Telling confused children how to buy hormones with Bitcoin, inject themselves without medical supervision, and hide it all from parents isn't praiseworthy.
I'm not sure that self medication is a safe concept to be promoting.
In the UK, the Tavistock clinic for youth gender medicine was recently forced to shut over concerns for patient safety, and findings that staff were rushing children into procedures they later regretted:
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/sep/04/gender-ident...
The NHS-commissioned Cass Report details the many risks and gaps of evidence underlying youth transition:
https://cass.independent-review.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/0...
Former patients are now coming forward to tell how they were harmed:
https://www.persuasion.community/p/keira-bell-my-story
In the US, the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine is attempting to spread this knowledge among practitioners:
This issue is highly ideological and politicized on both sides. Suggesting medical transition for any minor is not currently supported by the evidence. National health systems like Sweden's have banned it outside clinical trials. Instructing minors to attempt it themselves without medical or psychological evaluation or monitoring is reckless in the extreme. Doing it for sexual gratification, as some are in Keffals' case, is monstrous.
Neither is conversion therapy, but SEGM happily associates itself with advocates for it , along with evangelical organizations. Indeed, such advocates are found among 'expert witnesses' in the Tavistock case. Maybe Vice should report on these associations. Maybe people who are just deeply concerned about child welfare should pay attention to them, too.
https://segm.org/danger_of_conflation
If you care about kids, don’t ignore the growing body of evidence that suggests youth transition is overwhelmingly harmful. Don’t ignore stories like Chloe’s:
https://twitter.com/ChoooCole/status/1560495012999151616
The harm will be obvious to all once the lawsuits get rolling:
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/britains-gender-youth-...
>If you care about kids, don’t ignore the growing body of evidence that suggests youth transition is overwhelmingly harmful. Don’t ignore stories like Chloe’s
I think that the fact that transphobes can weaponize a few more anecdotes about detransitioning this year than last year is not particularly meaningful. In the aggregate, these stories account for a tiny minority:
https://epath.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Boof-of-abstract...
https://transequality.org/sites/default/files/docs/usts/USTS...
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262734734_An_Analys...
https://www.jsm.jsexmed.org/article/S1743-6095(18)30057-2/fu...
The largest cohort comprises 8% of the sample, 62% of whom did so because they were pressured by their family, not because they had regrets about choosing to transition.
>The harm will be obvious to all once the lawsuits get rolling
Has the harm of MMR vaccination become obvious because lawsuits have managed to 'get rolling' and even succeeded in that context?
> The NHS-commissioned Cass Report details the many risks and gaps of evidence underlying youth transition:
The Cass review has led to the closure of the single clinic providing child trans healthcare in England, but has led to the opening of many more child trans healthcare clinics across England. The Cass review is clear that the problems were mostly lack of access to timely care. I don't understand why you think this is a victory for the anti-trans position, it simply isn't. Many more children are now going to be able to access timely care, and many more children will be able to access puberty blockers.