I guess I find it kind of funny that the only possible explanation for medical groups refusing panels to the author is bias and groupthink, whereas her research is apparently fully objective and entirely free of such problems.
The author links to another article which goes into more detail on this and quotes the program committee chair:
> The academy's unwillingness to host Kaltiala and other likeminded clinicians suggests that even this moderate stance may now be a bridge too far for America's premier child psychiatry association, where even senior officials are raising concerns about ideological capture.
> AACAP has chosen "advocacy over science," Kaliebe said in an email to James McGough, who oversees conference programming, after the second two panels were nixed. In response, McGough conceded that politics likely played a role.
> "I actually share some of your concerns about AACAP ... coming down too heavily on one side of politically charged topics," McGough told Kaliebe in a May email. Decisions about conference programming, he added, are "based on input from various AACAP committees." If the gender committee is "too one sided, the program committee is in a tough spot. Our committees are considered our experts."
> The exchange illustrates how a small group of activist doctors can suppress the viewpoints of clinicians who disagree with them, creating the appearance of medical consensus where none exists.
What even is an activist doctor? Seems like a weird phrase to me. Shouldn't all doctors be activists, especially when they're in decision-making authorities such as the AACAP?
> But the ones who came were nothing like what was described by the Dutch. We expected a small number of boys who had persistently declared they were girls. Instead, 90 percent of our patients were girls, mainly 15 to 17 years old, and instead of being high-functioning, the vast majority presented with severe psychiatric conditions.
and after treatment...
> The young people we were treating were not thriving. Instead, their lives were deteriorating. We thought, what is this? Because there wasn’t a hint in studies that this could happen. Sometimes the young people insisted their lives had improved and they were happier. But as a medical doctor, I could see that they were doing worse. They were withdrawing from all social activities. They were not making friends. They were not going to school. We continued to network with colleagues in different countries who said they were seeing the same things.
> "Although a recent New York Times investigation largely corroborated Reed’s account,"
This is entirely false. The New York Times did not corroborate any of Reed's allegations of wrongdoing against the clinic, and large parts of it have been disputed by patients and parents of patients.
These rebuttals are kind of missing the point. For example:
> Claim 18: "The psychiatry services were limited and could only serve patients who were 'not too severe,' which meant that many patients were being sent to the already overburdened emergency rooms for suicidal ideations, for self-harm, and for inpatient eating disorder treatment."
> An outpatient clinic does not provide emergency inpatient care. It is normal for patients whose symptoms are severe enough to require emergency treatment to be referred by such a clinic to an ER. The NYT found patients from the Center were referred to the ER. That the ERs were overburdened, and that better options weren't often available for youth in severe crisis, is a sad reality of the U.S. mental health system. It is not something that can reasonably be laid at the feet of an outpatient service for a vulnerable group of young people that everyone agrees is at a higher risk of suicide.
> At the trainings, E.R. staff shared concerns about their own experiences with their young transgender patients, which Ms. Hamon later relayed to her team and university administrators.
> The E.R. staff, she wrote in an email, had been seeing more transgender adolescents experiencing mental health crises, "to the point where they said they at least have one TG patient per shift."
> They aren't sure why patients aren't required to continue in counseling if they are continuing hormones," Ms. Hamon added. And they were concerned that "no one is ever told no."
That is, the ER departments were getting an unexplained increase in presentations from the clinic's patients despite the treatments supposedly working well. Which really does bring into question the idea that affirmation-only treatment significantly improves mental health.
I think you're misunderstanding the article. It's analyzing the claims Reed made, specifically the ones she made in her affidavit, and whether they had been corroborated by the NYT or elsewhere. It's not analyzing the claims made in the NYT article by Ms. Hamon or by Reed. Reed doesn't mention any kind of unexplained increase in this particular claim, so the response is adequate.
Besides, the claims listed in the article are just the ones where some amount of truth has been found. If you scroll to the bottom, it has a link to the spreadsheet where you can see the author's tally of Reed's claims, including the claims where the author found no corroboration and ones where the author considers the claim to have been refuted by the available evidence (evidence which includes the third link in my previous comment, which I do recommend you read).
Children with hormonal diseases (like precocious puberty) have to take puberty blockers and they have no lasting effect. They just stop the onset of secondary sex characteristics until a more appropriate age. (remember: those hormones control all sorts of changes, including sometimes-painful growth spurts)
Transitioning as a child is a series of steps. It starts with social transitioning below age 10. Puberty blockers from around 10 to 15. Hormone treatments from 15 onward. Some opt to continue to top/bottom surgery, usually after the age of 17 (with a parent's consent if under 18).
And no. Puberty blockers are well understood (been using for over 50 years), and their use restricted to timeframes where it won't impact the child's development.
Just so I understand, you're making the claim that you can put a child on puberty blockers / hormone treatments from age 10 to 17, and then you can take them off of it and they will resume their sex-at-birth biological development the same as their peers who didn't have hormone treatment, with no permanent effects? Is that right?
Between 1% and 8%, depending on how detransition is defined. This article found 6.9% (12/175, 6 clearly detransitioning and 6 ambiguous) at one clinic, including anyone who sought and received care over a certain interval.
That is interesting but the same study also says that 21.7% of this cohort disengaged from the clinic. So the rate could be even higher, depending on if they stopped treatment entirely or changed to another service provider.
The data there is not good. There are studies that claim it is low. They focus on surgery a lot. There are not many trans people (relative to the general population) and not many studies on them. There is not sufficient granularity between:
- trans people who only take hormones,
- who do that and have top surgery,
- who are castrated and,
- who have top and bottom surgery
Personally, I think bottom surgery is not quite there and is definitely a medical frontier and free-for-all. Hormones and top surgery are fairly reversible via application of more money, exercise and time.
Based on that, I am forced to fall back to first principles, and feel that given that the risk of lasting damage is low on some procedures, that those procedures which give perfectly acceptable and also potentially reversible results are reasonable to offer in this way.
There is a big difference in what would be an objectively determined need (a knee replacement) versus something that is very subjective (wanting to be another gender). There is no quantifiable measurement for determining gender. (Speaking specifically for minors.)
If someone wants a knee surgery because they want to continue their hobby of endurance running, but does not need the surgery for an otherwise normal life, does that surgery count as an objective or subjective need?
LMAO the free press is some bullshit rag and Bari Weiss is a grifter. She pretends to be an enlightened centrist but only ever complains about the left and woke/cancel culture. On top of this she dismisses criticism as anti-semitism. And then of course there's this little gem below:
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fu...
That's their MO. Repeat a lie over and over. Like the indidual above who claims this is from 2019, when it isn't. There's a date on top and bottom, And the things mentioned in the article are much more recent than 2019.
I have three kids, and if one of them wanted to socially transition, I would support them. But I would not support medical transition until they are 18. If at that point they want to do that for themselves, then I will support them.
