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Good people who essentially trust institutions have trouble understanding the main issues with "pediatric transition" because they don't understand it is a business model.
The pediatric #gendergrift is not medicine so much as an assembly-line toward easy profit.
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The pediatric #gendergrift is not medicine so much as an assembly-line toward easy profit.
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Naive parents and youth think they are "buying in" to a science-based treatment regimen, but the profit model is not in curing or health but in creating lifelong medical patients, through induced anxiety and a series of systematically replicable, fairly low-skill steps.
"Gender identity" is modern phrenology, asserting that everyone has a special essence that can somehow be "born in the wrong body," separate from sexist stereotypes and homophobia, discernible by only the most subtly enlightened.
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Chad Terhune, Robin Respaut, and Michelle Online, 2022. Youth in Transition: As more transgender children seek medical care, families confront many unknowns. Reuters Special Report, reuters.com/investigates/s…, 6 October 2022.
"Puberty blockers and sex hormones do not have U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for children’s gender care. No clinical trials have established their safety for such off-label use. The drugs’ long-term effects on fertility and sexual function remain unclear."
“The National Institutes of Health, the U.S. government agency responsible for medical and public health research, told Reuters that 'the evidence is limited on whether these treatments pose short- or long-term health risks for transgender and other gender-diverse adolescents.'”
@wpath is releasing the 8th version of its Standards of Care, intended as the "gold standard" for transgender health. Between the glaring omissions and the glib assumptions, we think it's unfit for purpose. And we want you to help them sort it out. wpath.org/soc8 1/6
