A few conclusions from this new research with @SexMattersOrg & @SEENPublishing.

It finds that publishing companies regularly contravene the law, and that abuse of authors/publishing staff who believe there are two sexes has been relentless.

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sex-matters.org/everyday-cance… x.com/SEENPublishing… The report's conclusions:

1. The views of people who believe in the material reality of sex are protected in law, are based on evidence and reflect the views of the majority of the British public.

The new draft of the Brighton & Hove Trans Inclusion Schools Toolkit has just been published by @BrightonHoveCC. It doesn’t yet seem to have considered recent legal advice or evidence reviews, including Monaghan and Cass.

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yourvoice.brighton-hove.gov.uk/en-GB/projects… This 🧵 will quote legal advice on the lawfulness of the previous iteration of the Council’s Trans Inclusion Schools Toolkit by leading human-rights barrister Karen Monaghan KC (@k21fem). 2/9

content.doyleclayton.co.uk/hubfs/Advice%2…

A 🧵 on unintended consequences of mental health interventions, and why some school and workplace schemes may be contributing to the problem they were designed to solve. 1/10 .@drlucyfoulkes & @drjackandrews have a well-argued theory: bringing attention to mental health makes some people think normal feelings of distress are actually mental health problems. This increases their symptoms, exacerbating the issue. 2/10

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A short🧵on the implications of the #CassReview for research. One extraordinary finding among many: it was not possible to assess long-term outcomes of treatment pathways because NHS gender clinics would not co-operate. 1/7 Will intervention or public pressure bring about this co-operation in future? It was an opportunity to understand long-term outcomes of social and medical transition (and, data allowing, watchful waiting). Government even passed a statutory instrument to help this to happen. 2/7

Prompted by the invitation here, a thread. Two provisos: 1) I’m not a lawyer, clearly (though I research education policy, among other things). 2) The thread starts off about Robin White’s analysis, but is mainly about something else. 1/28

https://x.com/moira_robin/status/1744428731790233644?s=20

.@moira_robin’s commentary is here: . The guidance on which it’s based is here: 2/28translucent.org.uk/a-commentary-o…
consult.education.gov.uk/equalities-pol…

This thread on social transition of children was doing the rounds yesterday. As it purports to be “evidence-based”, let’s see what the evidence actually says. It’s poor quality across the board, by the way. https://t.co/Y4u3hnr79v

https://twitter.com/fiercemum/status/1680216603701420034?s=42&t=8AKlyQ2DR-9zAxXlQ3TUyg

1. Children have got a roughly 25-40% chance* of seeing their gender distress persist if they don’t socially transition. If they socially transition, their chance of seeing it persist is 97.5%. That’s almost everyone. Social transition bakes in gender dysphoria.

This paper was published yesterday, looking at mental health in gender-questioning teenagers after 2 years of hormone treatment: nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NE…. A quick 🧵on its approach/conclusions. (1/11) Below are some of the methodological issues from previous, similar studies. The latest one has some good points: it’s (mostly) transparent about data, has a large treatment group (N=315) and relatively low drop-out rate (8%*). (2/11)

My paper for @SexMattersOrg on treatments and outcomes for gender-questioning teenagers is published today too 🧵 sex-matters.org/posts/uncatego… [1/13] “Gender-affirming care” (social & medical transition) has serious issues. Social transition may make children’s gender dysphoria persist. Medical transition causes physical harm to healthy bodies, & research showing mental health benefit is so flawed as to be meaningless. [2/13]

I have two papers out today for @SexMattersOrg. The first is a technical paper on the placebo effect. The (limited) data shows that puberty blockers and hormone treatment have no more effect on teenagers’ mental health than taking a placebo pill 🧵 sex-matters.org/posts/uncatego… [1/16] The placebo effect can be strong. This excellent paper, recently published by psychiatrist Dr Alison Clayton, shows why puberty blockers & hormone treatment present the “perfect storm environment” for the placebo effect link.springer.com/article/10.100… [2/16]

Another🧵on the research that @stellaomalley3 and I have done for @SexMattersOrg on gender identity and teenagers, this time looking at the state of the evidence base. sex-matters.org/posts/publicat… 1/15 First off, the quality of most available research is really, really bad. This is not necessarily a criticism of researchers - decent stuff isn’t getting commissioned, and the gold-standard research (RCT) would probably be unethical here. 2/15

New research is published today by @SexMattersOrg, written by me and @stellaomalley3. It’s the first of a 3-part series for parents looking at the research on gender identity in teenagers.🧵sex-matters.org/posts/publicat… 1/12 Part 1 looks at reasons why teenagers might question their gender, and whether there’s evidence they do so due to an innate, immutable sense of gender identity (TLDR: there isn’t). 2/12