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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

The Economist: Opinion on the use of puberty blockers in America is turning

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Zeev · 17/10/2021 17:09

www.economist.com/united-states/2021/10/16/opinion-on-the-use-of-puberty-blockers-in-america-is-turning

Sorry don't have a share token (does the Economist do share tokens?)

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donquixotedelamancha · 17/10/2021 17:15

The Economist has a big influence in the US. For that article even to get published suggests at least a partial turning of the tide.

WarriorN · 17/10/2021 17:16

Is there anything different in it than what's in Shrier's piece?

abigailshrier.substack.com/p/why-marci-matters

bordersroaming · 17/10/2021 18:22

You can register to read a limited number of articles fir free

GoWalkabout · 17/10/2021 18:25

It quotes Marci Bowers and another WPATH doctor from their recent expressions of concern and the headline refers to a scandal.

ArabellaScott · 17/10/2021 18:26

Thank god for that. Well done, Abigail Shrier.

I expect rather a lot of people are braced for lawsuits.

EmbarrassingHadrosaurus · 17/10/2021 22:47

@Zeev

www.economist.com/united-states/2021/10/16/opinion-on-the-use-of-puberty-blockers-in-america-is-turning

Sorry don't have a share token (does the Economist do share tokens?)

Fortunately, it seems to have been archived a number of times on

web.archive.org

and comes up if you put the Economist URL for this in the box.

If you're read the Shrier piece and listened to Leeper on that Unspeakable podcast series then you're familiar with the content but it is well written.

Will the airing of these views change the way trans-identifying children are treated? Laura Edwards-Leeper, a psychologist who helped found America’s first transgender clinic for children in Boston in 2007, has claimed (including to this newspaper) that too few teens undergo crucial mental-health assessments before starting treatment. She says Dr Bowers’s comments, especially about the effects of blockers on sexual function, have “shaken up” many in the field. Yet she notes some doctors are responding by talking about how they might control or slow treatment, without mentioning the role mental-health professionals should play in all this. That they are discussing the risks at all nonetheless constitutes progress.

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