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2 Mar, 26 tweets, 13 min read
.@GDSNsupport holds online support meetings for family & friends of those affected by gender dysphoria. It was founded in 2020 by a therapist & two mums of natal daughters who identify as trans. The group is looking for more therapists as demand rises. 1/ Image
In the last 2 years there's been a surge of new groups driven by concern about gender clinic medicine. They cover parents, health professionals, detransitioners, LGB people, trans care consumers & trans adults worried about the risks to minors. Here's a sample of this new push:
Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine @SEGMtweets
segm.org
Gender Care Consumer Advocacy Network
@officialGCCAN
gccan.org
Post Trans
@post_trans
post-trans.com
LGB Alliance global network @LGBINTERNATIONL
Founding group lgballiance.org.uk Image
Evidence-Based Social Work Alliance
@ebswa
ebswa.org Image
Detrans Canada
@DetransCanada
detranscanada.com Image
Fully Informed
@fullyinformednz
fullyinformed.nz
Gender Dysphoria Alliance Canada
@canada_gender
gdalliancecanada.com
Rethink Identity Medicine Ethics
@RethinkIME
rethinkime.org Image
Gender Critical Autistics
@GCAutistics Image
LGB Fight Back
@LGBFightBack
lgbfightback.org Image
Kirjo
@IKirjo
ihmistenkirjo.net Image
Trans Educational Voices
trevoices.com
Bayswater Support
@BayswaterSG
bayswatersupport.org.uk
Detrans Voices
@detrans_voices
detransvoices.org Image
Our Duty
@OurDutyGrp
ourduty.group
The Detransition Advocacy Network
@DetransAdv
detransadv.com
Gender Health Query
@genderhq
genderhq.org
Canadian Gender Report
@GenderReportCA
genderreport.ca Image
Pique Resilience Project
@PiqueResProject
piqueresproject.com Image
Lost in Transition
lostintransition.info
Gender Identity Challenge
genderchallenge.no Image
Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual Conservatives Worldwide
@ConservativeLGB Image
Apologies for any I’ve overlooked. Goes without saying these newish groups represent a range of views & are complemented by individual accounts (many of these new too) & pre-existing groups such as @P_ROGDK

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17 Feb
"We petition the American Academy of Pediatrics to renounce its scientifically unsupported 'affirmative' policy for young people with gender dysphoria." Interesting petition given role of guidelines/policies in promoting gender hormone drugs & surgery. 1/
change.org/p/american-aca… https://www.change.org/p/am...
Gender clinic hormonal treatments for under-18s are based on "low quality" evidence, according to reviews of the medical literature, including the first systematic review by Chew et al 2018 published in the AAP's official journal. blogs.bmj.com/bmjebmspotligh… https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih...
In the absence of high quality evidence for gender medicine, treatment guidelines & position statements from medical associations take on more significance -- and they have their critics.
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5 Feb
"(Victoria's anti-conversion therapy bill), which could mean up to a decade in jail or fines of almost $10,000 for anyone found trying to suppress or change another person’s sexuality or gender identity, passed by 27-9 votes late on Thursday." 1/
theaustralian.com.au/nation/politic… https://twitter.com/JaclynSymes/status/1357292434598682627?s
Not a surprise, given the numbers. More significant, I think, was hearing several Australian MPs literate in the Tavistock court ruling, risks to minors in "affirmative" gender clinics, questions of consent to gender transition, & the emergence of regretful "detransitioners".
In the debate, some MPs, notably Liberal Democrat David Limbrick, tried to tease out the logic & possible consequences of this use of coercive state power. What does it mean to "change or suppress" sexuality or gender identity? He worried aloud about real-world scenarios. https://spectator.com.au/2021/01/its-shameful-being-gay-was-
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4 Feb
"Overcoming the flesh: the transgender movement wants to legally abolish physical sex. Risks and side effects are kept silent" | Big-hit 1400-word report in Germany's influential centre-right newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine @faznet #GenderClinics 1/
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"(The @FDP party & Greens) have presented drafts for a (gender) self-determination law that for long stretches seem as if they were written by the activists themselves. At age 14, everyone should be able to decide each year whether they are legally to be considered man or woman."
Germany is the latest country to launch a dissident LGB group in protest & alarm at what they see as the capture of establishment LGBT organisations by the radical project to topple biological sex & erect self-declared "gender identity" in its place.
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2 Feb
"Doctors and psychiatrists want the Andrews government (in the Australian state of Victoria) to make changes to its plan to ban gay conversion therapy, due to concerns it will discourage some practitioners from treating vulnerable patients."
theage.com.au/politics/victo…
This is significant criticism from the main medical body @amavictoria & college of psychiatry @RANZCP, which calls out the conflation of sexual orientation & gender identity that is the hallmark of activist-driven "conversion therapy" bans globally.
This concern raised by the college's Victorian branch is also interesting because the RANZCP's own policy arguably involves a more general, Queer Theory-style conflation of sexual orientation & gender identity.
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19 Jan
Two courts on the opposite side of the world recently made decisions on children & puberty blocker drugs which stop natural development. In the English case, the High Court said it was "highly unlikely" that a child 13 or under could consent to this "experimental" treatment. 1/
In Australia, the court decided it was in the "best interests" of a 12 year-old to begin puberty blockers to prevent "life-long damaging masculinisation". Born a boy, the child identifies as female.
Both rulings came down in December 2020 but a key difference is that the English court was considering whether children could give informed consent to their own treatment, while the Australian judge allowed doctors to proceed with the mother consenting on behalf of the child.
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13 Dec 20
In Australia, public media outlet @abcnews has showcased children's hospital gender medicine for years. This treatment was found to be "experimental" in Keira Bell's court challenge to the UK Tavistock clinic. The ruling has global significance, but not on the ABC website.
Even before the Tavistock ruling, the UK had adopted a more cautious approach to this medicalisation. Finland & Sweden have edged away from the "gender affirming" medical model used in Oz. The pioneering Dutch clinic has expressed concern about a shift in patient profile.
But Australian readers were told back in April this was just a rightwing culture war, and that the gender medical model had prevailed. Now this Melbourne newspaper has had a "struggle session" with staff angry it ran the story of a worried (& obviously not bigoted) parent.
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