Thank you for this. Some months ago, I had an unusually productive discussion with my trans-identified daughter. Afterwards, she went to the internet to check whether some of the things I said had any validity. She found SEGM's statements about some of the negative impacts on health from so-called gender affirming care, but she also very quickly found (in Wikipedia and elsewhere) that SEGM is labeled anti-trans. This gave her the ammunition she was looking for to completely reject every point I made that, at the time I made it, she acknowledged was important to consider.
These activists' labels have real life consequences. Not only do these labels have a chilling effect on the actual research and care of those suffering with gender dysphoria or other mental distress that appears to be gender dysphoria, making the professionals understandably less willing to speak publicly about these issues or report their findings, but they also have the effect of preventing young vulnerable people from seeing the truth about the medical interventions involved. Young people like my daughter simply dismiss anything written by organizations like SEGM as prejudiced nonsense.
This makes me so angry, Hippiesq. I feel like we are lovingly and carefully planting the seeds of truth with our kids and then come the TRA herds and trample the seeds we plant. Don't despair. I believe that some seeds will make it, even if we can't see it right away.
Thanks very much for reporting on the conference and the James angle. Everything old is new again! If people haven't read Alice Dreger's Galileo's Middle Finger, now is the time.
Thank you for this. Some months ago, I had an unusually productive discussion with my trans-identified daughter. Afterwards, she went to the internet to check whether some of the things I said had any validity. She found SEGM's statements about some of the negative impacts on health from so-called gender affirming care, but she also very quickly found (in Wikipedia and elsewhere) that SEGM is labeled anti-trans. This gave her the ammunition she was looking for to completely reject every point I made that, at the time I made it, she acknowledged was important to consider.
These activists' labels have real life consequences. Not only do these labels have a chilling effect on the actual research and care of those suffering with gender dysphoria or other mental distress that appears to be gender dysphoria, making the professionals understandably less willing to speak publicly about these issues or report their findings, but they also have the effect of preventing young vulnerable people from seeing the truth about the medical interventions involved. Young people like my daughter simply dismiss anything written by organizations like SEGM as prejudiced nonsense.
This makes me so angry, Hippiesq. I feel like we are lovingly and carefully planting the seeds of truth with our kids and then come the TRA herds and trample the seeds we plant. Don't despair. I believe that some seeds will make it, even if we can't see it right away.
Thanks very much for reporting on the conference and the James angle. Everything old is new again! If people haven't read Alice Dreger's Galileo's Middle Finger, now is the time.