Providing transphobes with more fuel for their hate (the only "evidence" I have found to back this bullshit is that puberty blockers "don't significantly impact suicidal thoughts and dysphoria", but why would they on their own? It's only wilfully ignorant people who equate them to transitioning, when they're nothing of the fucking sort), while depriving children of the healthcare they need - two birds with one stone for the the fascist government hiding behind "medical concerns" for people they would clearly rather see dead.
Absolutely, but that’s the point of it all. Anytime the right is “thinking about the children”, they are talking about straight white Christian children. All others be damned.
For reference, something like 14% of patients regret medical procedures on average. The risk of a person discovering that they aren’t actually trans after receiving HRT and/or surgeries is unfathomably low. Just in case anyone you know ever tries to say it should be banned because of the potential for someone to detransition, you can let them know that every other medical procedure should be banned too.
Edit: the rate of regret for cosmetic surgeries in general is about 65%! Why do people support cis gender affirming care while opposing trans care? It certainly isn’t out of concern for the patients.
Introducing; Inheritable, non-dischargable Debt! Because your aging parents needed more options to completely fuck over the next generation. Coming soon to a failed species near you!
I once read a surgeon say that they love doing trans related surgeries because we’re usually the only people who are happy to be there getting surgery, and you usually have happy follow ups.
A groundbreaking study from Perth, Australia, published in JAMA Pediatrics has found that only 1% of transgender youth receiving gender-affirming care at a clinic reidentified with their sex assigned at birth. This is in addition to the 4% who reidentified during the mental health assessment period or earlier and did not proceed with receiving gender-affirming care. The study, based on 552 young patients from 2014 to 2020, is poised to significantly influence the debate on gender-affirming care due to its unique methodology, which does not suffer from loss to follow-up—the detransition status of 548 patients was successfully determined. It will likely be cited as the most compelling study on low detransition rates in the coming months.
The study was made possible by the unique circumstances of the Perth Gender Diversity Service (GDS) clinic. As the only youth gender clinic in the state of Western Australia, the system was relatively isolated from other gender clinics. The clinicians treating patients took detailed notes on case closures and the reasons for those closures and followed up with appointments extensively. This allowed researchers to examine not only medical databases to find the status of each individual patient but also to research each patient’s clinical circumstances. As a result, reidentification status was able to be determined at the point of measurement for nearly every patient.
The study examined every patient who attended the clinic from 2014 to 2020. Out of 995 referred patients, 552 had their records closed by 2020. For these closed records, researchers determined the reasons by examining medical databases to ascertain if patients continued to adult care. If not, they deeply reviewed clinical notes to identify the closure reason—only in four cases were they unable to find a reason, completely bypassing “loss to follow-up,” a term referring to the portion of a research dataset that could not be collected when following up with patients who do not respond when contacted in studies that use a follow-up methodology. The vast majority of records were closed due to transfer to adult services. Only 29 patients reidentified with their sex assigned at birth, and of those, only two did so after the mental health assessment and commencement of gender-affirming medical care.
These gender critical sleezball quack scientists often manage to debunk their own claims w/o realizing. The damage they cause is hard to undo though. But please keep telling us how we are infected by some “woke” mind virus when y’all can’t effectively critically assess anything.
Imo a lot of the good stuff the pope’s said in the past that he’s gotten credit for from progressives should be looked at more from the angle of the head of a declining religion trying to get new converts, rather than him being genuinely progressive. Pope Francis got way too much leeway from leftists just because he managed to pass the incredibly low bar of just not being an overtly far right weirdo or a nazi collaborator (unlike some previous popes)
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