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Jennifer OBrien's avatar

An extraordinarily helpful and hopeful development. I hope Mr Butler reads this and that the PM’s commitment to ´kindness’ will entend to the protection of children from this horror. Thank you so much Bernard for your diligence and dedication to exposing this scandal.

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Pretty sure that infertility results from the removal of the reproductive organs, some of which are done on minors....and some of these harms do not result in the absence of the interventions, a controlled study isn't needed. Ditto for some of the mastectomy outcomes.

They haven't studied the harms, perhaps they have no motivation? For instance, the consent forms or other information pages by the affirmative MD's tell patients taking estrogen to assume they will be infertile (permanently) after a few years, so much so that there was an excited NYT article about how maybe some fertility could be recovered--https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/21/science/sperm-retrieval-essm-transgender-fertility.html .

They didn't bother studying it, didn't check. But they all assume it is the case that these people become infertile, and these are the MDs saying one should have these interventions in some cases! But they didn't do a study.

In comparison, for psychotherapy the HHS report notes, as you mention:

"'neither systematic review suggested that there is indication of harm

from psychotherapy.' One of the SRs concluded:

Most analyses of mental health, psychological and/or psychosocial outcomes

showed either benefit or no change, with none indicating any negative/ adverse

effects of the interventions offered."

Perhaps the long term UK outcomes that the Cass Review tried to get and which apparently will become available at some point would also be useful, or maybe the US could also start keeping track of the thousands of minors who have been started on this pathway since 2007! Or their histories until now could be studied. Perhaps those taking them already can be enrolled in the experiment after being properly informed of the risks/alternatives/how little is known (which probably didn't already happen, in the US). Or a record search can be done through insurance, long term. The experiment is being done --perhaps the outcomes should be gathered and studied!!

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