Thread by @genspect

🧵: new @TheAtlantic #detransition piece
by @Kinnon_Ross & @historiadoryleo: 1/"trans-rights advocates & mainstream-media outlets should stop downplaying the reality of detransition, lest readers & viewers conclude that it’s a negligible issue. It’s not." theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

2/"older studies may not adequately predict outcomes for today’s far larger, more diverse trans and gender-questioning population."

3/ "Ignoring detransitioners’ experience isn’t just harmful to them; it also means that doctors and scientists miss out on much-needed data that could improve gender-affirming care for future patients."

4/ "Detransition has become a political cudgel to challenge any and all gender care for young people."

5/ "clinicians who receive threats of violence for assisting trans youth are vulnerable to developing myopic positions and overly optimistic clinical practices that ignore detransitioners’ accounts."

6/ "Opponents of gender care for youth aren’t just capitalizing on stories like Beck’s; they are also weaponizing scientific uncertainty. The existing research has major gaps."

7/ "Much of the recent evidence is based on follow-ups conducted about 2 years or less after a patient initiates a transition. But the few studies that have examined detransition suggest that the average time to detransition can be about 4-8.5 yrs."

8/ "The need to know more about detransition is all the more urgent amid a surge of new patients lining up at gender clinics."

9/ "researchers don’t yet have enough data to know whether today’s patients will detransition at higher or lower rates than the patients who were approved for treatment in decades past."

10/ "For patients to give informed consent to med treatment, they need to know about the range of possible outcomes. Meanwhile, drs & clinics need guidelines & services to support people who wish to detransition, but to our knowledge no formal standards are widely accepted"

11/ Although Genspect disagrees with some statements made in this article, on these points we can agree. We're proud to offer help to detransitioners, as well as those who are in a more uncertain space, through our program Beyond Transition: genspect.org/beyond/