The Chen Study is most often cited as proof that cross-sex hormones improve mental health in minors. It had no control group, only 2 years of follow-up, significant dropout — and buried in its own adverse events data:
2 of its 315 participants died by suicide- that is approximately 317 per 100,000- general adolescent suicide rate at roughly 11 per 100,000.
The Finnish Study used Finland's complete national health registry — every young person who contacted gender identity services over 25 years, 16,643 matched population controls, zero loss to follow-up. Psychiatric needs didn't improve after medical intervention. Among those who received feminizing treatment, rates rose from 9.8% before to 60.7% after.
When the stronger study contradicts the weaker one, medicine is supposed to update. These are children. Update.
📰A new Finnish study reports that youth gender transitions (under age 23) did not improve mental health symptoms. For some youth, medical gender reassignment may have had a negative impact. Link ⬇️ /1
Strongly doubt there'll be many true surprise +ves with white women. Unfortunately there may be more +ves among people of color, but that's more to do with inequities in health care between the Global South & North. That's a real tragedy, not athletes in the correct sex category.
I have a piece in The New York times about what it means to "trust the science" when it comes to the professional guidelines on youth gender medicine
https://t.co/8W1OCxBX5w
Shout out to all @TheGreenParty MPs & members. Please stop undermining the scientific evidence for climate change by demonstrating to the world you know nothing about science or statistics.
I beg of you.
Climate change is too important for that.
"Social contagion is powerful — here’s how researchers suggest we can build resistance"
"Social connections establish pathways of influence that can facilitate the spread of germs, mental illness and even behaviors."
https://t.co/b9qBO2Dkul
Gay men and lesbians having to meet in secret because same-sex attraction is denied by gender identity ideology. Welcome to the new homophobia. https://t.co/16TWmCdbFn
Progressives are quite rightly outraged by Trump's open defiance of the Supreme Court of the US. It's not the only supreme court decision that should be respected.
Get rid of the gender ideology. Not surprised the ACON captured ABC didn't mention that.
"Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather says party will have an 'honest look' at its policies after Queensland election"
https://t.co/SxOkeIn8eB
AUSTRALIA: Australian medical practitioners call for a review of Australian gender clinic practices in light of the Cass Report. "The paper calls out the lack of engagement by Australian services unwilling to take heed of the findings in the Cass Report." https://t.co/tjUEWUxFmQ
"It is unclear how the BMA can hope to replicate four years of work by Cass & her team in just five months"..
Thanks @wesstreeting for standing firm on #PubertyBlocker ban & #Cass implementation in full.
https://t.co/4Rxsli65QY
This has massive importance. Teen identities are so often temporary. Instead of rushing in with permanent body modifications, we need to just LET THEM BE. Thank you, @LiorSapir and @CityJournal
@Bernard_Lane If these questions are so important for health care as the activists claim, there should also be questions for desistors and detransitioners that currently lack the funding enjoyed by the big affirmation services.
We have sought clarification from @ALeighMP as to whether the Albanese government's announcement that no changes will be made to topics for the 2026 Census has implications for the proposed update to the religion question. #auspol#Census21#census2026
https://t.co/QbTM6MB9xZ