Category Archives: Statistics and demographics

Tracking organized anti-trans submissions to the Florida Board of Medicine October 28 meeting, which passed a ban on medical transition for trans youth

Posted on November 1, 2022 by Zinnia Jones

The agenda submissions featured the state’s handpicked experts as well as public comments from conversion therapists, trans-hostile providers in major hospital systems, anti-trans parents promoting detransitioning, and leading members of the Catholic Medical Association and National Catholic Bioethics Center. Previously: … Continue reading →

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Dr. Stephen Levine and the Plot to Police America’s Gender (part 2)

Posted on July 1, 2022 by Zinnia Jones

< Previously: Dr. Stephen Levine and the Plot to Police America’s Gender, part 1. How Steensma et al. can’t support Levine’s claim that social transition causes persistence. Persistent gender dysphoria into adolescence is not rare, including in Steensma et al. … Continue reading →

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Dr. Stephen Levine and the Plot to Police America’s Gender (part 1)

Posted on June 1, 2022 by Zinnia Jones

In case after case, an anti-trans expert witness promotes the same baseless theory: permitting social transition for trans youth will prevent them from later adopting a cisgender identity. But his own sources reveal how implausible that is. Psychiatrist Dr. Stephen … 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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What parents don’t know: Trans youth study reveals fatal flaw at the heart of “rapid-onset gender dysphoria” (ROGD) pseudo-diagnosis (3 of 3)

Posted on May 1, 2021 by Zinnia Jones

Part 1 — Part 2 — Part 3 If ROGD is fundamentally unsound, what about its related claims? Littman has not sufficiently demonstrated that a syndrome characterized by a “rapid onset” of false gender dysphoria exists as a new entity … Continue reading →

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