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Apr 7 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
@aeahola @LGBwiththeT @MozzyLong @OceanMan2233 @Fredelapetite If you’re assessing psychiatric morbidity in registry or cohort studies, there are well-established outcome domains and variables that should be considered. The key issue is that relying on a narrow or proxy outcome (e.g. service use alone) risks missing true morbidity.
@aeahola @LGBwiththeT @MozzyLong @OceanMan2233 @Fredelapetite A rigorous approach typically includes:
1. Diagnostic outcomes
•Incident or prevalent psychiatric diagnoses (ICD-10 / DSM-5 codes)
•Depression (F32–33)
•Anxiety disorders (F40–41)
•PTSD
•Substance use disorders
•Comorbidity burden (number of diagnoses)
Jan 14 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
@How86917508 @KevOfMancunia @Jonathan_Hinder @KBtheYoungOG Claims of “no long-term data” and inevitable widespread regret are not supported by the evidence.
• Persistence of gender dysphoria: Longitudinal cohort studies show that adolescents presenting to specialist gender clinics have high persistence rates, particularly once
@How86917508 @KevOfMancunia @Jonathan_Hinder @KBtheYoungOG dysphoria has intensified at puberty (Steensma et al., J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry, 2013; de Vries et al., Pediatrics, 2011).
• Psychological outcomes with treatment: The only prospective cohort with extended follow-up into young adulthood found improved psychosocial
Jan 12 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
@Monika47384 @PrincessEmzyX @speakoutsister This mixes up basic biology.
Sex is not determined by “the genes” alone — it is a multilevel biological process involving chromosomes, gene expression (e.g. SRY), gonadal development, hormones, receptors and anatomy. These layers do not always align.
Gamete-based definitions
@Monika47384 @PrincessEmzyX @speakoutsister describe reproductive roles, not how sex is classified in children, infertile adults, post-hysterectomy patients, or people with differences of sex development (DSDs). Biology does not stop applying when gametes aren’t produced.
Intersex traits are not “very, very rare” in
Jan 11 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
@sappholives83 This is doing two sleights of hand at once: (1) treating “trans community” as a single political actor that “supports” specific prison placements, and (2) treating any harm in custody as proof that trans people “despise women.” Neither follows.
@sappholives83 Safeguarding failures in prison are real and serious. But the cause is risk management, not a minority group’s existence. Prisons already separate people all the time based on credible risk: violence history, sexual offences, gang affiliation, coercive behaviour, vulnerability.
