FYI: Lesbians United was not aware in advance that the recent rally in California would be promoting transgenderist ideologues and portraying them as pro-children’s rights. We would not have publicly promoted the rally if we had known. 🧵 It has also become abundantly clear that allegedly pro-gay organizations like Gays Against Gr*mers and LGB Alliance are continuing the trend of popular and well-funded lesbian and gay organizations falling to homophobic ideologies and interests.

Lesbians United’s review of the evidence on puberty suppression is out NOW as a free PDF. “Puberty Suppression: Medicine or Malpractice?” cites over 300 sources, and catalogs over 100 side effects of puberty-suppressing drugs. Get it at lesbians-united.org/resources.html (1/8) The report delves into an enormous number of published and peer-reviewed studies of GnRH agonists (now marketed as “puberty blockers”), which document side effects ranging from osteoporosis and heart attack to depression and fibromyalgia. (2/8)

We’ve laid out some of the evidence against the homophobic practice of conversion therapy, currently known as “transition.” Now let’s talk about what lesbians in the U.S. need & want. 🧵 1. Lesbians United demands that U.S. legislators sign bills into law that explicitly prevent doctors from prescribing artificial hormones & hormone blockers for non-lifesaving reasons, esp. to minors.

https://twitter.com/UnitedLesbians/status/1490707441268445191?s=20&t=3DXBjjP0WkG8faDZnEuIxw

Lesbians United presents: an overview of the information presented in our inaugural public information campaign, “Understanding Child Transition.” Learn how these medical procedures work and how they’re affecting #lesbians. #SaveTheTomboys #EndGayEugenics This is the video you send your dad when he says, “Honey, I don’t understand what you’re so upset about. Who cares if all the kids are calling themselves acefluid genderpans?”

Today, we’re spotlighting #gender doctors who aren’t afraid to tell the truth.

First up: Dr Ilana Sherer of @UCSF @PedsOnCall. Ilana has said that her clinic has mental health care professionals “rubber-stamp” children’s diagnoses. Src: (1/11) @UCSF @PedsOnCall Does Dr @dianeehrensaft1 of @UCSF, who has no right to use the word d*ke, expect us to celebrate the disappearance of #butch #lesbians? Butches were the backbone of our community until drs started medicalizing them away. Src: (2/11)

Today, we’re taking a look at the effects of artificial testosterone on the female body. #Testosterone is prescribed to healthy female children at gender clinics across the US. Its side effects include #depression, type 2 diabetes, blood clots, and high cholesterol. (1/8) A recent scientific study found that artificial testosterone also increases females’ risk of heart attack. Src: archive.is/xArCg #healthcare (2/8)

The US medical establishment is not the first to use artificial hormones as a form of #conversiontherapy. Meet Nazi dr Carl Vaernet, who implanted artificial hormone glands into gay men at Buchenwald. #antifascism
Read more: archive.is/RtImu by @PeterTatchell (1/4) @PeterTatchell Alan Turing, a British scientist convicted of homosexual acts in 1952, was an early victim of hormonal #conversiontherapy. He was sentenced to #estrogen therapy, and died two years later, likely by suicide.

Read more: archive.is/6TN5C by @yayitsrob (2/4)

THREAD: Let’s talk about the HOW. How do “trans kids” #transition from healthy children to cash cows for Big Med? Let’s break down the process. (1/13) The first step is the “affirmative model” of #therapy. When a child claims to be or wants to be the opposite sex, well-meaning parents may seek answers from a therapist. An “affirmative” therapist automatically labels the child "trans." (2/13)

Ever wonder what #pubertyblockers really are? They’re a class of drugs known as GnRH agonists, designed for prostate cancer and marketed for everything from endometriosis to #autism. And they have some horrifying side effects. (1/10) The @US_FDA has received over 25,000 adverse event reports for one GnRH agonist in particular: #Lupron, now the most common drug prescribed as a “puberty blocker” in the US.

Src: archive.md/mbqF7; archive.is/DPMDF (2/10)

Question of the day: What do hormone blockers, artificial hormones, and genital surgeries do for mental health? Let’s look at the scientific evidence. (1/12) Known side effects of #pubertyblockers like Lupron incl. #depression, insomnia, and memory problems. Src: archive.md/knXWf (2/12)

THREAD: #ConversionTherapy is still around, but in the 21st century, it’s being rebranded as progressive. Today, Lesbians United is delving into the rampant medical abuse of #lesbian and #gay youth in the US. (1/10) The science is clear: girls who are attracted to other girls are being targeted for medicalization. This is #ConversionTherapy, plain and simple. Src: archive.is/ycDme #lesbianrights #SaveTheTomboys (2/10)

Children can’t #consent to sex. Children can’t consent to sexual experiments. Children can’t consent to sexual mutilation. #SaveTheTomboys (1/3) The majority of children being asked to “consent” to sexual medical #abuse will grow up lesbian or gay. Homophobic medical experiments aren’t just for Nazi doctors anymore. Now, they’re #woke. (2/3)

What is the "affirmative model?"
#healthcare #therapy #mentalhealthmatters
Let's unpack the difference between the “watchful waiting method” and the “affirmative model,” & how the “affirmative model” locks kids into confusion, distress & medicalization for life. (1/10) “Watchful waiting” means that parents, therapists, and teachers neither affirm nor deny a child’s desire to be the opposite sex. When a girl says she wants to be a boy, the adults in the room wait to see if she’ll grow out of it on her own. #mentalhealthawareness (2/10)

We need to talk about #genderdysphoria. First: what is it? Let’s ask @APAPsychiatric: archive.is/AT7Np #gendercritical #womenwontwheesht (1/9) @APAPsychiatric It’s true that some kids experience distress or confusion over biological sex. But studies show that those feelings are likely to resolve on their own during puberty, without any interference. No diagnosis or medicalization needed. #mentalhealth (2/9)