US to open world’s first children’s ‘detransition clinic’ Texas hospital to offer free services reversing the effects of gender-affirming treatments

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2026/05/15/texas-reverse-transgender-treatment-childrens-clinic/

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I want to answer this, but I have a gym class. Would this discussion be better in a new thread? Do we want to hash this out?

Happy to join you on a new thread. I agree it would warrant its own, rather than derail this one. Feel free to tag me in if you start one.

I've started a thread at https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5532352-the-liminality-of-sex-perception-sex-based-spaces-and-bodily-autonomy

Sorry, I tried to tag you in the post, but the system wasn't accepting your username.

I can’t really get any clarity on what you are actually saying here.

Are you basically saying that there are a vanishingly small number of people for whom phenotype doesn’t match karyotype? I.e. a few DSDs among the many possible DSDs and a tiny, tiny, tiny percentage of human beings.

And are you using these extremely rare cases of genetic disorder to argue for all trans identified males to be allowed into spaces and groups reserved for women when these groups have nothing to do with one another?

Or are you using these rare edge cases to argue that sex is somehow impossible to define, so being a sex realist is a deeply flawed understanding of the world? Despite sex being a bleeding obvious characteristic of almost every person you meet.

Are you basically saying that there are a vanishingly small number of people for whom phenotype doesn’t match karyotype? I.e. a few DSDs among the many possible DSDs and a tiny, tiny, tiny percentage of human beings.

No.

And are you using these extremely rare cases of genetic disorder to argue for all trans identified males to be allowed into spaces and groups reserved for women when these groups have nothing to do with one another?

No.

Or are you using these rare edge cases to argue that sex is somehow impossible to define, so being a sex realist is a deeply flawed understanding of the world? Despite sex being a bleeding obvious characteristic of almost every person you meet.

No.

Well, that’s advanced the discourse. I genuinely have no idea what you mean in that case.

Your post wasn't advancing the discourse, it was presenting motivations that do/did not exist.

You seemed to be saying that if you look female you are female.

Hence my trying to work out what exactly you were talking about, and bringing up outward sex characteristics vs chromosomal sex in the rare cases these are not aligned.

Although on the other thread you seem to be saying that if people perceive you as female, you are female.

If it’s neither of those things, I’m afraid I do not understand what you are trying to say.

Maybe it’s the very edge case of a male person whose childhood anorexia delayed puberty, and who then took oestrogen (presumably blocking testosterone at the same time) and then later had surgery?

Glad you did this. And thank you for the tag/quote here.

AFAIK you can tag people in to threads that they aren't on but it won't get picked up until after you've saved the post. Anyway, all good as you've put the link in.

Am just catching up with MN now after a busy day.... and I think I'm going to need an awake brain for this one so will join in tomorrow after a coffee.

I will assume good faith on your part and will do the same. Obviously if I think you're deviating from that, I'll respond accordingly. And would expect you you do the same if you perceive that I'm not acting in good faith.

Edited for clarity.