Testimony by detransitioners and whistleblowers is crucial to make lawmakers understand the harms caused by gender medicine.
Thank you @detransaqua for speaking out today.
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@Pa4Sexbased Agreed! And, since the lawsuits have potential to cut off the financial safety net for "gender medicine" practitioners, they are the surest route to ending the harm. We strongly support the work of @themisRF, and hope that others will consider donating to support that work.
What happens to children who were harmed by sex interventions and want to reclaim their lives? 🚨
For the first time in American history, they have a specific place to go.
Texas Children's Hospital just made a huge reversal. They ended gender-transition services, terminated five doctors who performed these interventions on minors, and opened America's first ever Detransition Clinic.
This came as part of a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, following a lawsuit over the hospital billing Medicaid for these procedures under false diagnosis codes. ⚖️
For the first five years, the clinic will offer free medical care to any patient who underwent these procedures, recognizing the damage done and that those children need real support in the aftermath.
Do No Harm's Dr. Kurt Miceli called it a "momentous victory for detransitioners and evidence-based medicine alike."
Read more about what this means for detransitioners here: https://t.co/fmEYsl5Rgc
MEDICAL SCANDAL:
In a groundbreaking lawsuit, detransitioner Cristina Hineman is taking on Planned Parenthood for its role in handing out "opposite-sex hormone prescriptions like candy." Watch her story:
The doctors and therapists who facilitated @LJDetrans damaging, irreversible gender transition at age 13 will never face accountability. Gender practitioners have surrounded themselves with legal protections such as arbitration clauses, short SOL time limits, and legal maneuvering. Themis Resource Fund exists to remove those barriers to accountability. @LJDetrans and others like her deserve their day in court. Join us in this important work.
“In Layla's own words ‘I went straight from training bras to binders to a double mastectomy by 13.’”
@SenBillCassidy tells the powerful story of detransitioner Layla Jane [@LJDetrans] before @GOPHELP.
Sex-modifying medical interventions should not be allowed for children and, as @ChloeCole so eloquently observes, they "are dangerous for the human body, regardless of how old you are."
A new article in JAMA Pediatrics, written by coauthors of the HHS Review on youth gender medicine, calls on the U.S. medical associations to align their guidelines with new evidence—while urging the CMS to allow grandfather clauses for youth who've undergone transition already./1
I’m sure you all remember Avery Jackson, the “trans girl” who, at 9, was on the cover of National Geographic in January of 2017. Avery was given the gold standard in gender affirming care: he was chemically castrated and sterilized with “blockers” to hold off male puberty.
Now Avery has come out as “nonbinary” and chosen not to pursue transition, meaning that his puberty was blocked for no reason — but that’s not the worst part. He also identifies as asexual, meaning that he doesn’t experience sexual attraction.
This is undoubtedly the result of the medication used to delay male puberty. The president of WPATH, Dr, “Marci” Bowers, has said on camera that so-called puberty blockers, which are used to chemically castrate sex offenders, chemically castrate the young boys who take them as well, leaving them incapable of arousal or orgasm.
For adult sex offenders, the process is reversible. For boys like Avery, the effects are permanent. He will never feel sexual attraction, or any of the experiences that accompany it. He is also completely sterile; he will never father a child, and his own childhood was spent in the national spotlight. The blockers he was given have also stunted his physical and mental development in irreversible ways. We know from the experiences of other “trans” children that he will never sexually mature - neither physically nor emotionally. All of these things were stolen from him, and he has said that transitioning “ruined my life.”
It’s high time that we stop pretending that children can make an informed decision to transition or take blockers, even if their doctors are honest about the risks and consequences — which most are not.
Blockers are not a pause button. They are not reversible. The intellectual deficits they cause will never repair themselves, and neither will the damage done to the child victim’s body, or to their emotional intelligence and maturity. This will, of course, make it easier to push them into transitioning; ie, to sell them hormones and provide surgical alterations.
Parents like Avery’s, who try to monetize their child’s struggles with gender identity, belong in prison, not on television, and so do the doctors and politicians who were complicit in his chemical castration and sterilization.
It feels like there’s been a shift today.
💥 This morning, @The_Nationals MP Alison Penfold introduced a bill to amend the Sex Discrimination Act and restore sex-based rights and protections for women and girls.
💥 Her speech was excellent, and unlike similar bills, hers was not stopped in its tracks.
💥 Then, at a press conference, she and Senator @mattjcan stood shoulder to shoulder with @salltweets - THE WOMAN who represents every woman and girl who has been vilified, punished or harmed as a result of the lie that men can be women.
And Sall of course, was her usual brilliant self 👇
📣Every federal politician must work together to GET THIS DONE: https://t.co/R2K4FyE9D0
cc: @AlboMP@AngusTaylorMP@PaulineHansonOz@larissawaters
#FixTheSDA #IStandWithSallGrover #Auspol
"There are over 20 civil cases in state courts across the country involving detransitioners who allege that they were the victims of medical malpractice by their physicians and therapists.
Andrew Ferguson, Chairman of the US Federal Trade Commission, tells attendees at the Genspect Detransition Awareness Conference what measures have been, and are being, taken to prevent the medicalisation of children and young people experiencing confusion and distress around "gender."
Here is another opportunity to hear more on this work.
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Due to the statute of limitations, the people who did this to Jonni will never face accountability. Instead they go on harming others. Let’s work on increasing the SOL so that Jonni and others can have their day in court.
I'm so tired of having to see my body in the mirror and facing how disfigured my chest is from 7 years of HRT, my whole adolescence. Every time I look at my breasts or have aching pain from the lumps in my bones I see the faces of the people who did this to me and I can't help but start to feel hate towards them and towards all of the institutions who were supposed to help me find justice but refused too. I'm disgusted with how many snakes exist in this world.
@nypost We could not be more thrilled to see successful lawsuits like this, these youth deserve better care than they got, and deserve justice for the abysmal care they received.
From Kristen Waggoner, CEO of @ADFLegal
"HUGE WIN: To settle an Alliance Defending Freedom lawsuit, Washington state has agreed to stop discriminating against religious foster parents, dropping its requirement that they use wrong-sex pronouns. This is a win for foster families of faith across WA—and for kids who need good homes.
As part of the settlement in DeGross v. Senn, Washington has agreed to a permanent injunction and will remove its current regulation on “chosen pronouns.” The state will also pay $250,000 in attorneys’ fees.
This outcome would not have been possible without our clients, Shane & Jennifer DeGross. These longtime Christian foster parents stood firm on their convictions, even when it cost them their foster license.
Now, countless children and families will benefit from their courage."
Chloe Cole has a pending lawsuit regarding the harm caused to her by "gender affirming care". While her case works its way through the court system, Ms. Cole is a vocal advocate working to bring attention to this matter and prevent others from similar harm.
Did you know Home Depot funds child sex changes through their employee health plan?
I know because @HRC is proud of it…
This morning I spoke at their shareholders meeting to confront corporate America’s secret sex changes and demand they STOP
The creation of the first detransitioner clinic at Texas Children's Hospital is a massive win and a big step toward exposing the lie that “gender-affirming care” is evidence based and medically necessary.
Gender doctors and activists have to be FORCED to acknowledge detransitioners because their existence shines a bright light on the pseudoscientific lie that everyone is born with an innate and immutable gender identity we all sense from toddlerhood, that it can be misaligned from our bodies, and that this mismatch can be corrected with puberty blockers, hormones, and surgeries.
This is all complete nonsense. I am glad to have been able to discuss this with @PrishaMosley recently on @NTDNews.
News piece @thehill
"Texas Children’s Hospital will create the nation’s first “detransition clinic,” fire five physicians and pay the state $10 million under an unusual settlement announced Friday by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton"
https://t.co/Kbqgw0dI5A
@ChloeCole@EithanDHaimMD Long overdue and desperately needed! This will help pave the way for more clinics like this that are needed in other states. Job well done in Texas by the AG and all involved!
Thank you for caring about youth who have suffered twice, both before gender affirming care and now BECAUSE gender affirming care caused them harm. Hard to believe people exist that don’t care at all about these children, or worse, demonize them or anyone who wants to help them. They deserve only compassion and care.