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Katrina Gulliver's avatar

This whole thing makes me wonder what other (less currently politicized) medical interventions are built on such a shaky edifice. Or is it that this *one* issue just caused otherwise sensible clinicians to take leave of their senses?

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Several major scientific and medical institutions have now delegitimized themselves in my view, including AMA, AAP, and Scientific American. They join a growing list of formerly respectable institutions (Yale, Harvard, Princeton) that have shown themselves to be ideologically captured and thus no longer trustworthy.

The fact that 90% of children presenting with gender dysphoria naturally grow out of it with no intervention is enough reason not to make any medical interventions with puberty blockers or cross sex hormones, let alone surgery, before the age of 18. These treatments can have lifelong harmful effects, i.e., they are not always reversible. This can lead to terrible effects on children's mental and physical health.

I agree that the kneejerk conservatives are not the thoughtful, measured, and above all, scientific experts that we need to combat this. Unfortunately, they happen to be the only ones who are trying to do anything about this right now. The Left has gone completely doolally on this and cannot be trusted either.

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