since then we've gotten more evidence about the state of pediatric gender medicine (and related issues), and so this tactic of silencing discussion or criticism has become untenable.

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Moti Gorin

1 year

@shengokai Thanks for the inspirational ethics lecture and suggestions on how to attain wisdom. My bosom is heaving.I'm very familiar with the first-order issues here, at least those pertaining to the reporting on pediatric gender care. So forgive me if I'm not convinced, despite the pathos

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Moti Gorin

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From new guidelines for pediatric gender care out of Sweden: "For adolescents with gender incongruence, the NBHW deems that the risks of puberty suppressing treatment with GnRH-analogues and gender-affirming hormonal treatment currently outweigh the possible benefits." 1/

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Moti Gorin

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If I were a clinician who believed that sex characteristics have nothing to do with gender I would think about how I am supposed to affirm a kid's gender by modifying their sex characteristics. I'd wonder about this sometimes, like when I prescribed hormones or did a mastectomy.

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Moti Gorin

1 month

A must-read. Fellow bioethicists: It's ok to join the discussion now. Hilary Cass has done the heavy lifting and you can talk about it. The scary activists can't hurt you anymore.

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The Cass review: an opportunity to unite behind evidence informed care in gender medicine

At the heart of Hilary Cass’s review of gender identity services in the NHS is a concern for the welfare of “children and young people” (doi:10.1136/bmj.q820).1 Her stated ambition is to ensure that...

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Moti Gorin

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@jessesingal “The solution to climate change is whiteness”—Jesse Singal

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Moti Gorin

1 year

It’s hard to believe how bad the research and reporting on pediatric gender medical care are until you take a close look, which is what Singal has done here.

@jessesingal

Jesse Singal

1 year

NEW: The authors of a highly touted New England Journal of Medicine paper on youth gender medicine failed to report on 6 of the 8 key variables in their pre-registered hypothesis without explaining where they went, which raises significant red flags.

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to critically examine these norms and to reject them as crude and oppressive mechanisms of social control. Exogenous hormones and surgeries leave the norms in place and seek to make the bodies fit. This is profoundly conservative.

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Moti Gorin

7 months

One of the lessons I've learned from doing research on pediatric gender medicine and related topics is that one has to carefully check footnotes. I no longer trust that when an author cites a source that the source in fact supports the author's representation. It's sadly common.

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alex byrne

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More evidence that citations often don’t support the claims made. According to this paper, “‘sex’ is not a biologically coherent concept”, citing Roughgarden 2013 (Evolution’s Rainbow), which of course says the exact opposite.

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GOP leaders: the Bible says eating dog shit is bad and we are going to ban it. Liberal journalists, without blinking: we should be serving dog shit in cafeterias around the country.

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Moti Gorin

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It's not uncommon for my undergraduate students to refer to an author by first name in the work they submit to me, e.g., in writing on Judith Jarvis-Thomson's abortion paper, they'll write, "Judith then goes on to say..." I find this jarring but am not sure I should correct it.

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Moti Gorin

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@transscribe You don’t know what my instincts are. You made a claim about the existence of dozens of studies that show a very particular outcome, with a particular cause. I’ve asked you for evidence and you sent search engine prompts that don’t even match what you claimed. It’s embarrassing.

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Moti Gorin

2 years

@jessesingal "No doctors want to just hand these out! It's a difficult process requiring tons of evaluation!" Meanwhile, the president of WPATH:

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Moti Gorin

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BREAKING: Twitter HIPAA hobbyists have retained attorney Robert Mueller to investigate Jamie Reed and Jesse Singal for conspiring to reveal protected patient data. They allege the information is both true (therefore illegal) and false (because R&S are big liars).

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There have always been gender-nonconforming people all over the world. They teach us that norms of masculinity and femininity artificially and in many cases brutally constrain human diversity in personality and behavior. Kids should be taught...1/

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Moti Gorin

2 years

@jessesingal Can you set it up so it also deletes all the rest of Twitter every seven days.

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Moti Gorin

5 months

I should say, in defense of the journal, that it's not obvious to me how this sort of thing could easily be avoided. Peer reviewers or the editor would have had to check footnotes carefully, as I did, in order to discover that they didn't always match C's claims. Generally, 1/

@LeorSapir

Leor Sapir

5 months

NEW: In an important Letter to the Editor, bioethicist Moti Gorin ( @GorinMoti ) criticizes a recent article by lawyer and transgender activist Alejandro Caraballo ( @esqueer_ ), titled “The Anti-Transgender Medical Expert Industry,” published in @JLME_ASLME . Thread 🧵

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Moti Gorin

10 months

@jessesingal Directly encouraging named individuals to kill themselves is ok. What’s not ok is “stochastic terrorism,” where what you say is purportedly implicated in some extremely causally vague pattern of behavior, such that I can accuse you of doing evil when we disagree.

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Moti Gorin

1 year

@jessesingal And this in the context of an article purporting to explain to journalists how they can do better, more accurate reporting, in part by relying on people like the author of the article. This is “who are you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?” type stuff.

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Moti Gorin

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Putting aside the question of whether ROGD has been "debunked": Perhaps I missed it, and perhaps my Control-F function is broken, but I don't believe the Cass report mentions ROGD anywhere. It cites one Littman paper but that one is on detransitioners, not ROGD. So, odd criticism

@gorskon

David Gorski, MD, PhD

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Seriously. The ROGD paper was based on a poll of parents commenting on a transphobic website; yet. As an entity, it's been debunked. Yet Cass accepts the horrible quality "evidence" for ROGD, while weaponizing the EBM paradigm to declare the evidence for GA care low quality.

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Moti Gorin

1 year

In my field--academic philosophy--a similar dynamic played out, with an intense anti-intellectualism that smeared colleagues--and especially women--as dangers to their students and as bigots. It's been shameful and I hope it's coming to an end.

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Moti Gorin

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Hilary Cass, a respected medical anuthority, criticizes Alejandra Caraballo, a Twitter warrior and demonstrable liar, for putting vulnerable children at risk.

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Moti Gorin

1 year

Edmiston now claims he wrote a sentence for the adult chapter that was the model for the sentence in the adolescent ch. Not plausible, given the emphasis on youth, and the adult chapter does not contain any similar sentence. “I wrote the sentence but it lives in Canada.”

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Moti Gorin

1 year

@Ludovicmartxoak @jessesingal @christapeterso She has an attorney and has referred to taking counsel's advice elsewhere. Safe to assume that's the case here. But remember: none of this has to do with the truth. It's all about the policing of acceptable opinion and the intimidation of others. Fortunately, it's not working.

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Moti Gorin

11 months

Activists break university windows, part of a smear campaign against Holly Lawford-Smith, who defends views they do not like. The admin criticizes the vandalism and the pattern of intimidation against Lawford-Smith. Read the union's response.

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Erica Cervini

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I'm a member of the @NTEUnion but I'm reconsidering my membership because of this silly email I've just been sent. It basically condones the smashing of university windows by a pro-trans group. There truly are some whoppers in this email!

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Moti Gorin

1 year

Given the recent US whistleblower and what we are learning from Hannah Barnes's forthcoming book, I bet high-ranking admins at hospitals and lawyers are meeting with the directors of their siloed gender clinics, and I bet the lawyers brought calculators.

Tavistock clinic ‘ignored’ link between autism and transgender children

The Tavistock clinic ignored evidence that 97.5 per cent of children seeking sex changes had autism, depression or other problems that might have explained their unhappiness, a new book claims.

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Moti Gorin

1 year

@JDHaltigan What I don't understand is how it gets published. This purports to be an article taking the NYT to task for shoddy journalism, and it's just rife with basic errors that anyone who has looked at primary sources can immediately identify as flagrant falsehoods.

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Moti Gorin

1 year

One plausible explanation here, which the author doesn't entertain, is that both phenomena are due to the same underlying causes.

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Moti Gorin

1 year

This is false. "To wit," Lawford-Smith's longest treatment of these issues was published as a book, Gender-Critical Feminism, by OUP in 2022. Both she and Stock have published on sex and gender in academic outlets. They certainly don't claim their Twitter is "scholarship." 1/2

@shengokai

Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Sword Bisexual

1 year

To wit, Stock and Lawford-Smith "have published" in philosophy, but much of their current work is not in philosophy publications, not subject to peer review, and yet is taken to be "scholarship." That said, philosophy tends to publish the wildest shit, so...

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Moti Gorin

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This letter is amusing for many reasons. One is that it claims that even before its publication the Cass review was “comprehensively critiqued in a peer-reviewed journal.” If true, this would be very exciting indeed, as it would provide good evidence of time travel.

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Moti Gorin

1 year

@NPRmelissablock @NPR Dr Evans claims research shows suicidal ideation and attempts go down, and you provide a link to a NEJM study. That study did not report anything about suicidality or attempts. This should be corrected. (Also two kids in that study committed suicide.)

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Moti Gorin

1 year

no evidence of..relationship between exposure to Russian foreign influence campaign and changes in attitudes, polarization, or voting Russia’s..campaign on social..may have had its..effects by convincing Americans that its campaign was successful LOL

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Exposure to the Russian Internet Research Agency foreign influence campaign on Twitter in the 2016...

Nature Communications - Here, using longitudinal survey and Twitter data, the authors examine the relationship between exposure to Russian Internet Research Agency activities on Twitter and voting...

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Moti Gorin

1 year

@shengokai Thanks for the inspirational ethics lecture and suggestions on how to attain wisdom. My bosom is heaving.I'm very familiar with the first-order issues here, at least those pertaining to the reporting on pediatric gender care. So forgive me if I'm not convinced, despite the pathos

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Moti Gorin

2 years

@jessesingal And that letter has lots of citations to peer reviewed papers. He’s just lying.

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Moti Gorin

1 year

@LeorSapir The parents are in extremely difficult positions and it’s both counterproductive and wrong to attack them. The most responsible parties are the medical orgs.

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Moti Gorin

1 year

A naive observer who reads Reed's testimony and thinks, "it can't be, it's too monstrous," they are years behind. When activist-clinicians say "affirm gender identity, don't pathologize" this is what it means. These are the actual, endorsed policies.

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Moti Gorin

1 year

Not gonna waste much time on this, but a couple things: You've already suggested I'm transphobic and that I mistreat students. Now you insinuate that I'm somehow implicated in ableism as well. You throw in some random citations and a few big words, drawing specious connections..1

@shengokai

Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Sword Bisexual

1 year

Communications theory, actually. Let's do this again with philosophy. The kinds of comments you've made, embodied in the tweet below, belong to a class of speech acts that position the target of the act as infantile or engaging in something other than legitimate scholarship.

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Moti Gorin

1 year

@jessesingal “The video that has fans up in arms is a new Harry Potter-adjacent English breakfast that begins and ends with ads for Hogwarts Legacy.” Harry Potter-adjacent English breakfast. 95% of the people crying have owned cats named Hagrid.

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Moti Gorin

2 years

@Docstockk My prediction is that most of the loudest among them will simply go quiet on this issue. It takes a certain amount of courage to acknowledge mistakes, especially when part of a heated public debate, and academics generally aren't known for our courage.

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Moti Gorin

9 months

Right. ROGD is a hypothesis meant to explain a widely documented phenomenon. Even WPATH guidelines explain that social influence may play a role and updated European documents discuss this as well. That this is still ignored or denied by some influential voices is troubling.

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Jennifer Block

9 months

ROGD is the name researchers have given to a theory that may explain the recent rise in older natal female teens ID'ing as transgender and presenting for treatment (which is, objectively, "a thing"). What motivates the clinicians/researchers who use this term is an opinion.

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Moti Gorin

11 months

@mfproudman He wasn’t a philosophy professor. I say this with relief, as a philosophy professor.

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