Thread by @4th_WaveNow

Remember when they said puberty blockers were to "buy time" for a child to decide if they are trans or not? That's so 20th century. As our source in the Parents of Transgender Children FB group reveals in the leaked thread below (2 hrs ago), get them on cross hormones ASAP. /1

"Now that many come out at 4-5 years old" why wait? Just ignore the "too many (cis) people [who] freak out about giving hormones to kids." /2

Mother of 7-yr-old "trans daughter" has heard there might be some issues w/early hormones, but is reassured that "not having enough material" to work with for later genital surgery is something modern surgeons can "get around." /3

When your trans daughter has "known since she was 4 that medical transition is essential," of course the process might as well be accelerated as much as possible. To state the obvious, what preschooler "knows" that invasive & permanent medical procedures are "essential"? /4

Note the reference to bone density. Legitimate concerns about blockers aren't leading to MORE caution in pediatric medical transition. On the contrary, those concerns are used as an excuse to put elementary and middle-school age kids directly on cross-sex hormones. /5

Lest anyone think these "get-them-on-hormones STAT!" parents are outliers, top gender clinicians have been arguing to start hormones earlier (or skip blockers entirely) for many years.

Thread. /6

And our Assistant Secretary of Health, Rachel Levine, has publicly discussed putting homeless street kids on cross-sex hormones ASAP--no blockers necessary. /7

We always anonymize these posts because it’s a private Facebook group. But know that (in addition to the many “ordinary” parents), the group includes several well known activist parents/media figures (e.g. Jazz Jennings’ mom), as well as leaders of child-transition orgs. /8

One of these well known activist parents weighed in on the thread today, revealing (while scoffing at guidelines followed by "nervous" MDs) that her male-born child was on blockers for 6 months before starting estrogen at age 11. This protocol permanently sterilizes a child. /9

Putting tweens on cross hormones is now quite common, w/little to no time on blockers. An activist who runs a child transition org admits they don't publicize it "due to the current political climate."

But: "We'll get there." Why the rush to sterilize 11 & 12 yr olds? /10

The ostensible reason for the rush is so the child can go through "peer-concordant" puberty. Originally puberty blockers were meant to buy time for consideration, but now they are seen as a hindrance to the child going through puberty at the same time as peers. HOWEVER /11

This abandonment of blockers subverts the very reason they were used by the Dutch pediatric transition pioneers: Because younger children are not developmentally capable of understanding the monumental decision to undergo irreversible, sterilizing medical treatments. HOWEVER /12

The irony is that even the most radical gender clinicians understand this--that tweens are too immature to truly consent. Yet they push ahead anyway. For a look at their convoluted, confirmation-biased rationale, see this seminar led by Diane Ehrensaft /13
4thwavenow.com/2021/04/13/tmi…

Look back at tweet 9 in this thread. The activist parent notes that "nervous" doctors treat WPATH guidelines (which recommend cross hormones no earlier than 16) as if they are rules. She's right: /14

WPATH guidelines aren't rules. There are none. Doctors can medically transition minors in any way & at any age they like, because (in the US at least) no law or regulation constrains them. And if the Biden admin has its way, any youth who "seeks" such care is entitled to it. /15

The lack of regulation or adhered-to-standards is why even under-18 "bottom" surgery has occurred in the US, despite the fact that some surgeons have expressed concern about the "Wild West" attitude and atmosphere in the industry. /16

And double mastectomies on younger and younger females represent a growing business. No lower age limit. No regulations. Some surgeons specialize in the practice, advertising on Insta, Tumblr, & other social media.

Wild West.
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For the newbies or deniers, in reference to tweets 9 & 10, cross hormones administered to prepubescent children DOES permanently sterilize. Watch Diane Ehrensaft discuss the matter here (while shaming any parent who hesitates to approve such treatment) /18
dailymotion.com/video/x7kqndq

Unlike the original “Dutch protocol”—which involved careful assessment, discouraged early social transition, prescribed cross hormones no earlier than LATE adolescence, and saw desistance as a positive outcome—we now have /19

The institutionally-captured belief that even toddlers “know” they’re trans, so medical intervention should advance as quickly as possible. In the US, this belief has now morphed into government policy at the federal level. /20