New from me in The New York Sun: "Leaked Files From Influential Transgender Medicine Group Cause Uproar, Could Imperil Liberal Efforts to Undo State Bans on Gender-Transition Treatments for Children"
New from me in The New York Sun: "Leaked Files From Influential Transgender Medicine Group Cause Uproar, Could Imperil Liberal Efforts to Undo State Bans on Gender-Transition Treatments for Children"
I cover the implication to high-stakes litigation over pediatric and young-adult gender-transition treatment of the damning WPATH Files report from Michael Shellenberger's Environmental Progress.
The mad scramble toward journalists to be first in front of the microphone to say “I distanced myself years ago” “I always had concerns “ “the other ones were the bad ones I have always been a good one none of this child mangling horrorshow can be pinned on meeeeee” is just beginning. It is the best sign possible that they are finally all going DOWN.
Amusing exchange, but the moment I saw the name “Stoller”, the game was over. His entire career was therefore based on propagating the fiction of gender, snd no rational process could change that.
He’s cornered.
I like the question set - to paraphrase, can a mentally ill person give consent to mutilation, or when, and to what degree.
Did he define "indicated"? Or how he determines when benefits will outweigh the risks?
I'm confused.
Was the answer to your question as to whether there is any contraindication to hormones if there are notable comorbidities that hormones should be given when hormones are indicated?
My entire correspondence with Dr. Karasic is posted in this Substack. I was trying to pin him down as to whether there was a level of psychiatric comorbidity that he considered to be a conflict with prescribing cross-sex hormones. And I wanted to determine whether he believed that in some cases people may have gender dysphoria as a product of underlying mental health problems and that trans identification for such individuals might be a maladaptive coping mechanism. He most definitely does not believe in such a phenomenon, he made clear. I would go so far as to say he scoffed at it.
Many people insist that Littman's paper has no validity, most centrally because it was not a survey of adolescents themselves and because the survey sample was drawn from a web forum that people perceive as transphobic, because it is a place where mothers congregate to express apparent incredulity that their children are genuinely transgender.
Littman, Michael Bailey and one other academic, I forget who, are attempting to establish a cohort study to follow young people over time to see if so-called ROGD is tied to a persistent trans identity over time. There are a lot of forces pushing against their ability to conduct such research, in particular the difficulty of getting the money to back it.
Really appreciating your articles and posts on this, Ben!
The mad scramble toward journalists to be first in front of the microphone to say “I distanced myself years ago” “I always had concerns “ “the other ones were the bad ones I have always been a good one none of this child mangling horrorshow can be pinned on meeeeee” is just beginning. It is the best sign possible that they are finally all going DOWN.
Amusing exchange, but the moment I saw the name “Stoller”, the game was over. His entire career was therefore based on propagating the fiction of gender, snd no rational process could change that.
He’s cornered.
I like the question set - to paraphrase, can a mentally ill person give consent to mutilation, or when, and to what degree.
Dan reminds me of the occupants of the back seat of a recent car trip...
Kid 1: "Dad she's hitting me!"
Me: "Are you hitting your sister"
Kid 2: I am NOT!"
Me: "Are you striking her in any way...?"
Kid 2: "Not exactly..."
Did he define "indicated"? Or how he determines when benefits will outweigh the risks?
I'm confused.
Was the answer to your question as to whether there is any contraindication to hormones if there are notable comorbidities that hormones should be given when hormones are indicated?
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My entire correspondence with Dr. Karasic is posted in this Substack. I was trying to pin him down as to whether there was a level of psychiatric comorbidity that he considered to be a conflict with prescribing cross-sex hormones. And I wanted to determine whether he believed that in some cases people may have gender dysphoria as a product of underlying mental health problems and that trans identification for such individuals might be a maladaptive coping mechanism. He most definitely does not believe in such a phenomenon, he made clear. I would go so far as to say he scoffed at it.
It is truly strange that he doesn't know what detranstioners have reported (either Vandenbussche's paper or Littman's paper).
And it is also scary as he has a lot of power and is misleading a lot of people who make policy as a result.
Many people insist that Littman's paper has no validity, most centrally because it was not a survey of adolescents themselves and because the survey sample was drawn from a web forum that people perceive as transphobic, because it is a place where mothers congregate to express apparent incredulity that their children are genuinely transgender.
Littman, Michael Bailey and one other academic, I forget who, are attempting to establish a cohort study to follow young people over time to see if so-called ROGD is tied to a persistent trans identity over time. There are a lot of forces pushing against their ability to conduct such research, in particular the difficulty of getting the money to back it.