Thread by @TwisterFilm

1./ Child harm and pseudo science. Pink News - which routinely defames and misrepresents- now claims that removing adolescent females' breasts makes them happier. Could anything be more irresponsible? So just how bad is this latest garbage "science" from the LGBTQ+ lobby?👇

2./ The first thing to say is that when it comes to surgery we should never forget the placebo effect. 20 years ago it was shown that a sham form of a common knee operation had identical outcomes in pain relief to the real thing. Why might that be?
painscience.com/biblio/fascina…

3./ If people go through all the effort of surgery, which they've been told will relieve pain, their minds can convince them it has. In 2019 the BMJ decided the most common form of shoulder surgery was also no better than placebo. Millions across the world had undergone it.

4./ That's why all claims about the psychological impact of surgery should be treated skeptically. There are many other flaws with the study Pink News raves about. For a start the primary tool for measuring success was something called the Chest Dysphoria Measure. What's that? 👉

5./ It's a made-up scale invented in 2018 by Dr Johanna Olson-Kennedy. The same year she was caught on camera advocating mastectomy for 13 year olds and assuring parents if kids regretted it they could always get them reconstructed or "go and get them".👇

6./ That means Olson-Kennedy was already advocating mastectomy for teens before her made-up scale was accepted by any other wild-eyed activists, and before any research had been done on the actual impact on young people. That tells you all you need to know about her credentials.

7./ Her dumb, made-up scale measures girls' hatred for their breasts. Effectively, this paper reveals girls who hate their breasts have less hatred for their breasts after they are surgically removed. No shit. Get Stockholm on the phone, I've an entry for the Nobel Prize. Not.

8./ The whole field of so-called "gender affirming care" is a closed shop of such activists wilfully misusing "science" to push their trans agenda. One study the paper references was by this activist, Dr Jamie Mehringer. "He" did a much bigger study. Guess what Jamie found?

9./ Jamie discovered when young biological females take testosterone many find their "chest dysphoria" actually gets worse. Yes, it's official. Gender affirming care...can make lots of biological females hate their bodies more. Stockholm, are you still on the line?

10./ Mehringer's work did something important the Pink News approved paper didn't: acknowledge its selection bias towards "transmasculine" youth (what we used to call butch girls). Why does this matter? A huge part of the rise in "top surgery" is driven by "non binary" youth.

11./ For very "butch girls" the desire to appear "male" may explain their unfortunate embrace of surgery. But among "non-binary" youth there's often a more troubling dynamic. Influencer Micah Rajunov admits "he" wanted surgery for its own sake (at 1.27).

12./ Trans propaganda used to assert people needed surgery to create a simulacrum of the opposite sex. Now young people are being encouraged to see surgery as a means of sculpting their bodies to reflect a bewildering and fluid array of gender identities. Why does this matter?

13./ We already know adolescents, especially girls, obsess about their pubertal bodies and often self-harm. This may be driven by the pressure a highly sexualised world puts them under. We're in danger now of presenting them with surgery as a respectable way to self-harm.

14./ Regulators would not countenance the promotion of stomach-stapling for girls with anorexia, though it's almost certain they'd be as "happy" with the results as this paper claims patients were with mastectomies. But then anorexia isn't linked to a social justice movement.

15./ It's worth remembering this paper which advocates the carving up of young bodies only studied patients 3 months after their ops. It advocates "longer term follow up". This raises an obvious and salient question. Why is this research only being down now?

16./ This proves- just as with puberty blockers- that important, life-changing procedures have been introduced by tub-thumping advocates without the slightest evidence to back them. They are now rushing to try to justify the damage they have unleashed.

17./ Gender-affirming care is a scam that keeps second-rate researchers and corrupt LGBTQ+ organisations in business. To keep this disgusting show on the road thousands of kids are being gaslit so they willingly offer up their bodies to go under the knife. It's a global disgrace.

18./ Link to the paper jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap…