Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry Special Issue on Transgender Identity; articles free for a month

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Thought I'd share if people weren't aware

I've only been able to have a quick scan so far, interesting. Much seems to reflect the more careful GC watchful waiting approach but there is a paper supporting the affirmative model by Florence Ashley who I understand is a transfeminine activist

journals.sagepub.com/toc/ccpa/24/2?utm_source=SAGE_social&hootPostID=7e3dc8b85636daee7706587197bd9257

It was tweeted on April 30th so I guess that access is free until the end of May

Thanks

Thanks for the link. Downloaded them to read later.

Thanks for this!

Thanx

I read this one a couple of days ago - Reflections on emerging trends in clinical work with gender diverse children and adolescents, Nastasja M de Graaf, Polly Carmichael, 28/11/18:

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1359104518812924

It's basically a very long explanation of all the ways in which GIDS and other similar places have no fucking clue about why they are suddenly seeing so many referrals, why the bulk of the new referrals are adolescent girls, what is causing this distress in so many young girls, what the best options are for responding to this distress, how to take into account factors such as ASD and sexual abuse, what the outcomes are for any of them ...

But they're still prescribing off-label puberty blockers and cross sex hormones.

'Something must be done!'
'Here is something, we must do it!'

This is evidence-free medicine inflicted on children with major life-long consequences and it has to stop.

Everyone should download these papers while they have the chance. I think there's a lot of important stuff here.

This is evidence-free medicine inflicted on children with major life-long consequences and it has to stop.

Yes, it does. I’m going to download now

Thanks for the tip. Articles like this in credible sources won’t help with TRAs but they are very helpful with the well meaning but kneejerk.

They're very helpful with MPs and ministers too.

Penny Mordaunt ordered an urgent investigation into this over 6 months ago and then promptly forgot about it. She failed to respond to questions about her investigation on the MN webchat.

Sweden has just launched three separate inquiries related to this.

Penny Mordaunt's effort is looking badly shit and needs challenging.

The words "Assigned male at birth" or "Assigned female at birth"
Apart from intersex conditions, does anyone know when this term was first used to describe how people affirm their feelings?

It seems the phrase used for intersex conditions has been appropriated by people who have absolutely no physical reason to say it.

What is observed at birth is highly unlikely to be wrong, so when and why does anyone start questioning that fact?

Just saying they've always felt that way is like saying they've always wanted to be an astronaut.
Lots of kids think like this, it doesn't need affirming.