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Zinnia Jones sssss

@ZJemptv

Jul 10

Levine compares the "Transgender Treatment Industry" - his words - to the military-industrial complex

Zinnia Jones sssss

@ZJemptv

Jul 10

[cw csa] When asked about a report where he said "One such alternative is to teach coping and resilience skills to gender discordant children", Levine gives the example of a child who is assaulted by their stepfather. Is this supposed to be represent people with gender dysphoria?

Zinnia Jones sssss

@ZJemptv

Jul 11

Counsel points out to Levine that recent guidelines from Finland do allow trans youth to receive puberty blockers and HRT. Levine is *very* resistant to acknowledging this, but it is indeed the case:

Zinnia Jones sssss

@ZJemptv

Jul 11

Levine has to be asked three times before he will straightforwardly say that he is not recommending total bans on gender-affirming surgery.

Zinnia Jones sssss

@ZJemptv

Jul 11

On social transition for youth, Levine says "there's a reason to ban it." He then claims that "trying to prevent the development of homosexuality" is a motivation for transitioning. There is actually no evidence for this motivation and it makes no sense: genderanalysis.net/2017/11/why-th

Zinnia Jones sssss

@ZJemptv

Jul 11

Levine says "the natural history of disease" (being trans) is "desistance". This isn't true. Even in the most widely cited desistance studies, a large proportion do have gender dysphoria persisting into adolescence: genderanalysis.net/2022/06/dr-ste

Zinnia Jones sssss

@ZJemptv

Jul 11

Counsel then reads a previous deposition of Levine where he said he is *not* recommending bans on social transition for children

Zinnia Jones sssss

@ZJemptv

Jul 11

Asked if he thinks trans youth should use blockers, Levine says "I've never seen a child where that has come up where I thought it was a good idea" and calls it "like a treatment for the mother's pathology". Again, he is now on Cochrane's committee on puberty blockers and HRT

Zinnia Jones sssss

@ZJemptv

Jul 11

Levine states that he believes puberty blockers should be banned for trans youth. He claims this will "deprive them of the sexualization of their mind and the discovery of masturbation and the discovery of sexual desire for partners". This is false. genderanalysis.net/2022/04/abigai

Zinnia Jones sssss

@ZJemptv

Jul 11

In a previous deposition, Levine said he believed puberty blockers would be acceptable "where we had a healthy mother and father, an intact family" and "where the parents are not homophobic" Good luck if you're a trans kid whose family life doesn't look like that

Zinnia Jones sssss

@ZJemptv

Jul 11

Counsel catches Levine having claimed that 16,000 "case reports" of detransition were found, when this was actually the number of subscribers to r/detrans. He then says this just means that "even people who have transitioned begin to doubt". How could he possibly know that?

Zinnia Jones sssss

@ZJemptv

Jul 11

Levine claimed there was a "rapid rise in transgender identification, especially among youth" in West Virginia. But this was based on the number of trans people accessing transition care on WV Medicaid, *before and after Medicaid began covering this care*. files.eqcf.org/wp-content/upl

Zinnia Jones sssss

@ZJemptv

Levine argued for "banning puberty blocking hormones even for children who have been cross-gender identified for four years to give them a chance to desist", even as he acknowledged this was based on his personal opinion rather than evidence

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