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Just out: Study of trans adolescents confirms puberty blockers and HRT are associated with improved mental health

Posted on February 28, 2022 by Zinnia Jones

Previously: Four recent studies confirm benefits of medical transition for trans adolescents (May 2020) The use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormone therapy for trans adolescents is not a new or recent development, and this protocol has been in use … Continue reading →

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Contra social contagion: Why online community among trans people saves our lives and terrifies our enemies

Posted on February 1, 2022 by Zinnia Jones

“Trans vlogs made me feel like I wasn’t a problem.” “It just makes me feel that it’s okay to be this way.” The “rapid onset gender dysphoria” hoax proposes that large numbers of apparently trans adolescents are actually misguided cis … Continue reading →

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The Matrix Resurrections analysis: More trans than ever, this bold and messy dysphoric nightmare will thrill and unnerve (part 2)

Posted on December 31, 2021 by Zinnia Jones

< Continued from Part 1. Assigned roles and binaries fracture easily and often. These conversations and moments of dysphoric self-recognition and trans self-actualization are repeatedly shown as tipping-point epiphanies that can happen at the speed of an egg cracking. Bugs, … Continue reading →

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The Matrix Resurrections analysis: More trans than ever, this bold and messy dysphoric nightmare will thrill and unnerve (part 1)

Posted on December 31, 2021 by Zinnia Jones

Spoilers/prerequisites: All of The Matrix Resurrections. Previously: The Matrix is about transgender depersonalization, a dissociative “feeling of unreality” that can be treated by transitioning (December 2021) Up front, I really liked The Matrix Resurrections and I think you should watch … Continue reading →

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The fall, and fall, and fall of “rapid-onset gender dysphoria”: New study does not find evidence of a distinct “ROGD” population of gender-diverse youth

Posted on November 30, 2021 by Zinnia Jones

Previously: Trans youth study reveals fatal flaw at the heart of “rapid-onset gender dysphoria” pseudo-diagnosis (April 2021) Contra “ROGD”: A recent cohort of youth evaluated at Amsterdam’s gender clinic does not have less intense gender dysphoria or greater psychological issues … Continue reading →

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