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Apr 12 • 6 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
It's not a medical scandal.

Gender-affirming care for youth, I mean. It's just not, and I can prove it.
A medical scandal would have abundant, clear stories of patients who were harmed.

It would have class action suits on behalf of those patients.

It would have families speaking out about the harm done to their children.

Ask yourself: Why doesn't this story have that?
This is why detransitioners are so important to the anti-trans narrative- and also why it matters that there are so few of them, and their stories don't really line up with the claims made about the problems with this care.
Remember, the claim is that large numbers of children are being rushed into a dangerous treatment...

I'm not aware of one single family where the child and their parents agree this occurred.

Ask yourself: In a widespread medical scandal, would that be difficult to find?
In order to believe this is a medical scandal, you have to believe that trans people are the victims, that we've been harmed by being (and remaining) trans, and the solution is to force us not to be trans against our will.

Does that sound like a normal medical scandal to you?
I mean, it's certainly SOME SORT OF SCANDAL.

We're all out here talking about it. Op-eds are being written. Reporting is being done. Laws are being passed.

But a medical scandal? Doesn't really have the shape of one, does it?

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Assigned Media (Evan Urquhart) Profile picture
Apr 11
This piece by @sashabaker98 is one of the best I've read so far on the what the Cass Review left out- not talking about all the studies that were discarded, but the way it left out anything that would protect the best interests of trans patients.
The one thing I would add would be to the very end, where this discusses the way that clinicians are being asked to predict whether regret is likely.

And, what I'd add, is that there is no evidence to suggest clinicians can predict that.
I have reported deeply, and I hope sensitively, on detransition. I have spoken with detransition researchers. One point that was driven home to me is that informed consent clinics do not have higher regret and there are no characteristics currently known to predict it.
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Apr 6
I've had a lot of interviewers ask me about receiving harassment as a trans person. I just looked over some of the replies to my bigger posts on Twitter and came to the conclusion I unintentionally gave folks misleading info about this.
I always say I don't get the same harassment as other people, and I'm sure I do get less than many... However, now I started actually looking, it comes in more regularly than I realize.

I think I just don't register it.
Since I was a child I've had an uncanny hyperfocus that I understand can be a manifestation of ADHD. The classic anecdote is how, when I'd be reading a book as a kid, my mom would grow increasingly frustrated, yelling my name repeatedly from a few feet away, me oblivious.
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Mar 12
Analogy time!

Imagine if, whenever a person noticed a weird mole, they went on a multi-year waiting list with everyone who's noticed moles.
While on the melanoma waiting list no doctor would take any steps to diagnose or treat melanoma in any patient whose complain was "weird mole."
For patients who survived the wait, treatment would start after the diagnosis at their first appointment.

Many patients would inevitably be found to have advance cancer that had gone untreated for many years.

That's where trans youth (and adults) in the UK are.
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Dec 28, 2023
There are families I speak with regularly who have either moved away from everyone they know and love or are facing incredibly difficult choices about how to continue treatments that transformed their children's lives for the better under care bans.
There are a lot of moderates in the current "debate" over gender affirming care who "oppose" these bans... in the sense that they'll say they disagree with them if you ask... but not in the sense that they're doing the tiniest concrete thing to help these families and these kids.
When one of these people not only does the tiniest concrete thing to oppose care bans but submits testimony to her state legislature and encourages others to testify?

I'll take that opposition, gladly. I'd like to encourage more of the so-called moderates to go half as far.
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Dec 27, 2023
We've seen how proponents have backed off from a rapid onset characterizing "ROGD" transmasc adolescents as an indicator they've moved into pseudoscience (removing testable elements from a hypothesis to make it unfalsifiable).

This is actually the 2nd time they've done so.
The first testable prediction to be quietly removed from the hypothesis when data didn't seem to show the effect they predicted was that this new, false form of gender dysphoria would lead to a sharp increase in transition regret and detransition.
In Littman's 2018 paper there's a clear suggestion that ROGD youth are likely to give up their trans identities. For example, check out this passage: Several AYAs expressed significant concern about the portential repercussions from their friend group when they concluded that they were not transgender after all.
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Dec 6, 2023
A large hospital, one associated with the oldest medical school in the South, quietly folded to political pressure and ceased offering medical treatments for gender dysphoria to adolescent patients.

Quietly... meaning they did not tell the patients and their families about this.
Some important new reporting by @propublica goes behind the scenes of a decision to sacrifice patients to political considerations by the Medical University of South Carolina.

propublica.org/article/musc-m…
@propublica One of the most crucial elements of this story is that the cowardly administrators at MUSC decided not to communicate the decision to stop offering care to those impacted.
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