Category: Gender Science

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California Weighs Gender-Transition Bill for Youths Beyond Its Borders

I’ve highlighted Erin Brewer before. If you haven’t heard her story it’s really worth the time. Then come back and get informed about what some California legislators are hoping to do by listening to the 30 minute podcast below.

Always Erin
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California is moving ahead with a bill that would offer gender-transition medical treatment not just to in-state children, but also to kids across America. 

Here is Erin Brewer on the conservative podcast, the Daily Signal. She is a great advocate for protecting children. Her personal experience as a former trans-kid is riveting.

You can find the transcript here if you want to read along.

[Standard link disclaimer1Links from this blog to online resources don’t necessarily mean I support everything found there. But as adults we should embrace viewpoint diversity. And make alliances where we can.]

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Fact-Checking the HHS

Two months ago, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued an official document “Gender Affirming Care and Young People.” In a recent blog the Society For Evidence Based Gender Medicine fact-checked this important document and found an alarming number of errors and misrepresentations.

SEGM is an international group of over 100 clinicians and researchers concerned about the lack of quality evidence for the use of hormonal and surgical interventions as first-line treatment for young people with gender dysphoria. They represent expertise from a range of clinical disciplines.

Here are the bullet points of their fact-check:

Inaccurate Claims
  • Misstatements of the effects of social transition
  • Unsupported claim of the reversibility of puberty blockers
  • Inaccurate statement regarding the age eligibility for surgeries
  • Overreaching claims of “proven benefits” of gender transition on adolescent mental health
  • Omission of any discussion of risks
  • Conflation of distinctly different concepts
Insufficient Process
  • Inadequate literature review
  • Biased recommendations that do not acknowledge the low quality of evidence
  • Failure to consult a range of stakeholders with diverse views
  • Lack of identification or acknowledgement of alternatives

Full Fact-Check Report

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Show Me The 3rd Gamete, And We Can Talk

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88% Desisters In Study of Dysphoric Boys

“Two young boys, seated with books, in the children’s department of a Toronto public library, Toronto, Ontario / by BiblioArchives / LibraryArchives is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

Vast majority of gender dysphoric boys desist, long-term study finds.

The study was done at the University of Toronto by Singh, Bradley and Zucker and published by Frontiers in Psychiatry (March 29, 2021)

Researchers found that 17 (12.2%) of the participants persisted in their gender dysphoria, and the remaining 122 (87.8%) desisted. 82 (63.6%) of the participants were ascertained to be bisexual or gay and 43 (33.3%) were heterosexual. The remaining 4 (3.1%) reported no sexual fantasies.

One of the scientists, Kenneth J. Zucker, Ph.D., adolescent and child psychologist and chair of the DSM-5 Work Group on Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders was discussed in an early post last year.

Our Girls – Entry 1

Full Study Here.

This is why “watchful waiting” was always the preferred method until recently. But if you suggest that today you might be accused of trying to practice Conversion Therapy.

Today, clinicians advise social transition, then puberty blockers, and cross-sex hormones at earlier ages. There will be no turning back, no desisting from that. The only options will be either to continue identifying as the opposite sex/gender OR become a Detransitioner after having done irreversible harm to your body.

As a Classic Christian I encourage everyone to “Embrace, Don’t Affirm.”

Individuals with a Gender Identity Disorder (Gender-Dysphoria) need Truth-filled Love. Please read this post for more details.

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