In my mail in a super blue coastal city today: a recruitment flyer from a chic, expensive private middle school with the slogan, “Because adolescent brains work differently.” Well. Um. Yes. Could we hook this school up with the city’s gender docs?

Essay by a detransitioner, for detransitioners:

COMING SOON: Beyond Trans Help (previously GDSN) is launching a therapeutic support group (18+) for those harmed by medical transition and individuals navigating rapid-onset gender dysphoria (ROGD). Email [email protected] to learn more or join the waitlist.

Powerful animation created by detransitioner Julia: “Seven to ten years after transition, which is the period where suicides tend to be highest, is where many slowly start to realize that their lives have not significantly improved through transition — but where it can feel

if medical transition is a necessary treatment for a health condition then doctors are liable for misdiagnosis and mistreatment. if medical transition is a personal choice doctors are liable for fraudulently presenting it as medically necessary. pick a lane.

14 yo girl is a pro soccer player… and the concerns about the tremendous mental and physical changes teenagers experience. ⁦NPR⁩ , do you even hear yourself? Do better trans coverage. one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-533086…

Realistically, do 3- and 4- year olds need to understand what a drag queen is? It seems a quite sexually sophisticated concept for children. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

Hey, people who've desisted/detransitioned! The New York Times' Daily podcast is doing a segment on pediatric gender affirming care and asking for those with direct experience to share their stories in a voice memo. 1/2 Laura Becker🐦‍🔥 Campbell Miller Payne, PLLC Genspect DIAGdemocrats

NYT wants to know: "What has your experience been with pediatric gender medicine? How have recent government actions affected you and how are you feeling about the future?" Send a voice memo to: [email protected] Prisha Simon Amaya Price 🦎 Claire 🦎

The ACLU bet big on a trans rights case. Its loss was predictable. wapo.st/3ZCYDMr

A genius mom here said a few days ago that while it’s a common trope that families reject trans kids, it’s actually more often to be trans kids rejecting families. Why? Because families know… the truth. And trans kids cannot bear that. Haven’t felt this seen in a long time.

“If you have a loophole, bad people go through it.” Single-sex spaces are needed in order to safeguard women and “softening” that boundary makes it easier for “bad people” to enter, says journalist Helen Joyce. Helen Joyce | #TimesRadio

Zara 🦎 Daniel Black🦎 UniquelyDefined🦎 I saw the “informed consent” form my kid signed - it was airy with white space. Nervy, I thought, for a clinic prescribing testosterone before any bloodwork was back from the lab. Why are these forms shorter than the terms of an app you download? Clinics are lying to kids.

And, even if gender clinics started issuing tech industry-quality T&C, the warnings would be based on population studies. Are you in the middle of that bell curve? What’s your family history? Ever had genetic testing for clotting factors? Don’t know what T&C means?

Children with high self esteem and strong peer relationships— children who “belong”— are not the ones transitioning.

I will never understand why this is not self-evident to more people. Including Bill Kristol .

A young detransitioner, Fox Varian, has won $2 million damages in a medical malpractice lawsuit, in which she sued the psychologist and surgeon who approved her for a double mastectomy, aged 16. Varian's mother testified that she'd been against the surgery, but was pressured into

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