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Intro)@skepchicks @rebeccawatson has pushed unethical mis-info regarding pediatric transition for gender dysphoric minors. She's another ex of the lazy/ideological way many #atheists/#skeptics approach trans issues. Facts to follow in this vid/thread #lgbt
1)Pediatric transition causes sterilization, serious bone injuries (as recorded at Karolinska), & likely reduces IQ & prevents pre-gay kids from desisting. Every male child blocked in tanner 2 is permanently non-orgasmic, as Marci Bowers from WPATH admits.
2)She indicates medicalization in early tweens is rare. They are giving puberty blockers (PBs) at 9-12, HRT at 13, & Dr J. Olson is willing to give T at 8. Mastectomies at 13 & vaginoplasties at 16 are happening. Reducing, even erasing age of consent is a trans activist goal. 
1 Excellent article by @MitchHorowitz on paranormal claims, the late James Randi, his educational foundation (JREF), his unwinnable $1 million prize & Skeptics vs. Debunkers.
"In the pioneering days of scholarly psychical research in the United States, roughly between the 1930s
"In the pioneering days of scholarly psychical research in the United States, roughly between the 1930s
2 "and 1960s, Duke University housed a highly regarded center for the study of #ESP, founded by researchers J.B. and Louisa Rhine. Yet today the Rhine Research Center functions off-campus as a nonprofit organization and, while individual researchers and a handful of ​university
3 "labs soldier on, many college textbooks brand ESP research a pseudoscience, often citing Randi's work as the source of that opinion, so the topic is shunned by most academics & journalists who cover them.
"As a historian and writer on #metaphysical topics, I have spent time
"As a historian and writer on #metaphysical topics, I have spent time
