Happy New Years to our friends and supporters! Here's a quick 🧵 outlining some good news from this year. 
1/UK: the Tavistock gender clinic, deemed unfit for purpose by the Cass Review, was ordered to close. Gender-distressed minors will now be treated in regular children’s hospitals w/a whole-person, developmental approach to gender dysphoria.
2/SWEDEN: psychological interventions will now be the first line of treatment for gender-distressed minors. Medical transition can only take place in clinical research settings. Half of the pediatric gender clinics in the country were closed.
3/US: following an independent systematic review of the evidence and a public hearing which included many #detransitioners, the Florida Boards of Medicine voted to stop the medical transition of minors outside of research settings in the state.
4/US: @AmerAcadPeds "gender-affirming care" came under fire. @JuliaMasonMD1 & others called for a systematic review of their evidence- & we supported them. genspect.org/an-open-letter…. Parent groups & #detransitioners protested at AAP's annual convention.
5/FRANCE: The National Academy of Medicine in France warned its medical community about the explosion of trans identification in vulnerable youth, prioritized non-invasive treatment.
6/AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND: the Royal College of Psychiatrists acknowledged that gender dysphoria in youth arises from many different causes and can be resolved with non-invasive approaches.
7/UK: Mermaids is going down. Exposed for safeguarding violations & shady staff, the org is now under investigation by the charity commission. Mermaids’ CEO Susie Green, who famously took her child to Thailand for a vaginoplasty on the child’s 16th birthday, has resigned.
8/US: The 1st lawsuits by detranstioners against their providers have been filed. Bravo, @ChoooCole and @GetBetterTweets.
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