Meet the doctor responsible for bringing puberty blockers to the US & opening the 1st pediatric gender clinic at Boston Children’s. Dr. Norman Spack says “it’s so rewarding to watch these kids give birth to themselves,” aka chemically & surgically castrating this boy at 16. 🧵
Dr. Spack also taught children the lie that not all boys have penises & not all girls have vaginas…anyone who wants to be a boy can be a boy & anyone who wands to be a girl can be a girl. He was playing God. 2/
I did a thread on this BBC documentary, “Transgender Children: Who Knows Best,” in 2023. It was all laid out for us to see in 2016. This is child abuse. It’s not medicine & we must end this medical abuse now. This doctor & all like him must be held accountable. 3/3
Imagine taking your daughter to an eating disorder clinic because she is suffering from anorexia. Instead of helping her, they tell her she is a boy. A new blog post from @donoharm shows this horrifying reality parents are experiencing when trying to get their child help. 🧵1/
What this blog post describes is not an isolated incident. I have had many parents tell me they have taken their child to an eating disorder clinic or a psychiatric residential program, only to be undermined by the therapists & doctors affirming their child as "trans." 2/
Often, the underlying issues and even the eating disorder is not properly treated. How can you properly treat teens with distorted body image issues when you are not grounding them in the reality of their sexed body? You can't. 3/
Herein lies one of the main reasons why the Chiles v. Salazar Supreme Court case is so incredibly important. When parents are trying to find help to navigate their child’s sudden rejection of their sex, this is often what they find. 🧵
They are seeking a mental health professional who will not simply “affirm” their child’s identity, but instead focus on root or co-occurring issues such as trauma, eating disorders, anxiety, depression, and/or autism, not simply affirming the “trans” or false identity.
They are met with counselors who will ONLY “affirm” either because of conversion therapy ban laws or even perceived bans due to ideological training. The intention of conversion therapy bans was to prohibit harmful practices like shock therapy to change one’s same sex attraction.
A new peer-reviewed study confirms what parents have long suspected: the scale of youth gender medicalization is FAR beyond any reasonable clinical justification. 1/8🧵
The new Comment in the Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, "Order of Magnitude," finds that current hormone treatment rates for adolescents are running 13 to 22 TIMES HIGHER than the established clinical need. 2/8
This isn't based on data from critics. The analysis uses the prevalence baseline set by WPATH's own top experts and compares it to prescription rates from a recent JAMA Pediatrics study. 3/8
Boston Children’s Hospital wants you to forget they were proud of poisoning vulnerable children with puberty blockers & cross sex hormones & cutting off their healthy body parts in their marketing videos. Thank you to @BillboardChris for exposing these. Here are all of them.🧵
🚨NEW review of estrogen &/or antiandrogens administered as cross-sex hormones is released! This groundbreaking peer-reviewed study reveals extensive health risks for natal males using feminizing hormones. This open-access review, compiling over 50 studies, demands attention.🧵1/
For years, critiques of these interventions highlighted the low evidence of benefits. This new review alters that understanding by showing serious harms: cardiovascular risks, fertility issues, autoimmune diseases (like lupus and rheumatoid arthritis), various cancers (testicular, breast, thyroid), pancreatitis, and cognitive decline. 2/
These are not minor concerns; the risk signals, which could contribute to significantly reduced lifespans, appear substantial, with some reportedly doubling & others potentially increasing over 40-fold, especially with long-term use. 3/
Many wonder how we got to a place where people believe sex is a spectrum & we are sterilizing kids. Meet Diane Ehrensaft. She is the director of mental health at the Child & Adolescent Gender Center, UCSF Benioff. She gave this talk to the Association of Children's Librarians.🧵
She says we need to make sure all books are “gender inclusive." We need to unlearn everything about gender. Someone came up with the “gender spectrum,” but there is still a problem because of the binary. Binary is bad. Instead, she made up something new: the gender web. 2/
Here, Dr. Ehrensaft states every child has a "gender web." She says fingerprints are immutable, but gender webs are not. She stated gender webs are not fixed at birth and can change over the course of childhood. 3/