Just finished the video and she makes a strong case for the developmental normalness of teenagers searching and grappling with questions of gender. It makes me think, where are all the pediatricians and childhood development experts? I am also left a little baffled as she seems herself so set against medical intervention (as a gay person with a personal political tilt towards anarchy) yet worked in that terrible clinic. How did that come about? It doesn't cohere to me
Write a huge post yesterday that got lost 😞
She does give clues to why she fell for it - consider the numbers initially and by the end, the complete cult like language etc. also how WPATH developed to be more batshit over time (eyes two women in the uk).
I've also experienced the realisation that those you think are highly qualified can come up with stupid ideas that they wont accept criticism of within education (SEND, certain pedagogical approaches, Luckily enough of us challenged it.) so when this happens in medicine it must be MUCH harder to change. Because they're all trusting the system. And the system was captured here.
Re the developmental experts I've seen a gradual abandonment of this in nursery nurse training. The old style training even taught observation skills etc. good grounding in Piaget etc. TAs doubt get this. I also feel teacher training doesn't cover it much anymore; there are many routes (I believe the new 2 year nqt thing, now called an early career teacher is to mop up some of this but I'm not aware of these basic concepts being covered.)
I can only imagine that it's similarly happening in medicine. But also the paediatricians are all captured too. Educational psychology. The universities are captured.