Jamie, I appreciate your dispassionate logical reasoning in the midst of a maelstrom of political noise surrounding the release of the Cass Review—individualized care grounded in careful research is in fact her major take home message which is fairly moderate and might not make everyone happy on either side, and I found the NPR interview to be equally moderate in seeking to find an elusive path forward that stops short of the blunt instrument of legally banning any and all medical care for youth, which remains a very challenging question that was addressed in commentary made by the 2 US psychologists who weighed in alongside Dr Cass
And your point that happily transitioned adults should not be assuming their story is applicable to all minors seeking similar care is a very important one, it’s hard to explain in any other way why careful screening based on knowledge of multiple pathways to self ID and understanding of subgroups seeking medical transition could be so controversial except for that fundamental error which seems to drive all the activism on the political left
How about just LEAVING THE KIDS ALONE? This experimental bullshit is the same damned thing the Nazi party did in the 30s and 40s. And don’t give us that crap that MILLIONS of children are affected by this “gender dysphoria” fad. Millions of kids are affected/influenced by your constant bombardment of stupidity on the internet.
When your ilk and your incredibly twisted campaigns of propaganda end up getting families tangled up with child protective agencies, you have WAY CROSSED THE LINE.
Gender ideologues are fond of claiming they are "on the right side of history." I can't speak for history, of course, but I think that, in twenty years, I'll still feel pretty good about the stance: "I'd like to proceed cautiously and in an evidence-based way that is in line with a growing number of European nations."
Such a rock solid, rational and straightforward essay. Thank you, once again, Jamie Reed. I would be very interested to see how Erin Reed responds to this.
My teenage girl, when she was trans identified from ages 13-15, was desperate for "period blockers" - her whole understanding of trans medications was that they stopped periods, and that was what she wanted. Not "puberty blockers" but "period blockers". She'd had her period since 11 years old. As an autistic girl who feels pain strongly, that was what her entire desire for being trans came down to - getting rid of her period.
No one is transing into anything - you are the sex/gender you were born as...many of these troubled kids will turn out gay, many others are being manipulated by the woke radical agenda and mind numbingly sick adults designed to turn kids into freaks of nature, the rest which is quite a small number actually have severe mental health problems that need psychological treatment not gender destroying drugs and surgery which should be outlawed for EVERYONE
The bizarre incommensuality (just on the tip of my tongue but really I mean “mismatch”) between the thoughts and feelings of a 50-year-old man dressing as a woman for a sex kick, a post-pubertal autistic teen girl, a bullied gay male child, an ultra-butch lesbian who suddenly decided she would live as a male, and a male whose mind rejected his genitals as part of his body…
Jamie, I appreciate your dispassionate logical reasoning in the midst of a maelstrom of political noise surrounding the release of the Cass Review—individualized care grounded in careful research is in fact her major take home message which is fairly moderate and might not make everyone happy on either side, and I found the NPR interview to be equally moderate in seeking to find an elusive path forward that stops short of the blunt instrument of legally banning any and all medical care for youth, which remains a very challenging question that was addressed in commentary made by the 2 US psychologists who weighed in alongside Dr Cass
And your point that happily transitioned adults should not be assuming their story is applicable to all minors seeking similar care is a very important one, it’s hard to explain in any other way why careful screening based on knowledge of multiple pathways to self ID and understanding of subgroups seeking medical transition could be so controversial except for that fundamental error which seems to drive all the activism on the political left
How about just LEAVING THE KIDS ALONE? This experimental bullshit is the same damned thing the Nazi party did in the 30s and 40s. And don’t give us that crap that MILLIONS of children are affected by this “gender dysphoria” fad. Millions of kids are affected/influenced by your constant bombardment of stupidity on the internet.
When your ilk and your incredibly twisted campaigns of propaganda end up getting families tangled up with child protective agencies, you have WAY CROSSED THE LINE.
Gender ideologues are fond of claiming they are "on the right side of history." I can't speak for history, of course, but I think that, in twenty years, I'll still feel pretty good about the stance: "I'd like to proceed cautiously and in an evidence-based way that is in line with a growing number of European nations."
Such a rock solid, rational and straightforward essay. Thank you, once again, Jamie Reed. I would be very interested to see how Erin Reed responds to this.
My teenage girl, when she was trans identified from ages 13-15, was desperate for "period blockers" - her whole understanding of trans medications was that they stopped periods, and that was what she wanted. Not "puberty blockers" but "period blockers". She'd had her period since 11 years old. As an autistic girl who feels pain strongly, that was what her entire desire for being trans came down to - getting rid of her period.
No one is transing into anything - you are the sex/gender you were born as...many of these troubled kids will turn out gay, many others are being manipulated by the woke radical agenda and mind numbingly sick adults designed to turn kids into freaks of nature, the rest which is quite a small number actually have severe mental health problems that need psychological treatment not gender destroying drugs and surgery which should be outlawed for EVERYONE
It’s a good note.
The bizarre incommensuality (just on the tip of my tongue but really I mean “mismatch”) between the thoughts and feelings of a 50-year-old man dressing as a woman for a sex kick, a post-pubertal autistic teen girl, a bullied gay male child, an ultra-butch lesbian who suddenly decided she would live as a male, and a male whose mind rejected his genitals as part of his body…
We are to believe they’re all the same syndrome.
Nope.
you can't argue with unhinged religious zealots. anything you say will be wielded against you as proof of your heresy.