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1/"Identity with" was too ambiguous to be a reliable predictor of need for medical intervention come puberty, instead, the problem with DSM-IV GIDC was the lack of requirement for physical dysphoria - #GenderIncongruence - which a reanalysis of…
2/… of 🇳🇱 research showed was the sole reliable indicator/symptom linked to persistence. This was always known (📽️ Head of 🇳🇱 clinic, 1995) but #ConversionTherapy clinics instead insisted GNC symptoms - which they claimed indicated pre-trans kids…
3/…who they could "cure" - be included, and then, when the kids swept in by that didn't meet the different criteria for GD of Adolescents & Adults, which applied as soon as puberty started, they claimed - & still claim - they'd "desisted". Their clinics didn't even record…
@ShapiroTattoo @christapeterso 1/ They're conflating gender dysphoria with suicidal ideation, trying to erase that GD is frustrated #GenderIncongruence. In the Bell case, they used GIDS' lousy study of their patients which found SI wasn't reduced on PBs (negating the 🇳🇱 finding it was) to say PBs didn't…
@ShapiroTattoo @christapeterso 2/…work, even though they are 100% effective at preventing further pubertal change. The 🇳🇱 did the main session on endocrine care in adolescence at @TheEndoSociety conference last week (no doubt to avoid heat on US providers) & were pushing the "reduces SI" line. I don't see…
@ShapiroTattoo @christapeterso @TheEndoSociety 3/…why PBs would do that directly. Perhaps the 🇳🇱 imagine its pubertal hormones directly induce depression rather than the changes they bring? I'd suggest they're in denial that their now long-outdated, prolonged PB period protocol they initiated in the '90s isn't what…
