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13 May, 8 tweets, 3 min read
1./ A terrible medical paradox. Friends of mine made the brilliant C4 show last night presented by @ThisisDavina about the Menopause. @jessphillips is absolutely right: millions of women are suffering from poor diagnosis and sub-optimal treatments; and it's a national scandal.👇
2./ Studies 20 years ago into old-style HRT were deeply flawed and side effects were exaggerated. New body-identical HRT has the potential to transform many women's lives for the good; as does new knowledge about peri-menopause. So what's the paradox?
3./ When it comes to adult women, doctors' caution and ignorance is preventing access to hormones that have been carefully researched in trials. Contrast that with the way adolescent girls are being prescribed other hormones in Gender Identity clinics.👇 telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/…
4./ In these clinics, run carelessly and driven by ideological obsessions, soaring numbers of young women are being given hormones to stop a key and normal biological process: puberty. The end result is they often end up sterile, and medicated for life.👇 quillette.com/2020/01/17/why…
5./ HRT in adults merely returns hormones to pre-menopause levels. The doses are tiny & the effects really ARE reversible. By contrast, research on puberty blockers is wafer thin and fiercely contested. Use is experimental and even advocates admit there are serious side effects.
6./ One thing unites both stories: disregard for women's biology. NHS guidelines advocate use of new style HRT but many women can't gain access to it. Updated guidelines for puberty blockers admit they're not reversible but clinicians push them onto girls. nhs.uk/conditions/gen…
7./ The proposed ban on "conversion therapy" could make the situation worse, with puberty blockers becoming routine treatment for gender dysphoria. The result: more double mastectomies in girls, more sterility. By different routes medicine is in danger of achieving the same end.
8./ Some clinicians are over-using a class of drugs effectively to maim girls. At the same time, adult women are being deprived of the SAME class of drugs and suffer pain unnecessarily. It's almost as if there's another word beginning with M that seeps through all our medicine.

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1./ Please RT. A thread. Here's why you should take just 60 seconds to sign this petition. It highlights how Parliament and the public are being gaslit. A bullying LGBTQ+ lobby claims to be fighting homophobia in therapy when it's actually promoting it.👇petition.parliament.uk/petitions/5820…
2./ The obvious question is why it took SO long for LGBTQ+ groups in the UK to make a fuss about "conversion therapy" if it was SO important. Some organisations backing a ban have been around for 30 years. They didn't make a fuss because it's largely an invented problem.
3./ The brutal or cruel treatments everyone associates with the words "gay conversion therapy" have become next to non-existent in the UK. Society has moved on. And it hasn't been performed by licensed therapists since the 1970s; despite delusional nonsense like this.👇
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1./ Great to see an @ALLIANCELGB ad in the @heraldscotland. It’s only because a delusion has taken grip that the question, “What is a lesbian?” has become contested. ‘Lesbian’ is being redefined by some to try to solve the inherent contradictions of gender identity ideology.
2./ @ALLIANCELGB says, “Lesbians, gays and bisexuals have fought long and hard for our rights as people who are same-SEX attracted people. But if, as many politicians argue, gender (how you feel) is more important than our biological sex: our rights are completely undermined.”
3./ “We believe a lesbian is a woman -an adult human female- who is attracted to other women. We also believe single sex spaces in women’s prisons, refuges and changing rooms are necessary.” Amen to that....and rape crisis centres too.
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1./ I wonder if @thealiceroberts will tell @HistoryHit how many sexes there are? She blocked me after I politely quizzed her claim there’s some spectrum of sex and so it’s really hard to tell who’s male or female. 🧐 In her defence she cited @Fausto_Sterling’s famous work. Yes...
2./ ..that’ll be the same work Fausto-Sterling now says was misinterpreted. Her description of 5 sexes she claims was intended to be ironic, a sophisticated joke not a scientific argument. What’s worse Roberts quoted her claim that 4% of people might be “intersex”. When....
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1./ Insightful comments by @soniasodha on David Bell and the Tavistock and a pattern of NHS silencing of whistleblowers. It's a particular problem when activist medics get into positions of authority and view any criticism as an assault on their cherished ideological position.
2./ But medical institutions have many other powerful incentives to ignore or silence criticism. In the 80s at the Bristol Royal Infirmary Stephen Bolsin, an anaesthetist, noticed kids suffered much poorer outcomes there from heart surgery than elsewhere.👇independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…
3./ At the inquiry a decade later he explained the department was anxious to keep its funding. Had an investigation been launched or news leaked about high death rates the doctors feared their funding would be cut. So babies just kept dying. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
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1./ A thread on gay erasure and the dangers of a ban on conversion therapy. This wonderful interview by @MsRachelCooke in @ObserverUK captures the gentleness and quiet determination of Dr David Bell who became appalled by homophobia at the @TaviAndPort theguardian.com/society/2021/m…
2./ Dr Bell was alarmed at how homophobic parents often seemed keener on their kids transitioning than the kids themselves. Why would a homophobic dad want a "straight" daughter rather than a gay son? Yep, I think we know the answer. Worse, staff went along with this outrage.
3./ The Tavistock had carelessly and incompetently moved to an "affirmation model" where any kid's suspicion they were trans had to be affirmed. Anyone who questioned this poorly researched approach found themselves bullied, silenced or accused of transphobia. Sound familiar?
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1./ Maya Forstater's case is all about the defence of FACTS so I was intrigued to see @SkyNews put trans activist @BobbityP up against @MForstater. Bobbi says Maya's tweets were deeply offensive and deny "hormonal development in the brain".🤦‍♂️So what is Bobbi's record on FACTS?
2./ When @Commonswomequ dared even to consult women's organisations like @Womans_Place_UK on GRA Reform ,Bobbi compared it to consulting with the KKK on racism. Bobbi said she had no faith in the process which is surprising since Bobbi has achieved so much in such a short time.
3./ A top BP exec, Bobbi's won a slew of awards since transitioning in 2017; including Nestle's 2020 LGBT Award as a Diversity Hero. Bobbi's living proof corporate capitalism embraces gender identity ideology and intends to impose it from the top down.👇
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