So many things wrong with that article by Fiona Bisshop:
We know young people who are prescribed puberty blockers get immediate relief from their gender dysphoria and distress
No we don’t know this, the data from the Tavistock suggests nothing changes and there is no evidence as to how long any relief lasts, if at all.
Yet a young trans person in Britain must now go to court and let a judge decide whether they can start such treatment, even if their doctors and parents agree to it – a judge who is not a doctor and who has no training in the medical care of trans and gender diverse youth.
No, a judge will decide if the child understands the treatment and is able to consent to what they’re signing up for long term. It’s a crucial difference.
This fear leads to anxiety, school refusal, social phobia, self-harm and suicidal thoughts.
Which is hugely common in children around Australia and needs to be appropriately managed with emotional support, psychology, therapy and safety planning. No one can explain why children with anxiety, school refusal, self harm etc etc from gender issues needs to be managed with puberty blockers, different to a similar child who has the same symptoms for other reasons.
By the time they are adult, many will develop severe depression or post traumatic stress disorder and some will have died by suicide.
This just highlights the failure of mental health support. At least the suicide here is a vague “some” rather than the usual overblown high number, but it again plays into the myth that if we don’t stop puberty for these kids then “some” will kill themselves.
My adult trans patients all agree that preventing changes during puberty would have been life-changing for them
This is THE most frustrating thing people claim about this. These adults don’t know
this would have been life-changing for them. It’s retrofitting an ideal and assuming things would have been better. They have also experienced sex, sexual desire, libido and some are even parents. Do these adults honestly say they would have given all that up so they could pass better? Adult regret shouldn’t be used to determine treatment for children overriding consent.
Most trans children will not regret their decision to take puberty blockers
Again this lie, no one has any idea how many regret or will regret because it’s only in the last 5-10 years this has taken off. These people are only just in their late teens or early 20s at best.
Yet the British court partly based their ruling on evidence that 85 per cent or more of trans youth will stop being trans once they have gone through puberty. This notion is profoundly wrong and based on very old data.
Because no one could present any evidence to the contrary despite the judges’ request.
It’s not the only thing the court got wrong. It referred to gender dysphoria as a psychological condition when the World Health Organisation now accepts that being transgender is not a mental health condition. Gender diversity is not pathological. It is part of the normal human spectrum of existence. Trans kids are not disordered.
So why the hell do they need such extreme treatments then FFS?!
They went on to make the incorrect deduction that blockers always lead to GAHT, when they should have instead realised that this fact meant the right group of children were being treated with blockers in the first place.
This is the latest false narrative and it’s a complete lie, because no one has any idea if they’ve selected the right children or not because there has never been a control group. And I know for a fact there are children on PBs who have questionable diagnoses.
Then it just descends into idiocy completely disregarding the fact that consent was the key elements to the judges’ decision.
Honestly, I despair sometimes. Consent for children being disregarded because adults complain they don’t pass as well as they’d like. And WE are the ones failing to safeguard the wellbeing of these children? Give me a break.