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@transmum1 @TeamGender @thegenderfairy1 @velobabe 1/ But let us remember that when GIDS was started, 30yrs ago - after the Dutch clinic - nowhere else NHS in Britain offered any support of any kind for trans minors & their families. That's 25yrs after the 1st NHS adult GIC, & 40+yrs after UK's 1st surgeries & publicity.
@transmum1 @TeamGender @thegenderfairy1 @velobabe 2/ Before GIDS, for around 50yrs, the prescription for such children, if they didn't largely repress themselves, was incarceration in asylums, which were run by county councils as public health. From the 20s those tried curing by using the memory erasing properties of ECT…
@transmum1 @TeamGender @thegenderfairy1 @velobabe 3/…and after military experiments with drugs with memory erasing effects, those were tried too. The same were used to try to cure depression, psychoses, & behaviour like girls having boyfriends of whom parents disapproved (really, yes). @DrMichaelMosley showed that is his 📺…
@transmum1 @TeamGender @thegenderfairy1 @velobabe @DrMichaelMosley 4/…series 'The Brain: A Secret History'. Aversion therapies🖼️ were used on less "intractable conditions", like cross-dressing & homosexuality. In the mid 70s victims were appearing in the LGB community, but trans victims were still being picked in the 80s in the UK, & LGBT are… 
@transmum1 @TeamGender @thegenderfairy1 @velobabe @DrMichaelMosley 5/…still being treated that way in some countries, as the eminent 2014 head of WPA stated🖼️. Hence my psychiatrist in 1971 had to be eminent enough to protect me from that (and a 1979📽️ tried to take him down), & GIDS, who agreed to a 📺 documentary only 4yrs in were the…
@transmum1 @TeamGender @thegenderfairy1 @velobabe @DrMichaelMosley 6/…alternative for children as the UK government started closing those huge county asylums. Unfortunately they have always resisted advances (as have the Dutch clinic, in their different way, from a different baseline). Which is why we need fresh alternative providers.
@transmum1 @TeamGender @thegenderfairy1 @velobabe @DrMichaelMosley 7/ #TriggerWarning from this point down. Some evidence/examples of how it was, that I have posted before, years ago. The Netherlands before their kids clinic did all that. There's a documentary I cannot access, despite all efforts, but here🖼️ is one story, of the Heiloo asylum.
@transmum1 @TeamGender @thegenderfairy1 @velobabe @DrMichaelMosley 8/ #TriggerWarning 'Gender Shock' has the account by a woman who a US trans child, locked away & subjected to ECT amazon.com/Gender-Shock-E… …
@transmum1 @TeamGender @thegenderfairy1 @velobabe @DrMichaelMosley 9/ #TriggerWarning 'MyGenderation' has a stunning📽️ of a UK man who was locked away as a teen, but they seem to have blocked usage, so all my examples are of girls. My last is a US blog account I've verified as true……girl-notesfromthetside.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/nightm… …
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@transmum1 @TeamGender @thegenderfairy1 @velobabe @DrMichaelMosley 10/ Context of 9/ is the 17yo had been on hormones & living full time for 4 years - one of Benjamin's NYC patients - but collapsed when the coffin of her 6ft, 19yo fiancé was revealed at his funeral to be child-size, since that was all the army could recover from SE Asia.
@transmum1 @TeamGender @thegenderfairy1 @velobabe @DrMichaelMosley 11/ The hospital where paramedics took her then passed her on to an infamous asylum, with the connivance of her hateful grandmother, whilst her mother, Benjamin, & her brothers tried to find her. That was 1963. It took her 5-6yrs to fully get back together.
