Renee Gardner

Mother whose daughter experienced #RapidOnsetGenderDysphoria #ROGD.
Scientist.
Rational Feminist.

[Renee Gardner @LavenderVerse]

Yep, I went there. I compared the rise in pediatric medical transition to lobotomies. https://t.co/lO4WdcGZTI via @wordpressdotcom

[Genspect @genspect]

These statistics from the @CanSG_org conference should give everyone pause.

Up to:
• 50% incontinence after phalloplasty
• 54% sexual dysfunction after phalloplasty
• 87% urinary symptoms on testosterone
• 65% genital discomfort on testosterone

Before we encourage young people toward irreversible medical interventions, we should be asking whether they and their families are being fully informed about the possible lifelong consequences.

[Colorado Principled Physicians @ColoradoDoctors]

@Bernard_Lane In 2017, Renee Gardner @LavenderVerse wrote for the Federalist about why "gender-affirming care" for minors mirrors the horrifying trend of frontal lobotomies as "treatments". Still worth reading: https://t.co/ZVjwJZqw2c

[Bernard Lane @Bernard_Lane]

Transgender surgery is like the abandoned practice of frontal lobotomy, according to prominent US plastic surgeon Dr Scot Glasberg.

He suggested the argument for stopping under-19 trans surgery was the same for lobotomies—“there was no evidence to show that [these interventions] were of any benefit, and we were harming people in the process”.

He also cited the recent comprehensive Finnish registry study which found that the psychiatric needs of young people increased after gender medical treatment.

Dr Glasberg said this study was important because it highlighted the risk that “it actually could be worse for these children” after gender transition. “I thought, this is pretty telling.”

Dr Glasberg is a past president of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons which earlier this year became the first major US medical association to adopt a policy advising against the gender medicalisation of adolescents.

He was speaking at a London conference on “Rethinking Youth Gender Medicine” hosted by the Society for Evidence-based Gender Medicine and the Clinical Advisory Network on Sex and Gender.

Full news report below.

[James Cantor @JamesCantorPhD]

"Among adolescents who underwent medical gender reassignment, psychiatric morbidity increased markedly during follow-up—rising from 9.8% to 60.7% in feminising gender re-assignment and from 21.6% to 54.5% in masculinising gender reassignment."
Ruuska 2026 https://t.co/iJ6gBLwrgA

[Genspect @genspect]

#DetransAwarenessDay
We haven’t talked enough about the challenges facing detransitioners

Tomorrow 70 detransitioners will be at Genspect’s Detransition Awareness Day event “Life Beyond Transition”.

One of the few long-term outcome studies, Dhejne et al. (2011), examined the outcomes of "sex reassignment surgery" for 324 individuals in Sweden from 1973 to 2003. The study showed that individuals who underwent surgery had significantly worse outcomes, including nearly 3 times higher psychiatric hospitalization rates, nearly 5 times more suicide attempts, and a suicide rate over 19 times higher than matched controls. Life beyond transition can be extremely difficult, yet this reality is often minimised, leaving those affected without adequate support.
https://t.co/iSaA6QxiP3
https://t.co/IlgdcAR7sz

[SEGM @segm_ebm]

📢NHS England just published 10 new systematic evidence reviews on PB and CSH for binary and “non-binary” youth. Because of the weak evidence, the NHS paused new cross-sex hormones prescriptions and is conducting a 90-day consultation to review evidence for a potential permanent ban. /1

[TransgenderTrend @Transgendertrd]

Finally.

Cross-sex hormones to be banned by NHS England for under 18's. Big news.

CSH should have been reviewed at the same time as puberty blockers in 2022. These hormones should never have been given to children.

Now for the private providers.

https://t.co/cTQ3pHvaDg

[SEEN in Journalism @JournalismSEEN]

On Fox Varian, by @HadleyFreeman in @thetimes

'This is big because while nothing else - common sense, science, politicians, even public opinion - could stop the gender gravy train among American liberal institutions, money is a language all Americans understand. And money is why gender ideology spread like Japanese knotweed across the US. It was boom time for grifters and monsters'

Great column. Journalists who are shocked at the Fox Varian outcome - take a look back at the number of times you ignored the story. Those who paid attention saw it coming with a telescope.

https://t.co/tLz6xCUL2O

[Leor Sapir @LeorSapir]

The American Medical Association agrees with the ASPS about surgeries.

If the AMA was wrong about surgeries, could it also have been wrong about hormones?

[Leor Sapir @LeorSapir]

BREAKING: American Society of Plastic Surgeons issues new position statement opposing "gender-affirming" surgeries in adolescents under the age of 19.

ASPS also acknowledges risks of endocrine interventions, poor guidelines, and inappropriate use of "autonomy" principle.

[Leor Sapir @LeorSapir]

Thousands of U.S. parents have consented to having surgeons remove their daughters' breasts after being assured that their daughters were at serious risk of suicide otherwise.

Now, the incoming president of WPATH says mastectomy "in and of itself" doesn't prevent suicide.

[Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter]

A Legal First That Could Change Gender Medicine

At 16, Fox Varian got a mastectomy while undergoing a gender transition. She sued her psychologist and plastic surgeon for leaving her ‘disfigured for life.’ Benjamin Ryan reports from the courtroom.

Read the @TheFP article: https://t.co/O8Ci04SO5h

Follow and support my Substack, where I cover pediatric gender medicine: https://t.co/dQRHZHqWHn. I was the only reporter to attend the entire three-week trial and will be providing more in-depth reporting and commentary on the case.

The opening of my Free Press article:

Fox Varian had a turbulent childhood. Her parents split when she was seven, triggering a three-year custody battle that ultimately saw her estranged from her father. She suffered from a constellation of mental health problems, including depression, anxiety, and social phobia. She was diagnosed with autism and bounced around various schools. Her first period sent her into a meltdown, and she battled disordered eating and body-image issues. By mid-adolescence, she was completely lost.

At 15, she began questioning her gender during sessions with her psychologist. She changed her birth name, Isabella, to Gabriel, which she saw as androgynous. Over the next two months, she cut her hair short, began binding her breasts, switched her name again, to Rowan, and started telling people she was transgender.

In December 2019, 11 months after she started this public social transition, Varian underwent surgery to remove her breasts. She was 16 years old.

Varian, who adopted the name Fox at 18 and is now 22, is one of thousands of minors who underwent gender-transition surgery over the past decade. And she is just one of the young people who have come to regret permanently addressing what was only a temporary identity shift.

Three years after her mastectomy, Varian stopped identifying as transgender and began a process known as detransitioning. In May 2023, she filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against the two principal Westchester County, New York, care providers who oversaw her gender transition: her long-time psychologist, Kenneth Einhorn, and Dr. Simon Chin, who performed the mastectomy.

On Friday, a jury in White Plains, New York, awarded Varian $2 million in damages. Varian’s case is the first malpractice suit from a detransitioner to go before a jury, and I was the only reporter to attend the entire three-week trial. Represented by personal-injury attorney Adam Deutsch, Varian said she had been injured by the defendants due to their deviation from standard practices and a lack of informed consent. While there are no guarantees in medical malpractice lawsuits, legal experts believe Varian’s victory could inspire a wave of similar cases that would significantly disrupt pediatric gender medicine.

[Mia Hughes @_CryMiaRiver]

The recovered memory, multiple personality, and Satanic Panic juggernaut of malpractice was brought to an end by a tsunami of lawsuits.

The first one was won in 1994, and by 1998 the atrocious scandal was over. Although for many of the victims, there was no end to the suffering.

In medical scandals, the first malpractice win is pivotal. And in gender medicine, the dam just broke.

[Julia Mason MS MD @JuliaMasonMD1]

Wow.
Just a horrifying realization to have.
Pediatricians need to educate themselves and stop referring kids with gender issues to therapists expecting things to get sorted out. The vast majority now are like Claire's was - immediate affirmation, no time to wait.

[Michael Shermer @michaelshermer]

Thanks for the support and for calling out the problem @hoovlet
I was unaware that the host invited callers to disagree with me...without me being allowed to respond! But that's what happens when you believe you have Absolute Truth: why listen to others? They're obviously wrong!

[Bev Jackson @BevJacksonAuth]

A Californian Democrat tries to get fellow Democrats to understand how much harm they are doing by promoting sex denialist medical interventions (“gender affirming care”) especially in minors.

[Genspect @genspect]

Singer Cat Cattinson:
“What I didn't know is that taking testosterone as an adult female does not have the same effects on the voice as a teenage boy going through puberty, which is what I had been told”

[SEEN in Journalism @JournalismSEEN]

World's strongest woman: Britain's Andrea Thompson crowned champion after transgender athlete disqualified - BBC Sport https://t.co/jwjfadtspV

[Emma Hilton @FondOfBeetles]

"This is bullshit. Can we go?"

The Strong(wo)man policy for trans-identifying males is suppression of testosterone to less than 10nM for 12 months.

This isn't sufficient for any sport, but it especially isn't sufficient for a sport that centres on strength as its output.

@Strongmancorp

[Jill Foster @JournalistJill]

The runner up speaks for all sane women: ‘This is bullshit’.