Sweden: sharp decline in referrals to GD clinics

Powerful stuff. The parts that were particularly powerful:

• the reporter asking decision makers (the decision being for gender reassignment surgery to be available to 15 year olds) where the evidence was for young trans people committing suicide if they cannot undergo the surgery and hearing them pause for a long time and try and retract in real time,
• how when decision makers were asked to explain the evidence base for the whole thing it immediately starts to fall apart,
• Aleksa Lundberg (well known transwoman in Sweden) being punished by trans activists and expelled from communities for expressing doubts about trans orthodoxy.

Thank you ANew!

There is also a suggestion that school lockdown has coincided with a reduction of cases.

If you are wearing a mask most of the time does it matter if you have facial hair or lipstick? If your clubs and sports are halted because of the restrictions then does that reduce your feelings of discomfort in your own body? If you can't see your friends to compare body changes then are the body changes worth taking the cross sex hormones?

It will be very interesting to see this play out - it is transphobic to suggest there is an element of social contagion in gender dysphoria, but, that may need to be reexamined in light of these figures.

Thanks very much!

Here is the 3rd part - which is a pretty brief (15mins) update:
genderchallenge.no/onewebmedia/fortsattningen%20english.mp4

Plus a documentary from The Netherlands - not watched it yet but apparently good!

I wondered the same and after having had a look and not finding it I assume 3 was an error.

Does anyone have a link to Part Three? I can't find this.

This, from the first link just makes me so bloody cross. What do the care providers think they are doing? Evidence based practice should be a bloody given.

Unlike the epidemic of self-harm behavior, (gender dysphoria) care providers are not exploring to find the right treatment. Instead, on a broad front, drastic treatment with high doses of sex hormones and breast and genital surgery is introduced. This despite the lack of any scientific evidence for these treatments for children, and probably not for young adults either

Sven Roman, MD and child psychiatrist

Good news.

There is definitely a slow but sure shift happening with more clinicians being willing to speak out and more research evidence (and evidence of a lack of evidence) that supports a more considered, holistic 'watch and wait' approach.
The international Society for Gender-based Medicine are well worth keeping an eye on - the blog currently has articles about 'conversion therapy' and a rebuttal of previous 'evidence' about gender surgeries improving mental health. www.segm.org/
Clear, objective and evidence-based. A joy.

It is important isn't it?

It is. It needs to be seen.

Excellent news, well done to the Swedes who've been shouting about this.

I always think of the social contagion thing as an issue of accessible analytical frameworks.

If "transgenderism" is the most immediately available, the only socially acceptable, framework accessible to them, then people learn to think of themselves in reference to it.

Gazing

This seems to me another reason not to normalise stating your pronouns. The intention is to make gender identity a thing, of course, which encourages the navel-hazing social contagion element.

This is fantastic. Please watch!

Great news! Let's share widely

This is really important, I think.

It’s a really interesting read.
I’m also interested in the way social media platforms and message boards have really clamped down on pro anorexia speech and effectively slowed the progression of those seeking affirmation of pro anorexia ideas. But they’ve actively promoted gender dysphoria to teens as an answer to their Autistic, ADHD and Anxiety disorders.

I’m really hoping that in the UK children’s charities look closely at the data coming from Sweden.

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