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Pediatric transition skeptics. 'Like samizdat for the sane & ideologically uncowed'. Free speech. Science. Head tweeter: Denise Caignon aka Marie (Founder)
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Mar 7 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
1/Clinicians exposed in the #WPATHfiles admitted something obvious to any unbiased observer: Tweens/young teens can't make informed decisions about their future fertility. Blockers followed directly by cross-sex hormones typically results in sterility. 🧵
2/So how do pediatric genderists justify this rather significant side effect? A stunning recent example of a clinician rationalizing "they don't get it, but let's do it anyway" is a 2021 Zoom training with celebrity WPATH developmental psychologist Diane Ehrensaft. Image
Feb 8 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Planned Parenthood is sharing "facts" for parents on Facebook and other social media--including this one: Gender identity is formed "for everyone" in their toddler years.

They encourage parents to ASK their preschooler "are you a boy or a girl" to "create a safer space." Image More "facts" at this link:
plannedparenthood.org/blog/4-facts-y…
Nov 17, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Must-watch clip from the Netherlands. Apart from the fact that brain studies have never been carried out on puberty-blocked youth, evidence from animal studies has revealed something huge: Blockers impair emotional and social development and behavior. In particular ...1/n 🧵 The ability to regulate emotions is a key aspect of normal development. What is emotional regulation? it includes understanding and modulating behavior rather than simply following one's impulses and acting on them--as most immature children do. 2/n Image
Sep 10, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
It's hard to believe Turban isn't being deliberately misleading. He KNOWS nearly all puberty-blocked kids go on to cross hormones, and that protocol does result in infertility. And immature gametes can't be frozen for later use; natural puberty is required for that. Image Right here, Seattle Children's Hospital says it.

Turban knows. He just won't say it, because blocked kids almost never stop blockers and go through their "birth assigned puberty." So yes--they are sterilized! @JeremyShawMD Image
Sep 2, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Three years ago...

There is no walking this back. No justification.

Turning a child into a mascot and a public spectacle is a bad idea under any circumstances. Yet in 2023, it has been normalized for "trans kids." Even people who support pediatric medical transition should question the trans-kid celebrity trend. "Hey I blocked my kid's puberty at 11, then put them on cross hormones at 12. This sterilized them & may have wrecked their future sexual function before they had any concept of what they were sacrificing... but look at me! Look at what a virtuous parent I am!" Oh, what if they regret all that publicity later on ... or even regret their transition? Maybe keeping private medical decisions about a minor...you know, private, might have been a better idea? "No worries, I'm on the right side of history. I'm not like those bigots! After all, my kid might be the next Jazz Jennings, getting SRS on national TV at 17!"
Aug 25, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Closing quote from Diane Ehrensaft: " [kids] are far more advanced than I am, as somebody in my 70s, about how they live and understand gender...“So if we want to really understand gender, turn to the experts—and that would be the youth themselves.”
archive.li/2023.08.24-123… Scientific American @sciam a once-respected publication, didn't bother to ask why this 70+-yr-old **developmental psychologist** thinks a kid is equipped to sterilize themselves & knows more than she does. But then, neither did @wapo in 2018.

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Jul 9, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Evidently the interview w/ gender surgeon Blair Peters -- discussing the experimental nature of interventions on minors-- garnered too much attention. It's now "private". (Why do they always hide what they do after people notice?)

Archived version here:

https://t.co/ojV9no7BLo
Here's the interview w/ Dr. Blair Peters, in full. He & his interviewer admit--quite openly--how little gender docs know about the outcomes for medically-transitioned minors

"We'll know more in 5-10 years." It will be "fascinating" to see how these young people fare.
Jun 20, 2023 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
Many of our followers will know who this person is. Knox changes identities like a chameleon on steroids, medically transitioned her (oops! "their/his") child, and is part of a "polycule" with her MTF spouse & several other MTFs. Some make fun of her, but .
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Image On a serious note she is a key influencer in pushing child transition in Canada & now the UK. She has for years irresponsibly peddled the false binary "suicide or transition" to troubled youth & their parents. This public figure deserves more scrutiny by responsible journalists. Image
Jun 4, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
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There are at least two prominent parent-activists who publicly claimed their natal boys were unequivocally girls from a young age; the high-school age males now say they are "nonbinary." During their kids' middle-school years, these parents also publicly announced that they had put their kids on testosterone blockers and then estrogen. As is acknowledged even by gender clinicians, this protocol results in lifelong sterility as well as...

May 27, 2023 • 25 tweets • 11 min read
This interview is mind boggling. Gender surgeon Blair Peters admits how much he doesn't know about outcomes (e.g. sexual function) for puberty-blocked males he operates on; we'll "know more" in 5 to 10 years after more teens undergo genital surgeries.
At the very beginning (after stating he/they pronouns), Peters touts "nonbinary" surgeries, which are becoming more common now that medical schools are reducing their "binary bias". Peters: "My whole goal is helping you self-actualize how you see yourself internally."
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May 3, 2023 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
"Minors don't get genital surgery."

Save this one for the deniers, posted 8 hours ago in the "Parents of Transgender Children" Facebook group.

Dr. Connelly at Oregon Health Sciences University does vulvoplasty and orchiectomy on high school students. 🧵 Image As we've seen before, "top surgery" (double mastectomy) on teens is fairly common. Sometimes covered by insurance, sometimes it's private pay. But how many know that gender surgeons are removing teen testicles and crafting fake vulvas out of micropenises for 15-16 year olds? Image
May 2, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Without revealing her name, a few minutes of research reveals: She is a licensed counselor (not a psychologist), uses she/they pronouns, has a "trans kid," offers sessions online, and is one of dozens of other clinicians who offer therapy for "personality systems" in her state. She is also the current vice president of the Board of Education in her district. This is one of thousands of examples in the USA of the degree of institutional capture, from school boards to the federal government--even people who promulgate the most bizarre ideas. ImageImage
May 2, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
From our source in the "affirming" parents Facebook group: Indeed there are clinicians encouraging parents to believe their "trans kids" may have a "system" of multiple personalities ImageImage In this case the parent says her child is bothered by the one "he/him" headmate. Therapist encourages mom to "learn from" the system, and recommends a book by another plural-affirming clinician, Diedre Faye.
Apr 17, 2023 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
In her latest interview, Jamie Reed, gender clinic whistleblower, talks about how social contagion plays a role in adolescent desire to transition; young patients themselves admitted to it. Reed also says 13-yr-olds were routinely prescribed testosterone.
Tweens have been prescribed T for years; "gender affirming" clinicians brag about it. Yet activists deny social contagion exists at all, and laugh at the idea that hormones-on-demand are the US norm. Let's hope more whistleblowers will step forward now.
Apr 17, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Earlier this year, Dylan Mulvaney, TikTok star and public figure, was catapulted to greater fame when hosted at the White House by Joe Biden. Among other things, they discussed child transition (4:38 time stamp). This goes far behind Bud Light.

Biden, arguably the most powerful politician in the world, chose Mulvaney to represent the "trans community," & a key topic they discussed was pediatric transition. Mulvaney is fair game to be questioned. He is now fabulously wealthy & has the presidential stamp of approval.
Apr 15, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Screenshots show double mastectomies on teens as young as 14, advertised by a surgeon in Charlotte.

Good to see more people realizing what's been going on in the USA for the better part of a decade.

Activists lie. It's not rare, it's "gender affirming care." In St. Louis, @STLChildrens claims gender affirming care is the "gold standard" for kids & proudly states they don't tell minor patients what to do/not do. @PPSLR Planned Parenthood St. Louis requires no mental health eval for a 16-yr-old to go on hormones. ImageImage
Mar 20, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
This thread from last year is timely again, with the debate about child transition heating up. Included herein is a video of trans surgeon Marci Bowers telling an audience of gender clinicians that 100% of puberty-blocked boys can't orgasm.

100%.

Million-dollar question: Why do… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Bowers isn't talking about a temporary problem. Bowers makes clear this will likely be permanent if the boys never experience the effects of testosterone...which they won't, if they continue down the pathway of affirmative medical transition.

Mar 20, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Interesting and surprisingly nuanced emergency regulation vis-a-vis pediatric transition announced by Missouri Attorney General today. Read his whole thread.

He refers to the recent restrictions in Europe, as well as the need for adequate counseling to inform decision-making by parents/child.

News release here:

ago.mo.gov/home/news/2023…
Feb 9, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The screenshots are from a game-changing article by a whistleblower inside a US gender clinic. Yes, "affirmative care" really is as bad (worse, actually) as we've been saying. Source:
thefp.com/p/i-thought-i-… And yet the US federal government is relentlessly pushing this "care" and threatening anyone who objects. @HHS_ASH
Feb 9, 2023 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
@LeorSapir @Tapper195 100%. The "suicide or transition" false narrative is used shamelessly by activists and clinicians who should know better. Terrified parents are emotionally blackmailed (who wouldn't be?) and behave accordingly. @LeorSapir @Tapper195 A very recent example, in New Mexico. This is a doctor, who is either lying or incredibly ignorant about where the 41% stat came from. And the journalists just lap it up, don't bother to fact check.
Source: nmpoliticalreport.com/2023/02/04/bil… Image
Oct 28, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Watching parents of “trans kids” testify at the Florida medical board hearing, they all to some degree tried to force their kids to conform to gender norms before the child “came out” as the opposite sex. The parents were told their child would commit suicide if not transitioned. One mom specifically talked about trying to force her 3 year old son to have short hair and play with boy toys before “realizing” her child was a girl.

Affirmative gender clinicians have created this situation.