Thread by @TwisterFilm

1./ The big detransition cover-up.
For too long the LGBTQ+ lobby has tried to ignore or minimise the fact so many young people regret the surgery and drugs of so-called trans health care. That's why this video from @SexMattersOrg is so important. But here's the thing. 👉
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2./ The LGBTQ+ lobby has known from the start that detransition was a significant issue. Here's a clip from a BBC film about pioneers of the trans movement in the 60s in which someone's detransition is acknowledged. "Maybe she saw herself deteriorating", says the trans activist.

3./ In 1970 even that ghoulish pioneer of gender identity, John Money, warned some transsexuals considered their surgery "a tragic mistake" He urged all those wanting surgery to wait for 2 years. The Sex Matters' film shows instead young people are now being hustled into surgery.

4./ Tragically, @wpath's Standards of Care no longer carry a warning they did until 1998 (Principle 1) that sex reassignment "may be requested by persons experiencing short-term delusions or beliefs which may later be changed and reversed." They urged psychiatric oversight.

5./ Many trans activists now behave as if 'detransition' is an invention of their opponents. Yet the Standards of Care used to emphasise the risk of regret, underlining how procedures like surgery might prove to be "psychologically debilitating". What happened to such wisdom?

6./ This concern was thrown overboard by a movement that wanted to normalise the desire for surgery and hormones. Remember those older Standards were written for adults. Now children are given drugs (blockers) the risks of which they cannot possibly understand.

7./ Now @wpath standards insist a young man's wish to be castrated should be affirmed even when it's not to try to look more ''female'. Eunuch is a gender identity now! Here's a US surgeon admitting he carries out castrations to create nullos (eunuchs in other words). 🤮

8./ There is an understandable desire among people who have radical surgery to try not to regret what they did. Adam Curtis recently revisited the first sex change surgery featured in a BBC film in 1979. "Julia" didn't regret the fact his surgery went badly wrong.

9./ That's why it is so hard to know what the prevalence of transition regret is. All we can know for sure is that the eagerness to remove all gatekeeping and make affirmation compulsory is a recipe for disaster. Troubled young people deserve support and therapy not surgery.

10./ It's no surprise today's edifice of "trans healthcare" was created by a ketamine-addicted, leopard-owning lesbian who believed in telepathy and thought she was a man. I mean, what could possibly go wrong? Read all about that on my substack. 👇
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