This editorial in the British Journal of General Practice is an objective and accurate report on Gender incongruence in children, adolescents, and adults. Authors are: Susan Bewley, Damian Clifford, Margaret McCartney and Richard Byng https://bjgp.org/content/69/681/170
The Littman Paper
Lisa Littman published this paper in the journal Plos.ONE in August 2018 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0202330 Lisa Littman, an American physician and researcher. Her research interests relate to reproductive health, gender dysphoria, detransition, and maternal and child health including prematurity and the use of substances in pregnancy. Littman joined the faculty of the Brown University School of Public … Continue reading The Littman Paper
Different Perspectives
An Information Experience Design project by Silke Steidinger for the Royal College of Art. A series of vox pops of both pro-medicalisation and pro-psychotherapy viewpoints. https://player.vimeo.com/video/285555219 TRANS-ACTIONS: AN EXPLORATION OF GENDER DYSPHORIA
Pique Resilience Project
Helena, Jesse, Dagny, and Chiara of the Pique Resilience Project, answer a few of your questions for detransitioners and desisters. These are their personal stories and opinions as women who identified as trans and desisted and do not reflect the views of anyone except theirs. https://youtu.be/kxVmSGTgNxI Pique Resilience Project
Mermaids Gender Spectrum
This article in The Spectator by Madeleine Kearns reports on the efforts made by Mermaids and others to introduce gender ideology into UK schools. https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/don-t-tell-the-parents
Medical Transitions
https://youtu.be/3obFi7kXdDQ Medical Transitions - Long Term Outcomes A video survey, by Paul Dirks, of all the long-term outcome studies on medical transition over 10 years. Error: near the end of the video I state that in Adams, 2017 the "past year" measure was for treated individuals. This is not necessarily the case and would have … Continue reading Medical Transitions
The History of Gender Medicine
https://youtu.be/6mtQ1geeD_c The terrible fraud of 'transgender medicine' At the Teens4Truth Conference, Ft. Worth, TX, Nov. 18, 2017. A physician who was in the Johns Hopkins Univ. Hospital group where "transgender medicine" was developed describes the lies, bad medicine, and fraud behind that movement. Quentin Van Meter, MD, FCP is a pediatric endocrinologist. He is a … Continue reading The History of Gender Medicine
Health Risks
Transgender people can end up 'badly damaged' says Lord Robert Winston https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/01/transgender-people-can-end-badly-damaged-says-lord-robert-winston/
Brain Damage
This paper from Psychoneuroendocrinology (Volume 74, December 2016, Pages 371-379) reports on subcortical gray matter changes in transgender subjects after long-term cross-sex hormone administration. Assessing the influence of high-dose cross-sex hormone administration on the brain. Inclusion of transgender participants undergoing hormonal treatment. Subcortical brain changes in areas related to cognition and emotion. Changes in progesterone … Continue reading Brain Damage
Children’s Rights
https://www.ohchr.org/en/professionalinterest/pages/crc.aspx This link is provided to the United Nations' Convention on the Rights of the Child because this is often used as a reference by those who advocate that the child's self-determination is paramount. In fact, the convention places a great deal of emphasis on the role and responsibilities of the parent. You will often … Continue reading Children’s Rights