Love the cause, think the tactic is ineffective. Mostly because I don't see a visual component that can be featured in a photo, like groups of students standing outside a school or speeches being made by parents or something.
Sorry, but keeping your kids out of school for a day doesn't by itself send a strong message.
I am very concerned that CC is the one over-reaching here. It's one thing to raise genuine concerns about providing young people medications that could produce un-reversible bodily changes without first going through a thorough screening process conducted by trained medical providers. It a whole other thing to jump in and support a national effort organized by those fundamentally opposed to equality and dignity for LGBTQ people and using trans issues to gain political power.
I think a lot of people agree that the schools are overreaching but for different reasons. I am hoping people can unite behind a common goal-it doesn't mean they agree on other things. Lisa Selin Davis pointed out that people who want traditional sex based roles and people who are fully supportive and enthusiastic about gender non-conformity still find common ground in this issue. That is the hope.
Normally a medical screening process is based upon studies which help one do differential diagnosis. Help you estimate likely responses to treatment, help you understand what is going on. Since those who are busy medicalizing these young people haven't bothered checking how they are doing long term (1 year after final surgery is not "long term" given median regret times are seen to be much longer), no one has a good evidence base to say who will benefit (there are red flags for people who have in the past seemed not to benefit, such as the Dutch looked for). All the affirmation only people in the US likely can claim they've been trained, they're just misinformed. Many don't even seem to know that past studies have shown that most of those who weren't socially transitioned and had early childhood gender dysphoria grew out of it, or that puberty blockers don't actually result in "time to think", again, in studies...I don't think many of them even know that there seem to be many different kinds of gender dysphoria. It's a painful symptom, which might have many different causes, depending on the person. But disentangling that and determining how best to help them--the "trained medical providers" in the US at any gender clinic--don't have a clue.
Love the cause, think the tactic is ineffective. Mostly because I don't see a visual component that can be featured in a photo, like groups of students standing outside a school or speeches being made by parents or something.
Sorry, but keeping your kids out of school for a day doesn't by itself send a strong message.
I am very concerned that CC is the one over-reaching here. It's one thing to raise genuine concerns about providing young people medications that could produce un-reversible bodily changes without first going through a thorough screening process conducted by trained medical providers. It a whole other thing to jump in and support a national effort organized by those fundamentally opposed to equality and dignity for LGBTQ people and using trans issues to gain political power.
I think a lot of people agree that the schools are overreaching but for different reasons. I am hoping people can unite behind a common goal-it doesn't mean they agree on other things. Lisa Selin Davis pointed out that people who want traditional sex based roles and people who are fully supportive and enthusiastic about gender non-conformity still find common ground in this issue. That is the hope.
Normally a medical screening process is based upon studies which help one do differential diagnosis. Help you estimate likely responses to treatment, help you understand what is going on. Since those who are busy medicalizing these young people haven't bothered checking how they are doing long term (1 year after final surgery is not "long term" given median regret times are seen to be much longer), no one has a good evidence base to say who will benefit (there are red flags for people who have in the past seemed not to benefit, such as the Dutch looked for). All the affirmation only people in the US likely can claim they've been trained, they're just misinformed. Many don't even seem to know that past studies have shown that most of those who weren't socially transitioned and had early childhood gender dysphoria grew out of it, or that puberty blockers don't actually result in "time to think", again, in studies...I don't think many of them even know that there seem to be many different kinds of gender dysphoria. It's a painful symptom, which might have many different causes, depending on the person. But disentangling that and determining how best to help them--the "trained medical providers" in the US at any gender clinic--don't have a clue.
Fantastic to see this happening!