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Pediatrician c1995, pulled into the pediatric transgender dilemma c2018. Board member of the Society for Evidence-based Gender Medicine

Gresham Oregon

https://t.co/HWZ9RfR4zK

Joined October 2019

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Julia Mason MS MD

5 years

I'm not currently an academic. I'm a general pediatrician who is getting worried about what's happening with medical treatment of transgender children, so I wrote a thing:

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A physician is worried about gender transition in pediatrics

I'm worried about the rapidly rising numbers of children being diagnosed as transgender and being treated with hormone blockers, cross-gender hormones, and surgery.

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2 years

Here’s my iPhone video of Dr. Ladinsky glorifying suicide in a 16 year old. In case you were thinking I misunderstood.

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Wow wow wow From Hilary Cass in the NYTimes (gift link in next Tweet)

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I'm hearing that TRA's are pressuring Vimeo to take down the brand new and very excellent documentary "Affirmation Generation." Which I'm in! 🥳 What can we do to counter this? Watch it before it disappears!

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Statement from clinicians in France: "This phenomenon, the "transgender child", is in reality a contemporary mystification that must be vigorously denounced because it is a matter of ideological embrigadement."

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As pediatricians, we’ve forgotten what we’ve been taught about childhood development. We’ve forgotten what we’ve been taught about suicide prevention. We’re ignoring what our colleagues in Sweden & Finland & the United Kingdom have realized. We’re concretizing gender ideation.

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Yesterday I attended an excellent seminar on suicide prevention by @drlisamhorowitz She was shocked to hear that professionals are telling parents, in front of their kids, that their child is likely to kill themselves if not affirmed in their gender ideation.

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Our last speaker @moladinsky runs the gender clinic at the University of Alabama. She just described a suicide as “boldly stepping in front of a truck.” She repeated the word boldly. I, I can’t even. . . Glorifying suicide is unprofessional and dangerous.

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@sciam There are no long term follow up studies of kids treated with GnRH agonists. There is *one* case study, published by the Dutch. You got nothin’. Stop making stuff up.

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@NEJM I'm a pediatrician. The growth curves for male and female babies are notably different. Am I to just give up on tracking normal growth and development?

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@detransguy Thanks for sharing your story. I’m sorry the doctors let you down. You deserved better care,

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My personal marker for whether WPATH was completely captured by the activists was whether the "eunuch" chapter survived the editing process. I couldn't believe it in December, it actually *references* the Eunuch Archives, I was dumb enough to click the link and poke around...

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Some thoughts on pediatric transition. Gender dysphoric children have been studied, and in the past, a super-majority desisted with puberty. Most turned out to be gay.

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Parents of trans-identified kids: please take this as an opportunity to look inward. A therapist is not going to fix this. Even if you could arrange a heart-to-heart convo with a detransitioner, that's not going to fix this. You have to think "how did we get here?"

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Alternative take: social transition of young children concretizes what was most likely a transient cross-sex identity and all but guarantees medicalization, with the attendant complications, morbidity and mortality.

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Few transgender children retransition to cisgender, according to a new study in @aap_peds :

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I think there are more doctors/psychologists worried about current gender medicine, as it applies to children and young people, than are currently speaking out about it. Speaking out on this is difficult and uncomfortable. I'm not doing this out of hate, but from concern. (4/4)

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Disturbing new study about suicide and "gender affirming care." Not only is it not "lifesaving care," there's growing evidence that it may increase risks.

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Risk of Suicide and Self-Harm Following Gender-Affirmation Surgery - PubMed

Introduction With the growing acceptance of transgender individuals, the number of gender affirmation surgeries has increased. Transgender individuals face elevated depression rates, leading to an...

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#AAP2022 had nothing about gatekeeping access to powerful controlled substances with irreversible effects, it was all affirmation and celebration. #Tweetiatricians please read:

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@sfchronicle Michael Shellenberger is not "against trans people." He is against WPATH, which is promoting irresponsible care for kids with gender issues. Nobody has a eunuch identity, and no child ever has wanted to be a eunuch, but they have a whole chapter on that in their "SOC 8."

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I recently had a conversation with a pediatric psychiatrist about a troubled 12 yr old who has been self harming via cutting for more than a year. As we were discussing the case, the psychiatrist tells me that the girl has expressed discomfort with her gender. (1/4)

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@ClementLeeMD When I was a newborn hospitalist, it seemed like the longer the birth plan was, the more likely there was going to be trouble (like an emergency cesarean). When I was pregnant, they wanted me to make a birth plan and I refused. I said the plan is, we're having a baby.

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How many of my fellow pediatricians understand this is what our patients tell each other?

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A doctor friend of mine shared an idea that I think has great merit: detransitioners can file complaints against their gender doctors not in court (they can do that as well, but that's a hard road) but with that doctor's medical board. You can be anonymous

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Instead of turning me in to the woke police, the psychiatrist seemed very relieved to hear me say that, and she agreed that medical transition can be seen as a new form of self-harm for stressed kids. (3/4)

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"But the child is a being under construction, his or her future is in constant evolution before reaching a stage of maturity. Neuroscientists, developmentalists, psychoanalysts, child psychiatrists, paediatricians & all specialists in early childhood are unanimous on this subject

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@UpperhandMars We're running a live experiment on the bodies of young people, with no control group and no long term data collection.

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@lacroicsz Exactly right. I’ve had 12-year-old girls tell me they are asexual, and it turns out they were frightened by the porn that they saw. I recently had a 15-year-old boy who said he was having problems getting erections! (I told him: no porn for six months.)

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@synaptic_simone @AbigailShrier @jack_turban Actual doctor here. The existence of increasing numbers of detransitioners can no longer be ignored. We are not doing right by these girls and boys. We must do better.

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I responded “Of course - she's a stressed out 12 yr old girl in Portland in 2021, it's not surprising she would want a get out of girl card, but that makes me wonder if there's a history of sexual abuse." (2/4)

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. . . they removed the chapter on Ethics (it was a pretty terrible chapter, but still) but the creepy Eunuch chapter is still there (!). I don't see how any doctor can take WPATH seriously when they publish dreck like this. A child can not take on a "eunuch identity."

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@MichaelZiffraMD I’m glad to see you saying that. I was feeling like a crazy person because the #Tweetiatricians in the audience were just nodding along and applauding. We should know better.

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@benappel In the 2015 USTS (the one Jack Turban data-mines for "medical" papers) I think more than half the respondents who claimed to have taken puberty blockers reported that they took them after age 18. This topic is awash in bullsh**.

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@benryanwriter There are many paths into gender dysphoria, and many paths out. I think it makes sense to start with the least invasive treatments. I'm sorry that kids have been told that there's a singular reason for all their woes, and a particular difficult medical path that will fix them.

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Wow. Apparently I’m harming newborns when I observe their sex at birth.

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@JuliaMasonMD1 @anto86 @TwisterFilm @artymortyarty @KevinLGerhardt @jk_rowling You're the one who said you can tell a child's gender at birth. Genetics and gender are not related, genetic information isn't known without a blood test. You assign sex to children which causes psychological harm. Physical and mental health are connected.

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Children don't have the vocabulary to explain why they feel different from other children so it's not surprising some use a simple formulation (I *am* a boy/girl) to express how they feel. It doesn't mean you have to sacrifice their fertility and sexual function.

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@will_malone @LisaSelinDavis Sweden just joined Finland in backing away from medicalizing gender dysphoric youth. England is also taking a second look at the evidence. It's time for doctors in the United States to slow down and consider how weak the evidentiary base for pediatric medical transition remains.

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Powerful letter written by over 20 doctors from Europe and the United States:

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Opinion | Youth Gender Transition Is Pushed Without Evidence

Psychotherapy, not hormones and surgery, is increasingly the first line of treatment abroad.

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"They would have us believe that, in the name of the well-being and freedom of each individual, a child, freed from the agreement of its "reactionary" parents, would be able to "choose" its so-called gendered identity."

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There is no way this can happen. A feminine boy may think his life would be better if he were a girl, but no child thinks "oh, my life would be better without all these pesky sexual urges!" That is not a thing. At long last, can my fellow #tweetiatricians see the crazy here?

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@Anthrofuentes @SwipeWright If we say there are two gametes, and in humans you need one of each to make a new human, is that acceptable? Most of these arguments are made by people *without* DSDs to argue for processes that sterilize gender nonconforming children. It’s dust thrown in the air to confuse.

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@D0GYUCK Welcome to Twitter, I'm glad you're here! I'm sorry your doctors let you down. You deserved better care. You were a child and should have been protected from harm.

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@LeorSapir @MaggieAstor I would say we are conducting a massive, uncontrolled experiment on children, but the word experiment implies that someone is collecting follow up data. Nobody is doing that.

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@heterodorx Boys are dipped in testosterone three times, the first in the womb, the second in the crib, and the third in puberty.

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I’m outside the Anaheim Convention Center at #AAP2022 with information about my resolution and pediatric gender medicine generally. #Tweetiatricians come say hello!

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In case you missed it, because you don’t subscribe to the WSJ:

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Medical Journal’s False Consensus on ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ - WSJ

archived 9 Jun 2023 20:51:00 UTC

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#IStandWithAmyHamm because of course I do.

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The Cass Report has made it into the Grey Lady. At what point do my fellow #tweetiatrician 's realize that we need to direct AAP leadership towards a saner course?

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Hilary Cass Says U.S. Doctors Are ‘Out of Date’ on Youth Gender Medicine (Gift Article)

Dr. Hilary Cass published a landmark report that led to restrictions on youth gender care in Britain. U.S. health groups said it did not change their support of the care.

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@dyke_in_denial If you can remember his name, you should drop him a line. It would make his day, and maybe give him courage about speaking up. He obviously had some concerns about the long term effects, so he's somewhat open to reason. (I need allies!!)

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@kdrum @jessesingal @jonathanchait Less progressive, or more willing to look at a burgeoning medical scandal and see a problem? Is Sweden less progressive than the United States?

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You can let them do all the things without telling them that wearing a dress makes you a girl, or having short hair and climbing trees makes you a boy. Transition is a difficult path, with many long term consequences and side effects. Taking that path is an adult decision.

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in the text based pedophilia there, it's porn without images, you might call it erotica but it's about castrating boys against their will. Well, the Eunuch chapter is still there. They removed the age limits for treatments & surgeries . . .

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What has really struck me in conversations with and observations of doctors providing puberty blockers and cross-gender hormones to gender dysphoric youth is their utter conviction that they are saving lives. "Would you rather have a dead daughter, or a live son?"

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I'm very glad to hear that the @AmerAcadPeds is planning to commission a systematic review of the evidence around sex trait modification of children and youth. We need more light and less heat on this topic.

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Medical Group Backs Youth Gender Treatments, but Calls for Research Review

The American Academy of Pediatrics renewed its support of gender care for minors while commissioning a fresh look at the evidence.

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Soon the @AmerAcadPeds will have their Annual Leadership Forum. I wrote a simple resolution, requesting that the AAP take a serious look at the evidentiary basis for medicalizing gender dysphoric minors, given the walk-backs of Sweden, Finland, and now England. Here it is:

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@ImWatson91 In the original Dutch protocol, they forbid social transition, and wanted to make sure the kids knew that you can’t actually change sex, and you don’t always get what you want. To prepare them for a successful transition. That’s gone now.

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Case in point:

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Liberals won’t listen to their own family members but the NY Times says it, so now they do.

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I'm a pediatrician. It's my job to look out for kids.

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@CarolCCarroll @benryanwriter It really bothers me that people are saying to kids with gender issues that there's something *wrong* with them but no worries, when they are older "the doctors will change your sex." A kid under 8 will believe it. We can't, and it's cruel to imply that we can.

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Your strongest asset is your relationship to your child. Work on that. Take the money you were going to spend on a therapist and spend it on activities that both of you enjoy. Do things together. Talk about things other than gender.

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11 days ago I submitted a Letter to the Editor of the New York Times, in response to an opinion piece by that prolific psychiatric resident who can not be @'d because he has blocked me. It was titled "What South Dakota Doesn't Get About Transgender Children." (thread: 1/8)

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Unpopular opinion: pediatric transition is a bad idea

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Unpopular opinion: pediatric transition is a bad idea

Hi, I’m a pediatrician who used to be far more active on this website. I have a lifetime membership since I was an early joiner. I was big on Howard Dean, that’s how I found Markos. I got really...

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Dr. Ken Zucker giving us the long view on persistence vs desistance of gender dysphoria in kids. Social transition radically changes the rate of persistence.

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(8/8) In the past the majority of gender dysphoric children desisted during puberty. I worry that affirmative care is creating a cohort of lifelong medical/surgical patients. (that's it - that's my letter)

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Michael Shellenberger at the Genspect conference "Many of you (here) are liberals, or leftugees." That's it, I'm a leftugee. #GenspectBiggerPicture

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I've spent hours on the phone or in Zoom meetings with various journalists for major publications, but somehow, this lifelong liberal is too toxic to be named in the @nytimes or @TheAtlantic . All because I'm concerned about what we're doing to kids. That's the big frustration.

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@heterodorx Case in point: “boldly ended her life” AAP NCE, October 2022

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@helenlewis came out with a good but frustrating article in The Atlantic all of 3 days ago, here's a link to an archived version:

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Wow. I've been a Democrat my entire adult life, but I'm feeling pretty politically homeless right now. Deliberately excluding detransition care from coverage? Is this true?

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🧵 If detransition is real, the whole "gender identity" house of cards collapses. I received confirmation this week from Legislative Legal Council that House Bill 2002-A specifically EXCLUDES DETRANSITION TREATMENTS from insurance coverage.

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Insistent, consistent and persistent: that's me!

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Major US news: The AAP, thanks to insistent, consistent & persistent urging by @segm_ebm ‘s @JuliaMasonMD1 & others, has finally agreed to perform a systematic review of the evidence for medical interventions related to pediatric gender transition. #rt

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@genderperfect @mothergender This table is from research at CHLA in Los Angeles - no idea how many teens have had “top surgery” since this was published.

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It's just really satisfying to read things like this out of England. I wonder if we'll ever read anything close to this in an American publication? (I'm not holding my breath, but I am going to keep pushing.)

The Cass review reveals how children were catastrophically failed by the medical profession |...

Clinicians and managers must be held to account for the travesty in which adult beliefs were allowed to drive healthcare for children

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We can't wait for the folks in the gender clinics to do it. They are all in, they are too involved to look at the evidence dispassionately. The kids are too young to look at the evidence dispassionately. It's up to experienced pediatricians to hold our leadership to account.

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@nytimes @genspect Social transition is a powerful change in a child’s life & sets them up for a cascade of interventions they have no capability to evaluate. It is not a thing to do lightly. Parents must be involved in these sorts of interventions. This is teachers practicing without a license.

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@AAPNews @aap_peds Alternative take: social transition of young children concretizes what was most likely a transient cross-sex identity and all but guarantees medicalization, with the attendant complications, morbidity and mortality.

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WPATH files making a splash in England, when will American journalists take note? @maddow @CNN Pediatric gender medicine is changing, my colleagues need to acknowledge this. @AmerAcadPeds More cautious & less medical sounds good to me!

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Wow! Big change in Germany: "These are irreversible interventions in the human body in physiologically primarily healthy minors, who cannot give informed consent in the absence of evidence for such measures."

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The 128th German Medical Assembly 2024 just passed 2 resolutions: to restrict puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries for gender-dysphoric youth under 18 to controlled clinical trials; and to restrict the self-id laws to those over 18. This is a major development. /1

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I'm not saying that this is your fault! Yes, many aspects of "trans" seem like a cult. Still, nobody has ever gotten a cult member to leave their cult by telling them they are in a cult. Humans don't work like that. For teens and young adults, that goes double.

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@justconsooom @MrsSylarGray @LeorSapir I’ve been a pediatrician over 25 years. 99% of kids can’t maintain what they’re going to be for Halloween over a period of months. Puberty blockers concretize what could have been a temporary cross sex identification. This is why the statistics are changing. We are changing them

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@HormoneHangover Enabling your self harm is a good way to phrase it. I am sorry the doctors let you down. You deserved better care.

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Why am I speaking up? Partly because I can, and as @amandapalmer says "If you can, you must." Most pediatricians see gender as a difficult and fraught topic, and it just feels safe to just refer any kids with gender dysphoria to the gender clinic. They're the experts, right?

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Another early influencer has detransitioned:

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Can confirm. At this point with the AAP, I think the coverup is worse than the crime. They stumbled into supporting affirmation on demand, and now they refuse to take it back, even in the face of growing evidence against it as a strategy.

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@FunkGodArtist I couldn’t watch the whole thing. 😔

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The oppositional reflex is present in all of us, and is very strong in adolescents. You can't use facts, logic and reason to get someone out of something they didn't logic themselves into. You need to focus on the relationship.

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@tanyalewis314 We have no long term studies on children treated with GnRHa’s for gender dysphoria. We have *one* case report from the Dutch (and it’s not awesome). Nobody knows how this is going. Sweden and Finland have stopped using these drugs for gender. I can’t even call it an experiment.

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From ⁦ @LeorSapir ⁩ ‘s excellent piece in the Dallas News: extraordinary interventions require exceptionally strong evidence, and we don’t have it.

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I've had to share Dr. Olson-Kennedy's study of chest dysphoria and top surgery in minors (ages 13-24) over 20 times, to angry Tweeters saying I'm lying about minors getting surgery. Nobody is doing surgery on kids! They are. Here's an example from the East Coast of the U.S.A.:

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@TamaraZRoberson @jacebuddy @SourPatches2077 @laylassong @arthur_affect @JuliaMasonMD1 @dopemamaJ @remembrancermx @BrynnTannehill @jack_turban @KWierso @caycilia @psyiana @catt_bear @mal3genocid3 @TransRegret @calicocatbutch @FtMdetransed @detrans_pride @nekoomancer @HormoneHangover @julepparadox @dumbschism @rebornbutch @sathananas At least one girl’s breasts were removed at age 12 by Dr Beverly Fischer (Baltimore, Maryland), according to the girl’s mother, who arranged it.

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@buttonslives gets a standing ovation for this clear declaration;

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2 years

I’ve learned today that the resolution that I and four other AAP members submitted to the ALF has been completely memory-holed: removed from the AAP website, and comments on #28 referring to it have also been removed. Here’s the resolution:

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More shenanigans! You may have noticed that the World Health Organization (WHO) is planning to release guidance on "the health of trans and gender diverse people," but have you noticed the dodgy timing?

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If you do a systematic review of the evidence you will see that there's no solid support for medicalizing minors with gender issues. Finland, Sweden and England are all backing away, Norway and France are concerned and looking into it.

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@EllePalmer1 What a story. I can't even comprehend how we got into this mess. You are a smart woman, to listen to your gut and realize that your doctor had no clue what was going on. I'm so glad you didn't have the surgery (surgeries)!

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@chaseburnsy You seem kind.

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5 years

We need solid data on suicide, not scare-mongering. We need to make decisions based on evidence, not feelings. Sometimes, we don't let kids get what they want, and that's the right thing to do. We need to be the adult.

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In other words, yes, these children are stressed and unhappy, and they need care. I'm just not convinced that puberty blockers, cross gender hormones, and significant surgeries are the best response, at least not in childhood. Suicide is super scary, which shuts down discourse.

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You can't be the bad guy. The trans movement tells kids that their families are hateful if they aren't 100% supportive. Prove them wrong. Find a middle ground. You can't support medicalization but it doesn't help to fight it. You can't be in direct opposition with a kid in this.

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The amazement of the talk show hosts: "Fifteen!?! You were only 15 years old. . . "

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'Former trans kid' Chloe Cole says transitioning ruined her life. "They removed my breasts when I was 15. There is no such thing as being born in the wrong body." @andrejpwalker | @louddanielle | @AndrewEborn | @ChoooCole

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1 year

Love is what wins, in the end.

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8 months

We need to get this story out to primary care doctors who are referring to the gender clinic, thinking that they will do any kind of differential diagnosis. (Spoiler: they're not - every child is confirmed.) This is why I have a second, unpaid, full time job working with SEGM:

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@DaisyIsNotHere Hearing voices telling you bad things is a sign of psychosis. Marijuana use seriously increases your risk of psychosis. You need to talk to a doctor about this. Please.

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In the before times, kids who insisted they were the opposite sex but weren't socially transitioned (because PBs weren't an option and thus it would be crazy to do so) - a supermajority of these kids desisted as they went through puberty. Was puberty hard? Of course!

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