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Aug 23, 2024 • 5 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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GIDS Dissident, Dr. @MaxDavie, takes down latest post criticizing Dr. Hilary Cass, vanishes from Twitter
🧵: After attacking Dr. Hilary Cass in a paper posted in a Google doc, claiming she recommended @AbigailShrier's Irreversible Damage, then backpedaling the claim, then writing a blog post once again criticizing the Cass Review author, claiming she was dead set on a randomized controlled trial of puberty blockers for pediatric gender dysphoria that he saw as unethical, Dr. Max Davie has stripped his blog site of that posting and vanished from X.

Along the way, he accused me of journalistic malpractice after he emailed me accusations about one of his critics and I published them. He said he told me the information in confidence, but as I told him, he never said anything about it being off the record.Image
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Cass Review Author Denounces As 'Baseless' And 'Cynical' Dissidents' Claim That She Touted Abigail Shrier's Scathing Polemic On Trans Kids
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Here is the archive of @MaxDavie’s since deleted blog criticizing Hilary Cass. archive.is/kKY0M
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@maxdavie Update, now @maxdavie is once again back on X and has explained why he took down his recent blog post criticizing Cass: Image
A couple of hours later, @MaxDavie's account is gone again. Image

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Apr 3
Queer editor James Ball declares Bluesky a “dying social network,” blaming aggressive censoriousness by Blueskyites of perceived ideological enemies:

“There's a large cadre that basically cheers on chasing off any lib/centrist/academic who's the punchbag of the day. There's a culture of saying ‘fuck off back to X, then.’ And the anti- bedtime leftists set too much of the culture.

“I don't know if it's fixable, especially as I think quite a lot of the people here don't *want* to fix it. But at the rate users are quitting they'll run out of targets soon enough, and the rest of us will lose what is – for a fair few of us I suspect – the last fun/useful social network. Sigh.”Image
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More from James about Bluesky’s demise: Image
The grim Bluesky stats. Turns out echo chambers are not big business. Image
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Apr 1
HOW GENDER MEDICINE SET ITSELF UP FOR DISASTER

For @CompactMag, I report on what the 100s of WPATH conference videos I obtained tell us about this troubled field: compactmag.com/article/how-ge…

👉I 'll be publishing the conference videos on my Substack: benryan.substack.com/p/i-obtained-1…

As I write for Compact magazine:

This catalogue, which the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, or WPATH, fought to keep shielded, provides a rich account of how leading figures in pediatric gender medicine approached scientific research, drove the evolution of medical practices, and strategized politically during a critical turning point in this field’s brief and tortured history. The two years following Chase Strangio’s 2021 address were a period in which statehouse Republicans escalated their attacks on this field. The WPATH conference presenters largely responded to the political siege by doubling down. Rather than engage in soul searching over whether their methods in pediatrics were ethically sound and whether any criticisms had merit, they overwhelmingly stuck to their guns.

Presenters frequently downplayed fundamental hazards about irrevocably altering adolescents’ bodies. Meanwhile, a parade of systematic reviews—the gold standard of scientific evidence—was concluding that the evidencebacking pediatric gender medicine is weak and inconclusive. These findings have led health authorities in a number of European nations, concerned about risks such as infertility, to reverse course. They reclassified pediatric gender-transition interventions as experimental and sharply restricted minors’ access.

Not WPATH. The organization remained on an inexorable trajectory in the opposite direction, toward its eventual head-on collision with the second Trump administration.

For highlight clips, see the 🧵👇Image
Kellan Baker counseled against saying “gender-affirming care.” Messaging research indicated that when people hear it, he said, “they think ‘trans kids in the driver’s seat.’” But he said this was an accurate assessment. “I think we all support trans kids in the driver’s seat because it’s their bodies, it’s their lives,” he said.

“But when you think about folks who don’t know trans people, they are very scared by the idea that young people are making irreversible decisions and that no one else has any oversight over those decisions.”

To read my article in @CompactMag about the 100s of videos I obtained from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) and its US offshoot, USPATH: compactmag.com/article/how-ge…

I will be publishing the most notable conference videos on my Subsack: benryan.substack.com/p/i-obtained-1…
Johanna Olson-Kennedy: “I think that a lot of this conversation...gets talked about through a lens of ‘How can we make sure people are really trans,’ right? And ‘They’re not going to regret their decision later?’” But “that’s actually not the discussion that I’m interested in participating in," she said. "I’m interested in discussing and having a conversation about giving the very best possible care to trans young people—the care that they need and deserve.”

To read my article in @CompactMag about the 100s of videos I obtained from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) and its US offshoot, USPATH: compactmag.com/article/how-ge…

I will be publishing the most notable conference videos on my Subsack: benryan.substack.com/p/i-obtained-1…
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Mar 29
🧵👇Debunking podcaster Michael Hobbes is wrong about the American Medical Association’s longstanding position about youth gender surgeries.

Before Feb. 2026, the AMA had never specified that gender surgeries should generally be reserved for adults.

In 2024, the AMA asserted: “Our American Medical Association recognizes that medical and surgical treatments for gender dysphoria and gender incongruence, as determined by shared decision making between the patient and physician, are medically necessary as outlined by generally-accepted standards of medical and surgical practice.”

No mention of age limits.

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Hobbes is pointing to this WPATH FAQ without acknowledging (or knowing) that it actually misrepresents what the organization’s trans-care guidelines, The Standards of Care Version 8 (SoC 8) says. WPATH famously removed all age limits (except for phalloplasty) in the SoC 8 when it was published in Sept 2022 under pressure from the American Academy of Pediatrics.Image
Hobbes fails to understand that the original reporter who published the AMA’s statement saying it sided with the ASPS on youth gender surgeries was not Jeremy Peters, it was Andrew Jacobs, who could in no way be considered a part of this supposed “anti-trans braintrust.” Peters was only reiterating what Jacobs originally reported.

And yes, the statement was a shift, otherwise the AMA wouldn’t be trying to walk it back and say they were misquoted. Because the AMA knows that the statement reads as if they did make a shift in policy.Image
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Mar 26
Is the AMA Telling the Truth About Their Expressed Positions on Youth Gender Surgeries?

The American Medical Association to the @StrackHaley at the National Review @NRO on Feb. 3: "[T]he AMA agrees with ASPS that surgical interventions in minors should be generally deferred to adulthood."

The @AmerMedicalAssn today: "We responded" to questions about the American Society of Plastic Surgeon's opposition to pediatric gender-transition surgeries "only after being contacted by media outlets, using the language approved by the board. While some media coverage characterized this as agreement with the ASPS statement, that phrasing did not come from the AMA."
The AMA on Feb 3:
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Mar 17
Meghan Wachspress, who accused Illinois congressional candidate Daniel Biss of an "inappropriate relationship" after he, at 26, was her math prof and she, 20, was his student and the 2 dated for a while and made out in '04, wrote on Substack in 2025 that MeToo didn't go far enough.

"In an alternate universe the experiences encompassed by #metoo could have expanded outward to include other kinds of workplace interactions and structural inequalities that minimized or objectified women in the Kantian sense (making them men’s tools), costing women status, money, and time compared to their male colleagues," she wrote.
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She also posted this:
Wachspress did a stint on Jeopardy.

jeopardyhistory.fandom.com/wiki/Megan_Wac…
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Mar 3
IN DEFENSE OF EFFEMINATE GAY BOYS

If anyone had suggested that I might really be a girl, I don’t know how I would have responded, by @BenAppel for @TheAtlantic.

GIFT LINK: theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/…Image
Similarly, @chadfelixg wrote:

thefederalist.com/2020/02/24/if-…
@chadfelixg Harvard Law School clinical instructor and trans activist Alejandra Caraballo is unhappy about @BenAppel’s article in @TheAtlantic, calling it the “‘they're transing the gays’ conspiracy theory.” Image
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