Articles Scrutinizing The Affirmative Model For Gender Dysphoric Children & Teens

  • The affirmative model for treating gender dysphoric children & teens promotes social transition of children, puberty blockers at the start of puberty, and breast amputation and genital surgeries under 18 for both trans and nonbinary identities.

  • Previous studies indicate most children used to grow out of gender dysphoria if allowed a normal puberty.

  • Affirmative model advocates are misleading the public to believe rigorous evidence supports the benefits of reinforcing a child’s disassociation from their bodies and underage medical procedures that can weaken bone health, sterilize, destroy sexual function, and may have cognitive impacts.

evidence justifying Medcializing Trans-IDentified Minors is not as Strong as Advertised:

GENERAL ARTICLES

Another day, another blatantly false piece of academic writing on transition regret

Affirming Deception

A landmark Finnish study is changing how we approach transgender kids

Caring for young people with gender dysphoria

Correcting the Record on Social Transition

Gender dysphoria in young people is rising—and so is professional disagreement

Puberty Blockers Must Be Banned

Taking Stock of a Milestone Moment in the Pediatric Gender Medicine Debate

The Human Right to Desistance: A Response to Kristina Olson's Pro Underage Trans Medicalization Scientific American Article

The media is spreading bad trans science

The Myth of “Reliable Research” in Pediatric Gender Medicine: A critical evaluation of the Dutch Studies—and research that has followed

Youth Gender Transition Is Pushed Without Evidence

Strong drugs, weak evidence

Effects of gender affirming therapies in people with gender dysphoria: evaluation of the best available evidence
original links https://ahca.myflorida.com/let-kids-be-kids

Toward a Standard of Medical Care: Why Medical Professionals Can Refuse to Prescribe Puberty Blockers

Managing Gender Dysphoria in Children: A Need for Caution

Some Limitations of “Challenges in the Care of Transgender and Gender-Diverse Youth: An Endocrinologist’s View”

Errors, Omissions, and Pediatric Gender Medicine

What if the "Gold Standard" of Youth Gender Medicine is More Like Tarnished Brass?

Fortress on a fault line: Shaky evidence undermines pediatric gender medicine

A systematic review of hormone treatment for children with gender dysphoria and recommendations for research

Can we trust strong recommendations based on low quality evidence?

Sturm und Drang im Würgegriff der Medien – Die Leiden der jungen Generation am eigenen Geschlecht

Supporting autonomy in young people with gender dysphoria: psychotherapy is not conversion therapy

Hilary Cass Says U.S. Doctors Are ‘Out of Date’ on Youth Gender Medicine

Medical institutions must treat the Cass review as a significant event and act upon it

Gender-affirming care through the lens of abnormal illness behaviour and abnormal treatment behaviour

Letter to the Editor: Response to the Canadian Paediatric Position Statement on transgender and gender-diverse youth

Do we want to know?

Errors, Omissions, and Pediatric Gender Medicine

AusPATH: Activism influencing health policy

Managing Gender Dysphoria in Minors—What Insights Does Evidence-Based Medicine Offer in 2024?

Gender Medicine on the Ropes

Reevaluating gender-affirming care: biological foundations, ethical dilemmas, and the complexities of gender dysphoria

Why is Canada falling behind the science in treating gender-distressed youth?

Managing Gender Dysphoria in Minors—What Insights Does Evidence-Based Medicine Offer in 2024?

The German Guidelines for Diagnosis and Treatment of Gender Incongruence and Gender Dysphoria of Childhood and Adolescence

Can Science Take Down Gender Doctors?

Iatrogenic Gender Dysphoria and Harm Cycle in Gender Affirming Care

GOVERNMENTS & MEDICAL BODIES REVIEWING EVIDENCE & CURTAILING PEDIATRIC TRANSITION

Systematic reviews thread (General)

A Teen Gender-Care Debate Is Spreading Across Europe (General)

Pressure for proof (General)

It’s Official: Australia's most influential gender clinic announces change at the top (AU)

New Research Raises More Doubts About Safety and Benefits of Gender Transition Treatments for Minors (CAN)

Recommendation of the Council for Choices in Health Care in Finland (PALKO / COHERE Finland) (Finland)

One Year Since Finland Broke with WPATH "Standards of Care" (Finland)

Finland Issues Strict Guidelines for Treating Gender Dysphoria (Finland)

Medicine and gender transidentity in children and adolescents (France)

Red flags in Europe: Why New Zealand shifted to more cautious advice on puberty blockers (NZ)

Impact of Puberty Blockers in Gender-Dysphoric Adolescents: An evidence brief (NZ)

Norway’s guidance on paediatric gender treatment is unsafe, says review (Norway)

 'Yes, it's an experiment' (Norway)

Gruppe mennesker, konturer i svart som er bluret, foran en vegg med striper i regnbuefarger. Pasientsikkerhet for barn og unge med kjønnsinkongruens (Norway)

Systematic review on outcomes of hormonal treatment in youths with gender dysphoria

Gender dysphoria in children and adolescents: an inventory of the literature (Sweden)

Summary of Key Recommendations from the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen/NBHW) (Sweden)

Karolinska Policyförändring K2021-3343 March 2021 (Swedish).pdf
Karolinska Policy Change K2021-3343 March 2021 (English, unofficial translation).pdf
Karolinska Riktlinje K2021-4144 April 2021 (Swedish).pdfKarolinska Guideline K2021-4144 April 2021 (English, unofficial translation).pdf

The Cass Review Interim report (UK)

The Cass Report- see supporting independent reviews below (UK)
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Clinical guidelines for children and adolescents experiencing gender dysphoria or incongruence: a systematic review of guideline quality (part 1)
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Clinical guidelines for children and adolescents experiencing gender dysphoria or incongruence: a systematic review of recommendations (part 2)
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Care pathways of children and adolescents referred to specialist gender services: a systematic review
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Impact of social transition in relation to gender for children and adolescents: a systematic review
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Masculinising and feminising hormone interventions for adolescents experiencing gender dysphoria or incongruence: a systematic review
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Gender services for children and adolescents across the EU-15+ countries: an online survey
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Psychosocial support interventions for children and adolescents experiencing gender dysphoria or incongruence: a systematic review
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Interventions to suppress puberty in adolescents experiencing gender dysphoria or incongruence: a systematic review
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Characteristics of children and adolescents referred to specialist gender services: a systematic review

Nice Evidence Reviews (UK)

The review of GnRH agonists (puberty blockers) (UK)

UK High Court Ruling on the Use of Puberty Blockers in Gender Dysphoric Minors (Bell v. Tavistock) (UK)

Evidence Review That Lead to the Florida Board of Medicine Banning Underage Medicalization Outside of Research (US/Florida)

Politics Aside, Healthcare Considerations Motivate More Caution before Medical Intervention for Trans-Identifying Youth

European Academy of Paediatrics statement on the clinical management of children and adolescents with gender dysphoria

Beyond NICE: Aktualisierte systematische Übersicht zur Evidenzlage der Pubertätsblockade und Hormongabe bei Minderjährigen mit Geschlechtsdysphorie

Big fat thread on the countries* changing course on 'puberty blockers'
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1877729344522445171.html

Bad or Poor-Quality Sudies/Articles Used as Supposedly Solid Evidence

The Myth of “Reliable Research” in Pediatric Gender Medicine: A critical evaluation of the Dutch Studies—and research that has follow

The Dutch Studies and The Myth of Reliable Research in Pediatric Gender Medicine

What we know about “What We Know”

The Theatre of the Body: A detransitioned epidemiologist examines suicidality, affirmation, and transgender identity

Correction of a Key Study: No Evidence of “Gender-Affirming” Surgeries Improving Mental Health

The University of Washington Is Putting Trans Kids At Risk By Distorting Suicide Research

On Scientific Transparency, Researcher Degrees Of Freedom, And That NEJM Study On Youth Gender Medicine

The New, Highly Touted Study On Hormones For Transgender Teens Doesn’t Really Tell Us Much Of Anything

Here’s More Evidence That Youth Gender Medicine Researchers Might Be Hiding Unfavorable Data From The Public

At what point does incompetence become fraud?

Letter to the Editor: Regret after Gender-affirmation Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Prevalence

Researchers Found Puberty Blockers And Hormones Didn’t Improve Trans Kids’ Mental Health At Their Clinic. Then They Published A Study Claiming The Opposite. (Updated)

Rantz: Despite ‘concerning’ transgender study, UW kept quiet because of positive coverage

The New Study On Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria Published In “Pediatrics” Is Genuinely Worthless

On the recent UK GIDS paper - problems with consistent miscitations

Could social transition increase persistence rates in “trans” kids?

What’s Wrong with the New NIH Study on Transgender Kids?

A Tale Of Two Studies

Three researchers expose critical methodological fallacies and flawed analysis in the TransPulse project conclusions, or: There is no evidence for parental affirmation benefits

Gender-affirming model still based on 2014 faulty Dutch study

Gender-Corrective Surgery Promoting Mental Health in Persons With Gender Dysphoria Not Supported by Data Presented in Article

The Cass Review, the “Yale” Report, and the Importance of Keeping Special Interests at Bay

Misrepresentations of evidence in “gender-affirming care is preventative care”

Psychological outcomes of 12-15-year-olds with gender dysphoria receiving pubertal suppression: assessing reliable and clinically significant change

Psychosocial Functioning in Transgender Youth after Hormones

Over and over this past week, I see journalists credulously parroting the wildly misleading and incomplete findings of this same research letters to come to the false conclusion that gender-transition surgeries in minors are very rare.
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https://x.com/benryanwriter/status/1887707768888385856

Levels of Satisfaction and Regret Are Far From Settled
Levels of Satisfaction and Regret Are Far From Settled—Reply

Letter to the Editor on “Timing of puberty suppression in transgender adolescents and sexual functioning after vaginoplasty (Van der Meulen et al., 2024)”

Testimony of a GP Who Will Not Affirm

Debunking Activists/Media/Institutions Who Do Sloppy Journalism or Misrepresent Research

Irreversible Reputational Damage

"Science Vs" Cited Seven Studies To Argue There’s No Controversy About Giving Puberty Blockers And Hormones To Trans Youth. Let’s Read Them.

Activist-Blogger Erin Reed Can't Stop Telling Falsehoods About Gender Medicine
Thread (X)
-Debunks Erin Reed’s attempts to discredit the Cass Report

Michael Hobbes Is Spectacularly Wrong About Youth Gender Medicine
-Debunks podcaster for Maintenance Phase

The Cass Review Fact Check: It's Clear That Many People Never Bothered to Read The Report

Why Is The Same Misleading Language About Youth Gender Medicine Copied And Pasted Into Dozens Of CNN.com Articles?
-Exposes lazy journalism around gender affirming care that has made legacy media untrustworthy on this topic.

Bill Maher vs. Jon Lovett on trans rights
-Debunks Pod Save America host

Critiques of the Cass Review: Fact-Checking the Peer-Reviewed and Grey Literature (Each one made claims about the Cass Review, pediatric transgender healthcare, extant literature, and evidence-based medicine that necessitate correction or clarification.”)

The BMA Council Shames Itself

New England Journal of Misinformation

If The New England Journal Of Medicine Doesn’t Correct This Error, You Cannot Trust Anything It Publishes

DR JACK TURBAN OFTEN QUOTED BUT POOR QUALITY RESEARCH

A New Low

The Lukewarm Perjury of Jack Turban

Recent Article Criticizes the Quality of Jack Turban's Analysis

New Study Linking Conversion Therapy to Depression in Trans Adults & Criticism

Lots more debunking of the Turban et al. study on gender dysphoria

The Distortions in Jack Turban’s Psychology Today Article on ‘Gender Affirming Care’

Research and Analyses by Turban et al. Fail to Refute Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria

The U.S. Transgender Survey of 2015 Supports Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria: Revisiting the “Age of Realization and Disclosure of Gender Identity Among Transgender Adults”

Estrogen is associated with greater suicidality among transgender males, and puberty suppression is not associated with better mental health outcomes for either sex (response to Access to gender-affirming hormones during adolescence and mental health outcomes among transgender adults’)

Commentary: The Signal and the Noise—questioning the benefits of puberty blockers for youth with gender dysphoria—a commentary on Rew et al. (2021)

Free to Be(lieve) in Gender Pseudoscience

“LGBTQ+” Organizations & “Progressive” Organizations & Media Promoting Bad Information

Is The Process Of Science Reporting Inherently Transphobic?

It's Immoral To Tell American Trans Women They Face A Murder Epidemic

LGBT People Deserve Accurate Information From LGBT Organizations

“LGBT” organizations avoiding discussions of risks to LGB youth

Media hiding risks

Reckless and Irresponsible

When Your Epistemic Bubble Pops (Unlocked)

Three More Gender-Dysphoria Stories, Three More Sources Of Misinformation

On Rashida Tlaib And Chase Strangio’s Ridiculous, Bad-Faith Attack On The New York Times (Updated)

What GLAAD and the ACLU Did This Week Is Disturbing, But Unsurprising (Update)

GLAAD Took False, Previously Disproven Internet Scuttlebutt And Used It To Justify Putting Me On A List Of Supposed Anti-LGBT Bigots (Updated)

Science-Based Medicine's Coverage Of "Irreversible Damage" Included About 19 Errors, False Claims About Three Sex Researchers, Made-Up Quotes, And Endless Misinformation

"Science Vs" Cited Seven Studies To Argue There’s No Controversy About Giving Puberty Blockers And Hormones To Trans Youth. Let’s Read Them.

The “T” Piggybacking on the “LGB”

LITIGATION REGARDING MEDICALIZATION UNDER THE AGE OF 18

Exposed: Medical insurance firm cuts back protection for doctors who face court claims over paediatric transition (AU)

Susana Domínguez, the Spanish trans woman who regrets her sex change when she was a minor (Spain)

Detransitioning woman, 18, suing Kaiser Permanente for 'pushing her' into gender-changing surgery aged 12 claims doctors spent just 75-minutes evaluating her and told her parents 'It is better to have a live son than a dead daughter' (US/CA)

Legal action may change transgender care in America

Oregon’s Reckless Medicine

BREAKING: 5th Lawsuit Filed in US Against Medical Transition of Minors

EXCLUSIVE: Texas woman seeks $1M from doctors who put her on testosterone at age 17 and left her 'nipples peeling off' from botched trans op, saying they should have treated her depression instead

FDA sued over records pertaining to 'gender-affirming care' for minors (US/TX)

North Carolina Woman Files Lawsuit in Wake of Gender Transition Surgery as a Teen

Bell v Tavistock in the High Court: an explainer (UK)
Bell v Tavistock Court of Appeal Judgment: An Explainer

WHISTLEBLOWERS

The WPATH Files

The WPATH Files prove that gender medicine is comprised of unregulated and pseudoscientific experiments

I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle. (US)

'Lies and suicide scare tactics' (US)

I Was Told to Approve All Teen Gender Transitions. I Refused. (US)

Hospital insider warns trans kids on hormones frequenting ER for harming themselves in cry for help (US)

Texas Children’s Hospital Whistleblower Comes Forward

Time to Think review: the book that tells the full story of the Tavistock’s trans scandal: 5-Stars (UK)

It feels like conversion therapy for gay children, say clinicians (UK)

I worked at the Tavistock gender clinic. This is why closing it was the right move (UK)

Cover Ups & Censorship & Bias

AAP Timeline

https://donoharmmedicine.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/email.pdf (indigence of WPATH suppression of results they don’t like in systematic review)

THE WPATH TAPES: Behind-The-Scenes Recordings Reveal What Top Gender Doctors Really Think About Sex Change Procedures
https://dailycaller.com/2024/05/14/wpath-tapes-gender-doctors-recordings-sex-changes/

WPATH blocked publication of its own gender research

The Lancet's Flawed Editorial on Trans Youth

Making Light of Detransition

Study of 1,655 Cases Supports the "Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria" Hypothesis (article retracted for questionable reasons)

HHS Has Misled on Gender Medicine

Anti-Gender Conspiracism Revisited

Source Laundering

Source Laundering (2)

SEE ALSO:

Do Schools and the Government Have a Right To Force Parents to Transition Their Trans-Identified Child Socially & Medically for the Youth’s Own Protection?