URGENT 🧵: The Florida Board of Medicine is considering regulating gender care. They need to hear from professionals, patients & parents re: harms of hormones & surgeries, token "assessments", activist clinicians, poor evidence, lack of longterm studies, desistance, detransition
Please take 5 min to make a written submission! **Deadline: Tuesday, Sept 20**.
Address your letter to:
Paul A. Vazquez, J.D.
Executive Director
Florida Board of Medicine
Email your letter to:
BOM.MeetingMaterials@flhealth.gov
In-person expert, patient and parent testimony are also needed in Tallahassee, Florida on 3 dates: 9/30, 10/6. 10/7. Travel grants may be available. For more information, email info@genspect.org
THREAD: Yesterday, @wpath released the 8th version of its Standards of Care (SOC8), which outlined the following "suggested minimal ages" for hormonal / surgical "gender affirming" treatments for adolescents:
All 5 "suggested minimum ages" carried the following caveat: "unless there are significant, compelling reasons to take an individualized approach when considering the factors unique to the adolescent treatment time frame" (effectively allowing for even *younger* patients!)
US: Sept 12 is the LAST DAY to submit your comments on the proposed update to TITLE IX which will force schools to validate "gender identity", socially transition kids upon their request, eliminate single sex spaces & safeguarding. Submit your comment now! federalregister.gov/documents/2022…
Over 200K comments have been received so far. You can read them here: regulations.gov/document/ED-20… Let your voice be heard- its now or never!
IE: "While parents across the country are demanding the rejection of woke policies, the Dept of Ed has chosen to hijack Title IX to force gender ideology on kids without their parents’ knowledge/approval. This is a lawless interpretation & a complete overreach by the Dept of Ed."
FINLAND 2015: 🧵"The # of referrals exceeded expectations in light of epidemiological knowledge. Natal girls were markedly overrepresented among applicants. Severe psychopathology preceding onset of gender dysphoria was common. Autism-very common." capmh.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… ⤵️
Conclusion: "The findings do not fit the commonly accepted image of a gender dysphoric minor. Treatment guidelines need to consider gender dysphoria in minors in the context of severe psychopathology and developmental difficulties."
Thread: WPATH's much anticipated SOC8 has been further delayed. Some suspect that public outrage against pediatric gender clinics such as @BostonChildrens and criticism of the @AmerAcadPeds's "gender affirmative model of care" could be factors.
The lead for the “Assessment, Support and Therapeutic Approaches of Children” chapter of the upcoming SOC8 is listed on WPATH's website as Amy Tishelman, PhD, a clinical psychologist. bit.ly/3RLhoXs
About 80% of UK school use SIMS to manage pupil data. Previously there was a place to record gender (male or female) but no place to record sex. 'Gender' has now been relabelled as 'sex', 1/4 ess-sims.co.uk/sims7-summer-r…
However a new, optional field has been added to record pronouns with the following options:
he/him/his/his/himself
she/her/her/hers/herself
they/them/their/theirs/themselves
e/em/eir/eirs/emself
ey/em/eir/eirs/eirself
sie/sie/hir/hirs/hirself
tey/ter/tem/ters/terself
... 2/4
SIMS say that they have switch from gender to sex
"Following requests from a significant number of schools and extensive consultation we have cosmetically relabelled the ‘gender’ field within the user interface to ‘sex'." 3/4