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Leor Sapir
@LeorSapir
Fellow | Ph.D. & Post-Doc | Gender medicine | Causes and consequences of institutional dysfunction | opinions own
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BREAKING: The American Society of Plastic Surgeons, an organization representing 92% of all board-certified plastic surgeons in the U.S., becomes the first major medical association to break from the consensus over “gender-affirming care” for minors.
This is big news. 
American pediatric gender medicine has its first major whistle blower. This was inevitable. There will be more. Jamie is courageous beyond words. The things she has seen shock the conscience.
These are kids. Enough.
Enough. open.substack.com/pub/bariweiss/
BREAKING:
21 leading experts on pediatric gender medicine from 8 countries have written a Letter to the Editor of expressing disagreement with the and its new president over the treatment of youth gender dysphoria.
This is huge.
Me: “What’s a ‘lunk alarm’?”
Planet Fitness: “Oh, that’s when a gym bro grunts too loudly and makes women uncomfortable.”
Woman: “There’s a dude in the women’s locker room and it’s making us uncomfortable.”
Planet fitness: “Give me your membership card, you whiny bigot woman.”
Just stop. Nobody is buying this. Trans girls aren’t girls. They’re boys (or “biological males,” if you feel so inclined) who want to be treated as girls. You know this. I know this. Everybody knows this. And everybody knows that you know this. Have some self-respect, Jay.
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Jay Michaelson
@jaymichaelson
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Hey there. Shermichael knows exactly the language he's using. He's not some innocent rube - he's a longtime GOP strategist. Saying "boys in girls sports" was not some slight slip-up. It was denying that trans girls are girls, full stop.
The myth that trans-identified kids will kill themselves if not given drugs and surgeries is pernicious disinformation.
Here are 10 things you need to know to combat it:
Let me guess.
Palestinians = black = good.
Israelis = white = bad.
Because America and slavery and stuff.
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New York Magazine
@NYMag
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s writing on race fueled a reckoning in America. Now he wants to change the way we think about Israel and Palestine.
Read our new cover story now: trib.al/14EyFWS
BREAKING: 8th Circuit reverses lower court decision, rules 3-0 in PDE v Linn Mar Community School District (Iowa) that a school may not compel its students to use gender identity-based language as doing so likely violates the 1st and 14th Amendments.
This decision to grant a
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BREAKING: Dr. Riittakerttu Kaltiala, Finland's leading expert on pediatric gender medicine and chief psychiatrist at its largest gender clinic (Tampere University), just gave an interview to the country's leading newspaper, Helsingin Sanomat.
Transphobiaphobia: the irrational fear of being called transphobic for stating simple truths about human biology and asking obvious questions about medical ethics.
INCREDIBLE: The Texas Senate is holding a hearing on its proposed ban on pediatric gender medicine. Dr. Megan Mooney, a psychologist, testified against the bill.
Asked by Senator Campbell, the bill's sponsor, whether she believes that a child who says "I'm trans" really is
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Ah yes, growing up. Or as some call it, “conversion therapy.”
IMPORTANT: 
A detransitioner has just filed a lawsuit against Dr. Jason Rafferty, Dr. Michelle Forcier, Thundermist Health Clinic, and others.
This is a major development, as Rafferty is the author of the policy statement on "gender-affirming care."
A detransitioner has just filed a lawsuit against Dr. Jason Rafferty, Dr. Michelle Forcier, Thundermist Health Clinic, and others.
This is a major development, as Rafferty is the author of the policy statement on "gender-affirming care." “Yes, they are conducting medical experiments on those men in Tuskegee, leading to physical impairments and death. But the true scandal here is that a whistleblower is sharing (highly redacted and unidentifiable) information with a journalist!”
Washington Post editorial board:
“But the realities of human biology raise legitimate questions about any notion that trans women should always and everywhere be treated exactly like cisgender women.”
The Overton window is opening.
That's it.
We have hard evidence, black on white, that the World Professional Association for Transgender Health violated core principles of evidence-based medicine when writing its latest "standards of care."
We have hard evidence, black on white, that WPATH is the bedrock
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The 10 most popular NYT reader comments to the piece on detransitioners and the harms of "gender-affirming care" today: 
I speak to many doctors in my line of work. They come from across the political spectrum and from a range of specialties.
One of the most sobering things I've learned from them is the extent to which medical schools do not always teach students about the principles of
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This is getting ridiculous.
“Some arguments in favor of laws that restrict gender-affirming care claim that patients may some day regret any irreversible or semi-irreversible part of their transition, but a small new study found that satisfaction with one such surgery is
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CNN
@CNN
Transgender and nonbinary patients have no regrets about top surgery, small study finds cnn.it/45nEWIK
Chris Rufo, Chris Brunet, Aaron Sibarium, and Bruce Ackman didn’t topple Claudine Gay by lying to the American public. They did it by forcing leaders of American elite institutions to grapple with the practical consequences of an ideology they have come, not always consciously,
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Christopher F. Rufo 
@realchrisrufo
This is the beginning of the end for DEI in America's institutions. We will expose you. We will outmaneuver you. And we will not stop fighting until we have restored colorblind equality in our great nation. 
The reason Ana Kasparian and The Young Turks are taking so much heat from progressive activists over Kasparian’s acknowledgment that puberty blockers can cause “irreparable harm” is that it disrupts the activist narrative that only right-wing anti-science bigots would oppose
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Do you know why Dr. Meredithe McNamara can't name a single study that a) shows mental health benefits associated with GnRHa and b) is methodologically strong enough to produce "high" or even "moderate" certainty of evidence using the GRADE system?
Because there isn't one.
And
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The Post Millennial
@TPostMillennial
Democrat witness can’t name ONE study that shows how transgender procedures are beneficial for kids
LEAKED : The American Academy of Pediatrics () is instructing its members to avoid using work emails when communicating about “AAP matters,” especially “sensitive topics,” due to concerns about “subpoenas” and “FOIA requests.”
: The American Academy of Pediatrics () is instructing its members to avoid using work emails when communicating about “AAP matters,” especially “sensitive topics,” due to concerns about “subpoenas” and “FOIA requests.”There is no suicide epidemic among trans kids. There is an epidemic of body self-hatred among suicidal kids.
If you believe the “affirm them or they’ll kill themselves” mantra, you’ve fallen for the classic correlation/causation fallacy.
Wise up. Kids need your help.
A talk with a liberal voter yesterday further confirmed something for me.
“Gender ideology” isn’t the big story here. Political tribalism is. There are many liberals/Democrats who sense something is profoundly wrong with “gender ideology” but can’t stomach the idea that they
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“Scientific research has also found that the average punching power is 162% greater in those who have gone through male puberty compared to females.”
Oh you mean men are much stronger than women? The scientists who discovered this should win the Nobel prize.
“Puberty blockers are fully reversible” is the new “dude, one hit of heroin is not going to get you hooked.”
LGBT-friendly Sweden cuts ties with WPATH, reiterates psychotherapy as the default treatment for gender dysphoria. Hormones reserved only for the most extreme cases.
This is “conversion therapy,” per Biden administration and
I predict that in 2025 we’ll see a much bigger wave of teen girls/young women athletes doing what Annaleigh is doing. This is gaining steam; girls are speaking up.
Where are the dads?
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Brandi Kruse
@BrandiKruse
This is 14-year-old Annaleigh. She lost a track meet in Washington state to a boy. Listen to her tell her story to a stunned room of 500+ adults. I challenge any lawmaker who supports such policies to meet with Annaleigh and tell her why – to her face. I can arrange.
I can't believe that this is before the Supreme Court.
I can't believe that the U.S. federal government is defending this.
It's just surreal.
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While it is "important to accept the child as they are," Kaltiala said, it's also necessary to recognize that "four out of five" children with cross-gender ID grow out of it during puberty and come to terms with their body/sex.
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3/ Critics argue that the consensus is manufactured and enforced through suppression of alternative viewpoints and of evidence reviews. The , for instance, has suppressed member initiatives to get the group to conduct a systematic review of the evidence.
Until medical sex changes for children became widely available, no one was talking about trans issues.
Until gender pseudoscience was pushed in schools, sometimes as early as first grade, no one was talking about trans issues.
Until teachers started performing secret gender
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Ari Drennen
@AriDrennen
It is not about protecting women’s sports.
It is not about protecting children.
It is not about preventing detransitioners.
It is not about low-quality studies.
It is about eradicating my entire community.
And it always has been. x.com/RightWingWatch…
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Blockers are a near certain path to CSH (iatrogenesis), as research and data from other countries show. And the ability of a 12 year old to understand what it means to trade off future fertility for (supposed) mental health benefits is nil. Stop sterilizing gay kids,
As Americans begin to grapple with the calamity of what happened at Wash U's pediatric transgender clinic, a key question that arises is whether what Jamie Reed saw there is the exception or the rule.
We have good reason to suspect it is, in fact, the rule. Here's why.
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2/ In the U.S., the use of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgeries to help kids who feel distressed about their developing bodies has depended on a perceived consensus of medical groups.
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5/ Court documents recently revealed that suppressed systematic reviews of evidence and eliminated age minimums for surgery under pressure from HHS’s Rachel Levine (). WPATH is the source of the U.S. consensus; its members helped write guidelines.
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1. "I predict we will look back on this period with the same disgust we feel about the overprescription of amphetamines like Adderall to every 8-year-old boy who couldn't sit still for an entire day. The most damage is often done by doctors and parents who are so well-meaning
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Dr. Hammes' claim that "gender-affirming care" is a suicide prevention measure, the intl' experts say in their WSJ letter, "is contradicted by every systematic review."
This is just astonishing. He goes from absolute certainty that it’s not happening, to acknowledging that it is happening but it’s fine because teen girls are being properly vetted, to insisting there should be little or no vetting, all in the space of 2 minutes.
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James Klüg
@realJamesKlug
"They're not doing surgeries on kids who are under 18!"
>Gets proven wrong.
>Supports surgeries on kids under 18.
@BillboardChris
