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@4th_WaveNow
Mar 12, 2019 • 10 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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1. THREAD. We've been sent another batch of screen grabs from the online parent support group we tweeted about recently (vis-a-vis fake penises for children). The new batch of posts pertain to undergarments & other strategies parents use to conceal their children's male genitalia
2. Nine-year-old inconveniences, doctor's advice on downward tucking.
3. Pluses and minuses of being "well endowed" and brand advice from parents of kids who started tucking as young as 6.
4. Not dysphoric at age 6, no problem with penis. Mom got the tucking underwear. This is not an uncommon thing that some parents report. Why are such children considered the opposite sex by their parents? Who has encouraged them to think this way?
5. The two most popular lines of underwear recommended on these forums by parents who want to hide their young children's male genitalia seem to be Tuck Buddies & Leolines, both thriving Etsy stores.
etsy.com/listing/584289…
6. None of this was happening in the US before 2007, when Dr. Norman Spack introduced puberty blockers at his Boston clinic. No 8000-member online groups of mothers sharing taping tips, or fretting over their kids' genitals.

Twelve years later: The US is Trans Kid Central.
7. While helping 9-yr-old "tape and tuck," mom notices a few pubic hairs on "her" testicles and worries it's time to puberty block. Others chime in with similar urgency.
8. Six-year-old asks what balls are, mom reassures that child is a "girl in a boy's body" and in a couple years there will be meds to take care of that.
9. Group tells mom to seek transgender support groups for 8-yr-old (trans since 6) who is distraught about having to undergo surgery later. Serious question: What is the impact on the mental health of a young child when adults point to a future of injections & genital surgeries?
Several antisemites have resurrected this tweet. Don't bother spewing your vile conspiracy theories here. Dr. Spack's religion has nothing to do w/ his work. Also, Dr. Spack believes he is helping young people. He's not a villain. Critique the practice, not the man.

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Mar 7, 2024
1/Clinicians exposed in the #WPATHfiles admitted something obvious to any unbiased observer: Tweens/young teens can't make informed decisions about their future fertility. Blockers followed directly by cross-sex hormones typically results in sterility. 🧵
2/So how do pediatric genderists justify this rather significant side effect? A stunning recent example of a clinician rationalizing "they don't get it, but let's do it anyway" is a 2021 Zoom training with celebrity WPATH developmental psychologist Diane Ehrensaft. Image
3/Don't burden kids w/ "TMI" about icky & (to a 12 yr old) irrelevant talk about future baby-making. Ehrensaft: "How can a child 2 or 3 stages behind Erikson’s stage 7 anticipate what they will feel 2 or 3 stages later? It’s for us to start finding out. And we are.” #WPATHfiles
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Feb 8, 2024
Planned Parenthood is sharing "facts" for parents on Facebook and other social media--including this one: Gender identity is formed "for everyone" in their toddler years.

They encourage parents to ASK their preschooler "are you a boy or a girl" to "create a safer space." Image
More "facts" at this link:
plannedparenthood.org/blog/4-facts-y…
Here's a Facebook post from a couple days ago pushing these "facts." They manage to play the "suicide or transition" card, trans toddlers, and "there's no social contagion" -- all in one meme. Image
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Nov 17, 2023
Must-watch clip from the Netherlands. Apart from the fact that brain studies have never been carried out on puberty-blocked youth, evidence from animal studies has revealed something huge: Blockers impair emotional and social development and behavior. In particular ...1/n 🧵
The ability to regulate emotions is a key aspect of normal development. What is emotional regulation? it includes understanding and modulating behavior rather than simply following one's impulses and acting on them--as most immature children do. 2/n Image
The very basis of "affirmative" care is that a child is "persistent, consistent, insistent" in their desire to be the other sex. How much of that demand is rooted in the very natural emotional immaturity of a child who is not yet able to process and regulate their emotions? 3/n Image
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Sep 10, 2023
It's hard to believe Turban isn't being deliberately misleading. He KNOWS nearly all puberty-blocked kids go on to cross hormones, and that protocol does result in infertility. And immature gametes can't be frozen for later use; natural puberty is required for that. Image
Right here, Seattle Children's Hospital says it.

Turban knows. He just won't say it, because blocked kids almost never stop blockers and go through their "birth assigned puberty." So yes--they are sterilized! @JeremyShawMD Image
Right here, Diane Ehrensaft says it--at the very beginning of this clip. The standard affirmative protocol (which Jack Turban constantly promotes) sterilizes children--and Turban knows it.
dailymotion.com/video/x7kqndq
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Sep 2, 2023
Three years ago...

There is no walking this back. No justification.

Turning a child into a mascot and a public spectacle is a bad idea under any circumstances. Yet in 2023, it has been normalized for "trans kids."
Even people who support pediatric medical transition should question the trans-kid celebrity trend. "Hey I blocked my kid's puberty at 11, then put them on cross hormones at 12. This sterilized them & may have wrecked their future sexual function before they had any concept of what they were sacrificing... but look at me! Look at what a virtuous parent I am!" Oh, what if they regret all that publicity later on ... or even regret their transition? Maybe keeping private medical decisions about a minor...you know, private, might have been a better idea? "No worries, I'm on the right side of history. I'm not like those bigots! After all, my kid might be the next Jazz Jennings, getting SRS on national TV at 17!"
Imagine one of these children wanting to detransition, now or in the future. That's hard enough (ask any detransitioner) when you're not a public spectacle being unkindly gawked at by some, and depended upon by others (like the @ACLU , @HRC ) to promote a narrative. You are virtually guaranteeing these kids will maintain their "identity" because of all the public fallout they'd endure if they ever change their minds.
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Aug 25, 2023
Closing quote from Diane Ehrensaft: " [kids] are far more advanced than I am, as somebody in my 70s, about how they live and understand gender...“So if we want to really understand gender, turn to the experts—and that would be the youth themselves.”
archive.li/2023.08.24-123…
Scientific American @sciam a once-respected publication, didn't bother to ask why this 70+-yr-old **developmental psychologist** thinks a kid is equipped to sterilize themselves & knows more than she does. But then, neither did @wapo in 2018.

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How does Ehrensaft keep getting away with this quasi-religious reverence for the wisdom and judgment of pre-pubescent kids? It would be one thing if the stakes weren't so high--as in, permanent sterilization and irreversible bodily changes. As a developmental psych, she KNOWS executive function is not fully in place until the mid-20s. Yet she keeps pushing her kids-know-best catechism and no reporter pushes back.
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