FifthBusiness

Yes to science, open dialogue, informed opinion & policy, engaging in complexity. No to ideology and ad hominem arguments.

[ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕟𝕂𝕦𝕝𝕒𝕥𝕦𝕟𝕘𝕒 @ChanKulatunga]

Stories of families treated at McMaster's gender clinic -led by Natasha Johnson, now president of the Canadian Paediatric Society. Aggrieved Former Patients Object to Appointment of Canadian Pediatric Society’s New President https://t.co/LoOfdEFMxQ .

[FifthBusiness @daringtospeak]

@kinsellawarren People are worried about many things, all valid. Wonder why a man has no care about protecting women and children. Perhaps, you should take the time to learn about pediatric gender transition and why other countries, including progressive ones have put on the breaks.

[ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕟𝕂𝕦𝕝𝕒𝕥𝕦𝕟𝕘𝕒 @ChanKulatunga]

Indeed. This negates the presumption made by some that the increase in visits simply reflect follow up care or care regarding next stages of transition.

[Colin Wright @SwipeWright]

🚨NEW: What happens when a psychotherapist can no longer speak plainly because ideology has stripped him of the authority to do so?

In this powerful essay, @jburgo55 explains why working with trans-identified teens has become so difficult: schools indoctrinate, the internet reinforces, and any attempt at honest exploration can be branded “transphobic” on the spot.

This is a revealing look at how gender ideology has made honest therapy nearly impossible.
🔗https://t.co/JRsU4K55UY

[Colin Wright @SwipeWright]

Yesterday’s horrific school sh*oting in Tumbler Ridge is a grim reminder of something we’re not allowed to talk about honestly: the rise in transgender-linked extremist violence and the conditions that can fuel it.

In this must-read essay for @RealLastStand, psychologist @BrookeLauf43635 examines the pattern and offers a framework: identity instability + nihilism + apocalyptic “victimhood” narratives + revolutionary moral certainty can, in a small subset of alienated young people, erode restraints and make violence feel justified.

This piece was published a day before the Tumbler Ridge attack. This is a problem we can't shy away from.

Gender Nihilism and the Revolutionary Impulse:
🔗https://t.co/HHvGZsfuth

[ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕟𝕂𝕦𝕝𝕒𝕥𝕦𝕟𝕘𝕒 @ChanKulatunga]

The Canadian Paediatric Society Is Trapped in a Pre-Cass Time Warp https://t.co/WrAgXsE81r Thank you to @jonkay for adapting our paper for the general reader. Link to academic version in thread.

[ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕟𝕂𝕦𝕝𝕒𝕥𝕦𝕟𝕘𝕒 @ChanKulatunga]

Excellent analysis of the ASPS new recommendations including potential implications.

[ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕟𝕂𝕦𝕝𝕒𝕥𝕦𝕟𝕘𝕒 @ChanKulatunga]

Than you, @segm_ebm for including my latest publication in SEGM Digest 4. Our paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the knowledge and issues that must be considered when providing pediatric gender transition. @PaedCH @CanPaedSociety

[FifthBusiness @daringtospeak]

@Albertadoctors Well, perhaps is the medical associations in Canada actually engaged in the research, looked at the findings of systematic reviews, included all patient voices including those who were hurt by GAC, we wouldn't be here.

[Mia Hughes @_CryMiaRiver]

Today on Beyond Gender we interviewed Dr. Gordan Guyatt—the “godfather” of evidence-based medicine—who recently signed a statement calling paediatric gender medicine “medically necessary” despite knowing there is no good quality evidence that it is safe, beneficial and effective.

This particular clip is INCREDIBLE. When I asked him about it, his response was nothing short of astounding. He confessed he hadn’t bothered to read the statement he signed!

Guyatt is one of the most respected, distinguished doctors of our time, and his name carries tremendous 
weight. That he could so carelessly put his name to an activist talking point—one entirely unsupported by evidence—is not only bitterly ironic, but also profoundly damaging. It undermines the work of those of us fighting to counter the flood of misinformation spread by activists, WPATH, and the medical associations that have endorsed this scandal.

[LGB Courage Coalition @LGBCourage]

🧵 On August 14th @McMasterU @GuyattGH placed a statement on their website. Found here. https://t.co/0ggyFtMxVr

[ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕟𝕂𝕦𝕝𝕒𝕥𝕦𝕟𝕘𝕒 @ChanKulatunga]

WPATH SoC 8 was not based on systematic reviews of evidence to inform adolescent chapter, but expert consensus - basically GOBSAT. They make strong recommendations based on very low certainty evidence. Therefore not evidence! Please ensure more rigorous journalistic standards.

[FifthBusiness @daringtospeak]

https://t.co/qFFrCObMaW

[Our Duty Canada @OurDutyCanada]

Latest short short video from ODC!

How is it that we've all heard these words?! While our kids are not literally reading from a script (for the most part), they are absorbing and regurgitating the words they are "supposed to" say, in order to get their parents on board with social and/or medical transition.

"Except I didn't know it was a script back then. I just knew it was not her voice." ~ Anonymous Mother

Watch on YouTube:
https://t.co/w1cy8Smh0Y

[SEGM @segm_ebm]

🧵New Dutch study finds that over 50% of those treated w/ puberty blockers (PB) report adult sexual dysfunction. No stats comparing early vs late PB was done due to small sample—yet authors conclude that early PB doesn’t impair sexual function. That conclusion doesn’t hold up./1

[FifthBusiness @daringtospeak]

@realJ_Mitchell Have the systematic reviews and guidelines from Finland and Sweden also been debunked?

[FifthBusiness @daringtospeak]

https://t.co/5anwHCqCCe

[ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕟𝕂𝕦𝕝𝕒𝕥𝕦𝕟𝕘𝕒 @ChanKulatunga]

It seems to me that the first step would be to follow up those who transferred to adult services after GIDs. I'm uncertain to what this could add to the current evidence base. https://t.co/mxeWIJBdyG

[Christina Buttons @buttonslives]

NEW STUDY: A systematic review on effects of cross-sex hormones shows all trans-identified people on them show changes in reproductive tissue. Raises concerns of long-term health risks and quality of life of children conceived with eggs or sperm exposed to cross-sex hormones. 🧵

[cbcwatcher @cbcwatcher]

"Poilievre’s speech should put to bed the narrative that he lacks policy specifics. For over a year, the Conservative party has had a 49 page policy declaration on their website, stuffed with ideas that can be viewed at any time.

Along with Poilievre reiterating his pledge on pipelines, taxes, and housing, he also laid out his plan to build a new Arctic military base at Iqaluit and icebreakers to help patrol the polar region. There were far more policy specifics in Poilievre’s speech related to policing and cultural policy, but it is clear what Canadians can expect from a Conservative government." @GeoffRuss3 https://t.co/tE1u1M5eby

[David Tarrant @davidptarrant]

This is brilliant from @AndrewScheer.

Amid so many other changes in our politics - the Conservative Party’s success in bypassing traditional Liberal cheerleaders in legacy media and instead going direct to Canadians is one that will eventually deserve long-term study.