"They are not evaluating any other form of treatment for the problems of ‘transgender and gender-non conforming youth’. Do these children need this treatment? Is it more effective than placebo? This project is actively avoiding answering that question." 1/ medium.com/@sue.donym1984…
"That poses huge problems. If, for example, there was a control cohort of gender dysphoric children who were given placebos or simply not ‘treated’ at all, and then they grew up into healthy, well-adjusted gay and lesbian adults, the jig may be up for these doctors." 2/
"It would certainly destroy their careers if they were revealed to be wolves in sheep’s clothing, using homophobia to commit a medical experiment on the government’s watch and determine gender non-conformity by the bagginess of a child’s clothes." 3/
“It feels like conversion therapy for gay children,” one male clinician said. “I frequently had cases where people started identifying as trans after months of horrendous bullying for being gay." 4/ archive.is/sLUEC
"Some ppl were transitioning their gender to match their sexuality."
"A control cohort would probably make this nasty little fact more obvious."
"There is no ‘watchful waiting’ cohort, which means that we have no other treatment to evaluate this ‘gender affirmation’ against." 5/
"A control cohort would probably make this nasty little fact more obvious."
"There is no ‘watchful waiting’ cohort, which means that we have no other treatment to evaluate this ‘gender affirmation’ against." 5/
"With no cohort undergoing ‘watchful waiting’, or god forbid, simply being left alone and not ‘transitioned’ at all, we have no idea whether this ‘treatment protocol’ is more effective than leaving kids be and not ‘affirming’ them." 6/ medium.com/@sue.donym1984…
"Later studies in this project admit that the empirical evidence for their treatment model is scant. But they don’t have a control cohort, b/c a control cohort would probably all grow into normal gay teenagers, which means their little conversion therapy scam would be exposed." 7
"One study purports to say that ‘top surgery’ in young women is effective and no one has any regrets, yet a third of those young women suffer permanent loss of nipple sensation, and 25% of the potential sample didn’t respond to attempts by the researchers to communicate." 8/
"The study recruited young women who came into the clinic and were willing to engage — so detransitioners, who often drop out of gender clinics, would have been unable to report any regrets. All this tells us is about the girls a single gender clinic was able to contact." /9
"Why does wanting to bathe topless or wear swim trunks make you a man inside? And yes, it is another lesbian who’s successfully been turned into a facsimile of a straight man. Why is it okay to tell these young butch women that they’re really men?" /10 medium.com/@sue.donym1984…
"The ‘philanthropic support’ is from Jennifer Pritzker, that right-wing billionaire I told you about. Pritzker is paying for the program manager & subsidizing research time for specialists involved in the [grant] program.." Some background on Pritzker: /11
"Where sexuality is recorded for these children, the rate of them being same-sex attracted is disproportionate and fails to support the constant, almost defensive assertion of these researchers, that ‘gender has nothing to do with sexuality.'" /12 medium.com/@sue.donym1984…
"Many of these researchers & not just the principal investigators on the project, have significant conflicts of interest. They never list these conflicts of interest. The AbbVie conflicts of interest are described in a previous article I have written." /13 medium.com/@sue.donym1984…
"If they’re not linked to Pritzker thru Lurie, they're linked to Pritzker thru Pritzker’s large donations to World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH), incl funding the Standards of Care that they're basing these longitudinal studies & treatment models on." /14
"I decided to dig deeper into where [Gender Spectrum] were getting millions of dollars from, and the money seems to come mostly from the California Department of Public Health, which is funding these people to push homophobic ideology in schools." /15
"Pritzker’s right-wing political affiliations are readily apparent when you look through their FEC returns.. Many of the candidates and representatives Pritzker has donated to vote heavily in line with Donald Trump, noted social justice pioneer." /16 medium.com/@sue.donym1984…
"Pritzker has donated millions of dollars to Republicans across the nation. ...millions to county, state, and federal Republican parties, committees, and candidates — including President Donald Trump and other far right candidates." /17
"We’ll start with Pritzker donating to set up a transgender studies chair at the Uni of Victoria British Columbia (the world’s 1st). This donation was reportedly worth upwards of $2 mil. They now have a ‘trans inclusion’ policy ...but nothing about sexism or homophobia." /18
"It does, in fact, translate into ‘those mean lesbians not sleeping with those poor bepenised trans lesbians, how dare they not validate them and their feelings’. That’s what ‘challenging cisnormativity’ means. The normative standard that lesbians don’t have penises." /19
"giving a small group of quacks nearly $6M to research the pet beliefs of a billionaire convinced particular treatment helped them, despite that treatment lacking entirely in empirical evidence, involving the sterilization of children & being ultimately rooted in homophobia." /20
"Ehrensaft then describes turning a butch lesbian into a ‘straight man’. Instead of working through why this young woman felt this way, she simply pushed her along the path of transition into a facsimile of a heterosexual." #unitedLGBTQ #homophobia /21 medium.com/@sue.donym1984…
"This.. isn't a gender web, it's a web of anti-feminism, homophobia & conversion therapy advocacy dressed up in fancy words. It's no different to the old postulations about inversion & homosexuality from 70 yrs ago, it’s just wrapped in rainbows now." /22
"Never have I seen such ppl go to such lengths to hide the homophobic motivations for their work. At this point I wish they.. were honest about it, instead of pretending to be our friends while they drug our young ppl into sterile facsimiles of heterosexuality." /23
"They didn’t start trying to transition their child until he announced he was gay, & then suddenly he’s really transgender — because I suppose medicating and ultimately castrating your gay son into a facsimile of a straight daughter is more palatable when you’re a homophobe." /24
"Pritzker may not be sitting on Twitter trumpeting loudly about his ‘girldick’, but in a way, this is worse, as Pritzker is providing the academic backing for some idiot with an anime avatar to insist his ‘girldick’ belongs in lesbian spaces." 25/25 medium.com/@sue.donym1984…
