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20 Mar, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Prominent trans writer thinks it's bad that a major media outlet is finally covering detransitioners, after YEARS of non-stop coverage of trans "struggles & triumphs". Unless you've been living under a rock the last 5-7 years, you couldn't have missed the trans coverage.
...and that's not even mentioning major TV series featuring "trans kids" on Netflix, HBO, and TLC. Let's get real.
And Boylan uses the usual trope that detrans are "rare" (no one knows how many there are) and are "outliers." Advocating for the needs and wants of a beleagured group of "outliers" is AOK until it interferes with your narrative...
So what is this supposed to mean? According to Boylan, the Human Rights Campaign @HRC is "on it" to "do something about" a news program covering detransitioners?

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21 Mar
Such nuance, compassion, & wisdom expressed by the woman who made this video.

In the 1st minute, she says her aim is NOT to make life harder for those who benefit from medical transition. *Most* detrans say this...yet they are still too often shut down.
It's in everyone's interest to minimize regretful detransition; that people be as certain as possible before embarking on irreversible hormone & surgical interventions. If some adults regret, it's patently obvious a slow, deliberate approach is needed for minors.
At 8:00: "I later found out my therapist didn't think transitioning was an appropriate step for me, or good for my wellbeing, but she didn't tell me that while I was taking those steps because she was worried about losing her license."

This person was her therapist for 7 years.
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16 Mar
New on 4thWaveNow:

"Because what is behind the large increase of children who have suddenly registered for transgender care since 2013? And what is the quality of life for this group long after the sex change?"

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"We conduct structural research in the Netherlands. But the rest of the world is blindly adopting our research. While every doctor or psychologist who engages in transgender health care should feel the obligation to do a proper assessment before and after intervention."
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8 Mar
On the [publicly accessible] International Transgender Health FB page, someone posts a video created by a female detransitioner. In it, the onetime-FTM says ...

facebook.com/groups/transge…
...She never had dysphoria & wishes she had had more skillful therapy before embarking on medical transition. Sympathy & even some support for more "gatekeeping" is expressed by a few trans members
of the FB group.

But...surprise! Perhaps the most well known US gender doctor --
--Johanna Olson-Kennedy, shows up in thread, taking the opportunity to compare removal of healthy breasts or genitals to an appendectomy. (There's just a *slight* difference: Appendix-removal-regret is not a thing.)
facebook.com/groups/transge…
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A pernicious rumor started by Jack Turban is that my daughter was "sent" to a horse farm to isolate & "deprogram" her. Nope. Chiara CHOSE her internship, an experience she found enriching. And far from being isolated, she made new friends & became an accomplished horsewoman.
Don't believe it? Read the article she wrote.
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Still doubtful? Watch her most recent interview with @BenjaminABoyce .

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27 Feb
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This week Pres. Biden's nominee for Asst. Health Secretary, Rachel Levine, was grilled during confirmation hearings. The MSM is unified in condemning Sen. Rand Paul, who pressed Levine (to no avail) to opine on under-18 medical transition. 1/n
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Levine also says in the 2017 speech that under-18s can and should in some cases be allowed to undergo gender surgeries. But Levine is hardly alone in the "affirmative" clinician crowd... 3/n
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26 Feb
What actually happened is Levine was repeatedly asked whether Levine was for or against **minors** receiving hormones and/or surgeries without parental consent. Levine refused to answer the question. Repeatedly.
realclearpolitics.com/video/2021/02/…
Rachel Levine could become US Assistant Sec. of Health. Paul cited the #KeiraBell case, quoting Bell directly: "I made a brash decision as a teenager, as a lot of teenagers do. Trying to find competence & happiness, except now the rest of my life will be negatively affected."
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