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[33:30] podcast above, Davis: "I am deeply, deeply disappointed at the Left & mainstream media's unwillingness to do their job and investigate this away from their own political biases..."
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Here's a trans person calling for detransitioners to be heard—as social justice. We can't do that if we're denying they exist or silencing them. We need more & better research, transparency, medical & mental health assns to admit there are problems & for the media to investigate.
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...vitriol and public shaming:
“Detransitioners shut up challenge”
5 studies published in 2021-2022 show that ~7-13% of trans people #detransition.
Supporting detransitioners is a social justice issue
We need to come together to offer support and care; not cast them out.
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3/ Schrodinger's horseshit: a study that relies on this type of sample exists in a superposition of horseshit and not-horseshit until it is revealed whether it revealed something John Oliver and his staff wants to be true
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It amazes me that giants of TV news/comedy (or their staff) can get this issue so wrong, can get the research so wrong, can get the narrative so wrong and ignore how many people are getting hurt by what is mis-marketed as life-saving. Here's just some of how John Oliver erred.
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New from @LisaSelinDavis on @RealLastStand!
"Given Oliver’s massive audience, one may have hoped he would have approached this topic with the seriousness and nuance it deserves. Unfortunately, that didn’t happen."
realityslaststand.com/p/john-oliver-
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“It’s ironic that & her film stand accused of peddling Islamophobia, because the effect of watching The UnRedacted is precisely the opposite…the men on screen [are shown to be] fully human.”
#FAIRintheArts Fellow for
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“Dear Merrick Garland...
Rather than answer to the morals or the science, these organizations are requesting that you censor their critics. In other words, they are engaging the Attorney General to deny free speech.”
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Fantastic piece by for about the irony, the absurdity, of Twitter—locking her account for calling out accounts that glorify self-harm. Twitter Is Actively Contributing to the Spread of Serious Self-Injury
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This is so good.
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I wrote about the Hobart thing.
meghandaum.substack.com/p/who-killed-c
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Red-capped manakins will "moonwalk" to impress the ladies. Source: bit.ly/3Bu7gNQ
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I’ve learned today that the resolution that I and four other AAP members submitted to the ALF has been completely memory-holed: removed from the AAP website, and comments on #28 referring to it have also been removed.
Here’s the resolution:
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This is LOVELY
and the excellent manliness in doing something usually coded as “feminine” with such style!
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FUCK! Woke up today & saw the GFM page-BEST NEWS EVER! thought we’d raise enough money to bring the film to maybe 5-10 cities w/ the $200k-but if this keeps going-we can show the film all over America–way to show that free speech is still alive & kicking!
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Beautiful piece by
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“What, after all, is the point of you?” @jburgo55 genspect.org/outsider-shame
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Here’s my iPhone video of Dr. Ladinsky glorifying suicide in a 16 year old. In case you were thinking I misunderstood.
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@LisaSelinDavisThankTThxs for adding to crucial story of debate & dissent of "one-size-fits-all" gender care. Patients count on clinicians to be honest about risks/benefits even if unpopular. #MedTwitter
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In response to medical associations asking Atty General Garland to investigate those who critique & share information on gender medical interventions for minors, I made an ask of him, too: help us gather, analyze & disseminate data from gender clinics.
lisaselindavis.substack.com/p/dear-merrick
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And meanwhile, a group of detransitioners has also written to the Attorney General. What do they want? To speak. To be heard. To have evidence properly reviewed. To hold the doctors who hurt them accountable, and to prevent others from such hurt.
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In response to medical associations asking Atty General Garland to investigate those who critique & share information on gender medical interventions for minors, I made an ask of him, too: help us gather, analyze & disseminate data from gender clinics.
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Amateur photographer Martin Le-may captured this photo of a weasel riding on the back of a green woodpecker in 2015.
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It baffles me that the people I’ve been interviewing for months are painted as cruel instead of as people hurt by the model AAP promotes and thus whistleblowing. Shouldn’t doctors be listening to instead of dismissing them—don’t they want to ensure it doesn’t keep happening?
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Some of those "cruel protesters" outside yesterday were literal survivors of "gender-affirming care." twitter.com/DrScottHadland…
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Mermaids training on left, Jon Stewart's show on right. A lot of prominent pundits really just accept certain activists' claims at face value without an iota of critical thinking. Some of these ideas are pretty regressive!
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One of the most interesting videos I’ve ever seen.
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The endangered wrinkled peach mushroom (Rhodotus palmatus) bit.ly/3fB08qh en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodotus
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I'm delighted to join and be part of an advisory team full of people I admire, all working toward fairness, diversity, free speech and less polarization.
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We are excited to announce our newest Advisor, @LisaSelinDavis!
Lisa Selin Davis is the author of TOMBOY: The Surprising History and Future of Girls Who Dare to Be Different. She has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian and many other publications.
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A powerful piece by in .
"Turban likes to say that 'all experts agree' with the 'gender affirming' model—a statement that's only true if you define 'expert' in No True Scotsman-like fashion as only someone who agrees with Turban."
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Fantastic episode of with and . One thing that could reduce the polarization around the gender issue is operating with the same set of facts about surgeries. Get some here.
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This week on @TheUnspeakPod. We're done tiptoeing around this question. Yes, kids under 18 are getting surgery (sometimes genital surgery) for gender dysphoria. Colin Wright @SwipeWright lays it out. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/yes
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I urge any parent of an organically gender nonconforming child to listen to this interview with and . It's revealing not only about the Tavistock, but about the many paths in and out of gender dysphoria.
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Ellie shares a 90s desistance story with us! She grew up looking, acting, and being treated like a boy. At the Tavistock clinic a thorough therapeutic process helped her explored all her options.
buff.ly/2Ke16t4
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As medical associations call for censoring journalists spreading "misinformation" about gender medicine, this piece by is so important. Because in this upside down world most of the media is doing just that—spreading scientific misinformation.
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Another note: They quote WPATH's SOC8 saying a systematic evidence review couldn't be performed. That's not true. Finland, Sweden the UK & Florida conducted them, all with the same results. The American Academy of Pediatrics also refused a systematic review—they knew the outcome
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But a critique: the story profiles a child who wasn't supported in being a gender nonconforming boy & does not mention the literature that shows the bulk of such children, if not socially transitioned, grow out of gender dysphoria and turn into gay adults.
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Kids with gender dysphoria tend to have high rates of suicidal ideation/attempts—but the same rate as kids with other mental health issues. "There is no evidence that 'providing care immediately leads to a decline in self harm or would prevent suicide.'"
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Finally we have numbers! "at least 121,882 children ages 6 to 17 were diagnosed with gender dysphoria in the five years to the end of 2021. More than 42,000 of those children were diagnosed just last year, up 70% from 2020."
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"The National Institutes of Health, the U.S. government agency responsible for medical and public health research, told Reuters that 'the evidence is limited on whether these treatments pose short- or long-term health risks for transgender and other gender-diverse adolescents.'"
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"no large-scale studies tracked people who received gender-related medical care as children to determine how many remained satisfied with treatment as they aged & how many eventually regretted. The same lack of clarity holds true for the contentious issue of detransitioning"
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"Puberty blockers and sex hormones do not have U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for children’s gender care. No clinical trials have established their safety for such off-label use. The drugs’ long-term effects on fertility and sexual function remain unclear"
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"While the number of gender clinics treating children in the US has grown from zero to more than 100 in the past 15 years – and waiting lists are long – strong evidence of the efficacy and possible long-term consequences of that treatment remains scant."
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Finally, some nuance from MSM! Thanks & —I've been trying to get this message out there for so long. "families that go the medical route venture onto uncertain ground, where science has yet to catch up with practice."
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