WPATH and Junk Science
But promoting transgender health is not only the purview of the doctor or large pharmaceutical concern — it is also one of philanthropy. Take, for example, the ‘Center Of Excellence For Transgender Health’, based in the University of California San Francisco (which is advised by Johanna Olson, our favourite AbbVie Advisory Board member.) If we pursue the sponsorship and supporters page of the Center of Excellence For Transgender Health’s recent summit, we get a list of familiar names funded by Arcus, Tawani and the Open Society Foundations — the NCTE, the Transgender Law Center, WPATH, and GATE. One sponsor of particular interest for my inner comedian is
lesbianhealthinfo.org, a domain that has unfortunately expired and is being squatted. The link now leads to a WordPress blog in German, that Google Translate advises me is about ‘Lesbians also play in the casino’ and contains possibly the worst summary of
The Iliad that I’ve ever read. I applaud this German spam blog for its inclusivity of lesbians in the casino. It has been the most lesbian-inclusive website I have seen through the course of writing this article.
No discussion of transgender medicine would be complete without looking at the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, or WPATH. WPATH bills itself as the thought leader in all things transgender health, and almost every scientist discussed in this article belongs to WPATH. It issues the guidelines, holds the conferences, and provides the forum for research papers on transgenderism.
It has also been criticized, not just by gender critical activists, but by the people it supposedly treats. An open letter written by patients of WPATH’s membership circulated on the internet, criticizing its membership for performing procedures with insufficient medical training, and criticized its research:
“Our experience is that surgeons in WPATH’s membership are:
1. Offering free or low-cost surgeries to under-resourced patients in order to gain operating experience in procedures for which they have incomplete professional training.
2. Engaging in pre-operative counseling, academic publishing, and public presentations using complication rates that are:
· Based on incomplete patient records and insufficient follow up. It distresses us to see academic publications
² and other claims regarding our bodily experience that imply a level of follow-up that has simply not occurred. When a surgical center does no routine follow-up on initial surgeries, the cohort of patients on whom they have sufficient longitudinal data to report has an enormous selection bias. Many of us have had our concerns and symptoms dismissed by our initial surgical teams, or do not have the means to return to our initial surgeons and have had post-operative management and revision surgeries elsewhere. Our initial surgeons have no record of these outcomes.
· Not inclusive of conditions experienced by patients as complications, such as fistulas, strictures, and tissue necrosis that significantly delayed healing but not requiring surgical correction.”
The open letter goes on to criticize WPATH for inadequate after care, providing inaccurate medical information and offering experimental procedures without advising a patient those procedures are experimental. Not a particularly great rap sheet for a supposedly professional organization. It does not help that the WPATH is funded by an ideologically motivated Jennifer Pritzker — yes, the Tawani Foundation sponsored the 2016 WPATH biannual symposium.
The thing that recurs in media discussions of the topic is that these treatments are ‘accepted practice’, and that to provide anything other than gender-affirming care is ‘conversion therapy’. One must accept self-identification of the transgender individual at all costs. Thing is, that wasn’t accepted practice twenty years ago. For example, the British Royal College of Psychiatrists
produced a 1998 report on childhood gender dysphoria, which I quote below:
“Gender identity disorders can be seen as states in which, in the course of the young person’s psychosexual development, there is an atypical gender identity organization. The young person experiences their phenotypic sex as incongruous with his or her own sense of gender identity.
This predicament, which is commoner in boys, is characterized by:
• A desire to be of the other sex
• Cross-dressing
• Play with games, toys and objects usually associated with the other sex and avoidance of play normally associated with their sex
• Preference for playmates or friends of the sex with which the child identifies
• Dislike of bodily sexual characteristics and functions
It is important to consider these states as different from those seen in adults because:
(a) A developmental process is involved (physical, psychological and sexual).
(b) There is greater fluidity and variability in the outcome, with only a small proportion becoming transsexuals or transvestites, the majority of affected children eventually developing a homosexual orientation and some a heterosexual orientation without transvestism or transsexualism.”[emphasis mine]
Times have changed quickly in twenty years. For example, the rates of childhood gender dysphoria in girls outstripped boys over the past decade. A feminist would point out that patriarchy has more to do with which toys, games, clothing and objects are associated with a particular sex, or preferring playmates of the opposite sex (a child may simply want to play with the other children that like what they like), but it is clear that what is emphasized here is sex dysphoria, rather than ‘gender dysphoria’ — a dislike of physical sex, not of a particular assigned role. I have placed emphasis on the final conclusion: that sex dysphoric children usually turn out
homosexual. In an interview, Rosenthal informs us that these studies were small and done mostly abroad. Yet, only twenty years ago, the British professional psychiatrists association was content to advise its membership that the vast majority of children who suffer sex dysphoria desist at puberty and mostly grow up to be happy homosexuals.
This is not a particularly novel conclusion. Gender non-conforming behavior during childhood is associated with homosexual behavior in adulthood. This has been replicated in large studies. What most studies find is that very few children with gender dysphoria grow up to be gender dysphoric adults — most grow up homosexual. If a cursory search of the literature on Google Scholar can turn up this fact, why are we so confused about childhood gender-non-conformity now? Perhaps there is merit to gender critical critics of transgenderism calling it ‘gay conversion therapy’ after all.
The paper is also interesting because it comments on the distinctions that need to be made between a presentation of transgenderism in childhood and in adulthood.
“Similarly, pre-pubertal and post-pubertal groups need to be differentiated. There is greater fluidity and likelihood of change in the former. Phenomenologically there is a qualitative difference between the way such children and young people present their predicament from presentations involving delusions or other psychotic symptoms. Delusional beliefs about the sexual body or gender can occur in psychotic conditions but they can be distinguished from the phenomena of a gender identity disorder as outlined in this paper. There are issues of nosology because current classification systems seem to suggest that gender identity disorders in childhood are equivalent to those in adulthood and that the one inevitably leads to the other. This is not the case.” (nosology refers to the classification of diseases).
The paper also advises against surgical intervention and recommends that children go through puberty.
Yet just as with the trans murder epidemic the media are all too willing to swallow a line fed to them by these organizations.
A Psychology Today article supposedly ‘debunking junk science’ (of the American College of Pediatricians, which produces anti-gay material), starts with the well known facts that reparative therapy is a bad idea, and that gay parents are fine, and then promotes actual junk science by promoting ‘affirming transgender youth’.
It also manages to lie about the fact that transgender children are, in fact, sterilized by their treatment.
But this is a lie. Immature gonads cannot produce viable gametes and any fertility preservation measures are completely experimental. That does also not change the fact that without going through puberty, and later surgical intervention,
transgender children of both sexes are effectively castrated throughout adulthood. And this is a lie repeated again and again, not just to the public, but to the very patients these doctors are supposedly treating.
The author, Jack Turban also fails to mention that of the sources he cites, many of them ultimately have a fiscal relationship with a billionaire or a pharmaceutical company somewhere along the way. Among the studies he cites is one from the TransYouth project, which has the following acknowledgement:
“This work was supported by grants from the Royalty Research Fund and the Arcus Foundation to K.R.O. These funding sources played no role in the study design, data collection, analysis, or interpretation, and no funding source saw the report before submission for publication.”
I find it hard to believe that a foundation with a clear political objective that has invested in astroturf organizations did not want a predetermined outcome. So what research are these groups funding?
I looked into the
TransYouth project, based out of the University of Washington, Seattle, and headed by Kristina Olson, which bills itself as the ‘
largest project and is the first large-scale, national, longitudinal study of socially-transitioned transgender children to date.’ It is following 300 socially transitioned children from 45 US states and in Canada. It is currently advertising for participants.
“In addition to that project
we are recruiting new families for new studies on gender development both in the Seattle region and nationally. Right now, we are recruiting children who are gender nonconforming, tomboys, princess boys, intersex, and gender “typical” children. If you and your family are interested in participating or have more questions, feel free to complete the sign-up sheet below or email us at gendev [at] uw [dot] edu so we can tell you more about our work. For more, check out our
Frequently Asked Questions page!”
Wait a minute? I thought this was about trans youth. Why request ‘tomboys’ and ‘princess boys’. What are those things? Gender non-conforming children (who, as a reminder, mostly grow up into homosexuals), are being requested for a longitudinal study to discover what happens to them (we know: they turn out homosexual.) What research does the TransYouth Project churn out? I decided to go through some examples. I will quote liberally from the following research article:
Gender Development in Transgender Preschool Children :
“[…] More recent theorizing, however, suggests that although full gender constancy knowledge may not be responsible for enhancing gendered preferences and behavior, understanding gender stability in particular is a central factor in motivating strong gender preferences (Ruble et al., 2007). For example, a very young girl might already display an affinity toward pink, dolls, and dresses, but once she understands the stability of her gender, she will have even more extreme gendered preferences”
This looks like pseudo academic word salad to me, although I am the world’s harshest critic. I believe a translation of this gobbledygook may be:
A girl likes dolls and pink. Once she discovers girls are stereotypically supposed to like dolls and pink, she likes them even more, because conformity is rewarded by our society. Any critical discussion of the fact ‘dolls and pink’ are social constructions of the modern era and do not reflect any innate biological preference seems to go out the window here.
“At the same time some work with older socially transitioned trans-gender children suggests that they give gender-typical (but not sex-typical) responses on measures of gender development, such as gendered preferences (Olson, Key, & Eaton, 2015). Evidence that transgender children show strongly gendered preferences (perhaps as strong as controls) paired with a lack of gender stability beliefs (at least as it has traditionally been tested) could suggest that the “boost” from stability beliefs is not needed to show the high levels of gendered preferences observed by gender-typical children.”
What is gender? Is it, like the HRC says, sex stereotypes? Is it some inalienable psychological development that drives boys to like trucks and girls to like pink dollies? Or is it a complex process of socialization that some children resist, and those children are now being medicalized? How can stereotypes be stable? Do they mean that the children’s understanding of stereotypes is stable?
The paper then tells us this:
Despite the large body of work on gender development, most of that work has been conducted with gender-typical children. The current study is an exploratory investigation into whether socially transitioned transgender children show the same patterns of gender development during the pre-school years. To date, there has been no work on this question, though there has been one study reporting on gender development in elementary school-age children and a few studies reporting on gender development in a broader range of gender diverse children.”
But this is wrong. Follow up studies on gender dysphoric children have been done: they turn out to be normal homosexuals. This study does not even mention the concept of ‘socialization’: it talks about ‘gender development’, as if modern gender roles are some innate psychosexual fact, rather than a product of our culture.
“In addition to this more recent work on socially transitioned transgender children, there is a longer tradition of studying gender nonconforming children — those who defy cultural gender expectations for children of their sex — in the clinical psychology and psychiatry literature. Although typically focused on clinical outcomes (e.g., Cohen-Kettenis, Owen, Kaijser, Bradley, & Zucker, 2003), these research teams have occasionally reported on basic gender development, much as we do in the current study with socially transitioned transgender children. For example, one study found that while siblings of gen-der nonconforming children preferred to play with toys manufactured for children of their sex, gender nonconforming children (Mage= 7.6 years) did not — they equally preferred toys manufactured for their own sex and the other sex (Zucker, Bradley, Doering, & Lozinski, 1985). In contrast, for games, gender nonconforming children actually expressed a preference for games manufactured for the other sex, but their siblings did not. Thus, it appears that gender nonconforming children’s preferences consistently differ from their gender conforming peers (the definition of gender nonconformity), but only sometimes was this difference in the direction opposite their sex at birth. Furthermore, Zucker et al. (1999) found that a group of 3 to 10-year-old gender nonconforming children showed an atypical understanding of gender constancy. That is, the gender diverse group of children was less likely than gender-typical children to believe that their own gender was stable across time (gender stability) or across changes in appearance (gender consistency) compared to others’ gender.”
After reading through most of this, I began to wonder if my brain would melt out my ears, on to the carpet, and create a large stain. I didn’t need to know the words ‘gender constancy’ could be used in a sentence. Let me remind you: gender is the stereotypes assigned to a particular sex. That is the Human Right’s Campaign definition. This study is measuring stereotypes. The study goes on to outline an experiment — of ‘measuring participant’s gender’. How did they do this? I thought you’d never ask. I didn’t realize gender was even a measurable concept. Apparently, it is!
“To measure participants’ gender expression in everyday life, without telling parents or children in advance, two experimenters independently rated the outfit worn by each participant at the testing session on a scale ranging from 1 to 5 (allowing for half-point ratings) with lower numbers representing more stereotypical boy outfits and higher numbers representing more stereotypical girl outfits (r = .94, p < .001). However, in some cases (n=13) only one experimenter was able to provide an outfit rating,”
SCIENCE! I love the first acknowledgement of gender stereotypes in this entire paper is in this ‘experiment’. I have a question — who decides which outfit belongs to which gender? Is it the gender police? What gender is the uniform of the gender police?
“Experimenters were told that the most masculine outfits consisted of clothing items such as male-stereotypic sports attire, superhero costumes, and men’s formal wear, whereas the most feminine outfits consisted of frilly dresses or skirts, princess costumes, and sparkly accessories. Experimenters also considered the colors (e.g., pink) and style (e.g., fitted vs. baggy shirt) when determining outfit ratings”
Dear young girls of America: do you like football? Ever worn a baggy shirt? What about both at once? Yeah, you’re a boy now.
Junk Science 2: It Got Worse
My interest was piqued by this TransYouth study that consisted of an unholy combination of word salad, jargon, and gender measurement(but I thought gender was stereotypes?) I decided to go and read more scientific articles. I had assumed that the scientific basis for a civil rights movement would be sound. Maybe the Human Rights Campaign is telling me incorrect things about gender. Perhaps this study was an outlier.
I went to find the scientific basis that underpins the transgender issue. I decided to look at, ‘transgender children’ in particular. After all, transgenderism is supposedly the same thing, from childhood to adulthood. I did not believe that the scientific basis to change a child’s sex could possibly be baggy shirts. Surely the sound scientific basis for this endeavor would be there.
I read through
Transgender youth: current concepts which is a literature review. I would note that ‘literature reviews’ are the currency of medical ghostwriting; that there is one academic attached, and that academic is Stephen M. Rosenthal, who as previously discussed, has a financial relationship with AbbVie as a consultant (this is disclosed as a conflict of interest within the paper.) Perhaps I am only hallucinating the smoke, or perhaps there is a fire. You decide. Of interest are the following passages:
“Based on pioneering work form[sic] the Netherlands, the Endocrine Society (ES) guidelines and WPATH SOC endorse the use of pubertal blockers using gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) agonists at Tanner stage II/III in individuals experiencing a significant increase in gender dysphoria with onset of puberty
3,
4,
44,
45,
46,
47). This treatment is fully reversible and allows additional time for gender exploration without the pressure of ongoing pubertal development.”
Yet many women with precocious puberty report bone problems due to using Lupron as children. The article admits this later on, saying:
“The primary risks of pubertal suppression in gender dysphoric youth treated with GnRH agonists include adverse effects on bone mineralization, compromised fertility, and unknown effects on brain development.”
Is that fully reversible? Or did Rosenthal lie to the media? They’re messing with these kid’s brains. It also contradicts itself. It also lets us know about the status of that sound scientific basis:
“There are currently only limited outcomes data to support the ES and WPATH recommendations for care of transgender youth.”
These people are
castrating children based on limited outcome data. This may or may not work as a treatment. Who knows, really? This isn’t settled science. This is a grand experiment, on children who are overwhelmingly more likely to grow up to be gay than transgender. There isn’t a scientific basis for the hundreds of millions of dollars poured into the transgender movement and the children it supposedly protects. Rosenthal did not start publishing on transgender issues until 2012, though he was a publishing endocrinologist before that. In a few short years, he went from an obscure endocrinologist to a media star, being interviewed about his work with transgender children. I leave why this work has made him a media star and exercise to the reader.
I decided to look at one of the other transgender media stars, Jennifer Ehrensaft. Ehrensaft, who as we know has written two popular books on the subject and served on an AbbVie advisory board, must know what ‘gender’ is. I read her paper
Gender nonconforming youth: current perspectives. Hopefully, I can find something that justifies this entire transgender exercise. I’m getting desperate. After all, this is the up-to-date summation of the current state of gender-affirming healthcare in children. Surely this is all very reasonable, really.
“In contemporary versions of gender development theory that take into account gender variations as a normal part of the human condition, the understanding is that the sex assigned at birth may match the gender a youth will eventually know themselves to be, but it might not. Each child is presented with a developmental task of weaving together threads of nature, nurture, and culture to establish their individual and unique authentic gender self. This self will be composed of both gender identity — who I know myself to be as male, female, or other, and gender expressions — how I choose to perform my gender, including clothing choices, activity preferences, friendship choices, and so forth. Recently, this transactional relationship between nature, nurture, and culture in gender development has been referred to as the gender web, broken up into components that consist of the items in”
So gender can be defined by — the gender web?
The gender web?! I am not joking.
Here are the elements of the gender web, which are given to us in a table.
“• Chromosomes
• Hormones
• Hormone receptors
• Gonads/primary sex characteristics
• Secondary sex characteristics
• Brain
• Mind
• Socialization: family, school, religious institutions, community
• Culture: values, ethics, laws, theories, and practices”
Five of these are biology. Four are influenced by the culture around us — the brain, the mind, socialization and culture. But perhaps gender is not stereotypes but inborn, after all. Maybe Ehrensaft can tell us that, and I’ll delete everything and forget this ever happened.
Ehrensaft instead gives us a ‘fourth dimension of gender development’. I will let her hoist herself with her own petard:
“In this contemporary model of gender development, added to the three dimensions of nature, nurture, and culture is the fourth dimension: time. Each child alters their gender web as they weave together nature, nurture, and culture, “over time”. In other words, gender is neither fixed by age 6, as in the traditional model, nor static throughout all stages of child and adult development, thus explaining how an individual at age 40 or 50 could come to the realization that the gender they had identified as being is no longer a good fit. It is also recognized that gender development is a discrete and separate track from development of one’s sexual identity, and typically proceeds it in a youth’s development.”
Gender changes over time — and it is affected by culture. This is utter nonsense. Why are we medicating people over this? And if gender can change over time, what about transgender children? Can their gender change after you’ve castrated them? Why is this something that requires medical intervention?
It is interesting that Ehrensaft desires to establish that there is no link between ‘gender development’ and ‘one’s sexual identity’, despite the plethora of studies to the contrary — that gender non-conforming children often grow up to be homosexual adults. In a way, homosexuality is the ultimate gender non-conforming behavior. Perhaps Ehrensaft is taking into account the many ‘transgender lesbians’ who transition in mid-life.By insisting sexuality has nothing to do with transgenderism except ‘crossing at certain points’, Ehrensaft may also be sensitive to the gay critics who call this modern science of ‘transgender children’ gay conversion therapy.
Ehrensaft then presents a summation of the ‘gender affirmative’ model that LGBTQI+ organizations are promoting, she is promoting, and oligarchs are funding.
“Basic premises of the gender affirmative model
• Gender variations are not disorders.
• Gender presentations are diverse and varied across cultures, requiring cultural sensitivity.
• Gender involves an interweaving, over time, of biology; development and socialization; and culture and context.
• Gender may be fluid; it is not always binary.
• If present, individual psychological/psychiatric problems are more often than not secondary to negative interpersonal and cultural reactions to a child.
• Gender pathology lies more in the culture than in the child.
“[…]
The basic therapeutic tenet of the gender affirmative model is quite simple: When it comes to knowing a child’s gender, it is not for us to tell, but for the children to say. In contrast to the watchful waiting model, once information is gathered to assess a child’s gender status, action is taken to allow that child to exercise that gender. Therefore, if after careful consideration, it becomes clear that a young child is affirmed in their gender, demonstrating that the gender they know themselves is different than or opposite to the gender that would match the sex assigned to them at birth, the gender affirmative model supports a social transition to allow that child to fully live in that gender, whether that child is 3, 7, or 17 years old. Such decision-making is governed by stages, rather than ages, both for social transitions and later for medical interventions. Once the child’s gender comes into clear focus, which is posited as happening with a child of any age, no need is seen to hold off until adolescence to affirm that gender. This viewpoint is informed by data indicating the psychological harm that can be done, including heightened risk for generalized anxiety, social anxiety, oppositional behaviors, depression, compromised school performance, if a youth experiences themselves living in a gender that is inauthentic to them.
25”
Remember,
according to the Human Rights Campaign and Ehrensaft herself, gender is stereotypes.
This paper is literally saying that sexed body does not match the stereotypes assigned to it; it requires medical intervention to ‘affirm gender’. Despite this pathology being cultural, and acknowledging this fact, Ehrensaft still wants to chemically and physically castrate children who do not conform to ‘gender’. If a child believes they should be, or are the other sex, because they do not conform to society’s expectations and stereotypes of their sex, Ehrensaft believes we should medicalize this and treat them with drugs, and ultimately ‘affirm their gender’ by
castrating them.
She has published two books on this subject, encouraging the castration of non-conforming children. She has sat on advisory boards for drug companies to promote this off-label use of their medication.
You think I’m exaggerating about castration? Ehrensaft
admits to supporting castrating children:
“Another critical task for the medical-mental health team is the necessary discussion of fertility implications for each of these interventions. Although advances are being made in reproductive medicine to preserve immature gametes or reproductive tissues for later reproduction, at this point in history a child who begins puberty blockers at Tanner Stage 2 and proceeds directly to cross-sex hormones will be rendered infertile. Administration of testosterone or estrogen to a post pubertal adolescent may compromise a youth’s later fertility, or might require going off the hormones for a period of time if a transgender youth who has not had gonad or genital surgeries later in life desires to have a genetically related child.”[emphasis mine]
From the horse’s mouth.
Infertile. No gonads. Castrated. No sexual development. A brand new caste of eunuchs.
Are you concerned yet?
But she keeps going. Ehrensaft even sees the potential of drugging the ‘non-binary child’:
“Not only is there no other aspect of adolescent care where the teamwork between medical and mental health provider is critical; there is no other domain of youth services in which a mental health provider is so actively involved in medical decision making. Where this has surfaced most recently is in the recent emergence of youth in gender clinics who present as neither male nor female, but rather gender nonbinary or “in the middle”, adopting the platform of the multiplicity of gender. The challenge is when these youth ask for a particular medical intervention that achieves that goal of a middle ground — perhaps a touch of testosterone, or chest surgery with no other intervention and a chosen pronoun of “they” rather than “he” or “she”. These are new horizons for both medical and mental health professionals today, and there is a mutuality, therefore, in the medical professional training the mental health professional while the mental health professional is in turn training the medical professional in order to integrate the biopsychosocial aspects of care to include the gamut of all the gender nonconforming youth presenting for care.”
Just a touch of testosterone will not lead to health problems later in life, like heart attacks or irreversible physical changes.
If you don’t conform to sex stereotypes, you need medicalization.
This is what these scientists believe.
Ehrensaft concludes with this:
“In the course of only two decades, sophisticated models for the care of gender nonconforming and transgender youth have evolved. There is an urgent need to provide more research data documenting the efficacy of these different programs, but the recent findings of the Amsterdam group provide hope that the care, particularly within the watchful waiting and gender affirmative models, is promoting gender health. In the Dutch authors’ words, the treatment, including puberty suppression, cross-sex hormones, and then in adulthood gender affirmation surgery, “leads to improved psychological functioning of transgender adolescents. While enabling them to make important age-appropriate developmental transitions, it contributes to a satisfactory objective and subjective well-being in young adulthood”.
33 The authors propose that not only early medical intervention, but also a comprehensive multidisciplinary approach contributes to the youth’s gender health. Reflecting back on Daniel, the youth introduced at the opening of this review, the ability of professionals to aid youth such as Daniel in getting his authentic gender into focus and providing the appropriate treatments to bring that gender in alignment with his body is the key to overall well-being for all youth seeking professional gender care.”
The ‘gender affirming model’ has been around for less than two decades.
Two decades ago, it was considered settled science that gender dysphoric children mostly grow up gay and that puberty suppression was ill-advised. Regardless of the fact that it contradicts all prior science and thought on the subject, has emerged and it has become accepted extremely rapidly, despite the concerns of lesbians and gays, women, and not to mention many transsexuals. It begs the question: why the change? Ehrensaft also contradicts herself in other parts of the paper: she says that GnRH, has no risks and then admits later that the risks of such treatment are unknown, but that there are reports of bone problems — just like Rosenthal does in the paper he wrote quoted above. If neither of them can keep their story straight in a single, peer-reviewed paper that they authored, this ‘science’ has some catastrophic flaws, especially when its prophets and proselytizers lie to themselves over the efficacy of their own treatments!
Ehrensaft has written books on this subject and works with the lobby group Gender Spectrum (she sits on its board), which provides services to workplaces seeking diversity training. It is impossible for such a scientist to be impartial when they stand to make money and have been compensated by a particular pharmaceutical company to advocate use of their drugs. It is less a science and more a religion. These are not scientists. They are priests of a cult. Oh, and if you’re wondering, in
this bizarre interview with
Psychology Art, where she uses the term ‘gender resilience’, and insists that some females produce sperm and some males produce eggs, Ehrensaft advocates taking away children if the parents believe in the concept of biological sex:
“Now the question comes, what if this type of family intervention still doesn’t influence the family and they still are hostile to their child? At some point mental health professionals know that your chosen family is much more important sometimes than your family of origin in keeping you afloat and this is true for the trans youth community as well. Sometimes we as mental health professionals have to help trans youth find alternative places and relationships. I’m not saying necessarily moving them from their home but making sure that there’s an alternative supportive spaces for them, and somebody who can mentor them.
And sometimes you do wanna think about removing them from the home because it’s abusive. It’s as if they are being abused, and that’s a hard thing to call. But I think that the, kind of, severe gender solution that can happen in a home, I’d qualify it as abuse. It’s not the kind of abuse that I can report to CPS. It’s not considered physical abuse typically, but we can call it emotional abuse. So you can do that as well.”
Diane Ehrensaft wants to take away your children if you don’t want to give them drugs that include things like ‘organ damage’ as side effects because they don’t conform to sex stereotypes.
I read through more scientific articles than this — dozens. To be honest, reading them upset me with the sheer level of homophobia within. Most of them repeated exactly the same things. If I continued quoting from them this article would be even more unwieldy and unpublishable. What got me the most was that it took me a lot of hunting to even get a definition of ‘gender’. To these scientists it seems to be some kind of cultural construct that is also an innate psychosexual drama that can only be resolved through affirming whichever ‘gender’ a child chooses and deciding that a particular ‘gender’ belongs to a particular ‘sex’, so that child must be transitioned towards the appearance of a particular sex (with none of the sexual function of that sex, or their own sex.) These papers all say that behaving in a ‘male gender’ means a female child should be transitioned towards being a ‘male’, at least in appearance, and vice versa for male children. It is homophobic, regressive science. And it is being funded by drug companies and philanthropists with investments in those drug companies or a personal agenda.
The worst part of all of this?
The data we do have says all of this medical intervention doesn’t reduce suicidality in transgender people.
The overall mortality for sex-reassigned persons was higher during follow-up (aHR 2.8; 95% CI 1.8–4.3) than for controls of the same birth sex, particularly death from suicide (aHR 19.1; 95% CI 5.8–62.9). Sex-reassigned persons also had an increased risk for suicide attempts (aHR 4.9; 95% CI 2.9–8.5) and psychiatric inpatient care (aHR 2.8; 95% CI 2.0–3.9). Comparisons with controls matched on reassigned sex yielded similar results. Female-to-males, but not male-to-females, had a higher risk for criminal convictions than their respective birth sex controls.
We don’t know if the current ‘gender affirmation’ model might make it even worse! Yet they tell us if trans people don’t receive this medical treatment, they will be murdered or commit suicide. Which one is it — the rhetoric or the data we do have?
But I know one thing now: the transgender lobby is built on a foundation of money, nonsense and homophobia.
Especially this part of the article: "Pattinson said the director told him on set to "just do it for real man, don't be a p***y.""
