It is amazing to see the reaction to this book. It is like the furore about Troubled blood. It is the Streisand effect that keeps going.
Transpeople keep trying to get it banned, stating (or shouting) that it is full of lies .... yet I have not seen one person discredi the reports mentioned in it successfully. And I have seen not one of the people the chosen case studies reference come forward to say they have been misrepresented....
Yet, we have been told by the males who post on FWR that the book is full of lies and I doubt they have even read it. These are also posters who advocate for affirming only treatments including medicalisation for under 18‘s despite their lack of acknowledgement that the majority of that age group is female and the effects of medicalised transition for them has higher risk and irreversible consequences. Consequences they wave away as acceptable from their positions of having had children and a sex life and as males who transitioned as adults and often as mature adults. Ie they have no experience as teenage girls going through the difficulties associated with puberty, sexism or the specific mental health issues unique to the teenage girls of today.
So many people don’t want this issue explored so that our children and teens have access to the best treatment options FOR THEM. Not what some mature males would have liked available for when they themselves were teenagers because that is only relevant to a diminishing portion of those seeking help now.
I always ask just who benefits from this shutting down of discussion.
The answers I come up with are never the children and teens.....
And I would like one of those mature male posters to state exactly what lies are told in this book they have tried to discredit.... any takers?