Most teens who start puberty suppression continue gender-affirming care

[Ivy]

https://www.npr.org/2022/10/26/1131398960/gender-affirming-care-trans-puberty-suppression-teens

 

Probably not a big surprise to most of us.

I do find it ironic that in Jon Stewart's interview the AG had her "facts" completely inverted.

 

"Researchers found that a whopping 98% of people who had started gender-affirming medical treatment in adolescence continued to use gender-affirming hormones at follow-up. The finding is significant because of ongoing political debates over whether young people should receive gender-affirming treatment, with some opponents arguing that many transgender children and teens will realize later in life that they aren't really trans."

[VickySGV]

The "X spurts" that the Alabama Governor/ Legislature and the AG in the John Oliver interview relied on are "homies" in their state and are designated by their professional colleagues as highly problematic against current information and its interpretation.  (The other articles I have read on them have them selling their credentials to the highest bidder for recognition that their profession cannot give them by virtue of their biases or ignorance).  This is the study that was posted here a few days ago, but the fact that The Lancet which is the British equivalent of the Journal Of The American Medical Association which is respected on a worldwide basis and people claiming superior knowledge or status to it should be looked on with ordinary suspicion of an "I" strain problem.

 

The part that I was glad to see in this one is that they simply were NOT able to verify what happened to the remaining 2% and not that the people had stopped the medical transitioning process, and that they stated WHY they only know about the 98% figure.  I have personal knowledge of the "street market" and self prescription that goes on in the Trans population.

 

The finding that ALL the study subjects had had professional counseling before and during the time they were taking the Puberty Blockers to be sure that the blockers were doing the intended job for the patient.  My GT friends who work with youth and teens all point to the issue that their young patients are not as malleable to the therapist's and parents notions of the child being Trans, as the patients are knowledgeable and certain of their own identities with a maturity that is contrary to the "child owners" beliefs that adult reasoning only begins after puberty is over in regard to the younger patient's reasoning abilities.  

[VickySGV]

1 hour ago, Katie23 said:

The thing that is most bothersome is that none of these politicians have bothered to sit down and talk with folks like us who have lived this life.

 

Sadly, they are of the old idea that we are all mentally unbalanced and that they cannot have a discussion with us as peers.  It is the idea that insane people cannot direct their own care and need the capable public representatives to care for them even against the person's will.  We must be saved from ourselves.  We have actually had a Governor say that, and also other elected representatives.  They even claim they must protect children from parents and doctors as a matter of record.

 

I do go out and speak to local legislators and city council members who have and do listen to me as who I am, a sane, rational and intelligent person, and the results are what I think are needed.  A couple have been skeptical at the beginning, and reserved for a while longer, but who abstained from voting against the LGBTQ community.

[Ivy]

 

This comic says a lot.

[VickySGV]

1 hour ago, Ivy said:

This comic says a lot.

 

It says it all as far as what the "others aka Cis" do to us.  There are however safe places, including these forums for young people.  I actually leaked out a couple of angry tears and a whole heart full of compassion for the person there because I KNOW real people in that situation.