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Benjamin Ryan

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Jun 19

I'm listening to Part II of Michael Hobbes 3-hour takedown of rapid onset gender dysphoria.

So far he and his @MaintenancePod cohost, @yrfatfriend, have heaped scorn on @LisaLittman1 for her 2018 ROGD paper, saying she based her survey on the thoughts of what they characterize as anti-trans parents found on a fringe anti-trans website. Then they have similar scorn for J. Michael Bailey, a professor at Northwestern (@profjmb). They call him a "disgraced" academic and laugh maniacally at a passage from his 2003 book, The Man Who Would Be Queen, and have many chortles and giggles over the so-called "f--ksaw" incident.

Then they turn their attention to England's GIDS clinic and say that the Bell v Tavistock case is one of many coming from what they call the anti-trans movement that inadvertently proves ROGD doesn't exist and how kids are never given puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones after only cursory assessment. They describe how slowly Keira Bell's treatment path unfolded.

Then they say that puberty blockers are only restricted for trans kids and not for cis kids and that this is straight-up discrimination. Hobbes is adamant that blockers are indeed just a pause and that they don't cause lasting effects.

See the 🧵for some fact checks.

British neuropsychologist Sallie Baxendale's recent review paper found that the neuropsychiatric impacts of puberty blockers when used to treat gender dysphoria remain largely unknown. There is a change they may lower IQ. Much more research is needed. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38334046/

There is a big difference between using puberty blockers to delay precocious puberty to its optimal start point to delaying puberty past its optimal start point for gender dysphoria, note.

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Benjamin Ryan

@benryanwriter

Jun 19

I listened to part 1 of Michael Hobbes' very long take-down of rapid-onset gender dysphoria in @MaintenancePod.
Here's his thesis: A mass conspiracy and moral panic has emerged from the lamentations of moms on a single anti-trans, fringe website with the goal of convincing the public that social contagion is causing a large number of kids to become trans when they're not and then go and get on blockers and hormones after only a cursory evaluation.

In on this baseless conspiracy borne out of hysterical, anti-trans moms, Hobbes asserts, are journalists such as @JesseSingal and @kittypurrzog and the publications they wrote for, @TheAtlantic and @TheStranger.

Hobbes is adamant throughout the episode that social transition cannot cause someone to become or otherwise identify as transgender. He is adamant that no child ever accesses puberty blockers and/or hormones after a swift and shallow assessment period. (Reuters reported that a handful of clinics will provide gender-transition treatment to minors after the first visit if there are no red flags, note.) And he insists that the true problem is that parents don't have faith in their children's perceptions of their own gender identity, just as parents once doubted their kids could be gay and assumed homosexuality was the result of pernicious social influences.

Hobbes and his cohost, @yrfatfriend, have copious derision and scorn for the parents they quote who express concern that, the parents say, their kids suddenly identify as trans after never displaying any gender incongruent traits and after multiple people in their friend group do so. They do not believe these parents when they say they are not opposed to transgender people and insist they are actually anti-trans bigots.

Hobbes also insists that other forms of social contagion reported in medical literature do not occur. He dismisses studies that indicate that mental health problems transmit through populations and that gun violence is socially contagious. (He does not mention suicide, which is widely known to be highly socially contagious.)

He and his cohost spent much of the more than 90-minute episode laughing derisively as the points of view of those who believe that rapid onset gender dysphoria might occur or do occur. @RottenInDenmark

In sharp contrast to the certainty of Michael Hobbes that social influences cannot contribute to a person identifying as transgender, Britain's Cass Review states: "There is broad agreement that gender incongruence is a result of a complex interplay between biological, psychological and social factors. This ‘biopsychosocial’ model for causation is thought to account for many aspects of human expression and experience including intelligence, athletic ability, life expectancy, depression and heart disease."

The centerpiece of Hobbes' takedown is Lisa Littman's highly controversial 2018 paper on rapid-onset gender dysphoria, which remains a contested theoretical psychological and social phenomenon. psycnet.apa.org/record/2018-41…

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Benjamin Ryan

@benryanwriter

Jun 18

A new @RealChrisRufo piece on the same hospital about which @EithanHaim leaked info:
The Murky Business of Transgender Medicine
Did Texas Children’s Hospital commit fraud to pay for child sex-change procedures?
"According to a new whistleblower, doctors at Texas Children’s Hospital were willing to falsify medical records and break the law to keep practicing 'gender-affirming care.' Caught in the wave of ideological fervor, two of the hospital’s prominent physicians, Richard Ogden Roberts and David Paul, cut corners and, according to the whistleblower, committed Medicaid fraud to secure funds for the hospital’s child sex-change program."

city-journal.org/article/the-mu…

Texas Children's Hospital nurse Vanessa Sivadge told @RealChrisRufo that the FBI told her that she was a "person of interest" in their case against what became an indictment against @EithanHaim.

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Benjamin Ryan

@benryanwriter

Jun 11

I have people over for dinner about 15 to 20 times a year. I am typically invited over to dinner once or no times per year. No one else has a table as far as I know.
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

They also probably don’t know how to cook.

I also wish that my mother did not raise me to worship reciprocation as a religion.

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Benjamin Ryan

@benryanwriter

Jun 5

Southern Poverty Law Center designates @Genspect and the Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine, or SEGM, as anti-LGBTQ hate groups.
This puts Genspect and @SEGM_EBM in the same company as the Westboro Baptist Church in the eyes of @SPLCenter.

splcenter.org/fighting-hate/…

This follows @SPLCenter's lengthy report last fall about @SEGM_EBM, @Genspect and other groups that work in the arena of skepticism regarding pediatric gender medicine. splcenter.org/captain

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Benjamin Ryan

@benryanwriter

May 31

The University of York experts in evidence based medicine reviewed 53 studies on cross-sex hormones for gender dysphoric minors and concluded: “ There is a lack of high-quality research assessing the use of hormones in adolescents experiencing gender dysphoria/incongruence. Moderate-quality evidence suggests mental health may be improved during treatment, but robust study is still required. For other outcomes, no conclusions can be drawn. More recent studies published since April 2022 until January 2024 also support the conclusions of this review.”

Michael Hobbes spent the morning reviewing the literature and concluded they were wrong about that.

Michael Hobbes says the University of York is wrong about cross-sex hormones for gender dysphoric minors.

The University of York experts on evidence-based medicine effectively say that Michael Hobbes is wrong about what is known about the impacts of cross-sex hormones on gender dysphoric youth.

adc.bmj.com/content/early/…

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