Why is it that I, a lay person with no medical qualifications, seem to know more about the treatment of young people with gender dysphoria than Paul Jenkins the Chief Executive of @TaviAndPort ?
Listen to his ignorance on #r4today
07:21 - 07:29
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
Listen to his ignorance on #r4today
07:21 - 07:29
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
@TaviAndPort Let's pick apart his performance...
He describes The Tavistock as 'safe, caring and thoughtful'.
It's not safe - girls are having unnecessary mastectomies and irreversible hormone treatments which many will regret later.
He describes The Tavistock as 'safe, caring and thoughtful'.
It's not safe - girls are having unnecessary mastectomies and irreversible hormone treatments which many will regret later.
@TaviAndPort It's not caring. If they cared, more use would be made of talking therapies. The watchful waiting period would be longer and filled with exploration. The medical pathway would be a far smaller percentage of cases. Detransition would be encouraged and supported.
@TaviAndPort It's not thoughtful. Dr Entwhistle points to an environment where the wrong thinking is labelled transphobic. There are employees of a mindset (probably trans, with a hunger for validation) prone to shutting down thoughtfulness with accusations of transphobia.
@TaviAndPort 'less than 50% are referred for hormones' - what number are referred? 48% ?
In a 'safe, caring and thoughtful' environment where there has been a 400% increase in young women identifying as trans, with a known social contagion component, one would think 10% is on the high side.
In a 'safe, caring and thoughtful' environment where there has been a 400% increase in young women identifying as trans, with a known social contagion component, one would think 10% is on the high side.
@TaviAndPort 'puberty blockers are reversible'
This is simply untrue. @PaulJThinks
Why say that on national radio?
The evidence is that when puberty blockers are used on dysphoric teens, the vast majority are then 'locked in' to the medical transition pathway. You know this. Why not say it?
This is simply untrue. @PaulJThinks
Why say that on national radio?
The evidence is that when puberty blockers are used on dysphoric teens, the vast majority are then 'locked in' to the medical transition pathway. You know this. Why not say it?
@TaviAndPort @PaulJThinks 'we are not wedded to a medical model'
It seems that The Tavistock is very much wedded to the 'affirmation' and medical pathway model.
Why isn't The Tavistock, with a great history of psychotherapy, challenging the MOU2 which seeks to remove psychotherapeutic models of treatment?
It seems that The Tavistock is very much wedded to the 'affirmation' and medical pathway model.
Why isn't The Tavistock, with a great history of psychotherapy, challenging the MOU2 which seeks to remove psychotherapeutic models of treatment?
@TaviAndPort @PaulJThinks In conclusion:
Yes there is a contentious debate. Yes, this is a contested area of medicine. But here's the rub...
It is only contentious because ideologically driven feelings are drowning out proper research and hard evidence.
Yes there is a contentious debate. Yes, this is a contested area of medicine. But here's the rub...
It is only contentious because ideologically driven feelings are drowning out proper research and hard evidence.
@TaviAndPort @PaulJThinks The ideologues, desperate for validation, have captured institutions which should have been resistant to such invasion.
Now, the voices of reason, truth and science need to fight to regain these institutions.
Thank you, @seja_bondoso for speaking up.
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Now, the voices of reason, truth and science need to fight to regain these institutions.
Thank you, @seja_bondoso for speaking up.
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#r4today
@TaviAndPort @PaulJThinks @seja_bondoso @threadreaderapp please unroll
@TaviAndPort @PaulJThinks Even more incredible is that he uttered his lies to the nation on THE SAME DAY a #newsnight report was pointing out in elegant detail exactly what is wrong with prescribing puberty blockers! Apart from Paul's incompetence, don't #r4today and #newsnight talk to each other?
@TaviAndPort @PaulJThinks @seja_bondoso The institutional capture of which I speak was mentioned in this morning's #r4today
