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This legal case, challenging Gillick competence & represented by an Anti abortion legal team (& evangelical preacher) , is that nearly all those who start hormone blockers go onto cross sex hormones. There are some very good reasons for this (thread) 1/
The children & young people who are referred to GIDS wait for 2+ years on a waiting list (27 months now), undergo 6 months to multiple years of evaluation & by psychologists & psychoanalysts who are not medical Doctors themselves but gatekeep & control access to medical care. 2/
Only the very patient, the very persuasive, & those judged "very dysphoric", by the gatekeeping service are referred for blockers. The threshold for consent is so high that it is has become a major barrier to access to care. 3/
It gets worse. New GIDS article states no social transition till 10. Wren 'fears' harm with no evidence. She is working on cisnormative instinct. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
My daughter is enjoying a happy carefree childhood. I cannot imagine what state she would be in if we had rejected her for her whole childhood til she was 10.
I feel like only ten people on twitter will care, but this really is devastating. Some trans kids have a strong need to assert their identity at a young age, being mis-seen, being rejected for who they are, is a huge deal.
