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Re:Kiwi Farms is down across all domains as DDoS-Guard termi... by deanCommie on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @11:10PM (#32760708)
I'm on mobile but almost every point you made is either a lie or a massive exaggeration.

Transitioning requires a massive amount of support and steps and children are NOT being rushed into irreversible medical procedures. This is a scare mongering tactic of the alt-right and has no bearing on reality.

Re:Kiwi Farms is down across all domains as DDoS-Guard termi... by _vvaw on Thursday September 08, 2022 @09:48AM (#32765462)
It's true that transition used to be more strictly paced and psychologically supervised. For children especially, this is no longer true. The governments of Sweden and the United Kingdom have formally investigated and documented the phenomena I described. The same phenomena are now visible across the US. The evidence is ample and verifiable. Here is the UK National Health Service's Cass Review:

https://cass.independent-review.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/0...

Some highlights:

>Within the Dutch Approach, children and young people with neurodiversity and/or complex mental health problems are routinely given therapeutic support in advance of, or when considered appropriate, instead of early hormone intervention. Whereas criteria to have accessed therapeutic support prior to starting hormone blocking treatment do not appear to be integral to the current NHS process.

>Evidence on the appropriate management of children and young people with gender incongruence and dysphoria is inconclusive both nationally and internationally.

>If pubertal sex hormones are essential to these brain maturation processes, this raises a secondary question of whether there is a critical time window for the processes to take place, or whether catch up is possible when oestrogen or testosterone is introduced later.

Here's a documentary by the Swedish public broadcaster with English subtitles:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJGAoNbHYzk

Evidence of "gender-affirming hysterectomies" performed on US patients as young as 16:

https://journals.lww.com/greenjournal/Abstract/2017/05001/Hy...

Article which summarizes trans kid desistance research (which got its author, journalist Jesse Singal, a wave of death threats and suicide-baiting DMs from trans activists):

https://www.thecut.com/2016/07/whats-missing-from-the-conver...

Detransitioned 17-year-old girl Chloe Cole testimonies to the California state legislators:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzgohkz22Fg

Re:Kiwi Farms is down across all domains as DDoS-Guard termi... by DanBC on Thursday September 08, 2022 @10:58AM (#32766558)
> Here is the UK National Health Service's Cass Review:

Not NHS. It's not a great sign of accuracy if you're getting this wrong.

And the Cass review calls for an expansion of provision of gender affirming care for children, which is why we're moving from a single clinic to multiple clinics.

Re:Kiwi Farms is down across all domains as DDoS-Guard termi... by _vvaw on Thursday September 08, 2022 @11:40AM (#32767221)
The study was commissioned by the NHS and led by Dr. Hilary Cass, past president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/commissioning/spec-services/npc-c...

It shut Tavistock, highlighted diagnostic overshadowing of co-morbind conditions such as abuse, trauma, and autism, found gross evidentiary gaps in the medical arguments for puberty blockers and youth HRT, and recommended the curtailment of medical youth transition. The move to multiple clinics is one part trans activists highlight while ignoring the rest.

Re:Kiwi Farms is down across all domains as DDoS-Guard termi... by DanBC on Saturday September 10, 2022 @06:06PM (#32794941)
The study is an independent report. The Royal Colleges are not part of the NHS.

> It shut Tavistock

All the anti-trans activists think this is some brilliant "gotcha" moment, but they don't appear to know that most trans people hated Tavistock and were calling for services to be removed from Tavi.

Cass isn't doing what anti-trans campaigners wanted, she's doing what trans people want remove services from Tavi, and create a bunch of new centres across England. Access is going to be greatly increased.

Keep spinning it how you like, this is an unambiguous win for trans people and their allies.