Child Transition, Affirmative Approach, Detransition & Puberty Blockers - Counter Narrative and Evidence
*We also have a second blog of various links to information and stories on detransition Detransitioners - the struggle and the hate
Reliable sources:
The Tavistock's Experiment with Puberty Blockers, Prof Michael Biggs
Lupron is a hazardous drug
Lupron, puberty blocker for children causes health problems
Lupron, a nightmare produced in Abbvie
Medical Industry
Drug company drop cheaper drug, leaving patients stuck with pricier one - drug costs EIGHT TIMES as much when prescribed to children
The 'Conversion Therapy' Argument
● Irish Times / Opinion/ Gender dysphoria and conversion therapy
● Lesbians face extinction as transgenderism becomes pervasive, campaigners warn
Kai Shapley, of The Baby Sitters' Club and numerous campaigning roles, comes from a strict religious background.
Kai's mother in the documentary following the family:
“At age 4 we though he was gay, we thought that cannot happen, that will not happen, we started spanking him, hard, & googling conversion therapy & how to implement it at home”
● Transgenderism is a form of gay conversion therapy
● It feels like conversion therapy for gay kids say clinicians
● Meet Alex Berty, the transgender poster boy
Desistance & Detransition
● 88% of dysphoric natal boys desist by adulthood
● The de-transitioners - what happens when trans men want to be women again
● The ranks of de-transitioners are growing. We need to understand why
● Gender dysphoria in adolescence: current perspectives:
"Evidence from the 10 available prospective follow-up studies from childhood to adolescence (reviewed in the study by Ristori and Steensma 28) indicates that for ~80% of children who meet the criteria for GDC, the GD recedes with puberty. Instead, many of these adolescents will identify as non-heterosexual" - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5841333/
● Gender reassignment- I'm man enough to admit that it was a mistake
Post transition regret
• https://twitter.com/BlanchardPhD/status/1373741892400189445?s=19
Consequence of early intervention puberty blockers
🧵Mediocre Druid
"I definitely now see blockers as something that actually help cause suffering. I already had low mood and body issues (including relating to weight in "womanly" areas) when I started at the tavistock, and guess what blockers did? It made both of those things worse"
🧵 https://twitter.com/bloominanna/status/1074222025558900736?s=19
Her surgery took three surgeons nearly five hours. "There was just an unfortunate event and setback where things did come apart, and there was a complication," she said. "I had to come back in for another procedure, but it was just all part of the journey. The good thing though is that it was only cosmetic and external so it wasn’t too dramatic."
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● https://www.reddit.com/r/asktransgender/comments/79i5q5/i_have_no_clue_what_to_do_daughter_cant_get_the/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
Detransitioning & the Censoring of James Caspian's study of it
● https://www.peaktrans.org/fifty-trans-people-tell-therapist-of-regrets-the-sunday-times-10-02-19/
● https://twitter.com/ScottNewgent/status/1359145343263387652?s=19
Detransitioners and trans people's thoughts on childhood transition;
When sons become daughters - parents of transitioning boys speak out on their own suffering
● https://twitter.com/mothergender/status/1391847314898120707?s=19
https://twitter.com/FtMdetransed/status/1388441441341526017?s=19
● https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00918369.2021.1919479
● https://twitter.com/elegationvain/status/1377747445745025024?s=19
●https://twitter.com/ImWatson91/status/1341136351719284742?s=19
● https://twitter.com/detransgayguy/status/1370527910633869321?s=19
● https://youtu.be/fDi-jFVBLA8
● https://youtu.be/1bV8AaeYKjQ
● https://youtu.be/7FRUDwDmkm0
● https://youtu.be/hXE8AZZJaj0
● https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct0hyx
● https://thecritic.co.uk/the-detransitioners/
● https://www.transgendertrend.com/detransition/
● https://www.piqueresproject.com/
● https://youtu.be/OsPsKt-zW2U
● https://youtu.be/JmUnO_40U7c
Or see the #detrans on Twitter
The Tavistock scandals and resignations
● https://www.peaktrans.org/governor-quits-blinkered-tavistock-clinic-the-times-23-02-19/
● https://www.bbc.com/news/health-47359692
https://www.peaktrans.org/children-misled-at-gender-clinic-the-times-20-07-19/
● https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/feb/23/child-transgender-service-governor-quits-chaos
Mermaids
● https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/07/03/mermaids-leading-children-up-the-trans-path/
● https://metro.co.uk/2017/10/08/charity-advised-mum-to-force-her-son-7-to-live-as-a-girl-6984649/
● https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4960080/Transgender-charity-banned-contacting-family.html
● https://panoramicgutterviews.blogspot.com/2021/03/mermaids-uk-charity-ban-as-boy-forced.html
● https://www.transgendertrend.com/analysis-mermaids-press-statement/
Mermaids and suicidal ideation
● https://www.transgendertrend.com/suicide-by-trans-identified-children-in-england-and-wales/
● Gender Therapy Doctor Admits to Advising Kids to Fake Being Suicidal to get Transgender Treatments
Dr Wong (psychologist, not endocrinologist) on the number of trans children from the foster care system
Parental input overruled / grooming
Reddit moderator u/Drewiepoodle, a transwoman, is being called out for inviting 13 year old users to 'her' apartment to take drugs and hormones without medical supervision or their parents knowledge.
Reddit moderator offering hormones to 13 yr olds. https://t.co/oCYctOatTp
https://twitter.com/Slatzism/status/1375946314278653952?s=19
● https://youtu.be/QAMar22S0ck
● trans-child-taken-into-care-after-parents-refused-to-acknowledge-their-gender-13675749/
But no one does surgery on kids!
● "At the time of survey, the mean (SD) age of postsurgical participants was 19 (2.5) years (range, 14-25 years)." https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/article-abstract/2674039
● https://thevelvetchronicle.com/double-mastectomy-at-15-detrans-16-year-old-now-seeks-reversal/
● https://www.bioedge.org/mobile/view/13-year-olds-given-mastectomies-at-california-clinic/12816
https://twitter.com/transwomyn/status/1367947538385547272?s=09
● https://4thwavenow.com/2017/03/20/age-is-just-a-number-when-it-comes-to-genital-surgeries-on-minors/
https://twitter.com/ImWatson91/status/1367277042111250432?s=19
https://www.peaktrans.org/children/
https://twitter.com/ScottNewgent/status/1367245263430057985?s=19
Phalloplasty ; https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33663938/
The pressure on parents:
courtesy of Transit ^^
Child Transition
Vulnerability of 'looked after children' again - https://www.peaktrans.org/the-tangled-case-of-the-brothers-who-became-girls-aged-seven-and-three/
https://www.peaktrans.org/review-ordered-into-rules-on-child-gender-transition-the-times-10-02-20/
Top trans doctors blow the whistle on 'sloppy' care
The Bell case / Puberty Blockers
● Dr David Bell reviews Tavistock data https://www.transgendertrend.com/tavistock-experiment-puberty-blockers-update/
● Puberty blockers draw further criticism https://www.bmj.com/content/366/bmj.l5647
● https://www.transgendertrend.com/tavistock-experiment-puberty-blockers/
● Bone growth
https://www.peaktrans.org/puberty-blockers-stunt-bone-growth-of-children-the-times-03-02-21/
● Fact checking Jack Turban https://twitter.com/will_malone/status/1339107238372229122?s=19
- Puberty-halting drugs can harm a patient's brain and bone development;
- Clinics are urging gender-changing teen girls to choose sperm donors to fertilise eggs before freezing them;
- Medics are failing to warn about the infertility risks posed by puberty blockers;
- Children who regret treatment find themselves 'locked' into new bodies;
- Internet sites persuade autistic children they are transgender when they simply have 'identity issues'.
● Prof Levine, an American expert in the field of gender treatment, said puberty suppression medicine – also used for infertility, prostate cancer and to 'chemically castrate' violent sex offenders – was 'experimental' and the injections had not been scientifically established as a 'safe and effective intervention in the short or long term'.
● Medics warned there was a 'disproportionate number' of children across the world claiming trans identities who were in care, adopted, autistic, anorexic or had psychiatric or mental illnesses.
● Prof Levine also said there were reports of impaired brain development and 'negative effects on IQ for gender-dysphoric children'.
● Nearly 100 per cent of children treated with puberty blockers, he claimed, went on to take cross-sex hormones, which trigger 'irreversible changes' such as hair growth and a deepening voice in females and the growth of breasts in males.
●Recent studies, he added, pointed to serious cardiovascular risks, including a four-fold increased risk of heart attacks in biological females and three times the risk of deep-vein blood clots in biological males. Prof Levine's submission said some fertility treatments on offer were 'highly experimental' while teenagers often did not want to go through invasive procedures such as egg freezing.
● 'Another complicating issue is the fact that freezing unfertilised eggs has a low rate of success,' he said. 'For this reason, certain practices are now asking minors to choose sperm donors to fertilise the eggs prior to freezing them. 'The ethics of asking a child to choose the genetic father for their future child (and creating and storing embryos) pose a host of highly problematic ethical issues.'
● Prof Levine said the medical treatments were taking place in such a 'toxic and febrile context that critical and cautious voices are shouted down as transphobic, hateful and engaging in conversion therapy'. 'Such a climate has created an intimidating and hostile environment where silence and acquiescence are the inevitable consequence. It is left to those of us at the end of our careers, who have nothing to lose, to voice our concerns.'
● Prof Levine said modern approaches to dealing with gender confusion were based on a 'cultural fashion' rather than science. And there had been no 'controlled clinical trials' – the gold standard of scientific testing – for puberty blockers. 'Scientific requirements for establishing an intervention's utility are well known in medicine,' he said. 'Advances are undertaken through carefully controlled clinical trials. Why should gender problems be considered an exception?'
● Prof Scott added: 'I am concerned that the current treatment regime practised by the Tavistock is exposing young people to significant risk of harm.'
● Prof Gillberg also criticised the practice of giving puberty blockers to the many autistic youngsters who are now presenting as transgender.
