Trans youth
A closer look at trajectories of childhood social gender transitions
I’ve previously covered certain popular misuses of figures on the proportion of gender-dysphoric children whose dysphoria desists or persists into…
Boston Children’s Hospital establishes a framework for gender-affirming surgeries on minors
Throughout the past decade, there’s been no shortage of popular alarmism surrounding the spectre of “children being given sex changes”…
Michael Laidlaw and friends still misunderstand the basics of affirming care for trans youth
I’ve previously covered Dr. Michael K. Laidlaw et al.’s (2019) remarkable feat of fitting so many inaccuracies and distortions about…
Gender-affirming chest reconstruction surgery is highly effective for nonbinary patients
Even in the context of transgender identities and gender-affirming care and medical treatments, gender norms and stereotypes received from a…
Lisa Littman cites Edwards-Leeper & Spack (2012) in her “rapid onset gender dysphoria” study – but did she read it?
Lisa Littman’s now-notorious study on an alleged new “rapid onset gender dysphoria” condition occurring in adolescents as a result of…
Use of puberty blockers in transgender girls, effects on genital tissue development, and vaginoplasty options
Background and description of the issue GnRH analogue medications such as Lupron, Decapeptyl, and Supprelin LA have been in use…
4thWaveNow “ROGD parent” Brie Jontry doesn’t know what histrelin is
4thWaveNow, one of the three survey respondent recruitment sites for the badly flawed study of an alleged new “rapid onset…
Debra Soh is really bad at trans science (part 3)
Her alarmist claims of affirming care for trans youth functioning as anti-gay “conversion therapy” present a scenario wildly at odds…
Debra Soh is really bad at trans science (part 2)
Her alarmist claims of affirming care for trans youth functioning as anti-gay “conversion therapy” present a scenario wildly at odds…
Debra Soh is really bad at trans science (part 1)
Her alarmist claims of affirming care for trans youth functioning as anti-gay “conversion therapy” present a scenario wildly at odds…