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Apr 16 • 10 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
🧵Study: Most Elite Female Athletes Want Sports Segregated By Biological Sex

A survey of 175 national, elite and world-class athletes eligible to compete in women's sports found 58%--and 75% of world-class athletes--thought it unfair for trans women to compete in women's sports. Image
The new study, which found that most advanced women athletes think it unfair for trans women to compete against them, is the largest of its kind. It included 26 world champs, 22 Olympians and six paralympians.
eurekalert.org/news-releases/…
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🥇New study🥇
“The perspective of current and retired world class, elite and national athletes on the
inclusion and eligibility of transgender athletes in elite sport”
dx.doi.org/10.1080/026404…
Responses to various survey questions by 175 national, elite and world-class athletes eligible to compete in women's sports, such as “Do you think sporting authorities and governing bodies could be doing more to make sports more inclusive for transgender athletes?” (81% said yes) Image
The new finding that advanced women athletes believe it is unfair for trans women to compete against them, especially at more elite levels, comes as @Riley_Gaines_ and others have sued the NCAA over trans-women’s inclusion in women’s sports.
As a new study finds elite women athletes believe such apparent advantages are unfair, the Mayo Clinic is squaring off against @DrMJoyner over his remarks about trans women’s advantages in women’s sports, to @powellAtlantic and others.
Today, a district court ruled that West Virginia’s restriction of sports segregation according to biological sex violates Title IX.
The small league of the NAIA has largely banned trans women from women’s sports.
In 2022, @powellAtlantic wrote for @nytimes:

nytimes.com/2022/05/29/us/…
@powellAtlantic @nytimes Research does suggest that trans women maintain a competitive advantage in women’s sports, even after cross-sex hormone treatment. More research is needed, however. Too see the relevant studies, go to this link: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37057897/

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Apr 17
NHS bosses ordered to reveal fate of 9,000 young transgender Tavistock patients
Health Secretary demands full co-operation from trusts that refused to give information to Cass review

The NHS must reveal the fate of 9,000 transgender young people treated by the controversial Tavistock clinic, the Health Secretary has said in the wake of the Cass review.

The landmark report published on Wednesday found adult gender clinics had refused to disclose whether transgender people who started their treatment as children later changed their minds about transitioning, or went on to suffer serious mental health problems.

Victoria Atkins, the Health Secretary, met Amanda Pritchard, the chief executive of NHS England, on Wednesday to tell her “nothing less than full co-operation by those clinics in the research is acceptable”.

Writing in The Telegraph, Ms Atkins says she has had enough of “a culture of secrecy and ideology over evidence and safety”.

She goes on: “We simply do not know the lifelong impact of these medical interventions on young minds and bodies to be clear that they are safe.”Image
Dr. Cass, in her report, expressed dismay that officials at NHS adult gender clinics refused to share with her team data pertaining to the 9,000 children seen in the pediatric clinic.
telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/1…
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Apr 17
🧵:Thoughts on the battle over the Cass Review:

1. Many are furious that systematic literature reviews, they say, set the bar too high, and forbid the acceptance of promising findings from studies on pediatric gender-transition treatment.

🧵See the thread for more🧵Image
2. Others say those standards of assessing the strength v weaknesses of research are vital to prevent research that makes false claims from impacting health policy. They note that the stakes are high, in particular giving drugs that may impact fertility and sexual function.
Here's the question:

Where does the pediatric gender-dysphoria care field go from here?

Should it accept @GLAAD's claim that the "science is settled," and that puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones should be widely provided to gender-distressed children?Image
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Apr 16
WPATH responds to the Cass Review, which lambasted them for, it said, exaggerating the strength of the evidence behind its guidelines and citation “circularity”. WPATH dismisses Cass as based on a “false premise” that non-medical means are best for most kids with gender distress.
Put another way, WPATH is arguing that the majority of children with gender dysphoria will do best if provided puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.

According to the Williams Institute, an estimated 300,000 Americans 13 to 17 year old identify as transgender.
Read 6 tweets
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Apr 16
What the Cass Review Says About Detransitioning
First and foremost, Cass says: "The percentage of people treated with hormones who subsequently detransition remains unknown due to the lack of long term follow-up studies."

But what else❓

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What is detransitioning?
The Cass Review says it's someone who took cross-sex hormones, then stopped and reverted to identifying as their natal sex. Cass says that clinicians told her that some people take 5-10 years to detransition. So much follow-up time is needed to assess.Image
One of the Cass Review's key points is that detransitioners need support. Image
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Apr 16
England’s Health and Human Care Secretary @VictoriaAtkins responds to the Cass Review.

She says part of the NHS “was overtaken by secrecy and ideology that was allowed to trump evidence and safety.”

She vows to stop all puberty blocker prescriptions.
The status of children’s access to puberty blockers in England:
▶️NHS doctors may not prescribe them.
▶️Private clinics technically may, but none are officially sanctioned to and the government seeks to crack down.
▶️The govt also seeks to crack down on overseas prescriptions.
The NHS is supposed to launch a puberty blocker trial. But it needs ethical clearance. At the earliest, it might start early next year. The Cass Review strongly suggested it will only be open to children whose gender dysphoria started in early childhood.
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Apr 15
The @CBCNews quotes doctors repeating the false claim that the Cass Review disregarded any studies about pediatric gender-transition treatment that were not randomized controlled trials.

The article, by Lisa Johnson @LisaSJ, makes many other false claims.

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The CBC article by @lisasj falsely claims that England has "decided to ban puberty blockers for youth outside clinical research." This is not a national ban. The NHS will no longer prescribe them. But kids can attempt to get them from private clinics. cbc.ca/news/health/pu…
The CBC quotes a doctor saying that "for the most part" puberty blockers are safe. But a recent review paper by Sallie Baxendale showed that the neuropsychiatric impacts of blockers are unknown. The new systematic lit review also identified many unknowns.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38334046/
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