“I thought it was appropriate." Hear Testimony From Boston Children’s On Why They Slashed to 2 Hours the Assessments For Kids Seeking Gender-Transition Treatment
“I thought it was appropriate." Hear Testimony From Boston Children’s On Why They Slashed to 2 Hours the Assessments For Kids Seeking Gender-Transition Treatment
This podcast includes sound clips from the testimony at a civil trial in Boston that has laid bare stunning revelations about the practices at Boston Children's pediatric gender clinic.
because they don't have the follow-up, the assessments cannot be connected to long term outcomes (or to quote the Cass Review: "clinicians have told us they are unable to determine with any certainty which children and young people will go on to have an enduring trans identity").
And of course there is also the question of how they might develop if they don't have medical intervention--as there are indications (but not hard evidence) that even social transition tends to make trans identification last longer.
The assessments can likely and importantly find other areas where a person needs support and also it can usefully help some understand that their gender dysphoria in particular is related to something else in their lives. But as far as readiness for medical intervention, the assessments cannot determine if they are likely to benefit--they simply don't know what the assessments are saying regarding likely long term outcomes.
I am glad Dr. Tischelman was starting a long term outcome but why are these serious interventions being given outside an experimental framework without this important information, first? 20,000 or more minors (combining with Reuters' data) appear to have been put on these lifelong interventions, in the past 6-7 years.
Surely it would have been worth at least checking how the first 100, 200 of them were doing from over a decade ago..beforehand?
Fellow Seattleite here, in the trenches for a decade, trying to protect my child (unsuccessfully) from overzealous and careless doctors, therapists, and surgeons. It has been a dystopian nightmare.
Thanks to you—and an alarmingly few other American journalists—I now finally can believe that truth will out. Thank you for writing on this topic so well and so fearlessly. It is a sight to behold.
Hopefully fellow Democrats will begin to pry open their minds and realize that this is a waking nightmare of their own creation. The party of science indeed. Shameful.
Just a quick comment--
because they don't have the follow-up, the assessments cannot be connected to long term outcomes (or to quote the Cass Review: "clinicians have told us they are unable to determine with any certainty which children and young people will go on to have an enduring trans identity").
And of course there is also the question of how they might develop if they don't have medical intervention--as there are indications (but not hard evidence) that even social transition tends to make trans identification last longer.
The assessments can likely and importantly find other areas where a person needs support and also it can usefully help some understand that their gender dysphoria in particular is related to something else in their lives. But as far as readiness for medical intervention, the assessments cannot determine if they are likely to benefit--they simply don't know what the assessments are saying regarding likely long term outcomes.
I am glad Dr. Tischelman was starting a long term outcome but why are these serious interventions being given outside an experimental framework without this important information, first? 20,000 or more minors (combining with Reuters' data) appear to have been put on these lifelong interventions, in the past 6-7 years.
Surely it would have been worth at least checking how the first 100, 200 of them were doing from over a decade ago..beforehand?
Fellow Seattleite here, in the trenches for a decade, trying to protect my child (unsuccessfully) from overzealous and careless doctors, therapists, and surgeons. It has been a dystopian nightmare.
Thanks to you—and an alarmingly few other American journalists—I now finally can believe that truth will out. Thank you for writing on this topic so well and so fearlessly. It is a sight to behold.
Hopefully fellow Democrats will begin to pry open their minds and realize that this is a waking nightmare of their own creation. The party of science indeed. Shameful.
How about tattoos for kids? Cigarettes and booze? Military enrollment?
Give a kid a choice between a plate of cookies and a plate of $110 bills and see which one he or she chooses.