Category: Gender Science

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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

“Gender crossing” by arboltsef is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0.
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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“Medically Inaccurate” Charge Dropped Against Gender Critical Nurse

Nurse Amy Hamm and the billboard she sponsored.

This is a follow up to a post I made several months ago about a nurse in Canada.

Canadian Nurse Amy Hamm is being investigated and charged with professional misconduct for disagreeing with Gender Ideology.  Here is my earlier post.

Punishing Our Gender Critical Nurses.

The latest development is that the charge against Nurse Hamm about making statements that included “medically inaccurate information” have been dropped.

The original charge said that Hamm: 

“…made discriminatory and derogatory statements regarding transgender people, some of which statements included medically inaccurate information, while identifying yourself as a nurse or nurse educator. These statements were made across various online platforms, including but not limited to, podcasts, videos, published writings and social media.”

Professionally, I suppose, that could have been a problem. Though everybody knows medical professionals sometimes make inaccurate statements. They are only human, after all.

But the new charge now reads:

“Between approximately July 2018 and March 2021, you made discriminatory and derogatory statements regarding transgender people, while identifying yourself as a nurse or nurse educator. These statements were made across various online platforms, including but not limited to, podcasts, videos, published writings and social media.”

Of course that is a step in the right direction.

However. Nurse Hamm’s free speech right to make, as a medical professional, the completely rational and scientific statement that it is impossible to change your sex is still, unfortunately, facing discipline.

Regulatory bodies are increasingly policing the speech of professionals (see this post)

Human Rights Code Used To Cancel Canadian Teacher

to “cancel” medical and educational professionals with whom they disagree. But as more and more decide to bravely face this cancel culture of intimidation, I hope the current trajectory of this debate will change. One can only hope.

You can read more about Amy’s story here. Go Amy!!

“Medically inaccurate” charge dropped against nurse facing discipline for gender critical statements

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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