"Trans" kids

                                            GENDER DYSPHORIA IN CHILDREN AND PUBERTY BLOCKERS

GENDER DYSPHORIA (GD) IN CHILDREN/ADOLESCENTS

1. https://www.transgendertrend.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Steensma-2013_desistance-rates.pdf
84% of children who fulfill the diagnostic criteria for GID end up desisting on their transition. Younger children even more likely to desist.

2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5841333/#b28-ahmt-9-031
>”Evidence from the 10 available prospective follow-up studies from childhood to adolescence (reviewed in the study by Ristori and Steensma) indicates that for ~80% of children who meet the criteria for GDC, the GD recedes with puberty. Instead, many of these adolescents will identify as non-heterosexual”
>40%–45% have other mental illnesses
>Up to 20% have autism spectrum disorders
>About 45% had history of bullying, periods of social isolation, poor relationships with peers.
>Numbers of referrals to gender clinics soaring. Girls used to be a minority, now make up to 90% of referrals. Not due to easier access to services: "Aitken et al,9 however, did not find evidence supporting a lowered threshold to gender identity services. Sociocultural features related to what kind of identities are available for whom, and sex-related differences of pressure to conform may play a role.”

3. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0202330
>"86.7% of the parents reported that, along with the sudden onset of gender dysphoria, ‘their child either had an increase in their social media/internet use, belonged to a friend group in which one or multiple friends became transgender-identified during a similar timeframe, or both"

So: There’s been a rapid increase in GD, mostly of girls, likely due to social pressure to conform to societal roles and their friends grup. Kids with GD more likely to be autistic, bullied, isolated, mentally ill. 80-85% revert before adulthood (in younger kids even higher), come to terms with not being heterosexual instead.

More articles:
https://www.transgendertrend.com/current-evidence/
https://www.thecut.com/2016/07/whats-missing-from-the-conversation-about-transgender-kids.html

Rebuttals to the “no true trans” gambit:
>Studies are based on kids who fulfilled the criteria for GID, so they were “trans” by the only definition that matters for access to medication.
>https://www.transgendertrend.com/a-response-to-detransition-desistance-and-disinformation-by-julia-serano/
>https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2018/07/21972/

PUBERTY BLOCKERS:

1. https://www.transgendertrend.com/current-evidence/
Starting blockers inhibits desistance, with HRT and surgery being the next steps. So in effect, this path never really works as “reversible”. Kids who don’t take them stop identifying as trans before adulthood.
>”Persistence was strongly correlated with the commencement of physical interventions such as the hypothalamic blocker (t=.395, p=.007) and no patient within the sample desisted after having started on the hypothalamic blocker. 90.3% of young people who did not commence the blocker desisted’”

2. https://www.stlouischildrens.org/conditions-treatments/transgender-center/puberty-blockers (although it's marketing puberty blockers the side effects are listed)
>Long-term effects not known. Side effects include lower bonse density, delayed growth plate closure, headaches.
>Reduced development of genital tissue (ironically may make surgery difficult).

3 Not certain if they improve psychological functioning (ie. their purpose). Downloadable commentary of the Tavistock study, where it was shown not to work: https://www.transgendertrend.com/product/the-tavistocks-experimentation-with-puberty-blockers/
>Approved only for precocious puberty, in which they’d be stopped so as to allow puberty at a normal age. This is the opposite goal of using it in transgender children, where puberty is being artificially suppressed and delayed to an abnormal age. Drugs need solid evidence of safety and efficacy *for the specific purpose and population they are to be used in*, which does not exist for GD.
>No studies on reversibility, no studies on the possible effects in neurodevelopment.

So: Not approved for this purpose, has adverse side effects, no studies available on the long-term effects, dubious reversibility, not even certain if they help trans kids or not. Sends kids on a pathway to irreversible HRT+surgery, while their peers who did not start blockers overwhelmingly stopped identifying as trans. Massive experiment being pushed unethically for a mostly self-resolving problem.