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In this 6-min segment, Diane Ehrensaft plays the suicide card, says 2 isn't too young to socially transition, & dismisses decades of research evidence that most kids desist and grow up to be gay. At least they had @jackdreschermd on as a voice of reason.
wbur.org/hereandnow/201…
Dr. Drescher touches on detransition, & a study of girls who had a hard time desisting after social transition. Saving face is huge for teens. Ehrensaft's cavalier endorsement of kid transition indicates little concern for either LG youth being wrongly transitioned, or desisters.
Though the study is not referred to by name, pretty sure it's this 2011 paper by Steensma et al. Who will care about and care for the many more detransitioners/desisters who are appearing almost every day, as affirmative care becomes the norm?
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…
Another researcher-clinician who has sounded the alarm about affirmative "care" is Dr. Eric Vilain.
nbcbayarea.com/investigations…
Vilain: "I'm actually wondering what are we trying to accomplish here? Are we trying to reduce the number of gay & lesbian adults?" Clip here:
nbcbayarea.com/templates/nbc_…
The segment aired today, 22 January 2019, on the popular show "Here and Now" on National Public Radio (NPR).
Save this thread for the next time the affirmation-only peddlers tell you it's settled science, that the medical community has reached consensus. Share Vilain's comments (in the screen caps), Drescher's cautionary words, and the Vilain video clip.
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1/ Those who say we should ally w/ US rightwing *organizations* risk galvanizing the entire Democratic Party establishment against us who are trying to draw attention to the excesses of trans activism & pediatric transition.
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1/ Look who's in the convo--all adult-transitioning MTFs (+ Zack Ford), STILL trying to force @PLOSONE to retract a study they don't like: about gender dysphoria in (mostly) FEMALE youth. Demanding access to the data, that the paper be retracted, hounding @BrownUniversity
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