🧵 Puberty blockers are fueling an unprecedented medical experiment on children. Genspect UK's powerful new briefing examines the alarming evidence and detransitioner testimony that challenge the NHS's reckless trial. Thanks to @cwestonclark for leading this critical work.
Our briefing systematically debunks key myths about puberty blockers, including their reversibility, mental health benefits, and supposed suicide prevention effects—all claims contradicted by the Cass Review's findings.
Detransitioners from our @BeyondTransHelp service courageously share their experiences: "It was the worst decision I ever made, and I'm haunted by the lingering side effects every single day." These authentic voices form the heart of our briefing, offering vital perspective.
In the 1860s, German lawyer Karl Heinrich Ulrichs invented the concept of the gender soul to explain his own erotic interest in men. He could never possibly have imagined the far-reaching ramifications of his idea.1/10
Believing his attraction to men was caused by having a female soul in a male body, he wrote, “nature developed the physical male germ in us, yet mentally, the feminine one.” This distinction between the sex of the mind and the sex of the body has endured to the present day. 2/10
Christine Jorgensen’s doctor described a “female personality in a male body,” while Harry Benjamin referred to a “female soul in a male body.” John Money introduced gender to the medical lexicon, and Robert Stoller coined gender identity as one's sense of belonging to a sex. 3/10
In 1931, German physician Felix Abraham wrote the first scientific report on what he referred to as the “genitalumwandlung,” meaning genital transformation, of two “homosexual transvestites.” One of the men in the paper was Dora Richter. 1/9
The report is a detailed description, complete with photos, of the procedure which involved carving a cavity, lining it with skin grafts from the thigh, and inserting a sponge to prevent wound closure. Abraham strangely described it as “very easy” and only taking a short time.2/9
“I just wanted to give a description of the procedure itself, because I believe an infinite number of patients with these same inclinations exist, who desire similar procedures, but do not know of any means and ways to achieve same,” explained Abraham. 3/9