Thread. @AmerAcadPeds declared last week there were “no studies” to prove a young child surrounded by masked adults all day would be harmed psychologically or in language development. Now AAP are memory holing their OWN LITERATURE on the importance of “face time” for babies.
Here’s @AmerAcadPed denying what any competent pediatric speech-language pathologist knows (see the many comments/quote tweets, which include studies of preverbal language development). As they are on pediatric transition, the AAP is stunningly wrong here.
Major institutions and once honorable media outlets have devolved into little more than propaganda organs for the dominant narratives promulgated by a power-drunk government.
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Thread: The website @ScienceBasedMed came out with yet another hit piece on @AbigailShrier 's book today. As with the prior articles, this one is quite sloppy with the facts. @stevennovella please correct the following error (explained further in this thread):
Author (A J Eckert "(they/them) Connecticut’s first out nonbinary doctor") links to our 2015 piece which examined suicidality data from the 2008 U.S. Transgender Discrimination Survey, the source of the claim that 41% of trans ADULTS attempt suicide. 4thwavenow.com/2015/08/03/the…
Our article focused on the 2014 Williams Institute/American Foundation for Suicide Prevention analysis of the data, which, among other things pointed out that the 41% claim should not be interpreted to mean actual suicide attempts. In their words:
For years, your site has been the go-to for takedowns of quackery & pseudoscience. But by studiously ignoring the flood of detransitioners, particularly women who regret adolescent transition, you allowed @ScienceBasedMed to fall prey to confirmation bias. Disappointing.
Yes, some people benefit from transition. But your cavalier dismissal of the increase in tween/teen girls not just identifying as trans, but getting double mastectomies & irreversible hormone treatment, along with the voices of women like @lacroicsz & @ImWatson91 is inexcusable.
Are you even aware that several countries have slowed down if not banned underage medical transition? (see: Sweden and Finland) or that a UK High Court ruled in favor of a detransitioner @KLBfax who believes she was unable to give informed consent for the treatment she received?
Transgender certification organization announces workshop on detransition for mental health clinicians. Massive freakout ensues on International Transgender Health FB page. facebook.com/groups/transge…
Read through the thread, & you'll see a common claim: We support detransitioners. Just not like THIS. Not THIS way.
Archived. Because it's "triggering" to even see the announcement of this event on a public Facebook page, the post may disappear soon.
This is a telling comment in the original post: "Warning: Even though this is directed at clinicians, it could trigger rage and dysphoria that may become overwhelming."
Overwhelming rage resulting from...the mere existence of a workshop on detransition? Rage? And then what?
Unethical doctors & social workers work to damage relationships between struggling teens & their parents. Not "affirming" a teen's "gender identity" is all it takes now for a loving mom or dad to be labeled "abusive". Read every word of this article to see how bad it is.
Don't believe this is a problem? At a conference for gender professionals in 2017, multiple MDs & mental health providers discussed how they go about using the courts to overrule parents who hesitate to approve medical intervention for their distressed teens.
You falsely accused me of practicing conversion therapy on my daughter, & in the process attacked @AbigailShrier . When my daughter and I make an obvious joke about it, you tattle to Twitter? This seems unbecoming for a doctor.
The number of times you have defamed and disrespected detransitioners are too many to account. The fact that you clearly can't take a joke from one of the people whose life experience you misused is rather telling.
Here is where Turban asserted that my daughter's CHOICE to go to a horse farm sent my her "back in the closet." Then he goes on to falsely claim I practiced "cruel conversion therapy."