Academic article on the Dutch protocol, puberty blockers etc by Michael Biggs

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Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 20/09/2022 15:17

Apologies if there is already a thread on this. I couldn't see one. New academic article by Professor Michael Biggs of the University of Oxford. Open access, so you should be able to read the entire text using the link below.

It's jawdropping stuff. I am not an academic or an HCP, but I could follow the gist of it. To my amateur eyes the case for giving children and teenagers puberty blockers and then cross-sex hormones and 'gender affirming' surgery (i.e. double mastectomy for girls, followed by hysterectomy and removal of ovaries, removal of testicles and surgery on penis for boys) is based on appallingly flimsy evidence. Who has been advocating for the children in all of this? Why haven't HCPs and scientists, not to mention politicians and social worker, been looking at this and saying 'No'?

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0092623X.2022.2121238

The Dutch Protocol for Juvenile Transsexuals: Origins and Evidence
Michael Biggs
Published online: 19 Sep 2022

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unwashedanddazed · 20/09/2022 17:36

Really interesting, thanks OP. He undermines himself a little at the end by quoting the Phoenix study as a real life case. It was a hypothetical case, although based on clinical experience.

Forever young?
jme.bmj.com/content/46/11/743

DameMaud · 20/09/2022 17:18

Thank you for this OP. Crikey. Very clear and hopefully to be considered by Cass.
Commenting to say thank you and to bump

MrsOvertonsWindow · 20/09/2022 16:36

OMG.
I've read it - need to read it again as it's so detailed but it's damning.
The lack of effective data, inept / incomplete trials, burying data that demonstrates results medical activists would like to suppress and more.
Michael Biggs has pursued this issue for years, doggedly and determinedly analysing the data about what is happening to children and shedding sunlight on what's happening. And it's this:

"Jennings’ surgeon, Marci Bowers, who has performed over 2,000 vaginoplasties, acknowledges that “every single child … who was truly blocked at Tanner stage 2, has never experienced orgasm. I mean, it’s really about zero” (Bowers, 2022). This remark refers to males. The effects of puberty suppression at such an early stage on females is unknown".

ResisterRex · 20/09/2022 16:07

I've read this. It's shocking and I hope it will be sent to the Cass Review. No time for a longer comment now but also bumping so others will see it.

JacquelinePot · 20/09/2022 15:56

Thanks for sharing, will read. Commenting so more will see your post

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