Partial list: Stephen Levine, Julia Mason, Zhenya Abbruzzese (all SEGM), Paul Hruz (SEGM/CMA), Lisa Littman ("ROGD" hoax), J. Michael Bailey (ICGDR), James Cantor (serial defender of child sex predators), David Schwartz (anti-gay conversion therapist), Ken Zucker, Susan Bradley
Not only were none of these new studies, most of them were already catalogued in my weirdo encyclopedia
Many of his sources aren't even studies presenting any clinical data or original research - some are statements of guidelines, non-systematic critical reviews, commentary, press releases, and NYT articles
Takedown notice - guess who? Image
This information was included in 117 exhibit 13 as part of public court records in the Florida Medicaid trans care ban case genderanalysis.net/entity/dekker-…
Not only do I own your shit, there are ten pissed off motherfuckers exactly like me going through this with a fine-toothed comb while I'm asleep
Exhibit 13 also showed that Florida AHCA's "eminence-based medicine" talking point, with a specific Cochrane webpage AHCA later cited, may have originated as a suggestion from SEGM's Ema Syrulnik. She also sent this to Zhenya and SEGM's Will Malone Image
Here's evidence that SEGM's Patrick Hunter was reaching out to anti-LGBT experts and organizing testimony on behalf of the Medicaid exclusion, at least three days before Hunter was appointed to the Florida Board of Medicine by Ron DeSantis transgender.agency/files/dekker-v… Image
SEGM's Patrick Hunter also had his name blacked out on SEGM's anti-trans resolution to the American Academy of Pediatrics with SEGM director Julia Mason, which we had to discover by unredacting the names ImageImage
Once SEGM's Patrick Hunter was on the Florida Board of Medicine, he invited SEGM's Michael Biggs to testify in support of the BOM's trans youth care ban on October 28, 2022 transgender.agency/files/dekker-v… Image
Zhenya is a lesser-known SEGM associate who seems to coauthor commentaries with their members under the name "E. Abbruzzese". She's a Russian-born marketing researcher in Portland, Oregon and a serial entrepreneur of healthcare-related startups transgender.agency/files/zmabbruz…
If you have Lexisnexis access you can also go find all sorts of Experian records for her company J Curve Consulting LLC
Some further notes on the person I got a takedown notice about after I posted a public court record showing her working to ban trans healthcare in my state: "Zhenya" is a Russian diminutive for Evgenia; an Evgenia Abbruzzese is listed for Enigma Health and J Curve Consulting
So Zhenya/Evgenia Abbruzzese is most likely the "E. Abbruzzese" from SEGM's various anti-trans commentary articles. Her coauthor Stephen B. Levine during deposition in 2022: "She prefers to go by E." transgender.agency/files/depositi… ImageImageImage
SEGM loves going by first initials in papers, like whoever "J. Cohn" is. Going by E - just the letter E! - is a great way to make yourself really difficult to search for pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36565052/
These people love to hide while they fuck up the lives of millions of innocent people
Evgenia holds a patent on identifying patients with "somatization" and referring them to "educational programs, episodic support, and mental health therapy" patents.google.com/patent/US10431… patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/eb/d3/19/45dec…

There's money for her in dismissing gender dysphoria as a diagnosis
Her patent is on a web filtering/monitoring system to block patients from searching for their symptoms: Image
The patent was granted in 2019. In 2018, Lisa Littman's "ROGD" study explicitly compared online content on gender dysphoria to pro-ana/pro-ED content, which is frequently blocked and filtered on social media doi.org/10.1371/journa… Image
Lisa Marchiano, a consultant on the ROGD paper, was pseudonymously claiming that a "large number of young people — especially teen age girls — are coming out as trans after intense internet binges on sites such as reddit, tumblr, or YouTube" in 2016-2017 genderanalysis.net/entity/lisa-ma… Image
Evgenia Abbruzzese's patent #10,431,109: "What sites to block? What search terms to block? ... Configure sensitivity (limit to how much searching time per day)"

"Pledge to stop Googling symptoms.

Install the browser extension." Image
Her reeducation module appears to suggest that doctors can indeed make diagnoses without needing to run a test, which is somewhat at odds with the SEGM-cluster's frequent talking point that there's 'no medical test for gender dysphoria' Image
Abbruzzese: "patients may report subjective experiences of the symptoms associated with one or more diseases, but doctors cannot find an objective verification of the symptoms ... patients with MUS symptoms unwittingly engage in symptom-amplifying behaviors and thoughts" Image
Abbruzzese: "money in the health care system may be wasted by incorrectly diagnosing and treating patients with mental health disorders ... patients, health plans, and providers may be spending money on repeat diagnostics and improper treatments" Image
Abbruzzese: "most somatization patients are unaware of their mental disorder and do not link physical symptoms with health anxiety." Image
Abbruzzese: "somatization patients may be provided with education tools and information about the benefits of receiving behavioral health therapy for treating their disorder... they may be more inclined to seek treatment options that will more effectively mitigate their symptoms" Image
Abbruzzese: "Patients also lack faith that treatment is viable. The Somatization system provides specialized evidence-based treatment. A network of specially-trained therapists and coaches deliver a treatment protocol." Image
She repeatedly emphasizes the importance of taking steps to proactively identify "somatization" patients via an algorithm applied to health records and claims data, because the patients she's targeting often do not consider themselves to have "somatization" ImageImage
"The somatization system may also keep track of a patient's involvement in the treatment program, and may report a patient's progress to a health care plan provider. As such, the effectiveness of the treatment plan may be monitored by the somatization system." Image
Abbruzzese's coauthorships with SEGM's Levine and Mason:
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… (non-systematic narrative review, in a journal for which Levine is an editor)
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… (commentary, same journal)
tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108… (commentary, same journal)
And acknowledged by SEGM's Michael Biggs as "Ema Abbruzzese" in an earlier "research article" in the same journal tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Abbruzzese's forgiven PPP loans:
$20,825 in May 2020 projects.propublica.org/coronavirus/ba…
$20,832 for J Curve Consulting LLC in March 2021 projects.propublica.org/coronavirus/ba….
Levine's CV also lists a letter to the editor with Abbruzzese in NEJM in Dec 2022, which does not appear online - can anyone find this? Image
This was likely a response to this pro-trans NEJM article nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…, which the EPPC/The Federalist writers also took issue with (eppc.org/publication/th…)
This cluster of anti-trans activity is historically Federalist-adjacent: the sites that recruited transphobic parents for the "ROGD" study would also rewrite their articles to be more suitable for republication on The Federalist genderanalysis.net/entity/lisa-ma… Image
Abbruzzese's work on 'medically unexplained symptoms' and content blocking unnervingly echoes the ROGD study: "online content may encourage vulnerable individuals to believe that nonspecific symptoms and vague feelings should be interpreted as gender dysphoria" ImageImageImageImage

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