Thread by @JamesEsses

Thread 🧵 - World Mental Health Day 2023 and Gender Dysphoria.

In aid of World Mental Health Day, here are some crucial facts about gender dysphoria, a globally-recognised mental health condition, and the unethical medicalisation of children who suffer from it:
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There is no other mental health condition in which you can tell a doctor you have something wrong with you, with no objective test, and receive irreversible medication or surgery on your say-so.

This goes squarely against the Hippocratic Oath.
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Gender dysphoria is the only mental health condition in which treatment affirms the highly distressing thoughts inside someone’s head or encourages them to physically change their body.

The treatment for anorexia or body dysmorphia is not liposuction.
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Studies show that the vast majority of children who feel uncomfortable in their bodies will naturally settle into their biological sex, if given time.

The treatment with the best success rate for children with gender dysphoria is the natural process of puberty itself.
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There are significant co-morbidities often present alongside gender dysphoria, including autism.

There is often the presence of previous detrimental life experiences, such as historic trauma and abuse, bullying and internalised homophobia.
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Puberty blockers are not reversible. They disrupt brain development and bone growth.

They cause untold social effects.

They are a slippery slope towards hormones and surgery.

They make it less likely a child will settle into their body.
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At best, cross-sex hormones can cause permanent imprints, including vocal changes and changes to hair growth.

At worst, they can cause infertility and types of cancer. Should we play Russian roulette with the health and fertility of our children?
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Research has shown that the dosage of testosterone given to young girls who want to transition is often so high that it causes them a significantly higher likelihood of having a heart attack (more so than even a biological male).
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Studies show transitioning does not reduce the rate of suicide attempts amongst those with gender dysphoria.

Are we affirming children to irreversibly change themselves in search of something that doesn’t exist?
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Studies on children demonstrate that if they begin to ‘live’ as the other sex, it can cause changes to their brain, making it far less likely they will become comfortable with their biological sex.

‘Mere’ social transitioning may be irreversible.
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In the United Kingdom, there are children who cannot purchase Christmas crackers, open a bank account, buy a scratch card or vote in an election.

Yet, they can consent to irreversible, and experimental puberty blockers and hormones.
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The majority of children experiencing gender dysphoria are same-sex attracted.

We are essentially telling gay children that they are straight but ‘trapped in the wrong body’.

Is this not a form of ‘conversion therapy’?
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The biggest contradiction of gender ideology is the holding out that the real self is fundamentally separate from our material bodies but then insisting that transforming the body is crucial in order to feel complete.
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Sex is binary and immutable.

Gender dysphoria is a mental health condition and should be treated through explorative therapy.

We should not be encouraging our children down a one-way path towards potential lifelong regret. (14/14)