UK Children’s Gender Services’ (GIDS) new journal article is so BAD it's absurd. Here’s a guide of how to make an EPIC FAIL:
• Use the term transman as a noun!
• Just for laughs use the phrase ‘both’ genders in the definition of non-binary. 1/10
• Use the term transman as a noun!
• Just for laughs use the phrase ‘both’ genders in the definition of non-binary. 1/10
• Conflate gender identity & expression
• Ignore modern scientific research – focus on Zucker!
• What evidence shall we include? Studies from America? No. Australia? Nope. Canada? No way. Only look to the Netherlands. 2/10
• Ignore modern scientific research – focus on Zucker!
• What evidence shall we include? Studies from America? No. Australia? Nope. Canada? No way. Only look to the Netherlands. 2/10
• Use term female 3 times in definition of trans boys: “a…female…..female….female….who identifies as a male”. You have to work hard to fail EPIC.
• Pre-puberty peak in your graph of % referrals? Adjust to a bar chart of numbers referred - tadah! A peak in late teens! 3/10
• Pre-puberty peak in your graph of % referrals? Adjust to a bar chart of numbers referred - tadah! A peak in late teens! 3/10
• Don’t like the statements about puberty blockers and sex hormones from Endocrine Society & WPATH SOC 7, then rewrite them!
• Don’t want to quote statements in the Endocrine Society or SOC 7 on withholding treatment being harmful? Shhhhhhh! 4/10
• Don’t want to quote statements in the Endocrine Society or SOC 7 on withholding treatment being harmful? Shhhhhhh! 4/10
• Even the Dutch authors of the desistance myth say that their work has been misinterpreted. Ignore this. Cling to the desistance myth as if it were the last slice of Vienetta (or as if your career and professional reputation depends on it!) 5/10
• The desistance myth was never about socially transitioned children. Boldly state that it was,
• Don’t like evidence of trans children having clear identities or benefits of affirmative healthcare – NEVER MENTION IT! 6/10
• Don’t like evidence of trans children having clear identities or benefits of affirmative healthcare – NEVER MENTION IT! 6/10
• Misquote the NHS service specification – even though you wrote it! Bravo!
• Create a fake statistic of referral rates, include children too young/old to be referred. Call it a persistence statistic. 7/10
• Create a fake statistic of referral rates, include children too young/old to be referred. Call it a persistence statistic. 7/10
• Don’t discuss children leaving NHS or children being denied a referral. On national media say young trans children almost all change their minds even though your own data contradicts this! 8/10
• Your own data shows over 80% go through to endocrinology and over 90% of those continue to adult services? Don’t sweat it. No one will actually check your data!
• Make sure your position and your statements do not change for over a decade. 9/10
• Make sure your position and your statements do not change for over a decade. 9/10
• FAIL PUBLICLY. Make sure it is an EPIC FAIL.
• Make sure your failure causes immense pain, suffering and long-term damage to vulnerable trans children.
UK GIDS Failing Trans Children 10/10
• Make sure your failure causes immense pain, suffering and long-term damage to vulnerable trans children.
UK GIDS Failing Trans Children 10/10
