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4 Apr, 7 tweets, 6 min read
@ShapiroTattoo @christapeterso 1/ They're conflating gender dysphoria with suicidal ideation, trying to erase that GD is frustrated #GenderIncongruence. In the Bell case, they used GIDS' lousy study of their patients which found SI wasn't reduced on PBs (negating the 🇳🇱 finding it was) to say PBs didn't…
@ShapiroTattoo @christapeterso 2/…work, even though they are 100% effective at preventing further pubertal change. The 🇳🇱 did the main session on endocrine care in adolescence at @TheEndoSociety conference last week (no doubt to avoid heat on US providers) & were pushing the "reduces SI" line. I don't see…
@ShapiroTattoo @christapeterso @TheEndoSociety 3/…why PBs would do that directly. Perhaps the 🇳🇱 imagine its pubertal hormones directly induce depression rather than the changes they bring? I'd suggest they're in denial that their now long-outdated, prolonged PB period protocol they initiated in the '90s isn't what…
@ShapiroTattoo @christapeterso @TheEndoSociety 4/…patients really need but that at least the solid (& free of charge) pathway from PBs, to hormones at 15/16, to SRs at 18 is reassuring enough to relieve SI, whereas when the prolonged PB period is used at a much worse clinic like GIDS, where PBs are delayed, so more…
@ShapiroTattoo @christapeterso @TheEndoSociety 5/… pubertal harm has already occurred, & that plus the huge waitlists & prevailing societal transphobia have already firmly established SI in many, & there's zero assurance of hormones or SRS following promptly, and the clinic is basically about disbelief, then SI will rarely…
@ShapiroTattoo @christapeterso @TheEndoSociety 6/…be reduced until the bodily changes caused by hormones & surgery that GI demands are experienced, & PBs will rarely seem to have that mental effect.

If one wants to reduce SI then provide GI adolescents with the body changes they need as soon as possible

#PubertyWithPeers

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@mikeroscoe67 @NotRightRuth 1/ Completely untrue. What benefit is there for you in such lies?

The pressure was from medical ethics in the light of what became obvious after GIDS responded to the lead of their 🌍 medical peers & peer clinics.

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