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for the kids's avatar

Demanding evidence based support for kids and young people who identify as trans is not anti-trans!!!

It's supporting them?!

Giving people lies and drugs that might only harm, not help, is not "pro-trans".

The science? You've been reporting it. Many have. Reuters in great detail, too.

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BowWow's avatar

Yes! Distressed teens deserve evidence-based care, not to be treated like throwaways by surgeons and hospitals who want nothing to do with them after they've gotten paid. These kids are being exploited and discarded, not cared for.

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Dr Maggie Goldsmith's avatar

And, as a therapist you walk a very fine line. If you refuse your patient a тАЬletter of readinessтАЭ when they demand one, you risk losing them to an activist therapist who is happy to oblige. There is no assessment protocol to ensure тАЬreadinessтАЭ as there is for, say, bariatric surgery. The тАЬreadiness letterтАЭ does nothing other than cover the physicianтАЩs/surgeonтАЩs ass. It does nothing to predict тАЬsuccessтАЭ, whatever that means. But try telling that to a dysregulated teen who wants her breasts gone.

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Dr Maggie Goldsmith's avatar

I can tell you as a clinician that explaining to a teen who is hell bent on medicalizing that the evidence is not there to predict success is not for the weak hearted. The caustic rage that is usually reserved for their parents suddenly gets turned on you, and they will most likely terminate therapy. This is why we need journalists and medical professionals to continue pushing the truth into the public realm.

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nina's avatar

this is partly the problem of religion reducing science literacy

and partly the patients running the asylum that profits from perpetual patients

but no one should pretend body parts grow back and that gender id is other than voluntary eugenics.

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for the kids's avatar

Absolutely. It goes against all they've heard. And mentioning detransition raises the fear they'll be cast out from the community that supports them.

Because several experts are, bluntly out, lying.

Check out affirmation generation!!!

Lisa you are brilliant in that movie and in this essay, as usual.

Thank you!

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BowWow's avatar

Thanks for sharing that. I had no idea.

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nina's avatar

adults should not tell children they can choose body parts

humans are starfish nor clownfish. we do not regrow limbs or other body parts.

teens are at the greatest risk of peer pressure and lowest self esteem

and children - as well as teens have zero agency against adults

who need to know better and do better than this

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