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Mar 16 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
1/ Some here seem under the misapprehension that NHS🏴(or 🇸🇪) are about to start "trials" of GNRH agonist puberty blockers in trans adolescence that will create useful evidence for future approvals. They are not.
2/ What are proposed are unethical & illegal forcing of trans children - the most vulnerable members of the longest still demonised born minority - to be subject to useless pseudo research. Free healthcare will be denied unless they consent to participation.
Dec 17, 2023 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
@KarabergKara The letter was from the main teaching centre for psychoanalysis, & that's what the visible signees were/are. The same letter was in The Telegraph🔗 which showed 3 different names of the 8 so 3 remain anonymous. The most senior was the head of telegraph.co.uk/comment/letter…
2/…of the Portman Clinic, a villa next to the 1960s main building which did therapy when the main building was mainly teaching. The Guardian/Observer gave him a profile🔗 6 years later & he featured in the Tavi's 100th celebrations as their biggest star theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…
Nov 26, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
@doublehelix @Basil_TGMD 1/ But has anyone seen precisely what Labour is proposing? "One 'doctor' to diagnose GD": any doctor, or only medical doctors (psychologists can do it presently)? Only at an NHS gender clinic (where wait lists are 10yrs+)? What if one has 🇺🇳ICD-11 Gender Incongruence but not …
@doublehelix @Basil_TGMD 2/…🇺🇸DSM-V Gender Dysphoria (a mental disorder diagnosis); has Labour forgotten that ECtHR ruled in 2002 that transsexualism is an inborn condition & not a mental disorder, & that a Labour government advised parliament of that medical fact in 2004? Why is this proposal…
Mar 17, 2023 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
1/"Identity with" was too ambiguous to be a reliable predictor of need for medical intervention come puberty, instead, the problem with DSM-IV GIDC was the lack of requirement for physical dysphoria - #GenderIncongruence - which a reanalysis of…
2/… of 🇳🇱 research showed was the sole reliable indicator/symptom linked to persistence. This was always known (📽️ Head of 🇳🇱 clinic, 1995) but #ConversionTherapy clinics instead insisted GNC symptoms - which they claimed indicated pre-trans kids…
@chasestrangio@jessesingal 1/
1⃣Effective intervention at Tanner2 in AFAB prevents any need for top surgery. So that's very helpful
2⃣Arlene got no answer because they were openly against such intervention - which they saw as "binary" - at the time
3⃣All such information is dismissed as "anecdotal"
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@chasestrangio@jessesingal 2/
4⃣Criticism of European clinics is mostly from those demanding long-term, large cohort "randomised control trials" (RCT) which are unethical in established & effective treatments where non-treatment is obvious & causes irreversible lifelong harm. It is not in good faith.
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Apr 21, 2021 • 7 tweets • 7 min read
@JonRonson9@LastBehaviorist@SamHarrisOrg 1/ Yes, but none of us got a user manual at birth, so we have to see what emerges & try to communicate that in the words available at the applicable age. The research Sapolsky cited only had brain tissue of those dead by the late '70s, long before any were out as non-binary…
@JonRonson9@LastBehaviorist@SamHarrisOrg 2/…so none were included, but the range of neuron numbers across the totality of subjects & controls suggests that people can be intermediate; this might account for those unsure until later & non-binary identities. Unfortunately, no other country has ever bothered to…
Apr 4, 2021 • 7 tweets • 6 min read
@ShapiroTattoo@christapeterso 1/ They're conflating gender dysphoria with suicidal ideation, trying to erase that GD is frustrated #GenderIncongruence. In the Bell case, they used GIDS' lousy study of their patients which found SI wasn't reduced on PBs (negating the 🇳🇱 finding it was) to say PBs didn't…
@ShapiroTattoo@christapeterso 2/…work, even though they are 100% effective at preventing further pubertal change. The 🇳🇱 did the main session on endocrine care in adolescence at @TheEndoSociety conference last week (no doubt to avoid heat on US providers) & were pushing the "reduces SI" line. I don't see…
Mar 18, 2021 • 7 tweets • 5 min read
@RozKaveney@ceemage Having been forcibly made aware of the possibility of/threatened, on my 3rd birthday, in 1950, with the rest of my life in an asylum, with daily ECT, "because that's what happens to people like you", I count from then, really. But comparisons are invidious & to be avoided.
@ceemage 1/ As my pinned tweet says, my mother was a nurse who had gone seeking an answer to my asking her some months before to find out if doctors had a way to make me grow up as a woman, & instead learned the official NHS "treatment path". So I believed her.
Mar 14, 2021 • 12 tweets • 11 min read
@JamesCantorPhD@georgie1801@jack_turban Once again you do the ultimate transphobe thing of trying to link us to pedophilia. Why does anyone take you seriously, James?
You know your other "reasons" are lies.⬇️
None of that answers why you ignore that seriously inconvenient research.
@JamesCantorPhD@georgie1801@jack_turban 2 / The Swaab et al research explicitly controlled for the effects of hormones, but besides, it is now known the BSTc is irreversibly gendered in the first months neonatally, & that it is normally due to the effects (or lack of effect) of androgen but at least one known…
The pressure was from medical ethics in the light of what became obvious after GIDS responded to the lead of their 🌍 medical peers & peer clinics.
In 2009 the veteran gender expert Prof Richard Green, recently…
@mikeroscoe67@NotRightRuth 2/…retired head of the world's largest adult GIC - London's Charing Cross - was so disgusted🔗 at the psychoanalytically-based pediatric clinic, GIDS' stubborn refusal to prevent the harm he had seen to those arriving at adult clinics… theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
@trans_mum@mimmymum@AlexSharpe64 And now it's the only reason for court involvement everywhere but 🏴🏴, since the 🇦🇺 Family Court finally, 2yrs ago, revoked the last remnant of their ruling brought in with the help of GIDS' di Ceglie that every step be court authorised by re-enabling parental consent
@trans_mum@mimmymum@AlexSharpe64 Why didn't 🏴 pediatric gender clinic GIDS defend its adolescent patients' interests against their care being put under court control by citing 🇦🇺 jurisprudence revoking such control & allowing parental consent? Because GIDS wants to continue its denial of parental consent.
Dec 4, 2020 • 14 tweets • 15 min read
@73inlancs@janethooton_@ErinInTheMorn@fifi_EY 1/ The 🏴 government decided pediatric gender care in England would be a monopoly contract (a Labour minister, in 2008), despite all other NHS patients officially being entitled to a choice of providers, & second opinions on diagnoses & treatment, & gave it to GIDS, which has…
@73inlancs@janethooton_@ErinInTheMorn@fifi_EY 2/…always advocated that trans minors & their families must have no alternative source of care, & subsequent Tory ministers have personally put their signature on renewals of it, and even personally rejected proposals for improvement that have been put forward by NHS England…
Sep 8, 2020 • 9 tweets • 8 min read
@Quibilah1@NyssaDogFriend@tomgabion 1/ Worse than that. She was before agonists started being provided during puberty (written endo policy then was nothing until puberty was completed) so her assessment didn't use the 🇳🇱 written, globally standardised diagnostic tools🖼that GIDS's peer clinics had been using for… @Quibilah1@NyssaDogFriend@tomgabion 2/…years & which GIDS trialed in their "audit" (which was never about the attributes of the agonists) & then adopted.
Worse yet, the case was started by a psychoanalyst who left GIDS even further back (2004) who claims GIDS were referring to endo too quickly even then.
Sep 8, 2020 • 6 tweets • 5 min read
@NyssaDogFriend@tomgabion@Quibilah1 As I understand it the case demands that Tavi (that's adult & minors') stop medical treatment & provide psychoanalysis. If that were granted, even pending appeal, it could have devastating effects.
I don't trust GIDS/Tavi/NHS an inch to defend the case to the optimum.
@NyssaDogFriend@tomgabion@Quibilah1 The case law (NW Lancashire judgment) is NHS trans treatment must not be restricted to talking, must be by individual clinical need (not grouped), & hormones & surgery must be available. It doesn't specify a minimum age. Obviously, GIDS has always ignored that so won't use it
I hope all doctors know to not place us on records as 3rd gender without specific, informed, written consent
@drkamillak@BBCFutureMedia@BBC@ZariaGorvett@PrimaryCareNHS It is not just that passing a medical history of trans on to other medical staff when it is irrelevant is "stigmatising"; many cannot be trusted with it because their UK professional bodies refuse to incorporate our care in their resources, so they can panic & mistreat patients
Jun 22, 2020 • 8 tweets • 7 min read
@SkLumos@JABenson_Author@CritFacts Too late now. GIDS enforced an 🏴 monopoly denial of all such intervention 1989-2015. A 1999 audit found they didn't even record data to distinguish transsexualism. Instead they mixed in never-trans GNC kids in order to "prove" most "desisted" so none should have interventions.
@SkLumos@JABenson_Author@CritFacts As the 🌏 largest pediatric gender clinic, its head chaired the HBIGDA/WPATH Children's Cmte, standing against interventions. But their peers were clear it was easy to distinguish suitable patients. Here (📽️1995) is 🇳🇱 head Prof Cohen-Kettenis
She's been drawn into a group that's been doing the same since the 70s, initially inspired by US "warnings" that trans women were taking over feminism, but Germaine Greer included it in her 1970 'Female Eunuch'. The matriarch got a post as…
@JohnDiesattheEn@BookBeckBecca 2/… Prof of Politics in Australia & it largely died down until she retired back here & made rolling back trans human rights progress her retirement project. They've tied in with all sorts of right-wing, church, etc., allies & now, in UK have the UK 'Guardian', Murdoch's…
Jun 5, 2020 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
@AdrianHarrop 1/ Doctor, the NHS website teams addressed #NHSGenderID meetings (RIP), seeking feedback, & I talked & emailed with them. I believe Mermaids did too. It became clear that they could only describe what NHSEngland provides, & pretty much only in terms the monopoly provider uses.
@AdrianHarrop 2/ …Or perhaps even what they (GIDS) approve. As you know, GIDS sees itself as the victim of buffeting between "extreme & powerful" advocates for affirmation & "reasonable concerns", especially since it was dragged to at last become the last such clinic to provide agonists…
May 2, 2020 • 12 tweets • 6 min read
@HarryJosieGiles 1/ You may not be familiar with transition problems faced by trans minors in the UK, especially outside Scotland. For decades the government/NHS were able to ban all transition by having commital to asylums (including ECT) as official policy. This was replaced in 1989 by a…
@HarryJosieGiles 2/… monopoly, psychoanalytically-led clinic that refused any medical intervention even when the HBIGDA SOC allowed HRT at 16, & tried its best to discourage any transition, not least by promoting hopelessness. It promulgated national guidelines so no other doctor dared treat…
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