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Ben Appel

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Writer in @newsweek, @thefp, @queermajority, @dcexaminer, @quillette, @spikedonline, @unherd. Memoir about Columbia and cults, w/ Post Hill Press, forthcoming.

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To all the people who are somehow STILL advocating for puberty blockers for trans-identified kids:
The use of blockers for this population started specifically with gender-nonconforming, mostly homosexual boys in mind. The idea was that, if they went through puberty and

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Candice H. Brown Elliott Your argument that, 'well, women experience difficulties with orgasm so why shouldn't males who want to pass as women experience them, too?' is really something. Second, the study states, 'Approximately half to three quarters of the transwoman experienced sexual difficulties when

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Candice H. Brown Elliott Also, if this wasn't a concern, why would the president of WPATH, a transwoman and surgeon, say it is? And why, in a conversation with Blair Peters, did a physiotherapist who does pelvic-floor therapy with post-surgery transwomen say that orgasm is a major problem with a lot of

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Ben Appel The pres of WPATH is an AGP (gynephilic older transitioner) who I've met on several occasions. She has no clue as to the needs of homosexual transsexuals (transkids).

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