Thank you, Lisa! I would update- gender nonconforming to “gender” non-stereotypical, this is what it is, if you are not stereotypical, you can easily fall in the gender trap!
A couple of painful lawsuits and the US will start turning this massive fucked up ship around. Note. I’m a pediatrician at a large children’s hospital in a state which just banned youth medical and surgical transition. I was recently at a meeting. Someone from legal is talking to the entire hospital meeting by meeting about compliance with the new law. You can tell she hates the law. But legal’s job is to protect the hospital. So it’s compliance all the way.
So even if you hate Republicans work with them to get these bills passed. They work.
From a lawsuit standpoint and I’m not a lawyer, I think the Cass report will simply build evidence the affirmative model is on very shaky or no medical ground
When will people start calling on schools, districts, and the teacher's union to stop Social Transitions in school w/o medical supervision or parent consent?
Yes, medical associations are guilty of medicalizing people without any attempt at a diagnosis, but the almost all of these kids have already been "transed" at school long before they ever see an MD or psych.
From there, the deal is already done as the medical establishment regards "trans" as a type of person, not as a person with insecurities about their body due to being a teenage girl or a homosexual, or a sexual fetishist that objectifies women.
Good summary. It's also worth noting that six of the seven NHS gender clinics refused to provide data for the CASS Review on treatments given to children, although they have now climbed down. See this archived article from the Times (UK)
" But I do argue that the position is not rooted in science or reality,"---or medical best practices since the 1990's--no more "GOBSAT", it's been evidence based medicine for most conditions since then...
Also one can ask HHS to look into this, Ben Ryan just posted Rep Crenshaw doing this with the Cass Review, asking Secretary Becerra--maybe both he and the Surgeon General should be looking into this.... https://twitter.com/benryanwriter/status/1783252667608739972
We can send them your article...although indeed all the reviews keep finding the same thing...because the literature is the same?!
Becerra quoted "major medical associations" but Crenshaw noted how poor US guidelines are...
If the change is only due to being accepted, as some claim, wouldn't we expect a rise in transitioning at all ages?
Becerra's view is no surprise, given that his Assistant Secretary for Health is Rachel Levine. And, of course, it is according to the Biden administration's official policy.
The Department of Education is proceeding with its previously announced project of substituting "gender identity" for "sex" for purposes of enforcing Title IX. The recent press release describes the pending final regulations as "... [making] clear that preventing
someone from participating in school programs and activities consistent with their gender identity would
cause harm in violation of Title IX, except in some limited areas...." Athletic activities are to be covered in separate regulations now under review at the Justice department. (I'd bet at least a small sum that for obvious reasons, these proposals remain "under review" at Justice until after the election.)
Yes but the surgeon general and ahrq and CMS do reports for other medical issues. Now that he's been told during his testimony that US guidelines are garbage he has less deniability about just relying upon them.the us has reported on these findings of the review.
The hhs advice has weight nationally and the surgeon general has impact.
"...In the one Dutch study upon which all gender medicine is based, 89 percent of the young people who transitioned “were same-sex attracted to their birth-registered sex, with most of the rest being bisexual. Only one patient was exclusively heterosexual.” And, here we have it. Gender affirming care is nothing more than the progressive way of 'transing away the gay'.
Things like 'gender affirming care' and DEI policies always make think of the warning from CS Lewis, “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
Lisa, and to all at the LGBT Courage Coalition, you have done an enormous public service here, both in the clarity with which you summarize key points of the Cass Review, and also in your commitment and persistence to make whatever breakthroughs in understanding you can. I wish I had thought to have this at hand last night, in fact: we had a long time friend over to dinner, and when we broached with her the Cass Review, the conversation quickly went south. (We are all lesbians, which one might think had relevance.) She had not heard of it, so we briefly explained who Cass was, what the review was, and what it showed. We emphasized, among other things, that it showed a huge percentage of young girls presenting for “treatment” who turned out to be same-sex attracted. Among other things, she asked: “But how does she [Cass] know anything? Has she ever had the experience [meaning personal experience of thinking she was the opposite sex]?” The conversation got worse from there. Next time, if there is one, I may read aloud from this excellent article. Thank you to all for all your hard work.
Thank you, Lisa! I would update- gender nonconforming to “gender” non-stereotypical, this is what it is, if you are not stereotypical, you can easily fall in the gender trap!
That's a good way to put it.
Good to hear someone in leadership at the American Psychological Association actually had a conversation with you. That isn't nothing. Thanks Lisa!
A couple of painful lawsuits and the US will start turning this massive fucked up ship around. Note. I’m a pediatrician at a large children’s hospital in a state which just banned youth medical and surgical transition. I was recently at a meeting. Someone from legal is talking to the entire hospital meeting by meeting about compliance with the new law. You can tell she hates the law. But legal’s job is to protect the hospital. So it’s compliance all the way.
So even if you hate Republicans work with them to get these bills passed. They work.
From a lawsuit standpoint and I’m not a lawyer, I think the Cass report will simply build evidence the affirmative model is on very shaky or no medical ground
When will people start calling on schools, districts, and the teacher's union to stop Social Transitions in school w/o medical supervision or parent consent?
Yes, medical associations are guilty of medicalizing people without any attempt at a diagnosis, but the almost all of these kids have already been "transed" at school long before they ever see an MD or psych.
From there, the deal is already done as the medical establishment regards "trans" as a type of person, not as a person with insecurities about their body due to being a teenage girl or a homosexual, or a sexual fetishist that objectifies women.
Good summary. It's also worth noting that six of the seven NHS gender clinics refused to provide data for the CASS Review on treatments given to children, although they have now climbed down. See this archived article from the Times (UK)
https://archive.ph/zAl2R
wonderful summary, thank you.
thank you for all you do.
Thank you Lisa, this is fantastic.
Thank you for continuing to speak out. Superb article. Loved your book Tomboy.
Thank you for this!!!!
" But I do argue that the position is not rooted in science or reality,"---or medical best practices since the 1990's--no more "GOBSAT", it's been evidence based medicine for most conditions since then...
Also one can ask HHS to look into this, Ben Ryan just posted Rep Crenshaw doing this with the Cass Review, asking Secretary Becerra--maybe both he and the Surgeon General should be looking into this.... https://twitter.com/benryanwriter/status/1783252667608739972
We can send them your article...although indeed all the reviews keep finding the same thing...because the literature is the same?!
Becerra quoted "major medical associations" but Crenshaw noted how poor US guidelines are...
If the change is only due to being accepted, as some claim, wouldn't we expect a rise in transitioning at all ages?
The APA (the other one) just quotes unreliable literature... https://www.apa.org/about/policy/transgender-nonbinary-inclusive-care.pdf
As for Becerra referring to major medical associations, Christina Buttons has documented how circular citations have fabricated the supposed "consensus" of gender woo. See her article at https://open.substack.com/pub/colinwright?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=7x0yn
Becerra's view is no surprise, given that his Assistant Secretary for Health is Rachel Levine. And, of course, it is according to the Biden administration's official policy.
The Department of Education is proceeding with its previously announced project of substituting "gender identity" for "sex" for purposes of enforcing Title IX. The recent press release describes the pending final regulations as "... [making] clear that preventing
someone from participating in school programs and activities consistent with their gender identity would cause harm in violation of Title IX, except in some limited areas...." Athletic activities are to be covered in separate regulations now under review at the Justice department. (I'd bet at least a small sum that for obvious reasons, these proposals remain "under review" at Justice until after the election.)
Yes but the surgeon general and ahrq and CMS do reports for other medical issues. Now that he's been told during his testimony that US guidelines are garbage he has less deniability about just relying upon them.the us has reported on these findings of the review.
The hhs advice has weight nationally and the surgeon general has impact.
"...In the one Dutch study upon which all gender medicine is based, 89 percent of the young people who transitioned “were same-sex attracted to their birth-registered sex, with most of the rest being bisexual. Only one patient was exclusively heterosexual.” And, here we have it. Gender affirming care is nothing more than the progressive way of 'transing away the gay'.
Things like 'gender affirming care' and DEI policies always make think of the warning from CS Lewis, “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
Lisa, and to all at the LGBT Courage Coalition, you have done an enormous public service here, both in the clarity with which you summarize key points of the Cass Review, and also in your commitment and persistence to make whatever breakthroughs in understanding you can. I wish I had thought to have this at hand last night, in fact: we had a long time friend over to dinner, and when we broached with her the Cass Review, the conversation quickly went south. (We are all lesbians, which one might think had relevance.) She had not heard of it, so we briefly explained who Cass was, what the review was, and what it showed. We emphasized, among other things, that it showed a huge percentage of young girls presenting for “treatment” who turned out to be same-sex attracted. Among other things, she asked: “But how does she [Cass] know anything? Has she ever had the experience [meaning personal experience of thinking she was the opposite sex]?” The conversation got worse from there. Next time, if there is one, I may read aloud from this excellent article. Thank you to all for all your hard work.