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GLAAD calls on major social media platforms to *ban* the view that youth gender medicine is dangerous.

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DerekFaker · 27/06/2023 19:42

From Jesse Singal on twitter:

"1/ GLAAD has teamed up with a gaggle of celebrities to call on major social media platforms to ban the view that youth gender medicine is dangerous."

https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1673719867352948736?t=fTyjvLqF0vpYyam8j6fAQg&s=19

2/ If this policy were enacted, it would mean that users could get suspended or banned for e.g. publishing the Swedish health authority's view that "the risks of [youth gender medicine] currently outweigh the possible benefits[.]"

3/ This proposal is the natural endpoint of GLAAD's yearslong campaign to slander and bully anyone with questions about an area of medicine that, it turns out, is in dire evidentiary straits. Suppressing evidence and discussion is an awful, awful thing to do to trans youth.

4/ When I tried to reach out to GLAAD to discuss some of this stuff, I was informed "GLAAD is not a medical organization or association" and was referred to Jack Turban as a trustworthy expert.

https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1673719867352948736?s=19&t=fTyjvLqF0vpYyam8j6fAQg

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NotBadConsidering · 27/06/2023 21:32

There are a few names on there that I am surprised and disappointed about but, hey ho, at least we know who is happy to see children sterilised.

ArabeIIaScott · 27/06/2023 21:30

TheGreatATuin · 27/06/2023 21:29

Patrick Stewart's on there. Thats a disappointment

Yes, I had vaguely thought he was sensible. Maybe it's some other Patrick Stewart.

TheGreatATuin · 27/06/2023 21:29

Patrick Stewart's on there. Thats a disappointment

CompleteGinasaur · 27/06/2023 21:25

Peer-reviewed medical journal citations, please...

ArabeIIaScott · 27/06/2023 21:22

I've learned not to set any store by the morals of pop stars. Sadly.

TheBiologyStupid · 27/06/2023 21:20

Bloody idiots! Shows how strong they think the scientific evidence is...

Froodwithatowel · 27/06/2023 20:36

Get rid of inconvenient facts and thoughts by banning, punishment and trying to prevent anyone being able to see them written down.

Hasn't worked so far.

RoseslnTheHospital · 27/06/2023 20:29

I think surely social media orgs would be in legal hot water if they banned the governmental health organisations of several countries from publicly stating their evidenced and researched standpoints on the merits or not of treatment pathways.

RealityFan · 27/06/2023 20:19

I eagerly scanned the list to make sure noone I respect was on it. I got lucky.

Truth is stranger than fiction. Jazz Jennings is there. Wheels within wheels.

Hoardasurass · 27/06/2023 20:17

Thelnebriati · 27/06/2023 20:06

So this immediately loses them all credibility, right? Right?

Did they ever have any

Thelnebriati · 27/06/2023 20:06

So this immediately loses them all credibility, right? Right?

WhiteFire · 27/06/2023 20:03

"We want to ban the view that youth gender medicine is dangerous."

Also

"We are not medical experts."

Make it make sense.

ArabeIIaScott · 27/06/2023 19:52

Signed by a not very long list of the usual suspects.

I think it won't be hard to ignore tbh.

The main thrust of their argument is: you're making money off all these people; stop. Not one that I see massive corps falling over themselves to support tbh.

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DerekFaker · 27/06/2023 19:43

I can't see Elon agreeing to this. But the rest of them? - probably :(

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