Obviously Rowling is not a transphobe. Even the New York Times agrees.

Dean simply doesn’t like anybody who doesn’t agree with him and once they are not on his side he name calls.

I have never said anything racist on this cite – but dean has labeled me a racist hundreds of times. It is pure name calling.

So ignore dean.

You are 100% correct on this issue and I totally agree with you. Your posts were well written, well researched, full of citations and 100% correct.

Just ignore the name calling and keep sticking up for the confused kids being duped into having harmful surgery and harmful HRT based on criminal affirmative gender care ideology.

But, I’ve said my piece and left links for you to read for references. If you don’t choose to open them, that’s on you.

Before we agree to go back and forth on name-calling and linking puerile satire about JK Rowling

The problem is that rowling has proven herself to be an awful person in a variety of ways: anti-gay, anti-trans, etc. Ricka, is much the same, probably worse, since he throws in a huge helping of blatant racism and misogyny [notice he never references anything other than spots like ‘hotair’, notoriously right-wing and home for no end of racists and other low-lifes?]. Don’t make the mistake of believing his objection has anything to do with “lack of science” or concern about children: it’s about his bigotry and the horrors he imagines [with no supporting evidence, as usual] from studying the issue. It’s his usual argumentation from privilege, authority, ignorance, right-wing authoritarianism, and the fact that he doesn’t believe any advancement in science since he was in elementary school.

As to “here is no evidence, nor even should anyone who understands adolescence believe, that blocking puberty is safe. ” — reference? And thinking that “we are prescribing them [the drugs involved] so that males don’t develop male physical features” is the only reasons parents go through with this for their children is a short-sighted view.

It is complicated, but attention needs to be paid to what researchers [for and against] say, and not amplify what people on the right, like rickA, who have repeatedly shown themselves to be against anything that doesn’t benefit well-off whites, shout out.

The rapid increase in the number of children requiring support and the complex case-mix means that the current clinical model, with a single national provider, is not sustainable in the longer term.

We need to know more about the population being referred and outcomes. There has not been routine and consistent data collection, which means it is not possible to accurately track the outcomes and pathways that children and young people take through the service.

There is lack of consensus and open discussion about the nature of gender dysphoria and therefore about the appropriate clinical response.

Because the specialist service has evolved rapidly and organically in response to demand, the clinical approach and overall service design has not been subjected to some of the normal quality controls that are typically applied when new or innovative treatments are introduced. ?

Key points – moving forward

Children and young people with gender incongruence or dysphoria must receive the same standards of clinical care, assessment and treatment as every other child or young person accessing health services.

The care of this group of children and young people is everyone’s business. Our initial work indicates that clinicians at all levels feel they have the transferable skills and commitment to support these children and young people, but there needs to be agreement and guidance about the appropriate clinical assessment process that should take place at primary, secondary and tertiary level, underpinned by better data and evidence.

Addressing the challenges will require service transformation, with support offered at different levels of the health service.

The Review’s research programme will not just build the evidence base in the UK but will also contribute to the global evidence base, meaning that young people, their families, carers and the clinicians supporting them can make more informed decisions about the right path for them.

A fundamentally different service model is needed which is more in line with other paediatric provision, to provide timely and appropriate care for children and young people needing support around their gender identity. This must include support for any other clinical presentations that they may have.

Many European countries are pulling back and re-evaluating the science that led to a rush towards adolescent affirmation treatment, once an awareness of the fact that there is no evidence, nor even should anyone who understands adolescence believe, that blocking puberty is safe. Even if the actual drugs were safe, what are we thinking here? Adolescence is a crucial stage of development for many reasons, and if we are prescribing them so that males don’t develop male physical features should that be a valid medical reason to prescribe them? There’s too much at risk and, these are the same kids we have decided are too young for tattoos.

There are also links in this article to the changes and slow-downs in rushing towards medical affirmation.

https://pitt.substack.com/p/dear-new-york-times?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

The Onion is making fun of you. Not JK Rowling. You get that – right?

Absolutely other people are affected. Switching the focus from the poor trans kid – lets focus on the people around the “trans kid”.

What happened to the right to privacy for the poor high school girls who are now required to shower and change cloths with a biological boy (and visa versa)?

What about the religious violation for the religions which prescribe people of the opposite sex from showering/bathing together?

We segregate bathrooms by sex for a reason – and the rights of the people in the bathroom are being violated by the person of the opposite sex who are using the wrong bathroom and shower.

This whole mess is caused by pretending that people can change sex. People cannot change sex – and that is basic biology and a fact. If we went back to the facts we could avoid all the problems created by letting boys/men compete in girls/womens sports, people using the wrong bathroom/showers and biological men being placed into women’s prisons and raping the women inmates.

It is all pretty simple. Stop pretending people can change sex just by saying they identify as the opposite sex. Trans-men are biological women and trans-women are biological men and those are the facts. A simple blood test can show what the biological sex of a person is and it doesn’t change based on thoughts, hormones, surgery or clothing.

Yes – the other people have been shoved aside. They have had their separate spaces invaded. They have been raped in prisons. Their rights have been violated. Title IX has been violated. Scholarships have been stolen. Their very sex has been defined out of existence. What a strange and terrible tragedy.

What truth does get through is important, though. Adolescents need to be able to come to terms with who they are. Pushing an affirmation-only strategy of therapy under the guise of banning “conversion therapy,” such as is being run through the Minnesota Senate as combined with the banning of treatment of gay and lesbians, will end up causing much more anguish than it prevents.

Even though I am active in my DFL I don’t know who I can talk to in order to persuade as all of my reps and my senator have expressed support for it. I know it will pass no matter what I do, and the governor will sign it, but my hope is to find someone that can help me communicate to the executive branch to help make sure that it is enforced based on science rather than just as an effort to “do something” for gender confused kids.

Labelling boys as girls, and vv is a dangerous path and we shouldn’t lose sight of the fact that the kid in Osseo is a boy. He’s been victimized by this, first by those who tell him he should use the girls’, and second by the trend in society to accept that the way to resolve his issues with gender is to believe that he’s a girl.

We need to apply even a basic razor to this. What is more likely to be a parsimonious explanation for gender non-conformity?

1. A gender identity with no explanable cause inhabits bodies and is sometimes counter to the physical nature of the body it inhabits, or

2. The gender expectations of our society have placed pressures on people that can sometimes be too much to conform to and as adolescents kids who are outside of those expectations are led to believe that they are wrong?

Start from there, and then start thinking about what it means for girls when their opportunities for sports are reduced by boys who are placed on their teams as trans. Title IX was enacted to create opportunities for women and girls in athletics because our species is bimodal in secondary sexual traits associated with the skills and abilities needed for sport. Placing trans id males in girls sports is inherently unfair, and you end up with males such as Lia Thompson on the U Penn women’s swim team ( and his desire to change along with the women on the team even though he has not undergone any bottom surgery.) Start thinking about the message that we are sending girls in schools that they must accept boys who claim to id as trans or non-binary into their restrooms, but no form of medical or psychological diagnosis can be asked becasue that would be “transphobic.” It prevents girls from safeguarding, and schoolgirls in England have been holding their pee until after school to avoid it. They are called bigots and transphobes for safeguarding in a culture where lads are already horrible to girls.

It’s not as simple as “protecting trans kids.” Other people are affected, but they have been shoved aside.

https://twitter.com/SarahVaci/status/1628446335861923840?s=20

This is cast as a Republican V Democrat issue, and as such, Democrats are finding it hard to speak to other Democrats about it for fear of being shunned. It’s not a left v right issue, but needs to be seen in context of the performance and structure of gender.

Here is an article from an expert in Finland which is relevant and timely:

https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2023/02/21/tablet-finlands-top-gender-medicine-doctor-on-social-transition-n532352