#MagdalenBerns Maryam Madrone

[SEGM @segm_ebm]

Last week, England shut down the world’s largest pediatric gender clinic at the Tavistock (GIDS). Investigative journalist Hannah Barnes shares 7 lessons for the rest of the world at @segm_ebm NYC conference.
Lesson 1: When new evidence emerges, be prepared to change direction.

By now, the science in the area of gender medicine is widely recognized as “unsettled” due to poor study designs—but this was known from the start. This is why the UK gender clinic initiated its own research in 2011. But instead of waiting for research results, the clinic began to widely offer gender transitions to all youth who desired it.

This pattern of the gender-affirming interventions "escaping the lab" before the benefits and the harms were fully understood (known as "runaway diffusion") occurred not just in the UK, but also in the rest of the world.

Some speculate that it was the pressure to "keep up with the Dutch." Others note the role of special interest groups in creating undue pressure on clinicians. Yet others believe it was simply the case of a “well-meaning but ill-informed” approach. /1

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

'Steward bells began ringing, but it was hard to learn anything... the Titanic’s passengers began exploring for an answer...’

Walter Lord, A Night to Remember

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[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

So not so reversible…

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Scotland's Hate Crime Act comes into effect today. Women gain no additional protections, of course, but well-known trans activist Beth Douglas, darling of prominent Scottish politicians, falls within a protected category. Phew! 1/11

[Canadian Women's Sex-Based Rights @cawsbar]

Amy Hamm's hearing has ended. Now we wait for the @BCnursemidwife disciplinary panel's decision. Our unending thanks go to @preta_6, @LDBildy, Karen Bastow & @JCCFCanada for taking on the arduous task of getting women's reality-based views on the public record.
#IStandWithAmyHamm

[Tonia Antoniazzi @ToniaAntoniazzi]

Bonne nuit

[Nicole Laurent, LMHC @KetoCounselor]

If you consider yourself a bit of a gut microbiome expert, but you are still talking smack about ketogenic diets, your self-proclaimed title is undeserved, and you are no longer providing evidence-based practice. (1/15) #realtalk

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Finally, we outline that schools & colleges have duties to safeguard and promote the welfare of all children.

Not just for those making a request for social transition, but all the children in a school.

Knowing a child's sex is critical to a school's safeguarding duties (6/6)

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Fourth, schools and colleges should be respectful and tolerant places where bullying is never tolerated.

We should treat each other with compassion and consideration.

We should not be compelling speech or attacking others because of their beliefs or identity (5/6)

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

The 3rd principle is that parents should be included in all decisions relating to a child's requests to socially transition.

No one loves children more than their parents and it is wrong to exclude parents from what can be a pathway to irreversible medical decisions (4/6)

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

The principle of biological sex is real. Schools and Colleges have specific legal duties that are framed by a child's biological sex.

Sex is not “assigned” at birth

It is OBSERVED at birth and schools need to be aware of this.

Gender stereotypes do NOT define sex.

(3/6)

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

There is no general duty on schools to allow a child to socially transition.

**No child is born in the wrong body**

Some children may not like their body, and we should help them. But social transitioning is not a neutral act and should only happen in rare circumstances (2/6)

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Today the Government has published guidance for schools for gender questioning children.

We have done this because many schools have told us that they didn’t know how to deal with this issue.

https://t.co/lhAtBPt5BX

Here are the principles that underpin this guidance (1/6)

[Rebel Ada @DearRebelAda]

Maxine Estop Green, Chief Executive of Princess Grace Hospital, ignored medical ethics and the law, punishing my friend Teresa Steele for complaining about a privacy breach by cancelling her urgent operation in a wicked act of revenge. Teresa is fighting back for all women

[Susan Dalgety @DalgetySusan]

For every woman who stood up, and spoke out, even if her voice was shaking and her heart breaking. For every mother who is still fighting to save her children from the gender identity cult. For every woman who has needed safe refuge, or a female voice to hear her story. For all the women in Scotland who refused to be quiet - thank you 💜#WomenDidnaeWheesht

[Dennis Noel Kavanagh @Jebadoo2]

1/ Today is the day the gender debate finally left twitter and it's a day for real hope. In a statement introducing a statutory instrument about international reciprocal gender recognition arrangements Kemi Badenoch made clear that the adults are now truly back in the room.

[WeAreFairCop @WeAreFairCop]

We have sent the following to @CCJardineNP and @northumbriapol.

“From your cosseted HQ, you will know nothing of the terror inflicted upon Ms A, a lesbian woman, by your force. Your personal commitment to promoting the LGBTQ agenda cannot be divorced from the grossly offensive actions of your male officers on behalf of one of that movement’s unhinged activists.”

[Maya Forstater @MForstater]

Anyone thinking "what's the problem" with banning conversion therapy - this is the problem.

However many safeguards you write in the police will terrorise innocent people with the threat arrest and prosecution.

#ChillingEffect