Research showing that most gender-confused young people outgrow their gender confusion, and the ban on puberty blockers in the UK, both support ‘de-transsexuals’ (people born after changing their gender as teenagers). It is hailed as “validation” by those who have returned to their original gender.
The detransitioners are living proof of a major study in the Netherlands that found that what psychiatrists call “gender dysphoria,” or the desire to be the opposite sex, declines significantly from adolescence to early adulthood. He told the Post that there was.
The charity also said a bombshell audit of London’s Tavistock, the UK’s leading gender clinic, found drugs were being given to troubled teens without medical evidence that they were safe. It also supported reports in the UK, where doctors were ordered to stop prescribing “puberty-blocking” hormones after the incident. .
“These revelations are highly justified,” Chloe Cole, a 19-year-old detransitioner, told the Post.
“I’m disappointed it’s taken this long, but I’m grateful that this is finally becoming a mainstream conversation and that people are finally starting to realize what we’re doing to our children. Masu.”
In the Dutch study, researchers followed 2,700 children over 15 years. They found that 11% of children worry about their gender in early adolescence.
However, by age 26, that number plummeted to 4%. As researchers point out“Gender dissatisfaction is relatively common in early adolescence but generally declines with age.”
“This is a very sophisticated study, and the results don’t surprise me at all,” Dr. Erica Anderson, a clinical psychologist from California who works with gender nonconforming children, told the Post.
Anderson, who is a transgender woman herself, said medical professionals should be careful about the medicalization of transgender youth, saying they should “refuse” (medical terminology refers to reinstatement) children to revert to their birth gender. We believe that we should take seriously the possibility of
“This confirms an argument that some of us have been making for some time: We should not assume that all children who come forward will maintain their transgender identity.” she said.
Airiel Salvatore, 34, a detransitioner who lives in Seattle, said the study found that the majority of children who question their gender end up being satisfied with their sex at birth. I wasn’t surprised.”
Salvatore, who started hormone treatment in 2005, underwent genital relocation surgery in 2014, and transitioned last year, said, “Given what I’ve observed among many of my transgender friends, this is a personal “It’s completely consistent with my experience,” he told the Post.
“Europe seems to be ahead of the curve,” he says. “The clinic seems to be more ideological here. It’s as if they don’t want to know the answer, because this whole thing is really just based on maladaptive empathy. is.”
Fellow detransitioner Cole (who came out as transgender at age 13, had a double mastectomy at 15, and finally detransitioned by age 16) also said that the United States I agree that it is too late to recognize that the medicalization of gendered youth was a mistake.
So far, the United Kingdom, Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark have all moved to restrict medical interventions for transgender youth.
But in the United States, the issue has become a high-profile culture war issue with progressive states such as New York and California. Declaring ourselves a “safe haven” For transgender children seeking treatment.
“The United States is motivated by money and politics, and the left in particular has made this their primary political tool,” Cole told the Post.
But the tide is turning, with 22 states so far restricting medical care for transgender youth. According to Human Rights Watch.
“Our legislative process is not as national as it is in Europe, so it takes longer here,” Cole said. “But I think it’s inevitable that the irreversible medicalization of children will be banned in all 50 states and federally.”
Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) last week halted the use of puberty blockers in children following a four-year review by independent researcher Dr Hilary Cass.
“For most young people, medical care is probably not the best way to deal with gender-related distress,” Cass says. wrote in her report.
“Providing a health care pathway alone is not enough without addressing the broader mental health and psychosocial challenges for young people who clinically need it.”
British psychoanalyst Marcus Evans, who resigned from his role as clinical director of adult and youth services at Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust in 2020 over concerns about the medicalization of transgender young people, also said that Cass agree with the conclusion.
“This basically confirms all my complaints, but only good people can understand why it took 15 years and so many children were affected,” Evans told the Post. .
He says politics has blinded his NHS colleagues and forced gender-confused children into the process of medicalization. “Politics is interfering with normal clinical practice. It has become a culture driven by political ideology rather than clinical thinking.”
But Salvatore, Cole, Evans and Anderson all agree that these revelations from Europe are starting a much-needed reassessment here in the United States.
“I think we’re at the beginning of the pendulum swinging back,” Salvatore said. “Until recently, stating a biological fact could result in immediate cancellation.
“But now I think people are starting to recognize the madness of it. We want to look back at this era with an interest in human psychology.”
“It’s really unfortunate that so many people had to suffer.”
