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The Times - Gender expert: online influencers rush adolescents towards transition

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LittleWhingingWoman · 18/04/2022 00:43

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/464ba422-be78-11ec-b4e3-203ad1be3cbc?shareToken=8c56b50e845125d1b0feafce8209b961

Times up.

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IcakethereforeIam · 18/04/2022 09:08

That's the one, or, at least, one of them.

KittenKong · 18/04/2022 08:50

I can’t see the piece - is this the trans woman doctor who seems to have just realised that ‘oh sh*t…’?

veronicagoldberg · 18/04/2022 08:46

Covering his back.

"Dr" Sidhbh Gallagher will most probably be doing the same at some point soon.

OldCrone · 18/04/2022 08:13

Anderson looks to me like someone who can see the lawsuits looming on the horizon and is trying to get into position as a whistleblower rather than a perpetrator.

Or if I'm kinder, perhaps Anderson has genuinely only just realised that teenage girls grappling with their changing bodies and/or being same-sex attracted really don't have anything in common with Anderson's own experience as a late-transitioning heterosexual middle-aged male with children. But that would imply that Anderson isn't very bright, which doesn't seem to be the case.

Hoardasurass · 18/04/2022 08:09

Does anyone else get the massive arse covering vib from this dr who up until recently has been advocating and profiting from childhood transition and even taking part in I am Jazz.
I know that I might be cynical but at 71 I'd guess that getting malpractice insurance to operate on any patient would be difficult let alone this cohort (high rate of complications) so will be required to retire soon and is looking to protect themselves from the coming backlash.

oldwomanwhoruns · 18/04/2022 07:39

Hmm, a bit of an odd article? It does read a bit like a press release for Anderson. Who is mtf , which is obfuscated in the article by use of the female descriptors throughout.

And how about this paragraph?
Greg Abbott, the Republican governor of Texas, has described gender surgery on minors as “child abuse”, despite medical experts saying it is almost unheard of. Most care for transgender children includes social transitioning and puberty blockers.

  • oh so that's ok then. Just give the kids puberty blockers, that's not child abuse, is it...

I had thought that The Times had a better grip of this issue than this.

nepeta · 18/04/2022 02:19

She has been interviewed by the LA Times, the NY Post and now this. She is certainly opening herself up to a lot of harassment, as things are not yet at the same stage in the US as they are here (though they are not good in the UK, either, but better).