Heterodox homo, advocate for sissies & tomboys. LET GNC KIDS BE. No child's body needs changing bc of their gender expression. We Democrats must reform.
The tragedy of youth gender medicine is that well-meaning but ignorant people think they’re doing the right thing.
It’s a total misunderstanding of who is vulnerable and what the harm is.
The vulnerable are not “trans kids”—the vulnerable are kids with nonconforming gender expression: masculine girls and feminine boys, plus kids with autism and kids with serious mental health comorbidities. The vulnerable are kids who are excessively on social media. The vulnerable are any children who walk through the front door of a gender clinic.
The harm is not growing up in the “wrong body”. The harm is a lifetime of medicalization, complications, and disembodiment.
@benryanwriter@ACLU@GBBranstetter Delusional, dishonest, and deeply stupid. People like this drove @TheDemocrats into a ditch, delivered us to Trump, and made everything worse. No elected official should listen to their lunacy ever again.
They’re also nothing to be afraid of.
We see thru u, @GBBranstetter
@benryanwriter OR—just maybe—it’s because the demands to remove women’s boundaries and to medically harm minors are fundamentally abusive and come at the expense of other people.
@wesyang Moulton will lose, and it will be a false signal to other Democrats that they should not moderate their stance.
Of course, the truth is that defying the will of the voters on this is what is making them unelectable.
The developmental pathway for homosexuals has been subsumed by trans. When older gays and lesbians say, "I would have been transitioned if I'd grown up now," we are simply able to recognize that our own pathways into homosexuality have now been transformed. We are able to reflect and recognize that we—the humans we are now, with our bodies intact, our endocrine systems functional, our families, our lives—can see, with the wisdom of our age, that we escaped a cultural shift that would have also subsumed us.
To be clear, “let parents decide” is evasion because medicine is not a consumer good. Parents should only choose from among options responsibly and ethically offered by doctors.
“Let parents choose” exculpates the powerful and organized (doctor advocacy groups) by shifting the burden to the vulnerable and unorganized (individual parents dealing with distressed/confused kids). It’s a profoundly cynical but politically effective strategy.
"In short, the medical practice now known euphemistically as pediatric 'gender affirming care' is based on methodologically weak research that sterilized a group of gay or bisexual youth and left one of them dead." https://t.co/vEf6HBKnNh
Finally had some time to read the PATHWAYS- U.K. Puberty Blocker Study Protocol. It is 113 pages.
So I was trained to read and then carry out clinical research protocols, my Masters of Science is literally in Clinical Research Management. In each study the protocol is essential the Bible for the study.