A random collection of spurious lifesaving claims and a few facts
• “We cannot carry on in this field that involves permanently changing young people’s bodies if we don’t fully understand what we’re doing and learn from those we fail.” (Dr Laura Edwards-Leeper, co-author of WPATH Treatment guidelines and founder of the first paediatric gender clinic in the US)
• Dr Telfer is credited with helping to save many children's lives without pulling out a single scalpel or tending to any life-threatening diseases. (ABC)
• There is no robust empirical evidence that puberty blockers reduce suicidality or suicide rates. (NIH)
• Clinical gender dysphoria does not appear to be predictive of all cause nor suicide mortality when psychiatric treatment history is accounted for (BMJ Health)
• “I had the honour of meeting Dr Michelle Telfer who is one of Australia’s leading health researchers who is saving lives” (Ricki Spencer)
• “Transgender unit at Melbourne's Royal Children's hospital gets $6m boost. A major funding boost to Australia's only multidisciplinary clinic for children with gender dysphoria will save countless lives”, the chief executive of Transgender Victoria, Sally Goldner, has said. (the Guardian)
• Dr Edwards-Leeper has advocated for better training of gender therapists and increased diligence in assessing mental health issues before assigning medical interventions such as puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to patients.
• Suicidality in young people attending the GIDS is similar to that of young people referred to child and adolescent mental health services. (Aust Institute of Health & Welfare)
• The age-specific death rate for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander child suicide was 8.3 deaths per 100,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, compared to 2.1 per 100,000 for non-Indigenous children (Aust Institute of Health & Welfare)
• Clinical gender dysphoria does not appear to be predictive of all-cause nor suicide mortality when psychiatric treatment history is accounted for (BMJ)
• A Study titled 'All-cause and suicide mortalities among adolescents and young adults who contacted specialised gender identity services in Finland in 1996–2019'
analysed overall mortality and suicide among gender-referred young people in Finland over a 25-year time span. The study found no convincing evidence that gender-referred youth have statistically significantly higher suicide rates as compared to the general population, after controlling for psychiatric needs (BMJ Mental Health)
• Australia’s guidelines on gender affirmative medicine lack rigour and independence and fail to recommend formal assessment processes that screen for body image problems, autism spectrum disorder, sexual orientation according to international researchers commissioned. (UK Cass review)
I don't know how onerous it is for you but wondering whether you can put the short form citation alongside? I think I know some of them but would be useful for a letter I am writing.
I think that the easiest way to identify the source of the quotes in my post would be to copy all or part of the text as it appears in my submission and then google the text, it should take you to the respective document from which the quote was sourced.
As someone who is both American and Venezuelan and a student of Latin American societies and politics, I am interested in whether trans activism in Chile has created or is supported by what we in the US call cancel culture. Here, it is almost impossible for sex realists to have a say in the gender affirming politics, policies and programs embraced the Democratic Party mainstream. Trans activists have been successful in persuading most Dems that anyone who questions any aspect of gender identity ideology is a "transphobe," that is, a terrible and hateful person. With a few exceptions, America higher education also responds to outspoken faculty or student sex realists by shunning, shaming and censoring them. That is why sex realists have had to look the courts and Republican controlled state legislatures to curb the excesses of trans activism.
Do critics of gender identity ideology in Chile face a similar repressive atmosphere?
Also, assuming there are trans activists in Chile, how much direct influence have foreign trans activists had on their ideology, tactics and programs?
It seems to me that trans activism is an international franchise of modernity, even when claiming indigenous history. Parents in Chile have copped pushback & very few clinicians are willing to speak openly about their concerns. Even so, the shift from no debate to no hormones has been very swift. It’s not over but the gender medicine lobby is under real pressure.
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A random collection of spurious lifesaving claims and a few facts
• “We cannot carry on in this field that involves permanently changing young people’s bodies if we don’t fully understand what we’re doing and learn from those we fail.” (Dr Laura Edwards-Leeper, co-author of WPATH Treatment guidelines and founder of the first paediatric gender clinic in the US)
• Dr Telfer is credited with helping to save many children's lives without pulling out a single scalpel or tending to any life-threatening diseases. (ABC)
• There is no robust empirical evidence that puberty blockers reduce suicidality or suicide rates. (NIH)
• Clinical gender dysphoria does not appear to be predictive of all cause nor suicide mortality when psychiatric treatment history is accounted for (BMJ Health)
• “I had the honour of meeting Dr Michelle Telfer who is one of Australia’s leading health researchers who is saving lives” (Ricki Spencer)
• “Transgender unit at Melbourne's Royal Children's hospital gets $6m boost. A major funding boost to Australia's only multidisciplinary clinic for children with gender dysphoria will save countless lives”, the chief executive of Transgender Victoria, Sally Goldner, has said. (the Guardian)
• Dr Edwards-Leeper has advocated for better training of gender therapists and increased diligence in assessing mental health issues before assigning medical interventions such as puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to patients.
• Suicidality in young people attending the GIDS is similar to that of young people referred to child and adolescent mental health services. (Aust Institute of Health & Welfare)
• The age-specific death rate for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander child suicide was 8.3 deaths per 100,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, compared to 2.1 per 100,000 for non-Indigenous children (Aust Institute of Health & Welfare)
• Clinical gender dysphoria does not appear to be predictive of all-cause nor suicide mortality when psychiatric treatment history is accounted for (BMJ)
• A Study titled 'All-cause and suicide mortalities among adolescents and young adults who contacted specialised gender identity services in Finland in 1996–2019'
analysed overall mortality and suicide among gender-referred young people in Finland over a 25-year time span. The study found no convincing evidence that gender-referred youth have statistically significantly higher suicide rates as compared to the general population, after controlling for psychiatric needs (BMJ Mental Health)
• Australia’s guidelines on gender affirmative medicine lack rigour and independence and fail to recommend formal assessment processes that screen for body image problems, autism spectrum disorder, sexual orientation according to international researchers commissioned. (UK Cass review)
I don't know how onerous it is for you but wondering whether you can put the short form citation alongside? I think I know some of them but would be useful for a letter I am writing.
I think that the easiest way to identify the source of the quotes in my post would be to copy all or part of the text as it appears in my submission and then google the text, it should take you to the respective document from which the quote was sourced.
Yes, of course, my bad they're even quoted ... ;)
As someone who is both American and Venezuelan and a student of Latin American societies and politics, I am interested in whether trans activism in Chile has created or is supported by what we in the US call cancel culture. Here, it is almost impossible for sex realists to have a say in the gender affirming politics, policies and programs embraced the Democratic Party mainstream. Trans activists have been successful in persuading most Dems that anyone who questions any aspect of gender identity ideology is a "transphobe," that is, a terrible and hateful person. With a few exceptions, America higher education also responds to outspoken faculty or student sex realists by shunning, shaming and censoring them. That is why sex realists have had to look the courts and Republican controlled state legislatures to curb the excesses of trans activism.
Do critics of gender identity ideology in Chile face a similar repressive atmosphere?
Also, assuming there are trans activists in Chile, how much direct influence have foreign trans activists had on their ideology, tactics and programs?
It seems to me that trans activism is an international franchise of modernity, even when claiming indigenous history. Parents in Chile have copped pushback & very few clinicians are willing to speak openly about their concerns. Even so, the shift from no debate to no hormones has been very swift. It’s not over but the gender medicine lobby is under real pressure.
¡Chévere!
"On November 20, senators of the upper house of Chile’s bicameral congress voted 22-19 "
That's a narrow margin that could easily be reversed another time.
True.
So the cult has spread throughout the world; South Africa, Chile, etc.
But there is push back, please keep up the good work of informing us, Bernard.
Thank you.
May God help us all.
Love, Indio
Thank you for this extremely interesting post. I'd like to make a request, Bernard. Is there a way to contact you directly?
Thanks
genderclinics@gmail.com