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TReVoices Is The Leading Org Fighting To Stop Childhood Medical Transition World Wide! ​ Led by transman/lesbian Scott Newgent, our relentless SCREAMING to 'STOP Medically Transitioning Children' has been and continues to be heard everyday World - Wide! Make sure we can continue - We Need Your Help - Donate Today. Button Lift The Veil. Parents Get Busy & Learn Why 'Medical Transition Is Not Place For a child.' Sincerely, TReVoices & Everyone Else < Back Staff Writer Original Article Gender Health Query ​ Young Detrans Adults Are Among The Highest Part Of Society To Commit Suicide - The Suicide Epidemic Is Here REGRET RATES AND LONG-TERM MENTAL HEALTH: Even though data on trans people post medical transition show continuing high rates of mental health problems, higher suicide risk and physical health problems, dysphoria is mitigated by transition and mental health generally improves for most (not all) trans people according to most studies. A review confirming this was done by Cornell University. All of the abstracts can be found here. A thorough review of these studies and the impact of transition on mental health and suicide is done on this website in this section. The overall message is that transition does seem to improve mental health. Studies with less lost to follow ups, as well as some review studies (Adams 2017, Marshall 2015) don’t seem to show any improvement is suicide risk. This indicates transition is not a fix all. However, the Cornell review does confirm very low regret rates (3.4% at the higher end) in populations of adults who were treated at a time with much more pressure not to transition due to stigma and under a gate keeping model. Regrets following gender transition are extremely rare and have become even rarer as both surgical techniques and social support have improved. Poling data from numerous studies demonstrates a regret rate ranging from .3 percent to 3.8 percent. Regrets are most likely to result from a lack of social support after transition or poor surgical outcomes using older techniques. There is generally a strong desire to paint social support and access to medical transition as sole factors in mental health. However, unfortunately even trans people in very supportive families and communities retain much higher rates of problems than scientific control groups. While evidence suggests regret rates have historically been very low in the past, the research studies often have majors flaws. Here a review highlights some of the problems involving tracking mental health and regret rates in earlier studies. Here’s how the Guardian summarized the results of a review of “more than 100 follow-up studies of post-operative transsexuals” by Birmingham University’s Aggressive Research Intelligence Facility (ARIF): ARIF, which conducts reviews of healthcare treatments for the NHS, concludes that none of the studies provides conclusive evidence that gender reassignment is beneficial for patients. It found that most research was poorly designed, which skewed the results in favor of physically changing sex. There was no evaluation of whether other treatments, such as long-term counselling, might help transsexuals, or whether their gender confusion might lessen over time. Of particular concern are the people these studies “lost track of.” As the Guardian noted, “the results of many gender reassignment studies are unsound because researchers lost track of more than half of the participants.” Indeed, “Dr. Hyde said the high drop out rate could reflect high levels of dissatisfaction or even suicide among post-operative transsexuals.” Dr. Hyde concluded: “The bottom line is that although it’s clear that some people do well with gender reassignment surgery, the available research does little to reassure about how many patients do badly and, if so, how badly.” And a commentary on another review: The final August 2016 “Decision Memo for Gender Dysphoria and Gender Reassignment Surgery” was even more blunt. It pointed out that “Overall, the quality and strength of evidence were low due to mostly observational study designs with no comparison groups, subjective endpoints, potential confounding (a situation where the association between the intervention and outcome is influenced by another factor such as a co-intervention), small sample sizes, lack of validated assessment tools and considerable loss to follow-up.” That “loss to follow-up,” remember, could be pointing to people who committed suicide. And when it comes to the best studies, there is no evidence of “clinically significant changes” after sex reassignment: The majority of studies were non-longitudinal, exploratory type studies (i.e., in a preliminary state of investigation or hypothesis generating), or did not include concurrent controls or testing prior to and after surgery. Several reported positive results but the potential issues noted above reduced strength and confidence. After careful assessment, we identified six studies that could provide useful information. Of these, the four best designed and conducted studies that assessed quality of life before and after surgery using validated (albeit non-specific) psychometric studies did not demonstrate clinically significant changes or differences in psychometric test results after gender reassignment surgery (GRS). A. Despite low regret, rates mental health problems remain high indicating transition is not a fix-all for gender dysphoria Even with very low recorded regret rates in the transgender population, most studies show continuing high rates of comorbid conditions and suicide risk relative to controls. Even the Olson-Kennedys (Johanna and Aydin, a married female/FtM couple and affirmative model activists) acknowledge gender dysphoria is often not actually cured by medical transition, only managed and that problems remain. In this way gender dysphoria does have some similarities to body dysmorphic disorder where things like cosmetic surgery do not actually alleviate distress long-term and mental health problems and anxiety about appearance continue. Cosmetic surgery is a more effective treatment for GD than for BDD. But it may not be the case for all and “shifting dysphoria” remains a problem in both conditions. (Gender Odyssey, 2017): If you are a parent as well, one of the concerns is going to be regret. I think as mental health providers we have a different relationship…But I think that we need to reorganize and think about what does regret mean? And where does it come from? When I think about who is talking about regretting transition or who is detransitioning, or retransitioning, or having a lot of those conversations. When you really whittle down, like what’s happening for that person, their gender identity has not changed. It was never and is not about gender identity, it is about, “I still have gender dysphoria. I didn’t know I was still going to have gender dysphoria. I didn’t know that I would still struggle in these ways and these places. I didn’t know that. I thought that I had gender dysphoria and would have intervention and I would feel better. And I don’t feel better.” And so, people then make decisions to detransition because if, “I feel bad on either side, life is perceived as easier if I’m not seen as a trans person, than if I am seen as a trans person. And so, it is not about, “I was wrong about my gender. It’s about, “I am so surprised that I’m still kind of struggling a little bit and having a hard time but I still have gender dysphoria.” Then if we look at people who detransition or retransition, a lot of those folks transitioned a) in adulthood, b) ten or more years ago. And so, the conversation really was about, you have this problem, we’re going to do this thing and then you won’t have this problem anymore…and so a false paradigm was set up. And so those are the folks that are very loud. And those are the folks who have a lot of opinions. And those are the folks who have a lot of opinions about people transitioning in earlier in life…It’s way harder to be inauthentic than to be authentic and have struggles. The below quote was a response to a mother of a 16-year-old. The youth started to transition at 14 and the young person gets depressed after each transition step following a honeymoon period. It is this idea around, there’s ups and downs. There are these honeymoon experiences. So, someone has a lot of gender dysphoria. They are able to start hormones, for trans masculine people, or testosterone. Testosterone starts impacting and creating changes relatively quickly. And so, there is a decrease in gender dysphoria. “My voice is too high. I don’t have any facial hair.” Like that stuff starts happening relatively quickly. So, gender dysphoria organized around physicality decreases. And so, there is kind of a honeymoon period. But all honeymoons, unfortunately, have an end. And gender dysphoria will increase again. And so, things will be more difficult. Your kids may be struggling again. And then chest dysphoria becomes a real necessity. And not only a desire, but a necessity. And so, they will be struggling a lot because the more they show their body the more obvious it is they have breasts, right? To themselves and other people... So, there is an up and down, And I have a very strong belief that gender dysphoria, in a variety of forms, is a lifelong experience. If your child had chest dysphoria, they will not have chest dysphoria again after they have chest surgery. So, there are pieces that are very addressable. But there are pieces that are just an ongoing life-long experience. (proceeds tell parents that this is likely to keep happening with their child and the youth will continue to dip into depression post each transition step and that GD never fully goes away) genital dysphoria will be next when they negotiate relationships…In my belief it is always there. Is it always present? Is it going to be something that your kids’, boys or girls or non-binary are going to have to navigate for the rest of their lives? I really do believe that. And I’ve had opportunities to talk to people who have transitioned 20 or 30 years ago. And they say that has absolutely been their truth and their experience. Johanna Olson-Kennedy concurs this reality on a Straight Talk MD podcast: (link down) And that being said, I don’t think that we, that I, would not like to promote the idea that social transition is the panacea, and that it’s going eradicate gender dysphoria, because it’s not. Gender dysphoria is the distress that arises from in congruence, and the in congruence is never gone. You can’t go back and unassign your gender or sex at birth. You can’t do that. And so, gender dysphoria shows up in a lot of ways. And we have to be mindful of that because what happens often is parents say “Well, we let you go on hormones, and we let you socially transition, then why are you still depressed?” or “why are you still anxious?” or “Why are you still self-harming?” And, as cisgender people, we can’t understand what it means to have gender dysphoria because we don’t have it, and so we have to be mindful, as clinicians to look for it, and see how it waxes and wanes over time. And I think that we underestimate- so someone could be completely socially transitioned in childhood, they could go onto feminizing hormones at an early age, and they’re going to navigate high school when sexuality is sort of at a premium, with genitals that may or may not be what they resonate with, or what feels right for them. And so that’s going to be a big place of gender dysphoria for people, is, at the end of the day you have different challenges when you are non-disclosed, you’re completely perceived as your authentic self, but you are really restricted from entering into intimate spaces. Both with friends but also with potential partners, and that plays a big role in people’s lives, especially teenagers. When talking about a client who, having gone through transition, still had nagging feelings of being incomplete, Michelle Angello (Gender Odyssey, 2017) said this: And for some it can be the panacea and for others, again its complex. And so there are going to be other things and now we get the opportunity to work on them. This detransitioner also notes that despite low regret rates he observed: I’ve seen the statement made many times that “the rate of regret for gender transition is very low”, generally quoted between 1 -3 % or so. This information is used as evidence that we should not be so concerned with the problem of detransition. People identifying with a certain gender and wanting to transition is enough proof that transition is right for them, and therefore there is no need for any in-depth screening. If someone identifies with a certain gender and wants to transition then clearly that is the right thing, as evidenced by low regret rates. Also, there is no reason to look at different ways to deal with dysphoria, because we have this great treatment that already works. However, there are several problems wit h this which are: -The reported measures of regret rates don’t actually measure regret rates. -Regret rates are not the sole measure of good / bad outcomes. -The demographics of transitioners today are not the same as those in the past. -Gender transition and improving people’s quality of life, doesn’t mean there aren’t less invasive ways to get the same improvement. Because I transitioned 20 years ago, I know many MtF transitioners that were in my cohort 5-10 years before. What I see is concerning. I am the only one out of them that has detransitioned, and most of them would not say that they regret their transition and continue to go by feminine pronouns and feminine names. In terms of life outcomes, I would say economically they are mostly doing well. However, socially they are struggling. Most of them are alone. I see a lot of social anxiety, people being unwilling to leave the house. In addition, they still continue to deal with dysphoria and have emotional difficulties. This is not a good thing, some people would say these difficulties are due to oppression and by reducing this oppression it would reduce or eliminate these difficulties. I definitely believe that oppression is a large factor in some of the things that are awful about being transgender. I oppose those that intend to make the world worse for trans people. However, I do not think it is the sole source of these difficulties. Here an FtM who is on an colostomy bag and has undergone 33 surgeries due to phalloplasty complications admits medical transition is not a panacea. Despite regret rates being low, many serious problems remain for trans people overall post transition. Without a control group it is impossible to know for sure how these individuals would fair if they lived in a world where medical transition was not possible (most of human history). There are some cultures where GNC people are accepted and they seem to do well without medical treatment (In Fiji and among the Zapotec). This professional research and consulting firm found low quality evidence for benefits of SRS and found weak evidence to support giving children Lupron. Over the past two decades, Hayes, Inc., has grown to become an internationally recognized research and consulting firm that evaluates a wide range of medical technologies to determine the impact on patient safety, health outcomes, and resource utilization. This corporation conducted a comprehensive review and evaluation of the scientific literature regarding the treatment of GD in adults and children in 2014. It concluded that the practice of using hormones and sex reassignment surgery to treat GD in adults is based on “very low” quality of evidence: Statistically signifcant improvements have not been consistently demonstrated by multiple studies for most outcomes. Evidence regarding quality of life and function in male-to-female (MtF) adults was very sparse. Evidence for less comprehensive measures of well- being in adult recipients of cross-sex hormone therapy was directly applicable to GD patients but was sparse and/or contradicting. The study designs do not permit conclusions of causality and studies generally had weaknesses associated with study execution as well. There are potentially long-term safety risks associated with hormone therapy but none have been proven or conclusively ruled out. (31,32) Regarding treatment of children with GD using gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) agonists and cross- sex hormones, Hayes, Inc. awarded its lowest rating indicating that the literature is “too sparse and the studies [that exist are] too limited to suggest conclusions. (31) B. Are regret rates increasing with more transitions & people transitioning at younger ages? Regret rates appear to be increasing Acknowledging the results of the Cornell review, there is some anecdotal information that regret rates are going up, even among the numbers of adult transitioners who transitioned under the gatekeeping model. It’s difficult to tell as follow up studies have inherent major problems tracking true regret rates. A scientist in Britain says this: He said 40% of people who undergo vaginal reconstruction surgery experience complications as a result, and many need further surgery, and 23% of people who have their breasts removed "feel uncomfortable with what they've done". He added: "What I've been seeing in a fertility clinic are the long-term results of often very unhappy people who now feel quite badly damaged.” "One has to consider when you're doing any kind of medicine where you're trying to do good not harm, and looking at the long-term effects of what you might be doing, and for me that is really a very important warning sign." This transgender healthcare expert doctor is seeing more regretters: Over the next six months, another six people also approached him, similarly wanting to reverse their procedures. They came from countries all over the Western world, united by an acute sense of regret. Professor Miroslav Djordjevic: At present, Djordjevic has a further six prospective people in discussions with his clinic about reversals and two currently undergoing the process itself. Reattaching the male genitalia is a complex procedure and takes several operations over the course of a year to fully complete, at a cost of some R290,000. Those wishing the reversal, Djordjevic says, have spoken to him about crippling levels of depression following their transition. Some have even contemplated suicide. "It can be a real disaster to hear these stories," says the 52-year-old. Also from the same article: Djordjevic, who has 22 years' experience of genital reconstructive surgery, operates under strict guidelines. Before any surgery, patients must undergo psychiatric evaluation for between one and two years, followed by a hormonal evaluation and therapy. He also requests two professional letters of recommendation for each person and attempts to remain in contact for as long as possible following the surgery. Currently, he still speaks with 80% of his former patients. "I'm afraid what will happen five to ten years later with this person," he says. "It is more than about surgery; it's an issue of human rights. I could not accept them as a patient as I'd be afraid what would happen to their mind…" Over the past two decades, the average age of his patients has more than halved, from 45 to 21…As a result of the issues he is seeing the the lowering of ages, he does not support those advocating for medicating children. Djordjevic feels differently, and says he `has deep reservations about treating children with hormonal drugs before they reach puberty - not least because blocking certain hormones before they have sufficiently developed means they may find it difficult to undergo reassignment surgery in the future. "Ethically, we have to help any person in the world starting from three to four years of age, but in the best possible way," he says. "If you change general health with any drug, I'm not a supporter of that theory." These are profoundly life-changing matters around which he - like many in his industry - feels far better debate is required to promote new understanding. But at the moment, it seems, that debate is simply being shut down. Michelle Angello (Gender Odyssey, 2017) had this to say. In response to a story of a young female with a supportive family who was having regrets around transition and regretting she didn’t experience more of a chance to live in a female body unaltered. I suspect that we are all probably going to experience that at least once probably multiple times if you are doing this work for any length of time. I think probably more so now because…people have the opportunity to have the medically necessary surgery that they were often times not able to have. Ireland may have a higher regret rate than other places: The country’s leading doctor who helps transgender people change their sex is now supporting three patients who regret having surgery. Professor Donal O’Shea has told Extra “that their trauma highlights the need for proper support and resources to prevent post-operative remorse. This country has a high rate of adults who regret treatment, he said: While some transgender support groups do not wish to highlight the number of people who suffer from post-operative regret, Prof O’Shea believes it is important that people be made aware. He said three transgender people have died by suicide in the past five years, two had surgery and one was on hormone therapy… ‘The real conflict in this profession is seeing someone who makes a very positive transition, and that’s a humbling and amazing thing to see, and then at the other end, you also see some devastating outcomes. We are trying to come up with a situation where there is the least harm, but we cannot mitigate against all harm unfortunately,’ he said… The experience of those who suffer from post-op regret and those who die by suicide highlights the need for resourcing and ongoing psychological and psychiatric support, and the need for input through each stage,’ he said. This autism expert and therapist, Tania Marshall seems to be witnessing more regretters among people who transitioned very young. (54:09-54-55): So I have seen some clients who did transition and regret it. I’ve seen some clients who transitioned and then retransitioned. So those clients that I have seen who regret their transition or retransitoned said that they felt that they were too young. That they were misdiagnosed as being trans rather than being autistic. For parents, teachers, therapists. School counselors, explore… Serious consequences can result from an inappropriate transition, “I will never be able to have sex again. Ever.” A recent British review found suicide rates of up to 18 per cent among people who had undergone gender reassignment surgery. Doctors from London's Portman Clinic say they see many patients who feel trapped in "no-man's land" after surgery, finding themselves with a body which is no longer recognizable as male or female. Psychotherapy, the experts believe, may have saved them from such a fate but few gender clinics offer it. Reviews of the Monash clinic found psychotherapy was rarely, if ever, offered. While a patient would require a diagnosis as a "true transsexual" from two psychiatrists before being offered surgery, both opinions were from inside the clinic — one that operates under the fundamental ethos that surgery is the only cure. Even if regret rates are low they are often very sad outcomes. Twenty years after surgery that left him feeling like a "desexed dog", the grief can still overwhelm him. Now 42, Andrew tells The Sunday Age the operation he had as a confused 21-year-old has shattered him. …For Andrew, it's the small victories that keep him going. "I will never be able to have sex again. Ever. It's taken a long time to come to terms with that, but now I can say it without crying," he says. She says Andrew's surgeon is now dead. But Dr. Kennedy, who assessed Andrew's mental fitness, admitted to The Sunday Age: "I don't know if he was ready for it (surgery) or not. He said he was ready for it. He'd been hounding us since he was 18." Another example of the difficulties of being a detransitioned lesbian: Below is an example of a famous MtF homosexual male, Alexis Arquette, who became disillusioned with the idea of medical transition: In 2013, amid increasing health complications, Alexis (pictured left in 2006 with Holly Woodlawn, another pioneering trans actress, who died in December 2015) began presenting herself as a man again, telling Ibrahim that "'gender is bull***t.' That 'putting on a dress doesn't biologically change anything. Nor does a sex-change.' She said that 'sex-reassignment is physically impossible. All you can do is adopt these superficial characteristics but the biology will never change.'" That realization,” Ibrahim suspects, “was the likely source of her deep wells of emotional torment.” Here are two accounts of detransitioners lives and how the complications of a difficult past affected their gender dysphoria for some insight into the difficulty of this experience: She says Andrew's surgeon is now dead. But Dr. Kennedy, who assessed Andrew's mental fitness, admitted to The Sunday Age: "I don't know if he was ready for it (surgery) or not. He said he was ready for it. He'd been hounding us since he was 18." It's true that Andrew thought he was a transsexual. However, the broken childhood that preceded his referral to the clinic is a recurring theme among those who feel they were misdiagnosed. Born to teenage parents, his earliest memories are of being hit and spat on by his father. Latching on to his mother, he became distraught when he had to leave her to go to school. Confusion about his sexuality was compounded when he was raped by two men at the age of 16. As he aged and started to resemble his father, he began to hate his male appearance. A chance discovery of a book about a transsexual was a pivotal moment. The story resonated with him. Perhaps this was what he was. Another former patient, Angela*, was also an abused child. Sexually molested by a cousin between the ages of four and nine, she grew up hating her femininity. She recalls punching her breasts and working out obsessively at the gym to "remove anything that reminded me I was female". She was a 22-year-old university student when she was referred to the clinic by her GP, depressed and struggling with her identity. Dr Kennedy diagnosed her as transsexual at the first assessment, prescribing her male hormones and suggesting female-to-male surgery Within months Angela's body was covered in thick hair, her voice deepened and she had a full beard. She had to shave under the covers every morning to hide the truth from her conservative Catholic parents. Two years later she had surgery to remove both breasts and was scheduled to have a full sex change. Angela could no longer conceal the truth from her family and began living as "David". Thankfully, she says, she realised there had been a mistake before undergoing full genital surgery. "I remember at one point looking at myself in the mirror with this beard, my breasts gone and thinking, 'Oh my God, what the hell am I going to do?' … I felt ugly. I was the classic bearded woman, a monster trapped between two worlds." She claims her pleas for help were also ignored by the clinic and her return to life as a woman was a nightmare that involved two years of painful electrolysis to get rid of facial and body hair and surgery to reconstruct her breasts… This study shows that despite reported improved mental health suicide risk and rates did not improve. This indicates that even with self-reported low regret rates and self-reported mental health, serious problems remain for many individuals, ‘Why didn’t surgery improve the mental well-being of the patients?’ We don’t know and we need more research to answer this question. However, here are a few possibilities: Possibility #1 – Return to regular life In their discussion, the authors suggest that there might be an initial euphoria after beginning hormones that wears off later on. In addition, after surgery, people might be “again confronted with stigma and other burdens.” In other words, the improvement after hormone therapy is higher than the improvement will be in the end. There is still an improvement later on, but the initial level of euphoria isn’t going to last. If this is true, it would be important information for people who are transitioning so that they don’t have false expectations of what life will be like after transition is complete. Possibility #2 – Surgery is not the best treatment for everyone The authors also suggest that further studies should look at exploring the idea that some patients might want hormones without surgery. It may be that surgery is not the best treatment for everyone with gender dysphoria. Perhaps some people would have been better off with just hormone therapy. Previous studies have found that about 3% of people who have had genital surgery regret it, so we would expect one or two people out of 50 to regret their surgery. Perhaps they are depressed and this affects the group average. Possibility #3 – Effects of surgery It is also possible that some people had post-surgical depression and that this affected the results. Perhaps some people were still recovering from surgery and did not feel well (the study included people 1 to 12 months after surgery). In particular, this might lead to the increase in sleeping problems found in the study. Perhaps some people were dealing with complications of surgery. Perhaps the hormonal changes after surgery affected people’s moods. Possibility #4 – People were already happy On the other hand, perhaps by the time people get surgery, they are already happy due to counseling, hormones, and social transition. Perhaps if people had been forced to stop with hormone therapy alone, they would have become unhappy. As the authors point out, it may have made a difference that they knew they were going to be able to get surgery. Possibility #5 – Surgery doesn’t affect mental health It may simply be that surgery does not improve mental health. At this point, we do not have proof that it does. In the end, we just don’t know. Due to the reality of the outcomes highlighted above, Polly Charmichael expresses that managing expectations is crucial, It is really important to be checking with people, their expectations of physical interventions as it is obviously true they are not the panacea to all things We don't really know if this is the right treatment for everyone or whether there are long term implications for this treatment but for families and young people if can be very difficult,' she said of those they help change sex. 'They are seeking certainty, but the reality is at the moment, we don't have certainty.’ One doctor, who must remain anonymous, for fear of losing her job, is planning for increasing regret rates: Maybe, I say to Dr. K, you are old-fashioned, wrong. Maybe it is fine for a legion of girls to take testosterone, to trade their capacity to orgasm or bear children for a better outward appearance in our highly visual age. Maybe lifelong hormone regimes, molding the body via surgery, breast binders and stand-to-pee prosthetics are progress? “Yes,” she says. “And I hope I am wrong, for the sake of all these young people. But all my instincts as a clinician say not. I’m thinking of opening a practice in a new field: detransition. I foresee a gap in the market.” This top SRS surgeon admits regret rates are likely to go up with youth transitions: 40% of children who attend GIDS are prescribed puberty blocking drugs. But gender expert Professor Miroslav Djordjevic suggested the rise could be in part a fad among parents who indulge their children. And of course there is a danger children could regret having treatment. Prior studies are not a proper comparison to what is happening now with increases in young people and large increases of females: Adolescent-onset of gender dysphoria is a relatively new phenomenon for natal females. In fact, prior to 2012, there was little to no research studies about adolescent females with gender dysphoria first beginning in adolescence [5]. Thus, far more is known about adolescents with early-onset gender dysphoria than adolescents with adolescent-onset gender dysphoria [1, 8]. Although not all research studies on gender dysphoric adolescents exclude those with adolescent-onset gender dysphoria [5], it is important to note that most of the studies on adolescents, particularly those about gender dysphoria persistence and desistance rates and outcomes for the use of puberty suppression, cross-sex hormones, and surgery only included subjects whose gender dysphoria began in childhood and subjects with adolescent-onset gender dysphoria would not have met inclusion criteria for these studies [9–17]. Therefore, most of the research on adolescents with gender dysphoria to date is not something that can be generalized or specific to adolescents experiencing adolescent-onset gender dysphoria [9–17] and the outcomes for individuals with adolescent-onset gender dysphoria, including persistence and desistence rates and outcomes for treatments, are currently unknown. -Littman (2018) A LCSW expresses the same view and discusses issues with a study used to justify early medical treatment on minors: The overwhelming majority of the evidence about transition was derived from studies done on adult transitioners. There are only a few studies that look at outcomes among those who transitioned prior to age 18. De Vries et al. noted positive outcomes among pediatric transitioners. However, the sample size of 55 was relatively small. In addition, it seems worth pointing out that the original group being studied consisted of 70 young people. One of these was not included in the study because the individual died from postsurgical necrotizing fasciitis after vaginoplasty. In addition, these young people were assessed for the final time at approximately one year post surgery. The below screen cap sums up the risks involved with exploding numbers of tweens (mostly females) identifying as trans (a cohort unlike what has been studied in the past). James Cantor is a PhD sexologist. He also comments about the flaw in comparing past studies on adults to the children, teens, and young adults who are transitioning now. James Caspian speaks to the fact that regret rates seem to be going up with the changing demographics of younger people transitioning: I’ve noticed a change in the patient group over the last few years. And increasingly, younger people coming, younger people with many more mental health problems and who didn’t fit the kind of profiles that we have seen in the past of the patient. Because the median age of people transitioning at gender clinics used to be around forty one/forty two. And now we were seeing three times as many people in their late teens. (10:31-11:05) Increases of female teens with serious mental health problems: There seems to be increasing numbers of female teenagers with very serious comorbid conditions or a history of sexual abuse who have gender dysphoria. Gender dysphoric girls were on average older than the boys and a higher percentage of girls was referred to the clinic at the beginning of adolescence (> 12 years of age). At the same time, more girls reported an early onset age. More girls made statements about their (same-sex) sexual orientation during adolescence and wishes for gender confirming medical interventions. More girls than boys revealed self-mutilation in the past or present as well as suicidal thoughts and/or attempts. Results indicate that the presentation of clinically referred gender dysphoric girls differs from the characteristics boys present in Germany; especially with respect to the most salient age differences. Therefore, these two groups require different awareness and individual treatment approaches. A study from Finland describes the same thing, increasing numbers of females and high rates of comorbid conditions. In Western countries natal male transsexuals exceed natal females transsexuals. A German study demonstrated that the natal male:natal female ratio among transsexual people has changed to more equal towards 2000’s that what it was in earlier decades [16]. However, the over representation of girls on our sample differs still from these more recent trends, and it is similar in both the two Finnish centers. We have so far no explanation for this great over representation of natal girls seen in our material, and equalizing of sex ratio demonstrated by others [13,15,16]. Cultural trends may somehow influence this… More than three quarters of the adolescent SR applicants had needed and/or currently needed specialist level child and adolescent psychiatric services due to psychiatric problems other than gender dysphoria. Specialist level child and adolescent psychiatric services are provided exclusively for severe disorders in Finland [25,26]. The recorded comorbid disorders were thus severe and could seldom be considered secondary to gender dysphoria. Lisa Littman’s research on rapid onset GD confirms the same pattern: The adolescent and young adult (AYA) children described were predominantly female sex at birth (82.8%) with a mean age of 16.4 years. Forty-one percent of the AYAs had expressed a non-heterosexual sexual orientation before identifying as transgender. Many (62.5%) of the AYAs had been diagnosed with at least one mental health disorder or neuro developmental disability prior to the onset of their gender dysphoria (range of the number of pre-existing diagnoses 0–7). In 36.8% of the friendship groups described, the majority of the members became transgender-identified. The most likely outcomes were that AYA mental well-being and parent-child relationships became worse since AYAs “came out”. AYAs expressed a range of behaviors that included: expressing distrust of non-transgender people (22.7%); stopping spending time with non-transgender friends (25.0%); trying to isolate themselves from their families (49.4%), and only trusting information about gender dysphoria from transgender sources (46.6%). The GIDS in Britain acknowledges the difficulty in diagnosing these increasing cases of females with mental health problems: Traditionally, evidence has suggested that those who present to the service after puberty are more likely to continue to request service input for their gender in the long term (Steensma et. al., 2013; GIDS Audit: Retrospective Look at Cases Closed at GIDS, presented at WPATH 2016). However, we see a more diverse profile of young people presenting after puberty (e.g. Kaltiala-Heino et al, 2015), so it is unknown whether this is still the case. A psychologist reiterates this point: Dr. Wren: Let me just continue the point. There is an enormous focus on it and, clearly, that is a huge part of our work, so we are also very focused on it, but a recent study from Finland suggested that the sort of complex young people who are coming forward now are going into physical interventions and still having some of the difficulties they had before they went in. We are just very cautious about treating physical intervention for these young people as the royal road to perfect mental health. I think it really needs saying at this point. This should be concerning, as it appears this WPATH member is seeing more females with regrets. Given the promotion of the affirmation/informed consent model, the removal of any kind of mental health screening for gender exploration in children, teens, and young adults it seems plausible regret rates will increase significantly? The individuals below likely transitioned at younger ages then the previous population. Cari Stella is a detransitioned female, and lesbian identified. She speaks of her experience with detransition here and her survey results can be found on her blog. This is not a peer-reviewed study but allows for some relevant insights into the complexity of gender dysphoria, the fact that it can resolve even in youth who transitioned post puberty, and the fact that more than half of these young people did not received any mental health counseling (some were not minors, but young when they first transitioned). Some take-aways: 59.4% of respondents found alternative ways to cope with their dysphoria. “117 of the individuals surveyed had medically transitioned. Of these, only 41 received therapy beforehand. The average length of counseling for those who did attend was 9 months, with a median and mode of 3, minimum of 1, and a maximum of 60. I’d like to have something cool to say here, but I’m honestly just stunned at the fact that 65% of these women had no therapy at all before transition.” guideonragingstars.tumblr.com Most detransitioners identified as females post transition, not some alternative forma of trans which is a common trans narrative that people don’t truly detransition from a trans identity. Something many detransitioners don’t like. Most of these women were all very young (teens and very young adults when they started transition guideonragingstars.tumblr.com The increase of diagnosed females who are medically transitioned as tweens, teens, and young adults will likely lead to more regret. Max, another detransitioned lesbian speaks of the difficulties of transition and detransition, I transitioned FTM at 16, was on testosterone and had a double mastectomy by 17. I’m 20 now and back to understanding myself as a lesbian, like I was before I found out about transition and latched onto it as a way to “fix” body issues created by the challenges of growing up in a deeply misogynistic and lesbian-hating world. I absolutely am traumatized by what happened to me, and I’m not the only one. I’m a part of support networks for women who stopped transition that have over 100 members, and that’s just the individuals who have gone looking for others with this experience and found us. I’ve met more than a dozen of these ladies in person at different times… we’re definitely real. Plenty of others who transition, whether they continue or not, live with complicated feelings about what happened. Not all of us name those experiences the same way, search for community to process that pain, or ever “go public” to any degree. This is trauma. Hormone therapy really wasn’t that safe, in my experience. I remember being 17 and watching my pediatric endocrinologist literally Google dosing information right in front of me. Didn’t inspire confidence. The doctors controlling my HRT had no idea what they were doing, at least with patients like me. They were all just as confused about how to treat me medically as they were about how to interact with me as a human being. When I was on testosterone and taking Adderal for ADD, I got heart palpitations, chest pain, and shortness of breath. I didn’t tell anyone because I didn’t want to have to choose between a psych med that was making a huge difference in my ability to function in the workplace and hormone therapy, and I didn’t want to acknowledge that what I was doing was dangerous. Early in my transition, I went through menopause. This caused vaginal atrophy and drip incontinence that has persisted for years. I piss myself slowly all day now; it’s really not cute or fun. I refused to acknowledge it was connected to the HRT-caused vaginal atrophy that immediately preceded its onset until months after going off testosterone. Yeah, I signed a paper saying I knew that could happen. I also thought this treatment was my only hope for coping with the intense feelings of alienation/disgust with my femaleness. I was wrong. Transition didn’t help. It did harm, harm that I now have to learn how to live with on top of all the shit I thought transition would fix. James Caspian has been working with transgender clients for years and is becoming very concerned with the numbers of young females transitioning. So, we’re are seeing more and more of young women who had identified as lesbians, identifying as an alternative gender identity, wanting to have double mastectomies without any other treatment. And there have been cases of people in that group who have then regretted it. And some of whom have then taken their doctor to court as well, because they have regretted their treatment and they felt the doctor shouldn’t have let them…in the US and the UK as well. (8:50-9:20) Efforts to deny regret and detransition: With the seemingly increasing rates of detransition there have been many insightful blogs written by detransitioners (see here). On theme that often comes it is the strong desire of trans activists, including activist mental health and medical professionals, to paint all cases of detransition as 1) Regret only because society doesn’t treat trans people well. 2) That despite detransition, they still remain a form of trans. This in contrary to most of the stories of the detransitioners who speak out about their situation online. They have returned to their pre-transition selves and often feel very critical of aspects of trans ideology. In the above detransition survey provided by Cari, the response on the WPATH page was to deny that they were ever trans, something their survey does not show in reality. Here Johanna Olson-Kennedy (on a delinked podcast) pushes the narrative people only detransition due to lack of trans acceptance. Absolutely. [they both laugh]. That’s better than a lot of surgical interventions. And I think that even among the people that have, sort of, regretted that decision, it has to do not with that they have gender instability but that they were doing this whole physical or phenotypic gender transition in adulthood and they had an entire life in one gender role that they then lost. And that would be cause for regret I think for anyone, who lost everything in their life because they were pursuing their authentic self. But the more recent narratives of detransitioners, don’t conform to that model at all. Below is a screen cap of a detransitioner who is actually very upset and retained very negative views of his experience in the trans community and its extremely intense identity politics. C. Conclusion regret rates The fact that people are willing to go through these harsh, risky and often expensive treatments is testament to the reality of gender dysphoria. Most studies indicate the majority of people are happy with these surgeries and hormonal effects and people have rights to body autonomy. But most of these studies have been done on people who transitioned in middle age. Currently tweens, teens, and young adults are medically transitioning and often have non-binary identities, rather than a strong desire to be the opposite sex, which is a newer presentation of gender dysphoria. There are hundreds of thousands of videos supporting medical transition and non-binary identities for young people to turn to. Young people document all of their surgical procedures as a rite of passage. If all of these young people will ultimately be happy, the social networking and online visibility is all a good thing. Since transition rates are increasing for very young individuals it is unknown what the regret rates will be and what the impacts of having very young bodies put on cross-sex hormones for a lifetime will have on health. Past transition statistics on regret will probably not translate to younger people transitioning in larger numbers now with many more females transitioning with mental health problems. Regret rates are very likely going to go up. It’s just a matter of how much. Transition helps but is not a fix all either. For this reason, one MtF (and other trans people) support a mental health model: Through talking to other trans people in my life, it has become apparent to me that transition surgeries are an answer but not the answer to the long-term health and well-being of gender dysphoria patients. Unfortunately, many trans people get so fixated on surgery for so long, that they may forget that there is more to life and transitioning than just surgery and other medical intervention. The fixation is often driven by the fantasy that surgery, and transition in general, will transform them into a new person, and that all the problems in life will go away… The availability of surgery isn’t the issue nor is removing barriers to surgery; the issue is that trans people are being educated and socially encouraged to abandon a holistic and forward-thinking approach to life. A return to medical gatekeeping, albeit modernized, for the treatment of gender dysphoria would be in the best interest of trans people. This just might slow down transgender contagion, the unhealthy and socially-sanctioned fixation with gender. Dr Wren of Tavistock: We have shifted to make the treatment available earlier and earlier. But the earlier you do it, the more you run the risk that it’s an intervention people would say yes to at a young age, but perhaps would not be so happy with when they move into their later adulthood CONTENTS 8) Regret rates & long term mental health A. Despite low regret rates, mental health problems remain high B. Are regret rates increasing with more transitions & people transitioning at younger ages? -Regret rates appear to be increasing -Prior studies are not a proper comparison to what is happening now with increases in young people / females -Increases of female teens with serious mental health problems -Efforts to deny regret & detransition C. Conclusion, regret rates BACK TO OUTLINE MORE 1. Do children outgrow gender dysphoria? 2. Permanent side effects 3. Are children & teens old enough to give consent? 4. Comments safety / desistance unknown 5. Gender dysphoria affirmative model 6. Minors transitioned without any psychological assessments 7. Conversion therapy laws 9. New World Order 10. Nature versus nurture 11. Why are so many females coming out as trans / nonbinary? 12. Cultural ripple effects 13. Why is gender ideology being prioritized in educational settings? 14. Problems with a politicized climate (censorship, etc) 15. Suicide risk reviewed 16. Trans rights / risks of false positives on minors 17. Moral Dilemmas

TReVoices Is The Leading Org Fighting To Stop Childhood Medical Transition World Wide! ​ Led by transman/lesbian Scott Newgent, our relentless SCREAMING to 'STOP Medically Transitioning Children' has been and continues to be heard everyday World - Wide! Make sure we can continue - We Need Your Help - Donate Today. Button Lift The Veil. Parents Get Busy & Learn Why 'Medical Transition Is Not Place For a child.' Sincerely, TReVoices & Everyone Else < Back Tom Blackwell Original Article National Post ​ I feel angry: Why People Regret & Reverse Their Transgender Decisions? By age 14, Eva became convinced she was a transgender boy. By 16, she had come out to her teachers and classmates. Her emotionally manipulative family was less accepting of her decision. But a therapist in Toronto and trans activists she knew had a dramatic proposal. 'I feel angry': Why some people regret and reverse their transgender decisions She could move into the Covenant House youth shelter, and then freely go on hormones to push ahead with medical transition. “They thought it was so important for me to be on testosterone that it was OK if I left home and probably didn’t graduate high school,” recalled Eva, who asked that her last name not be published to preserve her privacy around sensitive issues. “Even at that point in life, when I was 16 and totally believed this was the only thing that was going to save me, I was more rational about it.” She never did medically transition, a process that involves taking cross-sex hormones — testosterone for girls who transition to a male gender identity — and then undergo various surgical modifications. And six years later, on her own at university in Manitoba, Eva decided she’d been “misled,” and was not transgender after all. She was attracted to women, and wanted to be attracted to them as a woman herself. Eva, now 24, is part of a controversial cohort known as detransitioners and desisters, transgender people who come to rethink their decision, often having already undergone drug and surgical treatments. In October she founded an organization – Detrans Canada – she hopes will support individuals she said can feel ostracized by the LGBTQ community. She believes transition is essential for some gender dysphoric youth, but questions a treatment approach she said pushes young people too forcefully in that direction. “I feel a little bit angry, more than a little bit, because other people who’ve been in this position went much further than me,” said Eva. “I have lesbian friends who have no uterus, no ovaries, no breasts and are 21-years old. I’m angry that every single doctor and therapist we saw told us this was the one and only option.” She is convinced that more and more people are detransitioning or desisting, the latter term covering those who did not medically transition, though their numbers are the subject of debate. Detrans Canada has yet to launch a concerted recruitment drive and has fewer than a dozen Canadian members. But Eva noted that a Reddit forum for detransitioners – r/detrans – grew from 3,000 to over 16,000 members in just a few months this year. And several studies have estimated that 60 to 90 per cent of children who identify as transgender no longer want to transition by the time they’re adults, often becoming gay or lesbian. Other research , however, has estimated that actual detransitioners represent as little as one per cent of the trans population. Greta Bauer, the CIHR chair in gender and sex science at Western University, said she’s aware of no research indicating destransitioners’ ranks are expanding. She said many don’t regret their choice, they have simply stopped taking hormones for various other reasons. “What concerns me is that some people seem to think that the existence of any regret justifies denying or delaying care for everyone who needs a treatment,” said Bauer. “This is not the standard by which we evaluate any other medical treatment.” Eva said she suffered from some physical abuse, an eating disorder and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder as a child and by 14 was on anti-depressants. She also knew she was not heterosexual, but “didn’t know what was going on.” Then she saw videos posted online by trans men, people who had transformed from “dumpy women into buffed men,” and the answer seemed at hand. Years later she met friends in Manitoba who were dealing with their identity issues in other ways, and her own dysphoria eventually faded away. But such alternative perspectives seem of little interest to the health-care system, Eva said, or a clientele convinced by the transition-focused approach. “You have teenage girls who have issues with their bodies, issues socially with growing up, they have issues about their sexuality,” she said. “It’s no surprise that they have been given this fix, and that they want the fix.

< Back Forget What Gender Activists Tell You. Here’s What Medical Transition Looks Like By, Scott Newgent US At a recent gathering, a daughter’s friend told us, “I’m probably trans because I don’t like female puberty.” This instantly got my attention, because I have known this child for years, and I never saw any indication of her being trans. I innocently asked her why she would say that. Was it a joke, perhaps? She replied, “I don’t like my boobs growing, and Reddit says I’m probably trans.” That night, I tracked down these Reddit exchanges, and my jaw dropped when I saw how many people and organizations were heavily pushing the possibility of her being trans. But perhaps I shouldn’t have been surprised, given the way such attitudes have gone mainstream. This includes the pediatrician mom whose recent opinion piece for the New York Times was titled What I Learned as the Parent of a Transgender Child. For kids Googling this subject, the overall effect is the equivalent of one big glitter bomb going off on their screen. I write all this as a 47-year-old transgender man who transitioned five years ago. I’m also a parent to three teenagers. Though I admire the good intentions of parents who seek to support their children, I have serious concerns about reckless acquiescence to a child’s Internet-mediated self-diagnosis. Many older transgender folks share these concerns, too. In many cases, we are people who have been quietly going about our lives in society for years, anonymously sharing shops, offices, elevators, and sidewalks with everyone else, without making a big deal of our identity or proselytizing to others. We like it that way. But given the current climate, we now need to speak out. That one comment by my daughter’s friend caused me to investigate the organizations that purport to advocate on behalf of the trans community. I found that they typically push an approach based on quickly and enthusiastically affirming any indication of gender dysphoria. As someone who is trans myself, I know that this is the wrong approach. Yes, some children who say they are trans really will need to transition one day, because they have a lifelong condition. But parents who automatically assume that this is the case with their child aren’t necessarily following the child’s best interests. Transgenderism isn’t a vague feeling, or a distaste for stereotypical roles. It’s a serious internal condition that causes you to want to become the opposite sex. Medical transition, such as the kind I went through, can enhance an illusion that helps some gender dysphoric individuals navigate the world with more comfort. It did for me, and it was the right path for me to choose. I wasn’t “born in the wrong body.” I was born female. But I didn’t like it. So I changed my appearance, at significant monetary, psychological, and physical cost, with plastic surgery and hormones. My sex never changed, though. Only my appearance changed. Anyone going through this is in store for a brutal process. Yet we now have thousands of naïve parents walking their children into gender-treatment centers, often based on Internet-peddled narratives that present the transition experience through a gauzy rainbow lens. Many transition therapies are still in an experimental phase—as you will learn if you become sick during or after these treatments. During my own transition, I had seven surgeries. I also had a massive pulmonary embolism, a helicopter life-flight ride, an emergency ambulance ride, a stress-induced heart attack, sepsis, a 17-month recurring infection due to using the wrong skin during a (failed) phalloplasty, 16 rounds of antibiotics, three weeks of daily IV antibiotics, the loss of all my hair, (only partially successful) arm reconstructive surgery, permanent lung and heart damage, a cut bladder, insomnia-induced hallucinations—oh and frequent loss of consciousness due to pain from the hair on the inside of my urethra. All this led to a form of PTSD that made me a prisoner in my apartment for a year. Between me and my insurance company, medical expenses exceeded $900,000. During these 17 months of agony, I couldn’t get a urologist to help me. They didn’t feel comfortable taking me on as a patient—since the phalloplasty, like much of the transition process, is experimental. “Could you go back to the original surgeon?” they suggested. Whenever you question the maximalist activist line on trans affirmation, you are directed to The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (or WPATH) as a reference. But much of what you find there consists of vague phrases such as “up to doctor’s discretion.” Several lawyers suggested I had a slam-dunk medical-malpractice case—until they realized that trans health doesn’t really have a justiciable baseline. As a result, treatment often is subpar, as I have experienced first-hand. Lupron, the hormone blocker some doctors seem intent on giving to kids like Tylenol, isn’t even FDA-approved to treat children with gender dysphoria. (In 2001, the manufacturer pled guilty to fraudulent sales practices with regard to its marketing as a prostate-cancer drug.) We don’t yet know its long-term effects off-label, despite the fact parents have been assured that its effects are safe and even reversible. Here is what we do know: The long-term use of synthetic hormone therapy shortens lives. Specifically, these medications are associated with an increased risk of heart attacks, pulmonary embolisms, bone damage, liver and kidney failure, mental-health complications, and more. Almost a quarter of hormone-therapy patients on high-dose anabolic steroids (such as the testosterone taken by female-to-male transitioners) exhibit major mood-syndrome symptoms. Between three and 12 percent go on to develop symptoms of psychosis. Children who claim to be trans typically are receiving such drugs at a pivotal time in the development of brains and bones. They’ve become a generation of guinea pigs, to answer such questions as: What will happen to a biological boy who takes sex hormones associated with the opposite sex (or vice versa), and grows up without the benefit of natural puberty? What happens to a male body on estrogen over the long term? No one knows. In regard to the emotional effects of transition, many activists will refer you to a 2018 Pediatrics journal article entitled “Transgender Adolescent Suicide Behavior.” But the study reported therein was based on just three years of data—collected between 2012 and 2015. What matters is the long term. And in this regard, the gold standard is a study of 324 medically transitioned adults, based on 30-year longitudinal data. The authors found that completing sex-reassignment surgery was associated with “considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity” as compared to the general population. Kids who are suicidal before their transition will likely continue to be suicidal, and the most intense ideation often comes years after transitioning. (Transgender folks themselves sometimes speak anecdotally of a seven-to-10-year trans suicide “itch” observed within the community.) Death from any cause as a function of time after sex reassignment among 324 transsexual persons in Sweden. Source: NCBI. None of this is information that radicalized trans activists seek to publicize. In 2019, they trumpeted an article entitled Reduction in Mental Health Treatment Utilization Among Transgender Individuals After Gender-Affirming Surgeries, published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, which purported to show the benefits of transition. When the same authors came back in August 2020 to admit that their data actually didn’t show any significant benefit from transition, few bothered to report the correction. I have observed that when any argument is raised against a policy of no-questions-asked affirmation, activists seek to pre-empt discussion of the actual data by instead summoning up the specter of suicide—some version of “I would rather have a live daughter than a dead son.” Terrified parents are made to feel as if any expression of concern or skepticism is a gateway to the grave. It’s a passive aggressive form of emotional terrorism. From my own experience, and from countless conversations with my transgender friends, I can report that most of us regret at least some—though maybe not all—parts of our transition. Even for those who transition successfully, finding peace has stages and takes time. At first, everything is new and exciting. Then, as the years go on, reality sets in, and you have to face up to the reality of biological sex, not to mention the health issues. This is not a life of glitter bombs. The UK seems to be further ahead than North America in coming to understand that treatment decisions are happening too fast. The National Health Service (NHS) recently changed its stance on medically transitioning children, from presumed approval to a more cautious approach, even warning parents (accurately) that it is “not known whether hormone blockers affect the development of the teenage brain or children’s bones.” The NHS also notes that “most treatments offered at this stage are psychological rather than medical. This is because in many cases gender variant behaviour or feelings disappear as children reach puberty.” Perhaps the law suits are causing people to wake up. “I should have been challenged on the proposals or the claims that I was making for myself,” reports one British plaintiff. “And I think that would have made a big difference as well. If I was just challenged.” As someone who has experienced medical transition first-hand, I am convinced that it’s better to err on the side on discretion, and leave life-altering decisions to adults who have the benefit of a fully developed brain. The next time my daughter’s friend, or any child, comes to me for advice on their gender dysphoria, here’s what I’d tell them: “There are people who need to medically transition to walk peacefully through their lives, and you, kiddo, might be that person. But, right now, you are a child, and your body is developing everything you need to be a healthy, happy, strong adult. When you grow up, you get to decide about your life.” For parents, I would say this: It is simply not your right or duty to decide to medically transition your child. Remove that burden from your mind. Medical transition is for adults. The negatives associated with medical transition are vast, and you won’t be the one who lives with the consequences. It will be your child. If your child tells you they will kill themselves if you do not allow them to medically transition (perhaps following a script he or she is provided on Reddit or Tumblr), take them to the hospital so they can be treated for suicidal ideation. Suicidal ideation and seeking transition are separate issues, so separate them. We talk a lot about oppression and marginalization. Well, I’m one of the people who’s been oppressed and marginalized—more so now that I have outed myself so that I can try to help others. The least you can do is pay attention to my message. Original Link

TReVoices Is The Leading Org Fighting To Stop Childhood Medical Transition World Wide! ​ Led by transman/lesbian Scott Newgent, our relentless SCREAMING to 'STOP Medically Transitioning Children' has been and continues to be heard everyday World - Wide! Make sure we can continue - We Need Your Help - Donate Today. Button Lift The Veil. Parents Get Busy & Learn Why 'Medical Transition Is Not Place For a child.' Sincerely, TReVoices & Everyone Else < Back Staff Writer Original Article Canadian Gender Report ​ Canadian Parents Tell Their Stories, Worried about the Implications of "Conversion Therapy" Bill Bill C6 is expected to be debated later this week with a final vote in Parliament coming later this month. One of the de facto roles of Canadian Gender Report is to represent Canadians who are afraid to speak up publicly about their experience with the healthcare of their gender-questioning kids. It is clear that most of the care across Canada has become ideologically driven versus based in evidence and fact. As such, we are publishing this sample of anonymous stories to start painting a picture of what is happening across our country and to call for more evidence and balance when it comes to caring for our gender-question youth and children with gender dysphoria. If you have a story you would like Canadian Gender Report to know about, please email us at info@genderreport.ca . We keep all information strictly confidential and will honour all requests for anonymity. Parent testimony submitted to the Canadian government On criminalization of “conversion therapy” for gender identity: “No one is arguing that transgender people should not have access to hormones or medical transition. We are advocating that for the sake of young women who are the largest-growing numbers seeking medical transition, other options should ALSO be made available on an individual basis to explore and rule out other co-morbidities such as BPD, autism, gifted intellect, gender-non-conforming, so that our daughters and cousins and nieces are not directed to ONLY ONE METHOD for dealing with gender dysphoria, but permitted to grow in therapy in whichever ways seem to them individually wisest with therapeutic help.” “A few months after a school presentation by the Canadian Centre for Sexual and Gender Diversity, our son told us he was really a demi-girl. Six other children in his grade also started identifying as transgender. We had a difficult time finding a therapist who wouldn’t just affirm our son in his new identity. We finally found a therapist that figured out that our son was suffering from anxiety. After this help, he no longer considers himself a demi-girl. You’re telling us this would be a crime?” “Our 14-year-old teenage daughter suddenly and very surprisingly said she had gender dysphoria. This was with absolutely zero signs or indications of gender dysphoria before the age of 14. This also was two years after her telling me she was bisexual and then the next year further saying she was a lesbian. I would like to fully support her as she explores her gender identity and sexual orientation, and one of the ways that I would like to do that is through conversations with a therapist.” “Before this happened to my daughter and my family, I would have been very supportive of this bill, and to be clear I am in every way opposed to Conversion Therapy. After what we have been through, I do however disagree that the affirmative model of care is appropriate in all cases, especially for children. Now that I’ve been through it, I can see how damaging this model can be to our young people. We are letting them down by blindly accepting their self diagnosis and not providing appropriate care and support. I’ve learned that there are so many factors that can lead to gender dysphoria that have nothing to do with having been born in the wrong body. I have learned that feelings of gender dysphoria do not last forever. I have had to navigate this on my own and with extremely little support. I feel that medical professionals, mental health professionals, and policy makers are letting families down.” On the Canadian Healthcare System: “I would like to clarify that it wasn’t difficult finding well-meaning gender-affirming care professionals who quickly agreed with my child that she should proceed with testosterone shots, purchase a chest binder and eventually have a double mastectomy. (This was all determined after two appointments with a psychologist and one consultation appointment with an endocrinologist at __Children’s Hospital). My child also received instant affirmation from the GP I first sought help from. That GP did not do a mental health screening or order blood tests that are usually done to rule out medical conditions that are associated with depression. What was difficult was finding a professional who would explore the source and severity of my child’s gender dysphoria, address her depression and anxiety, screen for common co-occurring mental health conditions, order blood tests, or attempt to discuss the risks as well as the benefits of transitioning. She did not require parental consent to start cross-sex hormone injections. The result of some gentle challenge and information-seeking was a teen who eventually received help for her co-occurring conditions, accepted her sexuality, and now lives comfortably in her body without the need for multiple surgeries and lifelong hormone injections.” ———– “She had recently been seeing a psychotherapist who was coaching her on what to say to Sick Kids to get hormone treatment right away. Our daughter had disclosed this to us after the third visit. Lastly, her gender dysphoria has come about suddenly with the onset of puberty at age 14 with no previous indication of gender identity issues. Our daughter denied all of this during this interview. We left the hospital shocked at the outcome, not feeling that a one-hour long interview with a child and ignoring all parental input and concerns was sufficient to start on a course of hormones. We never returned to Sick Kids Hospital.” On Kids Getting Caught Up In A New Trend: Parents are becoming increasingly worried that their kids are “caught up in a fad” fuelled by social media and our celebrity culture. Experiences: “We, to the best of our ability, just tried to understand and love our son. He was growing his hair long, had a female name and pic on his Spotify. About 6 months ago he cut his hair, cut his nails, changed his pic from a girl to no pic and changed the girl’s name back to a boy’s name. The hair cut and changes came as out of the blue as did the transgender ideas.” “At the beginning of Grade 9 in my daughter’s high school, a new student entered who identified as transgender. Within one year, so by the beginning of Grade 10, at least six (that I know of) identified as transgender, in a group of 125. In other words, at least 5% of the grade are identifying as transgender, which is statistically improbable, if not impossible.” “I am the parent of a teen. Born female. She now states she is in fact a boy. She “feels” like a boy. She wears “boy clothes”, (whatever that is), and has become fixated on this idea to the exclusion of any other thoughts. She has a history of poor social relationships and self-harm. Her escape has become transitioning and a near-constant immersion into Tumblr, Reddit, Mochi, Discourse, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, and so on.” Bill C6 moves to a 3rd vote in Parliament The Canadian government will debate and vote on Bill C6 for a 3rd time after which it will be sent to the Senate for review. The Bill as written will make accessing supportive therapy for gender questioning kids almost impossible in Canada, unless a therapist is willing to risk being accused of a crime. There has been no interest in the parent and detransitioner testimonies that have been put forward on this Bill, and no response to requests for meetings with members of the governing Liberals. We’re extremely disappointed that the Canadian government is intending to enact legislation that will result in harm to vulnerable children and is refusing to understand the difficult issues involved that make a blanket “conversion therapy ban” extremely ill-advised.

Get to know trans people, the real trans living day to day, what they believe, and how they feel. You will find that most older trans people believe what is happening to kids, and transgender ideology is hurtful. The media leaders you currently see do not represent most trans people. Reality Is Not Bigotry < Back Trans Man Buck Angel TReVoices.org - A Trans Activist Making Waves With Reason An Logic. Follow Buck On Twitter Buck Angel was born a biological female and conquered a lifetime of adversity to undergo his transformation and become the healthy, happy, self-confident man he is today. Buck created the first FTM adult website in 2003 and became the first FTM adult entertainer and film producer. In 2007, Buck made history again as the first transsexual man to ever win the AVN Transsexual Performer of the Year award (the academy awards of the adult industry). In the 1980s, Buck got his first break in the entertainment world as a high-fashion female model, under contract with two of the world’s most prestigious modeling agencies, Elite Model Management and Z in London. Not surprisingly, Buck pushed the envelope in the high-fashion world, as well. His look as a professional female model was progressive, beautiful, and almost androgynous, which opened the doors for some of today’s most successful models. Many girls dream of becoming models, but this career was painfully difficult for Buck. He turned to drugs and alcohol to deal with the unbearable distress between his inner and outer selves. He ended up living on the streets, homeless and hopeless. Buck even attempted suicide on more than one occasion. Buck sought professional help from a number of therapists, most of whom did not know how to deal with his problems, which stemmed from his gender identity issues. One suggested he was simply a ‘male identified female’. Life for Buck finally took a turn for the better when he came across a documentary about a female-to-male transsexual. This film changed the course of his life forever. Not long after, Buck finally found a therapist who understood the nature of his problem. He then began taking the necessary hormones and later underwent breast-removal surgery. His transformation was a dream come true, and for the first time in his life, Buck was able to live comfortably in his own skin. After becoming the man he had always perceived himself to be, he began to live a productive and fulfilling life with peace and self-acceptance. Following gender reassignment, Buck began working in the adult entertainment industry as a fetish filmmaker and website developer for the male-to-female (MTF) on-line market. After a few years, he came to realize that there were no female-to-male (FTM) adult entertainment sites on the internet. As an icon of popular culture, Buck has appeared on the Howard Stern Show , Spike TV, Much Music, OUT TV, the Tyra Banks Show and has been featured in every media outlet: television, radio, web, and print. Recently, Buck has devoted himself to informing and enlightening the world. As he demonstrated in his speaking engagements at Yale University and IdeaCity 2010, Buck is not only inspiring people to think outside the box, he is redefining gender and educating an entire generation on the fluidity of sexuality and identity politics. In 2012 Buck was appointed to the board of directors of the Woodhull Sexual Freedom Alliance. Buck produced a documentary, Sexing The Transman , in 2012, which went on to win awards and has become a film festival favorite. This very important documentary has opened up much needed dialogue about the sexuality and the effects of hormone on trans men during their transition from female to male. 2013 a documentary about Buck’s life was released, Mr. Angel . The film has become a Netflix favorite and has also won numerous awards including a Telly Award. 2014 Buck now travels the world speaking and educating using his own transition to help change the world. Reference: The Wheeler Centre Listen to a podcast with Buck Angel & Scott Newgent Tearing Up The Idea That It's OK For Kids To Medically Transition

TReVoices Is The Leading Org Fighting To Stop Childhood Medical Transition World Wide! ​ Led by transman/lesbian Scott Newgent, our relentless SCREAMING to 'STOP Medically Transitioning Children' has been and continues to be heard everyday World - Wide! Make sure we can continue - We Need Your Help - Donate Today. Button Lift The Veil. Parents Get Busy & Learn Why 'Medical Transition Is Not Place For a child.' Sincerely, TReVoices & Everyone Else < Back Halley Morgan Original Article An Army Of Moms ​ An Army of Moms; 5 Things I Learned from the Frontlines of the Transgender Resistance An Army of Moms: 5 Things I Learned from the Frontlines of the Transgender Resistance Halley Morgan A few months ago, I joined a small group of parents of transgender kids. It has grown from a half dozen or so to more than eighty members and is still growing. The group is well-educated, highly intelligent, successful and caring. Supporting each other, using our significant skills in the areas of research, teaching, the law and medicine, and consulting with experts from around the globe, we are now an army of trans-realists with an artillery of science. My son, 16, told me he was transgender two years ago, but it did not make sense to me based on everything I had seen in him from birth. Now, it makes complete sense to me. More on that later. When I joined the group, I was struggling to figure out if being transgender was like being gay — which would merit total acceptance — or being anorexic, which my daughter suffered from at his age. He was not happy with his body, and was extremely anxious — so I saw similarities between the two. You may find that comparison offensive. But keep reading, and then tell me I’m wrong. Here’s what I’ve learned: 1. Trans-Realists Are Not “Transphobes” When I joined, I worried the group would be religious right and faith based. If it were, I would have silently exited. My worries were completely unfounded. We have political views from the right to the left. Among us are Catholics, Protestants, Jews, a Buddhist, and atheists like me too. There are various points of view in the group (as there should be) but the focus of the group is on scientific evidence to debunk the theory that the affirmation of transgender youth is always merited and to fight against the medicalization of those under 25. The other focus is to support each other. This isn’t always easy: it’s mentally challenging and lonely when you are not accepting the status quo presented by the transgender activists. We are from all over the country, and a few from overseas: we now have members from Florida, Texas, Ohio, Massachusetts, Illinois, Oregon, California, Australia, Canada, Sweden, England and Wales and more. Among us are gay couples, straight couples, divorced moms and dads. We have Ivy League degrees and the money and resources to start getting our voices heard. While we do not agree about everything, we are bound together by the knowledge that something has gone terribly wrong in the treatment of transgender youth presenting with gender dysphoria. It should not matter but I’d be considered on the “left.” I donated to Planned Parenthood (until they started these treatments), and to the ACLU too. Never again. The horrific reality of the medicalization of the spiking number of transgender youth is something that is much easier swept under the rug by a society that puts she/her/hers on email signatures — as if pronouns make the person. That said, if you are transgender, I support you and your legal rights 100% and your equal (actually more) protection under the law. While you may see it differently, not supporting medicalization of youth does not mean I do not value and support transgender individuals. 2. The State of Transgender Care is Much Worse than I Thought Being part of the group exposed me to the horrific reality of the skyrocketing number of transgender youths. Our kids have attended both private and public secondary schools, which “affirm” different names and pronouns for our kids without our permission — and sometimes without our knowledge. And yet giving them a Tylenol requires our consent. We all heard the same story from our boys, none of whom showed any signs of being transgender before. I’ve always known it. If you don’t affirm me, I’ll be taken away from you. Or I’ll commit suicide. We are constantly told by health professionals justifying putting our kids on experimental treatments that our kids will kill themselves if they do not transition but “do this or I will kill myself” is abusive logic and is generally not TRUE. There is no robust, high quality evidence that medically transitioning improves life satisfaction long term. Some studies show many who do transition have poor outcomes and a high risk of suicide. The stability of a self-reported transgender identity or a gender identity that departs from the traditional male-female binary among non-clinic-based populations remains unknown and requires further study. When my son “came out” as transgender, I was pressured to put him on puberty blockers to “give him time to decide.” I am so grateful I said no. These puberty blockers (Lupron, Triptodur) are experimental, are prescribed off label, cost thousands of dollars per month and have significant side effects such as stunted growth, lower density bones, and weaker tooth enamel. I knew I was not going to help my son change his body based on feelings that could change, but I did not know how bad things were. At 18, things get worse: hormone therapy, removal of testicles, breast implants, and converting penises into neo-vaginas. And, of course, giving up the ability to father a biological child in the natural way, and never having orgasms. For several moms in the group, their sons went off to colleges at prestigious colleges and universities and ended up getting prescribed hormones from student health centers practically as soon as they arrived with no meaningful medical evaluation. Another parent’s son — who has cancer and who lost his mom to cancer — went off to college at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). Despite being treated for cancer, the son’s self-diagnosis of gender dysphoria was met at the RIT student health center with, of course, immediate affirmation that he is indeed transgender and a referral to the University of Rochester Medical Center for hormone treatment. Luckily, his son’s oncologist stopped this, but the parent’s meetings with school medical professionals about this madness ended with the parent being admonished, saying he should fully support his son’s new gender identity. University administrators and the heads of their medical centers are completely complicit in the medicalization of their students. The safety and effectiveness of hormone treatment has not been demonstrated. Some hormonal dangers, e.g., to heart and fertility, are already known, but long term risks are unstudied. 3. Our Kids Are Amazingly Similar We’ve filled out charts of our boys. We found that many suffer from social anxiety and are unsure about their sexuality. Eighty-five percent of our sons are gifted, exceptionally gifted or profoundly gifted (IQ over 160). Fifteen percent have been diagnosed with autism and another 70% have one or more of the following: poor social skills, sensitivity issues and/or poor eye contact. None showed any gender confusion behavior prior to age 12. Many also have sensory overload issues and eating disorders (see above), as well. We have been talking to experts in the field of gender medicine from all over the world. One has told us that his male patients are generally autistic. These young people often see things in black and white. So, if they do not feel right as males, they must be females — paradoxical, given how they claim to reject gender stereotypes. It is circular thinking. When you ask them what being female means, few, if any, can answer. Many explode in anger. Cognitively they are very advanced, but may be relatively emotionally delayed. In puberty (some after growing a foot within a year) they feel bad about their bodies and go seeking answers on the internet and medicalization is presented as the solution to this issue. Social influence should not be dismissed when the spike in those presenting with gender dysphoria is so high. Our sons are white or mixed race, and socioeconomically privileged. It seems that, when you have that privilege, you have more time to ruminate about your gender. 4. Diagnoses are Crazy-Making All of our sons self-diagnosed themselves as having gender dysphoria. They did not show up to receive treatment for mental or physical distress and receive a diagnosis of “gender dysphoria.” Instead, with their self-diagnoses in hand, they show up to the offices of medical professionals. Within a session or two — bam — a “professional” is telling them they have gender dysphoria and depending on age, should start on puberty blockers or hormones. There is no examination of any underlying mental conditions or the distorted thinking that can come with them. Instead, gender dysphoria is given as a cause of the other illnesses rather than a result of them. Looking at the DSM-5 for Gender Dysphoria –many of us would have met the criteria for gender dysphoria during certain periods over the course of our lives. What doesn’t happen — and what, based on the experts I’ve listened to as part of the group should happen — is to deconstruct what they are thinking and feeling. Certainly they would not be there if they were not feeling distressed about their bodies and it is extremely important not to dismiss their feelings. We parents have found it virtually impossible to find any such care. In certain locales (including Australia) any questioning at all of the self-diagnosis of gender dysphoria is seen as conversion therapy. Gender identity is equated with sexual orientation. Transgender is seen as the new gay. But being gay does not involve a lifetime of medicalization. While being transgender is not widely considered an “illness”, gender dysphoria is; and insurance companies, including for those on Medicaid, pay for the expensive “gender-affirming” treatments. An established clinic in Chicago diagnoses “endocrine disorders” for perfectly healthy natal males (trans females) because they do not have estrogen levels like natal females. With that kind of thinking, they might as well be described as having chromosome disorders, too. My son can’t get medical treatment until he is 18 and he says he won’t after. You do not know the relief that gives me. So you may wonder why any of this still matters to me. Well, first, he may change his mind, and second I believe that initial diagnosis of “gender dysphoria” has harmed him in more ways than the therapist will ever know. He has told me that because the therapist said it, it is true and he should continue to use his female name and pronouns and dress, which all in themselves may leave him too embarrassed to desist later even if he wants to. More than that, I’m worried about the sons of my new friends and about all youth who may or may not find this was the right path for them. 5. People Do Regret Transitioning; Lawsuits are Coming We are told no one regrets transitioning. Not only is there no evidence to back that up, the number of detransitioners and desisters is in fact growing, demonstrating a need to re-evaluate the medicalization of transgender youth. I am trying to help two young men seek legal recourse against medical professionals who failed to provide warnings, failed to address other mental health issues, and failed to allow time for them to contemplate such life altering decisions. Instead, transgender activists stood by, telling them exactly what to say to get treatments and how to defeat anything which got in their way — including taking a reasonable amount of time to think about what they wanted. They were both prescribed hormones, had their testicles surgically removed and had breasts implanted in rapid succession. They soon realized that, while their other mental health issues remained, the diagnosis of gender dysphoria was wrong. Insurance paid for the breast implants (costing $20K), they had to pay to have them removed. There are various groups of lawyers from around the country who are readying cases. There is too much money being made from too many people, and we believe one of the only ways to stop this madness is through the law. And lawsuits mean damages. The evidence we’ve presented is dismissed categorically as “transphobic” — even by so-called specialists in the field. Where else would you find that language from “professionals”? So, no matter how many comments calling me a “transphobe” I get here, and no matter how quickly my article may be taken down — the Army of Trans-Realists is growing, and we are going to be heard.

SCREAMING In The Media This page is full of media from around the world collected to educate, help others learn how SCREAM to S.T.O.P. Childhood Medical Transition. ...The power of one voice? One Voice....Well...One Voice Can Change Everything... Please start using yours today to top the medical industry from butchering children under the guise of, love and human rights. Reach out anytime...I will never say no to help a child -Scott Newgent J. K. Rowling vs. Woke Supremacy National Review Much ado has been made of J. K. Rowling’s essay explaining her “reasons for speaking out on sex and gender issues.” She has been accused of transphobia far and wide. A school in West Sussex has dropped plans to name one of its houses after her as it does “not wish to be associated with these views.” Read More Children's Rights, Trans Realities | with Scott Newgent Boyce Of Reason Scott Newgent Is His Own Fire Brand Of Truth! Read More We Need Balance When It Comes To Gender Dysphoric Kids. I Would Know Newsweek This Newsweek article was one of the first published in the mainstream media and referred to people often. During my post-operation 17 months of sheer survival, I discovered that transgender health care is experimental and that large swaths of the medical industry encourage minors to transition due, at least in part, to fat profit margins. I was gobsmacked. Each day I researched more and became increasingly appalled. Read More Changer de genre, ce n'est pas une mince affaire Le Point Changer de genre, ce n'est pas une mince affaire Un homme transgenre témoigne des problèmes de santé liés à la transition de genre, et s'inquiète des effets à long terme des traitements hormonaux.... Read More 미 트랜스젠더 남성, 성전환 수술 이후 후유증 폭로…다음세대 보호해야 U.S. transgender man reveals sequelae after sex reassignment surgery... protect the next generation 조제 - GPM 뉴스위크(Newsweek)에 따르면 자신을 48세의 트랜스젠더 남성이라고 설명한 스콧 뉴젠트(Scott Newgent)는 6년 전, 자신이 여자에서 남자로 변할 수 있다는 말을 들었을 때 매우 기뻤다며, 그러나 (의료진은) 의학적 전환으로 인해 일어날 모든 멋진 일들에 대한 정보는 제공했지만, 부정적인 것들은 얼버무렸다고 설명했다. Read More Daily Surge Daily Surge In a surprising editorial published in the Washington Post, two transgender activists and psychologists, Laura Edwards-Leeper and Erica Anderson, are now advocating for “gender-exploratory therapy” for trans-identified youth before rushing into puberty blockers, hormone treatments, and sex-change surgery. Shades of what we conservatives have been saying for years! Read More “Blasphemous ideas and the silence dissent: A Review of Abigail Shrier's "Irreversible Damage" Feminist Current This review grew out of a discussion with a dear friend who, at the time, supported gender identity ideology. I, on the other hand, had become increasingly frustrated with the loss of women’s rights to female-only spaces and laws protecting us from sex discrimination, as well as with the silencing of dissent to transgender dogma, and had urged her to examine the available information for herself. Read More OPPOSING OPINIONS AROUND PEDIATRIC MEDICAL TRANSITION AND GENDER IDEOLOGY ​Genderhq Trans Opposition to Pediatric Medical Transition and Gender Activism Not all trans people believe in pediatric medical transition as the medical side effects can be intense, and surgeries and hormones have risks. Scott Newgent, an FtM trans person, has circulated a petition, “Adult Transgender & Non-Transgender People Against Medically Transitioning Children opposing medical treatment on minors.” Read More The Cowardly Republicans Of South Dakota National Review For proof that Republicans can be just as lazy, self-serving, and cowardly as Democrats, look no farther than the South Dakota Senate. As reported by my colleague Tobias Hoonhout, this week Republican senators Duhamel, Rusch, Steinhauer, and Soholt of the Health and Human Services Committee all joined the 5–2 majority that effectively killed a bill designed to make it easier for gender-confused minors to attain financial compensation later in life — should they realize, before age 38... Read More Statement on Buck Angel and “Trans Men Fight Back” Kitty Stryker On July 23rd, a letter was posted titled “Trans Men Fight Back”. Hosted by the Gender Dysphoria Alliance Canada and cosigned by TRans Educational Voices, it was signed by GDAC founder Aaron Kimberly, alongside TReVoices founder Scott Newgent, Buck Angel, Ken Pirie, Aaron Terell, and “those who don’t wish to be named”. In the letter, a series of wild, vague accusations were leveled at unnamed trans women, who the signatories claim they have been silenced by. Read More Bill C-6 needs more nuance: ​"Conversion therapy is wrong, but pushing kids to transition medically is worse​ - Published Brief Entered Into Evidence​ Canadian Parliament Read TReVoices Official Brief On File With The Canadian Parlament. Once again, transing kids hide right behind the 'actual bigotry' gays and lesbians teens have been dealing with for years. Read More Forget What Gender Activists Tell You. Here’s What Medical Transition Looks Like Quilette At a recent gathering, a daughter’s friend told us, “I’m probably trans because I don’t like female puberty.” This instantly got my attention, because I have known this child for years, and I never saw any indication of her being trans. I innocently asked her why she would say that. Was it a joke, perhaps? She replied, “I don’t like my boobs growing, and Reddit says I’m probably trans.” Read More Sex Change Can Destroy's One's Life, Biological Woman Who Transitioned Into A Man Reveals Christianity Daily "Scott" Newgent, a self-described 48-year-old transgender man, warns people of dangers from sex-change surgeries that she encountered first-hand. Six years ago, a hopeful Newgent was told by the medical community that she could turn from a woman into a man. But, Newgent adds, "all the negatives were glossed over." Read More Is the Left endorsing conversion therapy for trans children? The Christain Post In a surprising editorial published in TheWashington Post, transgender activists and psychologists Laura Edwards-Leeper and Erica Anderson are now advocating for “gender-exploratory therapy” for trans-identified youth before rushing into puberty blockers, hormone treatments, and sex-change surgery. Shades of what we conservatives have been saying for years! Read More Ativista trans se manifesta contra as políticas de gênero de Joe Biden Leia mais em: Trans activist speaks out against Joe Biden's gender policies Gazeta Do Povo Ativista trans se manifesta contra as políticas de gênero de Joe Biden Leia mais em: https://www.gazetadopovo.com.br/ideias/ativista-trans-joe-biden/ Copyright © 2021, Gazeta do Povo. Todos os direitos reservados. Read More Documentary 'TRANSMISSION' - What's the rush to reassign gender? CBC The Center For Bio-Ethics and Culture Network New Documentary "Trans Mission" Explores How Kids and Parents Are Caught in the Maw of Child Gender Medicine Programs Share now: #DeTransMission Read More #880 - A TRANSMAN’S UNEXPECTED THOUGHTS ON TRANS* RELATED ISSUES: SCOTT NEWGENT Theology in the Raw #880 Read More ​Twitter Bans Transman For Telling The Horrific Truth ​Freedom Updates This is what happens when you go against the liberal narrative, even when you are part of a group they put on a pedestal. Scott Newgent was originally Kelly King, a woman who underwent numerous surgeries to look like a man. But unlike other trans, Newgent has been warning others not to make the change. Newgent took to Twitter to warn others and was banned for it. You'd think that Newgent would be ok on the liberal platform but apparently, they don't want people to hear a voice of reason. Newgent explained the horrors associated with the sex-change surgeries and other treatments that Liberals don't want the public to know about. Read More Trans Get Twitter-Banned For Trying To Save Troubled Youth The Patriot Chronicles As the social media giants continue to crack down on those who violate their trans-activist talking points (see here and here), another perspective has been raised from an unexpected source. I'm talking about a powerful, deeply moving article posted in Newsweek and titled, "We Need Balance When It Comes To Gender Dysphoric Kids. I Would Know." The author of the op-ed is Scott Newgent, self-described as "a 48-year-old transgender man." What Newgent has written is courageous, deeply revealing, poignant and accurate. Read More ‘Gender transition’ regret deserves a voice, says former patient​” ​Catholic News Agency​ New York woman Grace Lidinsky-Smith said she regrets going through “gender transition” surgery, in a June 25 essay. Lidinsky-Smith wrote that she’s not the only person who feels wrongly prescribed hormone therapy and surgery by medical providers who operate under no commonly agreed standard of care. Her June 25 essay, “There's No Standard for Care When it Comes to Trans Medicine,” was published by Newsweek. Read More Why a Generation of Girls Is Fleeing Womanhood THE JOURNAL OF THE WITHERSPOON INSTITUTE Abigail Shrier’s new book is an outstanding investigative report on the diagnostic craze of rapid onset gender dysphoria that has swept over adolescent girls in the past decade. It is an invaluable resource for parents, educators, church and community leaders, and anyone else who cares about the well-being of young women.Abigail Shrier’s new book is an outstanding investigative report on the diagnostic craze of rapid onset gender dysphoria that has swept over adolescent girls in the past decade. It is an invaluable resource for parents, educators, church and community leaders, and anyone else who cares about the well-being of young women. Read More Interview with Trans Man & Leading International Phycologist On Childhood Gender Dysphoria Genspect Leading Psychologist Stella O'Malley & Our Founder Talk About Gender -Dysphoria Stop By Stella's Organization GenSpect Read More Interview with Scott Newgent Feminist Legal Clinic [T]ransgender health is the gravitative new revenue channel that is drawing in the horrible surgeons and physicians and mental health professionals. You can be dangerously terrible at what you do, jump into this arena, and you have a line of people wanting to see you, you have LGBT organisations protecting you from lawsuits and politicians that don’t have the guts to stand up and say this is wrong. Read More TReVoices Founder Stands Behind the Green Party "No, they are not transphobic; they just decided to plug in a few brain cells to analyze the situation and what's happening to kiddos...Let's hope ya'll will feel the same way after my speech." Georgia Green Party Testimony Legal Testimony Read More Letiltottak egy transznemű Scott Newgent férfit a Twitteren, mert kritizálta a gyermekek nemváltoztatását, és rávilágított arra, hogy a nemváltás és az azzal járó negatív hatások egy életen át tartanak V4 Agency Letiltottak egy transznemű férfit a Twitteren, mert kritizálta a gyermekek nemváltoztatását, és rávilágított arra, hogy a nemváltás és az azzal járó negatív hatások egy életen át tartanak, írja a V4NA. A New Yorkban élő 48 éves transzszexuális Scott Newgent egy életre kitiltották a Twitterről, miután figyelmeztetéseket tett közzé a gyerekek nemváltoztatásával kapcsolatban. A férfi kiemelte, hogy a pubertásblokkolók, és a hormonkezelések hatására a gyerekek fokozottan ki vannak téve a depressziónak... Read More Is The Washington Post Now Endorsing Conversion Therapy for Trans-Identified Children? Town Hall In a surprising editorial published in the Washington Post, two transgender activists and psychologists, Laura Edwards-Leeper and Erica Anderson, are now advocating for “gender-exploratory therapy” for trans-identified youth before rushing into puberty blockers, hormone treatments, and sex-change surgery. Shades of what we conservatives have been saying for years! Read More The case for deep-sixing Bill C-6 National Post Barbara Kay: The case for deep-sixing Bill C-6 Despite broad support in the House, the proposed law to ban conversion therapy reaches too far Author of the article: Barbara Kay Late last month, 306 members of Parliament gave approval in principle to “conversion therapy” Bill C-6, with only seven Conservative party votes opposed (leader Erin O’Toole supported it, but permitted his MPs a free vote). The House of Commons justice committee is reviewing public responses to it......... Read More Testosterone Prescribed-A Body Destroyed, But A Mind Awoken To Save Others TReVoices A true story that will help parents understand why so many gay and lesbian children gravitate to becoming trans. Not acknowledging the truth leads to a generation of gay and lesbians butchering bodies and minds that do not need to be fixed. Love and Acceptance is a must and only prescription required. Read More With Congressman Dan Crenshaw & trans Man Scott Newgent "Let's Talk About Transgenderism...Debate" Hold These Truth Hold These Truths | Episode 128 Listen on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2dUj... Scott Newgent is a transgender man and the founder of TReVoices, an organization working with governments around the world to develop laws and guidelines which inform and protect individuals who are considering gender reassignment surgery. We talk about Scott's near-death experience with medically transitioning, the industry and ideology that is influencing LGBT adults and children to medically transition, and the how that ideology is attempting to radically change our politics, sports, military, and culture. Learn more about Scott's work at https://www.trevoices.com and follow him on Twitter at @ScottNewgent. Read More A Trans Campaigner Speaks Out against Biden’s Transgender Activism​ ​National Review Biden’s trans policies are ‘doing nobody any favors,’ says Scott Newgent. Scott Newgent is a 47-year-old transgender man and parent living in Texas. Newgent is the founder of TReVoices, a group of trans campaigners who oppose radical gender activism and seek to educate politicians and families about the reality of gender dysphoria. Here, he talks to Madeleine Kearns about the Biden administration’s transgender policies. Read More The Mess We’re In “Trans Day Of Visibility Graham Linehan Podcast The Mess We're In Ep. #44: Trans Day of Visibility! Read More Dysphoric (2021) - a four-part documentary series Lime Soda Films IN — Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Vaishnavi Sundar is an independent filmmaker, writer, and radical feminist from Chennai, India, whose filmmaking is unapologetically female-centered, despite men’s utterly entitled demands upon her. Her previous work includes direction of But What Was She Wearing?, shot by an all-woman crew, as India’s first feature-length documentary on the sexual harassment of working women. Contrasting first-world consumable narratives of white saviorism and poverty porn, Sundar’s film takes into account differences across caste, class, and religion among Indian women, focusing on women speaking collectively as women for women about women. However, the response to her radically feminist filmmaking has revealed the failures of a fundamentally superficial liberal feminism positioned on the politics of platitudes. “Our fight for rights today – despite the many lives that were lost in the process – remains toothless and cosmetic at best,” Sundar reflects. Currently, Sundar’s upcoming film titled Not My Cup of T will explore the unprecedented increase in young women in the Western world coming to clinics with ‘gender dysphoria’ and, in their desperation, seeking drugs and surgeries as ‘solutions’ to their distress. Drawing on the work of Dr Lisa Littman, Sundar considers what has been described as rapid-onset gender dysphoria (ROGD). From a feminist point of view, then, Sundar will take a critical look at this psychological and sociological phenomenon and the profitable, global medicalization of gender nonconformity, notably as it pertains to female youth. Continue reading ‘Not My Cup of T’: Interview with Vaishnavi Sundar, Filmmaker Exploring Rise in Girls Treated for ‘Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria’ | Women Are Human. Read more at: https://www.womenarehuman.com/not-my-cup-of-t-interview-with-vaishnavi-sundar-filmmaker-exploring-rise-in-girls-treated-for-rapid-onset-gender-dysphoria/ Read More Let's Focus On Stopping the Transition of Children' Uncommon Ground Scott Newgent responds to assertions made in a recent article published on Uncommon Ground Media with a call to focus on the issue at hand. This statement will also be published on Scott Newgent’s website, TReVoices.org Read More Wild West Of Transgender Surgery - It's All Experimental - Yee Haw! TReVoices Deciding to get a Phalloplasty is a personal journey. The surgery itself is a hot button in the transgender community, and, I believe it will continue to be for quite some time. I'm not a Doctor just a patient, so these explanations, experiences as well as opinions will be with my limited knowledge from a clinical perspective. Some incidents are mine, some I have read in medical malpractices cases, and others are ones I listened to over coffee with friends. Excuse the explicit account, but I want to put the complexities and expectations into a realistic viewpoint, it would have benefited me when I started this journey. Read More From a Christian Conservative to a Transgender Man: Love Calls Me to Action CHARISMA As the social media giants continue to crack down on those who violate their trans-activist talking points (see here and here), another perspective has been raised from an unexpected source. I'm talking about a powerful, deeply moving article posted in Newsweek and titled, "We Need Balance When It Comes To Gender Dysphoric Kids. I Would Know." The author of the op-ed is Scott Newgent, self-described as "a 48-year-old transgender man." What Newgent has written is courageous, deeply revealing, poignant and accurate. Read More Trans Man is Twitter-banned after speaking against gender transition of children ​The Post Millennial The gender mystics are winning social media battles, but the war will be won by the heroes who refuse to yield to their tyranny, who refuse to be silenced, and who find other pathways to make their case. Read More You need to know what the 12 leading complications of childhood medical Transition TReVoices 12 Leading Complications-Medical Transing Kids-USA Estimate Of Money Generated-312 Million A Year! The blog is essential to the transing kid's debate because it breaks down the finances and what it means for every child that is convinced they are trans....What does that mean from a profit perspective? This article is also frightening—the top 12 complications of medical transitioning and why it's no place for a child. Read More Trans activist: Serious concern over child reassignment surgery​ ​Catholic Weekly The Australian Catholic director for "Catholic Weekly" reached out to Scott and asked to publish an article. The director was surprised when Mr Newgent agreed. "To stop the travesty of medically transitioning children, we have to pull apart the protection they receive for people believing this issue is about human rights; it is not! It is not about money. I will work with anything that helps stop one of the catastrophic travesties histories will write about, the time when "People butchered children for profit. When all communities come together, it sheds light on the reality, light bulbs click on, and people instantly turn white when they understand what is being done to children. So yes, I work with all communities; we don't have to agree on everything; we can fight later. Right now, grab my hand. Children of the world need us to SCREAM in unity and Adult Better." -Scott Newgent Read More TRANS MAN PULLS BACK THE VEIL ON TRANS TREATMENTS​ ​BiNARY Scott Newgent was born a female 48 years ago. Today Scott has undergone radical, invasive, and destructive transitioning treatments. Scott now has some important warnings for anyone else, especially children, considering the same pathway. Read More France - Journal d'investigation - Tendance transgenre MISE AU POINT A showed compared to 60 minutes here in the US covering the medically transitioning children debate with Abigail Sheir and Scott Newgent in the segment. Watch Read More Scott Newgent, un trans contra el lobby LGBTI: «Eres lo que eres biológicamente. Eso no cambia» Scott Newgent, a trans person against the LGBTI lobby: “You are what you are biologically. I don't change Religionenlibertad AGS:TransexualidadCiencia e ideología de género “¡Has sido un héroe para mí durante tanto tiempo, Scott!”, le dijo J.K. Rowling el pasado 20 de julio en Twitter. A la creadora de Harry Potter, bestia negra del lobby LGBTI desde que se solidarizó con una mujer despedida de su trabajo por afirmar que el sexo es biología, ya no le importaba si ese tuit era pretexto para una nueva campaña de hostigamiento. Read More Abigail Shrier - Scott Newgent Chapter "Blake" Irreversible Damage Scott Newgent As "Blake" NAMED A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2021 BY THE TIMES AND THE SUNDAY TIMES "Irreversible Damage . . . has caused a storm. Abigail Shrier, a Wall Street Journal writer, does something simple yet devastating: she rigorously lays out the facts." —Janice Turner Until just a few years ago, gender dysphoria—severe discomfort in one’s biological sex—was vanishingly rare. Read More

Get to know trans people, the real trans living day to day, what they believe, and how they feel. You will find that most older trans people believe what is happening to kids, and transgender ideology is hurtful. The media leaders you currently see do not represent most trans people. Reality Is Not Bigotry < Back Trans Woman Claudia Mclean TReVoices.org - A Trans Activist Making Waves With Reason An Logic. Follow Claudia on: Twitter I started out singing in Glasgow, then Europe, coming back to sing in London, even the Palladium. Activism followed. ‘03~’07 GMC Trial. Disabled but still here. Claudia is a beautiful Irish soul, a singer, full of grace and charm. Claudia was the first trans to come out publicly in a BBC News story; in 2007, she regretted the decision to transition medically. I can say with understanding that this was one hell of an accomplishment. It's terrifying coming out and stating, 'Yeah, that was stupid; I should have never transitioned." But Claudia did and paved the way for more trans to stand up and say the same thing. Claudia has become a mentor to me, and I try and honour her every day, letting her know that her strength didn't go unnoticed. Claudia is a twin to my experience medically transitioning; we both transitioned due to homophobia. Pushed by our partners, we both suffer from reoccurring bacterial infections due to our bottom surgeries and suffer daily living each day, knowing that the following infection might be the one that takes our life. It's a real fear and something people need to know. Claudia and I are not the anomalies; unfortunately, we are normality with trans who undergo bottom surgeries. Claudia is also unable to walk and wheelchair-bound due to bone deterioration and prolonged use of synthetic estrogen. Claudia is also unable to have sexual relations and has had to forgo this bonding experience due to a failed bottom surgery. I know right...Wait What? Prolonged use of estrogen on male bodies cause bone deterioration, and it's common and trans bottom surgery risks the ability to have sex and orgasm. Yes, it is, now you SCREAM! "I should never have had sex-change surgery," Claudia MacLean, a transsexual woman, told the audience at a recent debate organized by the BBC Radio 4 programme Hecklers and the Royal Society of Medicine in London. "As a result of the surgery, I am incapable of sex, and I have lived a life apart." TReVoices Contributions & Latest Work: A Transwoman Writes A Letter To Politicians About Transwomen In Sport s

< Back We Need Balance When It Comes To Gender Dysphoric Kids. I Would Know By, Scott Newgent US I am a 48-year-old transgender man. I was thrilled when the medical community told me six years ago that I could change from a woman to a man. I was informed about all the wonderful things that would happen due to medical transition, but all the negatives were glossed over. Since then, I have suffered tremendously, including seven surgeries, a pulmonary embolism, an induced stress heart attack, sepsis, a 17-month recurring infection, 16 rounds of antibiotics, three weeks of daily IV antibiotics, arm reconstructive surgery, lung, heart and bladder damage, insomnia, hallucinations, PTSD, $1 million in medical expenses, and loss of home, car, career and marriage. All this, and yet I cannot sue the surgeon responsible—in part because there is no structured, tested or widely accepted baseline for transgender health care. Read that again: There is no structured, tested, or widely accepted baseline for transgender health care. Not for 42-year-olds, and not for the many minors embarking on medical transition in record numbers. It is not transphobic or discriminatory to discuss this—we as a society need to fully understand what we are encouraging our children to do to their bodies. Throughout transition, I second-guessed my decisions, but each counseling session and doctor's appointment amounted to one more push convincing me I could be cured of being born in the wrong body. The truth was that I didn't fit in as a dominant, aggressive, assertive lesbian. The dream of finally fitting in dangled like a carrot: The idea that I could fit in catapulted me to a time much like adolescence, with its drive for acceptance, inclusive peers and the fantasy of being normal. During my post-operation 17 months of sheer survival, I discovered that transgender health care is experimental and that large swaths of the medical industry encourage minors to transition due, at least in part, to fat profit margins. I was gobsmacked. Each day I researched more and became increasingly appalled. As I jumped from ER to ER desperately seeking help, I realized that nobody knew what to do. Each physician told me to return to the original surgeon. I was trapped like a child with an abusive parent. My recurring bladder infection not only demolished my body; it started to ravage my mind, too. I stopped being able to problem-solve, and then lost my health insurance when I couldn't work. I spent many nights in the bathroom in too much pain to even make it to the toilet, forced to urinate on the floor, screaming as what felt like razor blades left my body. Rest came only in 45-minute increments that I induced with four shots of vodka, six Benadryl pills and a handful of melatonin—with only sleep-deprived hallucinations for my trouble. One night I simply couldn't take it. I wanted to die. I crawled to bed and had another hallucination. My children's lives flashed before my eyes, and I saw the devastation my death would cause them. Right then, I made a deal with God, the universe, whatever you call it, that if my life were spared, if I were allowed to be here for my kids, I would help other kids by ensuring people knew what the experimentation of transgender health care really entails. I remember my whimpers: "God, an eye for an eye—in reverse. I will fight with a mother's passion for others if I can be here for my kids." So here I am, a trans man, sifting through my good and bad decisions, and for the first time embracing who I am—what I have created, and the life I now lead. It took me 48 years to realize I transitioned because I never wholeheartedly accepted being a lesbian. Our children don't have a prayer to embrace the reality of something it takes a lifetime to understand. That's our job, as parents: to protect them from foolish, lifelong mistakes. Here's what I could not comprehend before transitioning and what I honestly believe no child is capable of consenting to: NEWSWEEK SUBSCRIPTION OFFERS > Decreased life expectancy Increased risk of premature death from heart attacks and pulmonary embolisms Bone damage Possible liver damage Increased mental health complications Increased chances of mood-syndrome symptoms Higher suicide rates than non-trans population 12 percent higher chance than non-trans population to develop symptoms of psychosis Chance of stunted brain development Much reduced chance for lifelong sexual pleasure Higher chance of sterility and infertility No improved mental health outcomes Not completely reversible Trans activists tout studies that say medically transitioning gender-questioning children improves mental health. But those studies have often been retracted (and those retractions underreported by the media). Moreover, no long-term studies have been conducted on children who grow up without the benefit of natural puberty. No studies at all have been done on de-transitioners (people who return to identifying as their natal sex). What are the psychological effects? No one has a clue, and researchers are too often shut down by cancel culture for even raising the questions. Peer-reviewed studies show a shocking correlation between gender dysphoria and autism, depression, anxiety, eating disorders and other co-morbidities. Additionally, it seems that many of these children are simply gay. Could pushing people on a one-way path to medical transition be a different form of "conversion therapy?" We need to ask and study these hard questions—for the good of all children. But we're not—not in the mainstream media, and certainly not in President Joe Biden's new administration. America is proceeding down its path of total affirmation just as other countries are restoring greater balance. This past December, the U.K. High Court of Justice ruled that puberty blockers for minors are both experimental and a one-way ticket to permanent transition. Finland in 2020 completely overhauled its approach to treating minors with gender dysphoria, prioritizing psychotherapeutic non-invasive interventions and recognizing adolescence as a time of major identity exploration. Sweden is conducting a systematic literature review of the scientific basis of the long-term effects on physical and mental health of puberty blockers and hormones. The researcher who championed the "Dutch protocol" recently called for a rethink, while other research is beginning to show that the current one-size-fits-all status quo is too limited. So if we are now waking up to the fact that gender dysphoria is over-simplistically conflated with transgenderism, medical treatments have understudied long-term consequences, some are getting rich off transgender medicine and de-transitioners are speaking up in skyrocketing numbers, why are we only making it easier for children to unquestioningly transition? We now have the obligation to work together to slow trans medicalization of minors until they are adults and have the capacity to truly understand the lifelong consequences of transitioning. As a former lesbian and current trans man, I maintain this is not transphobic. It is actually sensitive and caring to recognize that not just one treatment or pathway is right for all kids. Therefore, I am currently building a bipartisan army to protect our children, hold the medical industry accountable and educate our president and the rest of society about the dangers of transgender extremism. We must throw our differences aside for a moment; I promise you, once children are safe, we can resume fighting. But until children are safe, nothing else matters. So, endocrinologists and pediatricians, moderate Democrats and moderate Republicans, radical feminists and evangelicals, lawyers and psychologists, parents and teachers: My hand is out. I will grab yours and turn down no one. Together, we can build a circle around our most precious resource: our children. Help me fulfill the promise I made on the night I almost gave up, to be here for my children—and now yours. Who's with me? Scott Newgent is active with Trans Rational Educational Voices (www.TReVoices.com ). Twitter: @ScottNewgent. The views expressed in this article are the writer's own. Original Link

Get to know trans people, the real trans living day to day, what they believe, and how they feel. You will find that most older trans people believe what is happening to kids, and transgender ideology is hurtful. The media leaders you currently see do not represent most trans people. Reality Is Not Bigotry < Back Trans Woman Toni Roche-Simmons TReVoices.org - A Trans Activist Making Waves With Reason An Logic. I'm a fully transitioned transsexual who had my surgery nine years ago. I began this journey in my early 20s. I waited until I was 48 because I was indifferent to relationships. I remained until I could wait no longer. Now I'm 57 and finally content with my life. I'm studying psychology. What I went through was the right thing for me. I asked questions. I changed my mind several times when I was younger. This is why I disagree with medically transitioning for children. It is a life-changing, life-limiting journey. Toni remains a constant within the confines of social media, always speaking her mind and taking the abuse that comes with it. This is key; people don't understand how bad we are attacked by trans radicals bombarding and brutally. The trans who do not give in to the radical ideas of transgender ideology and queer theory are ostracized verbally assaulted from all sides, a pack ripping us tp head to toe. Not just trans radicals, from extreme feminists, religious, homosexual, It's tuff to step outside the lines and say what you believe anyway. Toni does this. JK Rowlings noticed one day and gave her encouragement, a fresh air breath and soothing the soul. Toni came to be found on social media and one I recommend highly. -Scott Newgent Follow Toni: Twitter Facebook

TReVoices Is The Leading Org Fighting To Stop Childhood Medical Transition World Wide! ​ Led by transman/lesbian Scott Newgent, our relentless SCREAMING to 'STOP Medically Transitioning Children' has been and continues to be heard everyday World - Wide! Make sure we can continue - We Need Your Help - Donate Today. Button Lift The Veil. Parents Get Busy & Learn Why 'Medical Transition Is Not Place For a child.' Sincerely, TReVoices & Everyone Else < Back BBC Staff Writer Original Article BBC News ​ Belgian helped to die after three sex change operations A transsexual has been helped to die by doctors in Belgium, after a series of failed sex-change operations. Nathan Verhelst, born a girl, asked for help to end his life on grounds of psychological suffering. He died in a Brussels hospital on Monday. Two doctors concluded the 44-year-old did not have temporary depression. His case received scant media coverage. Belgium legalised euthanasia in 2002. There were 52 cases of euthanasia on psychological grounds last year. A transsexual has been helped to die by doctors in Belgium, after a series of failed sex-change operations. Nathan Verhelst, born a girl, asked for help to end his life on grounds of psychological suffering. He died in a Brussels hospital on Monday. Two doctors concluded the 44-year-old did not have temporary depression. His case received scant media coverage. Belgium legalised euthanasia in 2002. There were 52 cases of euthanasia on psychological grounds last year. He had three operations to change sex between 2009 and 2012. "The first time I saw myself in the mirror I felt an aversion for my new body," he was quoted as saying. The hospital said there was an "extremely rigorous procedure" in place before any patient was put to death. "When we have a case which is... complicated, we ask ourselves more questions in order to be certain about the diagnosis," Dr Jean-Michel Thomas said. Uncontroversial The BBC's Matthew Price in Brussels says the number of people opting for euthanasia in Belgium has risen steadily since legalisation. Most candidates are over 60 years old and have cancer. Voluntary euthanasia for those over 18 is relatively uncontroversial in Belgium. Parliament is now considering expanding the law to under 18s as well. Patients must be capable of deciding for themselves. They must be conscious and have to give a "voluntary, considered and repeated" request to die. There were 1,432 recorded cases of euthanasia in Belgium in 2012; a 25% increase on the previous year's figure. They represented 2% of all deaths, the AFP news agency reported.

TReVoices Is The Leading Org Fighting To Stop Childhood Medical Transition World Wide! ​ Led by transman/lesbian Scott Newgent, our relentless SCREAMING to 'STOP Medically Transitioning Children' has been and continues to be heard everyday World - Wide! Make sure we can continue - We Need Your Help - Donate Today. Button Lift The Veil. Parents Get Busy & Learn Why 'Medical Transition Is Not Place For a child.' Sincerely, TReVoices & Everyone Else < Back BERNARD LANE Original Article The Australian Bernard Lane edits pages across the newspaper, writes editorials and covers the global debate over youth gender clinics. His work has won prizes including Higher Education Journalist of the Year, the Elizabeth O'Neill Journalism Award and Law Council of Australia awards. He has qualifications in data journalism, Indonesian, psychology and Spanish. About a girl and the decision to detransition Let’s start with a caveat: I love passion. I do. And I have a deep, strong instinct to stick up for people whom I think are ignored or mistreated. I’m a typical bleeding-heart liberal. You know me: coexistence bumper sticker and a cloth grocery sack. I feel your pain, I do. So let me assure you, I love those incredibly self-assured, brash, righteous, young activists who are screaming for trans rights. I see you. I’ve been one of you, too, believe it or not. And occasionally, I still go out with my protest sign and my sensible sneakers to make some noise on behalf of those who are ignored or mistreated. That’s all okay – and it’s good, and it’s necessary. But today, I’d like you all to just take a deep breath and center some voices that are being silenced and ignored: the moms of the world. Because we moms might have a few things we’ve learned along the way, and you might save yourself a hoarse voice and some embarrassment by just stopping for a minute and listening. You might just shift your idea of who needs our protection right now. A few weeks ago, I published an open letter about my Weird Son and his sudden and very unlikely self-diagnoses of being transgender. To my surprise, it was blocked as “Hate Speech” by Medium. Apparently, acknowledging that someone is weird (by the way we all are) is just too too much for our society to hear. It was picked up by New Discourses (thanks James!) where it has had a good run. Among the many comments was the theme: “Her son is probably trans and she just can’t tell. She’s just oblivious. She’s probably just been ignoring the signs. She should just believe him. She’s a bad mom.” Beside the laughable idea that a stranger on the internet could adequately diagnose a teenager from afar by reading a description of him written by his mother, I was bothered by the dismissal of a mother’s observations and insights. As if what mothers observe, note, and infer is somehow not to be trusted or valued. There is a knee-jerk reaction out there against the moms of the world. Let’s just call this “misomatery,” a hatred of mothers. (My apologies to the Classics majors of the world.) It is time to stop dismissing mothers. Because these women are the experts on their children. And yes, no person can read the thoughts inside another person’s head, nor perfectly measure every emotion someone else feels, but moms are as close to that as it gets. The survival of our species has depended on moms being able to read their children accurately. Was that newborn’s cry hunger or a wet diaper? Is that strange cough and fever within the normal range, or should we blast off to the doctor? Are you really too sick to go to school? There is even a fancy term for this: “mother’s intuition.” But amazingly, within the context of transgender politics and medicine, these insights are dismissed. The broader culture’s wide-spread misomateric attitude tells teens: if your parents question your self-diagnosed gender dysphoria and are skeptical about your trans identity, they are transphobic and you should ignore them. Trans activists reject parental surveys as being inaccurate or irrelevant (unlike, say, parent reports of a child having depression or tics). Schools begin to socially transition kids without parents’ approval because they think they know these kids better than the parents do. And incredibly, within mothers, internalized misomatery begins to build. We start to doubt ourselves. Did we really miss evidence of our child’s true nature for years and years? Are we really those bad mothers who have been blind to years and years of our children’s deep distress? Let me tell you, that’s possible, but it’s just not probable. Too many of us are seeing the same thing. Over the past few months, I’ve joined a community of parents working to help support our trans-identified sons. We’re up to around seventy now, and we’ve coordinated to uncover research studies, track down experts, build surveys and gather data, share ideas and insights, and grapple with the possible ramifications of different treatment options. Here’s what we see: there is something else going on with this spike of transgender teen boys. These are kids who were “typical” boys in early childhood. They did not cross-dress, they did not demand nor even show much interest in the toys of the other sex. They were completely “normal” until their sudden announcement between ages 14-16. Well – not completely normal. 100% of the boys in our group are socially awkward. 64% have anxiety, 52% have depression, 40% have ADHD, and around 50% have Autism or Autism-like behaviors (our survey total is 67). Amazingly, over 85% of these kids are gifted (IQ above 130). Sadly, 20% of them have recently experienced a significant trauma such as the death or chronic illness of a parent or sibling. But generally, these are nerdy, awkward boys on the edges of their social circles. Some of them have no friends at all. Despite their announcements, these boys still strongly lean towards the “masculine”: we’ve got lots of video gamers, chess players, computer programmers, D&D, debate club and math club kids. Some of these boys might be gay, and a few say they’re straight, but mostly they’re just sexually inexperienced and/or late-bloomers. This is not your grandma’s transgenderism. This has nothing to do with Caitlyn Jenner. This is not Jazz Jennings. These are not boys with a strange sexual fetish. These are not porn addicts. These are boys who acknowledge they had never even questioned their gender until quite recently. Most of them have not changed their public behavior or requested female pronouns. These are lonely, isolated, and confused boys, trying to understand why they feel so different. They need our help and our sympathy – but they don’t need your “affirmation.” Because we should all agree that kids with mental health issues should have treatments that are safe and effective. And the “affirmation” model is a complete mess. There is no “brain scan” for being trans – there is no biological marker – this is just based on a “feeling.” Affirming doesn’t actually decrease suicide. Puberty-blocking hormones are being used off-label to treat gender-dysphoric children, and the latest study from Tavistock show they don’t actually improve mental health. Cross-sex hormones and surgeries permanently alter a child’s body, by stunting growth (always) and weakening bones (often), and by decreasing IQ (likely), increasing cardio risks (likely), and sterilizing and eliminating sexual function. And even then, they don’t always work. Just ask the over 17,000 desisters and detransitioners in their twenties on reddit! The old model of watchful waiting seemed to work, though. We know that most (60-85%) young children with gender dysphoria who were left alone came to terms with their birth sex by the time they were 18. We know that psychotherapy has a long history of helping people deal with their mental distress. And these kids are in distress. They’re lonely, they’re sad, and they are vulnerable. Most of them are struggling with underlying mental health issues. A fair number of them are “weird.” All of them are struggling with the growing pains of adolescence. Perhaps some of them will persist. But a fair chunk of them will not. But we do know that kids and teens do not have the emotional or cognitive capacity to make these choices themselves. Our teen boys can’t even remember to put the ice cream away – let alone floss their teeth or wear coats on cold days. Their brains are literally not capable of accurately assessing risks or predicting consequences. That’s why they have mothers (and fathers)! So here’s my idea: let’s start listening to mothers. Let’s center their voices. Let’s overthrow the misomateric idea that what mothers think and observe doesn’t matter. Let’s believe moms, and trust moms. So when a mom says “hey, my kid isn’t trans, he’s just weird, and he’s just fine” we say yes – we believe you. Because you are a mom. Now put down your “trans women are women” posters. Stop shouting TERF at me. Stop it with the blind affirmation. And get your drugs and surgery and pathology and cult-like messaging away from my vulnerable kid. Stop, and really listen. There are some voices that need to be heard – and they aren’t yours.

What you will find here? On this page, you will find studies, facts & medically transitioned adults breaking down why they are against medically transitioning children! ​ But wait... Become a member and get even more! Just click the link below. It doesn't cost a dime but certainly supports our work. This page results from years or years of work from many people. This information is challenging to find. We have compiled all the studies in one place; it is easy to find and understand. If you knew the hours I spent on this information, it would shock you. ​ When you understand the truth, hold yourself accountable to tell others. Because what is happening to children is the most significant medical scandal in modern history, and the victims are the most vulnerable among us! ​ Our children. ​ You are mainstream media. Yes, you! You have the power! What you do after knowing the truth rests on who you are. Are you willing to take the heat today, be called a bigot today, to become a hero tomorrow? Yes, you will get pushback; you may lose a friend or two speaking the truth! Who cares? Find another friend; we are talking about children being butchered for profit. If kids aren't safe, nothing else matters. Right now? Children are not safe! ​ SCREAM Louder... -Trans Regretter Scott Newgent STUDIES FACTS Studies & Facts- Members Page Do you have a gender confused child? Parental coach for parents who have gender confused children. ​ I can help; reach out today to schedule. Learn More WHAT DO Professionals HAVE TO SAY? Bio DR JOSEPH BURGO A LEADING PSYCHOLOGIST CHALLENGED WPATH WPATH HAS DISCREDITED ITSELF With the recent release of its Standards of Care, 8th Edition, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) has undermined its standing as the preeminent authority on health care for gender-questioning youth. WPATH’s neglect of safeguarding issues for children, its adherence to ideological views unsupported by evidence, its exclusion of ethical concerns, and its mischaracterization of basic science all make its Standards a fundamentally unreliable guide. #SCREAMINGLouder MUST READ Award! I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle. There are more than 100 pediatric gender clinics across the U.S. I worked at one. What’s happening to children is morally and medically appalling. I am a 42-year-old St. Louis native, a queer woman, and politically to the left of Bernie Sanders. My worldview has deeply shaped my career. I have spent my professional life providing counseling to vulnerable populations: children in foster care, sexual minorities, the poor. Read more WPATH World Professional Association for Transgender Health WPATH is the baseline for transgender medicine I encourage you read it! Cliff Notes: WPATH has never held up in a court of law as a credible baseline for care in any court ANYWHERE in the world! Transgender Health Is 90% Experimental - Only Thing That Is Not Experimental? Top Surgery! ​ Latest Version WPATH is 95% Experimental Transgender health has never been studied! Transgender health is experimental and dangerous, and no one knows the long-term effects of childhood medical transition or what these kids' lives will look like in the future . WPATH World Professional Association For Transgender Heath Link WPATH is the supposed transgender health care guidelines for transgender medicine. Since its inception in 1979, WPATH has never held up in a court of law anywhere in the world as a valid standard for transgender care. Parents sue Florida school district over colluding with daughter to change her gender identity Grooming Gay & Trans Kids USA The Trevor Project: Undercover Mom UK - Tavistock Leader - Age, Play, Kink How Activist Teachers Recruit Kids Leaked Documents and Audio from the California Teachers Association Conference Reveal Efforts to Subvert Parents on Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation New Slow Waking Gender Curriculum - NYC grooms children into gender Grooming Gay & Trans Kids USA The Trevor Project: Undercover Mom UK - Tavistock Leader - Age, Play, Kink How Activist Teachers Recruit Kids Leaked Documents and Audio from the California Teachers Association Conference Reveal Efforts to Subvert Parents on Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation New Slow Waking Gender Curriculum - NYC grooms children into gender Guidance to School Districts for Creating a Safe and Supportive School Environment For Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Students JULY 2015 Are children being bullied into being trans? Schools are not fulfilling their duty of care to vulnerable children Your children can get hormones without your consent! School Personnel are not Qualified to Diagnose or Treat my Child for Gender Dysphoria - Especially Without my Consent or Knowledge Grooming & Indoctrination - teachers recruiting and grooming kids Say it on a T-shirt! Shocking Facts The baseline for transgender health: WPATH has never been held up in a court of law anywhere in the world as a standard for care. The science is NOT there, and the truth is that medical transition is: Experimental. Dangerous. Doesn't Cure Anything & Makes Mental Health Worse! These are facts! THE LIES! 'Better An Alive Daughter Than A Dead Son!' & Journal of Psychiatry Study Published Oct 2019 Boasting Remarkable Mental Health After A Child Is Medically Transitioned. The 2nd Truth? Journal of Psychiatry Study Published Oct 2019 Boasting Remarkable Mental Health After A Child Is Medically Transitioned was ​ RETRACTED by Yale Medicine one year later, yet if you search the internet or go to a gender clinic, they still recite this study as a source to convince parents to medically transition their children! The 1st Truth? The only long-term study on medically transitioned people followed 324 medically transitioned people from 1973-to 2003 and this study tells us that the highest point of suicidal Ideation is seven to ten years after the process is started. If your child is suicidal right now and you are medically transitioning children Hold Tight! ​ Suicidal Ideation gets worse. In the transgender community, we call it, ​ "The seven to ten-year suicide itch." Study Link Don’t treat all cases of gender dysphoria the same way Whatever it's called, "ROGD" describes a new type of teenage-onset gender dysphoria - August 9, 2021 Here is what we do know: The long-term use of synthetic hormone therapy shortens lives. Specifically, these medications are associated with an increased risk of heart attacks, pulmonary embolisms, bone damage, liver and kidney failure, mental-health complications, and more. Almost a quarter of hormone-therapy patients on high-dose anabolic steroids (such as the testosterone taken by female-to-male transitioners) exhibit major mood-syndrome symptoms. Between three and 12 percent go on to develop symptoms of psychosis. Gender Dysphoria has an 82% success rate when it's treated with talk therapy. 82% come out the other end released from the grasp of GD with talk therapy. Guess what? In the US due to the TREVOR project and C6 in Canada? They are currently making another thing other than instant and immediate medical transition illegal. "What makes you feel like you are transgender?" LUPRON - X Drug - Puberty Blockers Gender Dangerious - The Cass Report-Report-independent review of gender care outcomes, dr hilary cass Finds Tavistock Gender clinical unsuitable and dangerous Drug used to halt puberty in children may cause lasting health problems Grooming & Indoctrination - teachers recruiting and grooming kids By puberty, the majority of child-onset GD sufferers cease to want to transition - 2018 New Slow Waking Gender Curriculum - NYC grooms children into gender Guidance to School Districts for Creating a Safe and Supportive School Environment For Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Students JULY 2015 Your children can get hormones without your consent! Are children being bullied into being trans? Schools are not fulfilling their duty of care to vulnerable children W arning Real Images of Real Children Watch If You Dare The Realities of Medically Transitioning Children ​ Press Play If You Dare To Know The Truth! C hildren have become a target for the NEW LGBTQ+ & Gay/Lesbians & Trans are are trying to warn parents to #SCREAMLouder 'Leave our children ALONE!' O rganizations like 'The Trevor Project' have gone from an LGBTQ+ youth organization funding raising 1 million dollars a year to over 67 million in 2022. see video below SHOCKING T he TREVOR Project focuses on educating your children and educators in the US. T o date this org has 22 thousands people employed and volunteered teach your children about sexuality and gender ideology whether you like it or NOT! on children within the RAINBOW! O ver two dozen children's hospitals in the United States are actively investing in advertising campaigns to promote a specific surgery to children. Parents Need To Get Involved & Tell The LGBTQ+ To Get AWAY From Kids! It's NOT BITGOTRY to protect kids! The New L G B T Q + ? IS A REQRUITING AGENCY! SCREAM lOUDER...... Is infiltrating school systems. Your child's gender-confused is everyone's business but their parents' business. Currently, around the world, gender-confused kids are being ripped from their parents to begin medical transition! ​ ​Every child convinced they are trans in childhood represents 1.3 million dollars to pharma within their lifetime. This number doesn't include surgeries or complications, and they are vast! ​Being trans is nothing to promote . Do we deserve respect for our choice to transition medically? Yes, but that respect doesn't include recruiting children to make us feel better about our own decision! Yes, medical transition is a decision; it's plastic surgery. ​ 12 Leading Complications-Medical Transing Kids-USA Estimate Of Money Generated-312 Million A Year! THE NEWLGBTQ+ Is A Dangerous Recruiting Agency & It's Not Bigotry To State The Truth. ​ Us the the LGBTQ? We have nothing to sell... We are a soft place to fall for adults... No Kids ... No Religion In Schools? ​ No LG BTQ! New LGBTQ+ ​ Get Away From Kids. 50 years ago, we within the LGBT Fought For Righteous Rights! The rights to work, love, and live without fear! We achieved these rights by helping society understand we were not a recruiting agency for children, just a soft place to fall for adults and adults only!

TReVoices Is The Leading Org Fighting To Stop Childhood Medical Transition World Wide! ​ Led by transman/lesbian Scott Newgent, our relentless SCREAMING to 'STOP Medically Transitioning Children' has been and continues to be heard everyday World - Wide! Make sure we can continue - We Need Your Help - Donate Today. Button Lift The Veil. Parents Get Busy & Learn Why 'Medical Transition Is Not Place For a child.' Sincerely, TReVoices & Everyone Else < Back Family Research Council Original Article Family Research Council ​ Transgender Ideology in Public Schools: Parents Fight Back Link To Video: https://www.frc.org/university/transgender-ideology-in-public-schools-parents-fight-back Fairfax County, VA is ground zero in the efforts to impose transgender ideology on American school children. The Fairfax County school system is one of the largest and richest in the United States, and its close proximity to Washington, DC has made it a target for the efforts to mainstream this radical ideology. Even after the Trump Administration revoked the Obama directive threatening the nation's public schools, the fight rages on at the state and district level. This panel will present four of the central actors in resisting this imposition: School board member Elizabeth Schultz, who has fought district bureaucrats and the rest of the school board, practically alone, for three years; Meg Kilgannon, a parent of children in the Fairfax County school system who has created a veritable army of parent and taxpayer activists; Josh Hetzler, a legal expert who has traveled the state speaking to school boards and providing draft legal guidance letters, and FRC's own senior legal fellow Cathy Ruse, who has testified several times on the legal and policy implications of these ill-thought policies. Take part in this pivotal discussion as the panel exposes the tactics used by the transgender lobby and the strategies parents and taxpayers have used to fight back. Panel Members Elizabeth Schultz is a Fairfax County School Board Member, serving a second term on the board of the 10th largest school division in the nation. Ms. Schultz received the first STAND Award by Bishop E.W. Jackson at the National Awakening Conference “for her bold stand for faith and values, in the face of opposition. She was the only member of the Fairfax County School Board to vote against embedding gender-identity into FCPS policies and continues to stand strong representing the otherwise ignored values of many Fairfax County parents." She was also received the Courage in Leadership Award by the Virginia Christian Alliance for integrity in education policy and for protecting students and parental rights while serving in public office.Ms. Schultz formerly served on the board of the Fairfax Education Coalition and was Founding President of the Republican Women of Clifton. She has worked as a senior contracts and negotiation professional, in the public and private sectors, in the areas of asset management, information technology, and global education. Ms. Schultz has Bachelor of Science degrees in Political Science and History from James Madison University. She has been married for 26 years and is the mother of four sons. Meg Kilgannon is Executive Director of Concerned Parents and Educators of Fairfax County, a 1000+ member organization of parents and citizens. CPEFC monitors and lobbies school board members on issues important to parents, crafts effective messaging for citizen speakers at school board meetings, advocates for common sense, family friendly curriculum, budgeting, and policies, and empowers ethnic and minority communities to engage in local politics. Ms. Kilgannon also serves as Operations Director for Parentandchild.org, a parent research group which evaluates the K-12 sex education (Family Life) program for Fairfax County Public Schools and has published a color coded guide for parents to encourage opting out of the program, and has organized educational conferences to inform parents about the program and its content. Ms. Kilgannon is a FertilityCare Practitioner/Entrepreneur, providing counsel and instruction on charting bio-markers to maximize health, advising women struggling with infertility, and speaking at conferences and workshops. Ms. Kilgannon previously worked as an account executive for Creative Response Concepts and director of media relations for the United Seniors Association. Ms. Kilgannon has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Politics from Washington & Lee University, and is married with four children. Josh Hetzler, Esq. is Legislative Counsel for the Family Foundation of Virginia, a state policy organization which advocates for life, marriage, parental authority, religious liberty and constitutional government. Over the past year and a half since this issue gained national attention, Josh has become intricately involved with both the policy and legal efforts at the state and local levels. In addition to advocating legislative solutions in the General Assembly in 2016 and 2017, Josh has traveled the state speaking to school boards, helping to coordinate parental and community involvement, and has drafted legal guidance letters to assist school boards across Virginia. Josh attended oral arguments in the 4th Circuit case of G.G. v. Gloucester County School Board, as well as for the Fairfax County case recently heard by the Virginia Supreme Court, and he continues to follow the issue closely. Josh graduated from Liberty University School of Law and is happily married to his wife Madison, of four years. They live outside of Richmond, VA. Cathy Ruse is the Senior Fellow for Legal Studies at the Family Research Council. Mrs. Ruse was Chief Counsel to the Constitution Subcommittee in the House of Representatives where she had oversight of civil rights and human rights issues, as well as religious freedom and free speech matters which came before the House. Mrs. Ruse received her law degree from Georgetown University and a certificate from the National Institute for trial advocacy during her work as a litigator in the District of Columbia. She holds an honorary doctoral degree from Franciscan University of Steubenville. She has published scholarly legal articles on a variety of constitutional issues, has filed "Friend of the Court" briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court in cases involving abortion, euthanasia, and pornography, and has testified as an expert in congressional hearings in the U.S. House and Senate.

TReVoices Is The Leading Org Fighting To Stop Childhood Medical Transition World Wide! ​ Led by transman/lesbian Scott Newgent, our relentless SCREAMING to 'STOP Medically Transitioning Children' has been and continues to be heard everyday World - Wide! Make sure we can continue - We Need Your Help - Donate Today. Button Lift The Veil. Parents Get Busy & Learn Why 'Medical Transition Is Not Place For a child.' Sincerely, TReVoices & Everyone Else < Back JD ROBERTSON Original Article The Velvet Chronicle JD is an award-winning author, journalist, with words at Huffington Post, AfterEllen, Curve, Quillette, Feminist Current, and more Detrans Youth Stories they Didn’t Want you to Hear, in 60 Minutes, or Less. Back in January, a producer at 60 Minutes reached out. She was gathering information for a segment focused on young detransitioners, and was determined to learn all she could and get the story right. She was understandably hesitant about covering a topic that’s been aggressively censored in the mainstream media. By the time the segment aired, the focus of the piece had taken a turn — Gender ideologists had caught wind of the segment in March, and after putting pressure on the network, gender ideology propaganda was given the floor. Detransitioners were cut short. Nonetheless, this small step was still a major step. After all, much effort has gone into ensuring that detransitioned youth remain invisible. And although the time allotted to detransitioners was abbreviated, the opposition still condemned 60 minutes for giving them any time at all. As expected, GLAAD vilified 60 Minutes for allowing detransitioners a forum to speak. Six years ago, GLAAD formally announced that they had dropped “Gay & Lesbian” from their name, thenceforth to be known only as GLAAD, explaining that the name change was to reflect their new work more accurately… Given that the statistical majority of so-called “trans youth” would otherwise grow up to be gay — if allowed to grow up and reach full cognitive brain development — the move to drop “Gay and Lesbian” from their name does actually reflect, quite accurately, the way they’ve turned their backs on LGB youth. GLAAD started off a seven part Twitter thread stating, “Tonight @60Minutes @LesleyRStahl aired a shameful segment fearmongering about trans youth. Parents of trans youth could walk away with the false belief that young people are being rushed into medical transition. That is simply untrue.” However there are mounds of evidence proving it is true, and that young people are being greatly harmed. Athena, detransitioner, double mastectomy at age 16, is writing a book about her experience GLAAD‘s statement went on to promote the medicalization of “trans youth” and advised the public to trust the medical industry — even though most of these youth would otherwise grow up to be LGB, and the medical industry, along with Big Pharma, have a long dark history of putting profits before patients. GLAAD further expressed disapproval towards raising concerns where the safety and well-being of kids are concerned, and discouraged anyone from considering the collateral damage (traumatized young people, physically and emotionally scarred). They stated, “As the piece noted, every major medical association supports affirming, age-appropriate care for trans youth and the guidelines for that care are safe and well-established. And yet, the majority of the story was devoted to ‘raising concerns’ about youth accessing that care.” Everyone should be raising concerns. 75% of kids who experience “gender dysphoria” (confusion regarding gender expectations), would organically grow up to be LGB, and 85% would organically grow up to be LGB or straight. That’s 85% who would desist, and a small minority, 15%, that would persist. These numbers change drastically with each step of social and medical transition — We’re currently in the midst of a massive human rights scandal. While a great number of young people have come forward to say they were deeply harmed, corporations that were once set up to protect LGB youth — like HRC, ACLU, and GLAAD — have done all they can to sweep them under a rug. Charle Evans, bisexual desister: “13.6K detrans/desisted men and women have just had their community taken away…” Garrett, a young gay man, a detransitioner who was given airtime on 60 Minutes, has been very open about what happened to him. Surgeries were performed on him between the ages of 21 and 22 — This is before he would’ve had a chance to reach full cognitive brain development. The prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain that forms identity and understands repercussions, doesn’t fully form till after 25. HRC was featured in the 60 minutes segment. Yet toddlers are being labeled, as young as 1, children are being medicalized, as young as 8, and double mastectomies are being performed on children, as young as 12. LGB youth are particularly in danger of being medicalized before they have a chance to reach full maturity. Garrett, who was ‘treated,’ before most car rental companies would be willing to rent him a car, has said, “Everyday I wake up and am reminded of the fact that I was allowed an orchiectomy – removal of the testicles – only around 3 months into my transition.” A week after getting breast implants, Garrett became suicidal for the first time in his life. Garrett, gay man, detransitioner, Twitter After noting that 60 Minutes shifted the focus of the segment, Garrett wrote “While I’m still not completely happy with the 60 Minutes piece that came out, I understand that they likely did the best they could after getting so much hate/backlash after it was leaked in March. I’m still so thankful that detrans stories were shown on such a huge platform.” Garrett works to create detrans visibility and advocates for the protection of gay youth More than 30 detransitioners were interviewed for the segment. And even though detransition was pushed to the side, gender ideologists felt their demands were not met — That giving young detransitioners any airtime at all, was unacceptable. ACLU lawyer, Chase Strangio, began a 5 part thread with, “60Minutes, Lesley Stahl, Alexandra Poolos, and Collette Richards knew exactly the harm they were causing with last night’s segment. They knew it was the wrong moment and a dangerous, unaccountable and limited angle. But they did it anyway. That’s on all of you.” Strangio went on to say, “Remember that most trans kids in extreme distress never get the care they need. Over 10% of trans kids are pushed out of K-12 because of extreme harassment.” To be clear, “K” refers to kindergarten — so here Strangio is referencing 4 to 6 year-old children that are deemed to be transsexuals. Lesbian visibility week panel Grace Lidinsky-Smith, a young bisexual woman — a detransitioner who speaks openly about her trauma on social media and through her blog — was grateful just for the chance to be heard through a major platform. She wrote, “I want to say that I’m really grateful to 60 Minutes for airing some detransition stories to a national audience. It was the first US coverage of its kind and that is huge and important.” Grace Lidinsky-Smith, bisexual, detransitioner, Twitter It was huge — a milestone in what’s been an uphill battle. For years, desisters and detransitioners have been shamed, ignored and silenced. When Chiara Cannan, a lesbian desister, wanted to tell her story back in 2019, we couldn’t find anyone on the left willing to publish it. She knew she’d be (incorrectly) dismissed as right wing, were she to publish through the only publications that were willing to publish a story like hers at the time, so we started The Velvet Chronicle. Surgeon, who performed dbl mastectomy on Grace Lidinsky-Smith, complains, “I only get to [perform 4 double mastectomies] next week” (on her Tik Tok) The way 60 Minutes was slammed for allowing detransitioners to be heard, demonstrates precisely why we had to build new platforms from the ground up. Major platforms have to consider what it’s worth to get a story out, how many major advertisers will pull funding, and how many powerful organizations and figures will put their reputations at stake. But with smaller platforms raising awareness in recent years, and gaining support from respected celebrities like JK Rowling, mainstream media is getting ready to get ahead of the turning tide. Jack Turban MD, misrepresenting Chiara Cannan’s story 60 Minutes, giving detransitioners a modest amount of airtime, is a major game changer in the US. While feminists, largely in the US and UK, lead the way in creating awareness and change, when it comes to US law, we face a much bigger challenge… The US is about 40 times larger than the UK, and we have to tackle changes in 50 separate states, a federal district (Washington, D.C.), and five territories, each with their own set of rules. Coverage, through liberal-leaning mainstream media in the U.S., has been hard to gain, for several years now, due to censorship — All the while, those who’ve followed this scandal have watched in horror as the tremendous human rights violation, of predominantly LGB youth, has been heavily promoted. U.S. journalist and author of Irreversible Damage, Abigail Shrier, commends Grace Lidinsky-Smith’s courage. Going through comments that attacked 60 Minutes, Watson, a vocal bisexual detrans advocate, interpreted the underlying messages — “Don’t tell ‘shameful’ detrans stories, because it might concern parents.” “Don’t tell detrans stories, because we’re an ‘absurdly tiny fraction.’” She writes, “I, and many other detransitioners, receive threats of violence, rape and death simply for sharing our stories. For having the AUDACITY to SPEAK… Detrans people should not have to put up with this. Nobody should. We should not be shamed or threatened into silence simply for speaking out. For daring to admit the truth – that transition harmed us.” Watson, bisexual detransitioner: “On the vilification of detransitioners“ Rachel, a lesbian detransitioner, that was included in the 60 Minutes segment, wrote, “I’m going to attach a vague warning about this [60 Minutes] piece: This isn’t what it started out as. It has evolved into something else. But, hopefully, it still highlights some of the issues and gets people to talk more openly.” In response to GLAAD, she wrote, “You literally bullied your way into the detrans narrative until our voices were cut and silenced.” Rachel, lesbian detransitioner responds to GLAAD In response to a Pink News article that begins, “Laverne Cox has condemned CBS’ 60 Minutes for a ‘dehumanising’ segment that platformed [detransitioners] ….” Carol, a vocal lesbian detransitioner, writes, “Dehumanizing ? You know what’s dehumanizing , not being allowed to even tell your story or be recognized by any of the organizations that are supposed to care about your human rights.” Carol, lesbian detransitioner, Twitter Helena, a bisexual detransitioner, wrote, “in light of recent revelations about how much activist pressure was against @CBSNews trying to get the @60Minutes episode about detransition taken down, i am very thankful to them for airing it despite making so many changes to appease the activists.” Helena has worked to create visibility for the D community through Pique Resilience Project, founded by herself and three other same-sex attracted women, now in their early twenties — Dagny, Chiara and Jesse. On their youtube channel, they talk about the major influence that social media had on them. Helena, bisexual detransitioner: “in light of recent revelations about how much activist pressure was against @CBSNews trying to get the @60Minutes episode about detransition taken down…” However, in their statement, GLAAD claimed that the implication (on 60 minutes), that social media can have an influence on kids, was “dangerous and at the same time ridiculous.” They then condemned 60 minutes for giving a platform to young detransitioners “who try to sow doubt” when it comes to medicalizing, sterilizing, and performing surgeries, on young people like them — such as surgical or chemical castration, hysterectomy, or penectomy… or as GLAAD calls it, “trans-affirming healthcare“. They wrap with a request that people learn to “support and affirm trans youth from actual medical authorities.” Plenty of medical experts are currently fighting against the medical assault of nonconforming youth, despite threats to their careers and laws put in place to silence concerns. Medical testimony given in a recent UK case, has kicked off some changes where it comes to the medicalization of nonconforming youth. Daisy, a detransitioner and advocate, who appeared in the 60 Minutes segment, has a YouTube channel where, in 2020, she explains that transitioning left her suicidal with regret. The popular channel kicks off 6 years ago, in 2015, with an announcement that she’s “transgender” and follows her path to realizing (around her 21st birthday), that she had to detransition. Daisy, in 2015, on her YouTube channel Despite the startling number of lesbian, gay, and bisexual youth coming forward, expressing so much loss, pain, and regret, organizations (that still claim to represent the L, the G, and the B), continue to ignore and silence our concerns. They’ve chosen to spin false narratives, fall back on buzz words, and pump out propaganda instead. The harm that’s been done to our community is immeasurable. The harm that’s been done in general, the staggering ripple effect, is unreal. This period in time, this horrific Orwellian chapter, will not age well. Someday, people will be shocked that they were ever sold on the idea of slicing off the sex organs of kids who don’t conform — it’ll seem as barbaric as scooping out a bit of the brain, and as cruel as electroshock therapy. The Age of the Transsexual Toddler will be a distant nightmare. But the eerie echo of feel-good propaganda will remain — a reminder of how easily humanity can be sold on the inhumane.

< Back Daily Surge By Michael Brown - Quotes From Scott Newgent US Surge Summary: Some advocates of transgender “transitioning”, nonetheless, are coming forward and urging caution when it comes to recommending these procedures for children. What are their motives for this sudden, surprising outspokenness? Some are suspicious – but it’s still a dramatic development. by Michael L. Brown In a surprising editorial published in the Washington Post, two transgender activists and psychologists, Laura Edwards-Leeper and Erica Anderson, are now advocating for “gender-exploratory therapy” for trans-identified youth before rushing into puberty blockers, hormone treatments, and sex-change surgery. Shades of what we conservatives have been saying for years! Except that when we said it, we were vilified as bigoted transphobes who wanted to implement the barbaric and primitive practice of – get ready! – “conversion therapy.” But when pro-trans psychologists say, “Many of our health professionals are affirming kids too quickly in their trans identity,” they are now enlightened thinkers whose views should be embraced with respect. How ironic. To be absolutely clear, Edwards-Leeper and Anderson remain staunchly opposed to people like me (and you?). They write, “Together, across decades of doing this work, we’ve helped hundreds of people transition their genders. This is an era of ugly moral panic about bathrooms, woke indoctrination and identity politics in general. In response, we enthusiastically support the appropriate gender-affirming medical care for trans youth, and we are disgusted by the legislation trying to ban it.” So, we are still the really bad guys in their eyes. But what cannot be denied is that they are witnessing all too many horror stories of young people who have destroyed their lives, and as psychologists and activists, they cannot be silent any longer. They claim that the medical profession is at fault, as stated clearly in the title and sub-title of their editorial: “The mental health establishment is failing trans kids. Gender-exploratory therapy is a key step. Why aren’t therapists providing it?” The op-ed starts with the story of Patricia, who at 13 told her parents she was actually a boy. When her parents brought her to a therapist, rather than perform an in-depth assessment of Patricia’s mental and emotional health, on the very first meeting, “the therapist simply affirmed her new identity, a step that can lead to hormonal and eventually surgical treatments.” This is all too common, with absolutely heartbreaking and disastrous, long-term results. Thankfully, the parents brought Patricia to another therapist, “one who was more curious and less certain, one who listened closely. After a year of exploring who she was, Patricia no longer felt she was a boy. She decided to stop binding her breasts and wearing boys’ clothes.” Yet that is the very thing we have been advocating for years, urging parents and therapists and others to do their best to help the children find wholeness from the inside out.Unfortunately, “A flood of referrals to mental health providers and gender medical clinics, combined with a political climate that sees the treatment of each individual patient as a litmus test of social tolerance, is spurring many providers into sloppy, dangerous care. Often from a place of genuine concern, they are hastily dispensing medicine or recommending medical doctors prescribe it — without following the strict guidelines that govern this treatment. Canada, too, is following our lead: A study of 10 pediatric gender clinics there found that half do not require psychological assessment before initiating puberty blockers or hormones.” Again, I fully understand the radical differences between my worldview and the worldview of Edwards-Leeper and Anderson. And I do not minimize for a moment that, in the end, while our goals overlap, they also greatly differ. Specifically, if a boy transitioned to female and was happy and fulfilled, they would consider this a successful outcome. My heart would still break for the child, convinced that God had a better plan for him. That being said, the so-called “conversion therapy” for which we are vilified (focusing here on trans issues) is very similar to what the op-ed authors call for: in-depth, comprehensive, and patient exploring of why the child feels as he or she does to help them find internal wholeness. And if they can be spared a lifetime of hormones and surgeries, wonderful. The question that might be asked now is, “Why are these pro-trans activists suddenly speaking out?”Some readers will remember that in October, two other, prominent trans-activists, one of whom was Dr. Marci Bowers, who performed sex-change surgery on Jazz Jennings, are also saying, “We need to slow things down with the children!” (See here for my relevant article.) Why the sudden change of heart? Scott (Kellie) Newgent believes that she knows why. (For the record, I’m in regular contact with Newgent, who will literally give her last breath to fight for these trans-identified kids. She is not the least bit offended by me referring to her as “she,” even though she is a female-to-male transgender. I do not know that I have ever met anyone more devoted to this cause than Newgent.) According to Newgent, the reason that the medical industry has been so quick to transition kids is simple: they make a lot of money doing it, and they gain lifetime income in the form of hormone (and other drug) prescriptions) Being pro-trans in the medical industry can be quite lucrative. As for these activists now speaking out, Newgent does not believe that they suddenly grew a conscience. Rather, she is convinced some are coming clean now for one reason only: she exposed their moral and intellectual compromise while filming a forthcoming documentary with them.And what should we make of shocking news reports like this? “Children being treated for transgender issues at Sweden’s Karolinska University Hospital have allegedly suffered severe injuries as a result of hormone puberty blockers. “Doctors at Karolinska University Hospital have reportedly long been aware of the injuries suffered by children as a result of hormone treatments, however, the injuries were not . . . made public until this week.” Does this not sound criminal? No wonder Newgent tweeted, “We need a legal system that challenges Dr. [Marci] Bowers, who for ten years butchered gender-confused people without regard or held accountable of admittance in the experimental nature and only did so when she was outed.” Are these words too strong? Perhaps we should ask the mutilated, harmed-for-life, young adults what their opinions are. In a 2019 interview in the Wall Street Journal, Dr. Paul McHugh, the iconic professor of psychology at Johns Hopkins University, then 87-years-old, and an early opponent of sex-change surgery, was asked if he would be troubled to realize that he had been wrong in his position. He answered, “Either the plastic surgeons and the transgender psychiatrists are right and I’m wrong—and if that’s the case, they will have done a lot of good by opposing me, and I will have been a drag on the system—or the opposite. Suppose they’re wrong and I’m right? They will have mutilated thousands of children, and I will look good. Who do you think is sleeping better at night?” Yes, who, indeed, is sleeping better tonight? The views here are those of the author and not necessarily Daily Surge Originally posted here. Image: Adapted from: Omoeko Media – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=82739996 Dr. Michael Brown(www.askdrbrown.org ) is the host of the nationally syndicated Line of Fire radio program. His latest book is Revival Or We Die: A Great Awakening Is Our Only Hope. Connect with him on Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube. Original Link

TReVoices Is The Leading Org Fighting To Stop Childhood Medical Transition World Wide! ​ Led by transman/lesbian Scott Newgent, our relentless SCREAMING to 'STOP Medically Transitioning Children' has been and continues to be heard everyday World - Wide! Make sure we can continue - We Need Your Help - Donate Today. Button Lift The Veil. Parents Get Busy & Learn Why 'Medical Transition Is Not Place For a child.' Sincerely, TReVoices & Everyone Else < Back ​ Original Article ​ ​ My Child Wasn't Suicidal Before Medical Transition. He Is Now! Suicide and Suicidal Behavior among Transgender Persons H. G. Virupaksha, Daliboyina Muralidhar, and Jayashree Ramakrishna1 Author information Copyright and License information Disclaimer This article has been cited by other articles in PMC. Go to: Background: Suicide rate and suicidal tendencies among transgender persons are considerably high compared to general population. Hence, this review is an attempt to understand the issues around the suicide and suicidal behavior among transgender persons. Methodology: The literature search conducted using three sources, i.e., electronic databases (PubMed, ProQuest, Google Scholar, PsycInfo), manual search (library catalog), and gray literature (consultation with experts). Results: The suicide attempt rate among transgender persons ranges from 32% to 50% across the countries. Gender-based victimization, discrimination, bullying, violence, being rejected by the family, friends, and community; harassment by intimate partner, family members, police and public; discrimination and ill treatment at health-care system are the major risk factors that influence the suicidal behavior among transgender persons. Conclusion: In spite of facing a number of hardships in their day-to-day life, the transgender community holds a number of resiliency factors. Further, this community needs to be supported to strengthen their resiliency factors and draw culturally sensitive and transgender-inclusive suicide prevention strategies and increase protective factors to tackle this high rate of suicidality. Key words: Suicidal behavior, suicide, transgender persons INTRODUCTION Suicide is a complex behavior which results from the complicated interaction of biological, psychological, cognitive, and environmental factors.[1] Suicide rate and suicidal tendencies among transgender community have been reported to be high compared to general population.[2,3,4,5] The suicide rate among transgender individuals in India is about 31%, and 50% of them have attempted suicide at least once before their 20th birthday and 40–50 persons commit suicide every year in Karnataka state alone.[6] However, the exact prevalence of completed suicide among transgender persons remain undocumented; the gender-based discrimination has prevented them by obtaining education, livelihood, and housing because of which they are living in slums and have to resort to begging and sex work; this pitiful conditions lead them to breakdown further and end their life in suicide.[6] The high prevalence of depression and suicidal tendencies among transgender persons seems to be highly influenced by societal stigma, lack of social support, HIV status and violence-related issues which require further thorough investigation and necessary mental health counseling, crisis management, addressing drug abuse, providing them livelihood opportunities, and so on as part of the intervention.[7] METHODOLOGY The literature search was carried out mainly using three sources, namely, search in electronic databases (PubMed, Google Scholar, PsycInfo, ProQuest), manual search (library catalog) at the library of the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), and gray literature (consultation with experts). To extract the related studies, the search strategies (key words) used for both electronic database and manual search are “Transgender and Suicide,” “Hijra and Suicide,” “Sexual minorities and Suicide,” transgender and Self-harm,” “Transgender and Suicide Prevention,” “Transgender and Suicide Prevention Intervention.” The author selected 21 research studies including reports and documents as part of the search in electronic databases. These studies selected based on their relevance to the current title of the review and their availability with full text freely online. As part of the manual search (library catalog), the author could get three dissertations relevant to the title of the review, submitted to NIMHANS. All these studies and dissertations are published or submitted between 2005 and 2015. As part of gray literature, the author consulted the Director of Karnataka State Women Development Corporation, Bengaluru, the Key persons of nongovernment organizations (NGOs), i.e., Initiatives for Development Foundation (IDF), Sangama, Samara, Jeeva, and Aneka. The author consulted the key persons who gave oral consent and discussed the subject and note down the key points with their permission. The discussion mainly focused on the services available at these organizations for transgender persons which may influence the suicidal behavior of the transgender community directly or indirectly. This review is part of an ongoing Ph.D research program which has obtained the approval by the NIMHANS Ethics Committee, No. NIMH/DO/ETHICS SUB-COMMITTEE 18th MEETING/2014, dated September 19, 2014. RESULTS Prevalence of suicide and suicidal behavior among transgender persons The suicidal behavior and suicide attempt rates are reported to be significantly high among transgender persons compared to general population across the countries. Thirty-one percent of transgender persons in India end their life by committing suicide, and 50% of them have attempted for suicide at least once before their 20th birthday;[6] however, the exact prevalence of completed suicide among transgender persons in the country remain undocumented.[6] Forty-one percent of the transgender persons in the United States attempt for suicide at least once in their life.[8] In San Francisco, the prevalence of attempted suicide among transgender persons is 32%, among young age (<25 years) it is 50%.[9] Suicidality and self-harm behavior are serious problems among sexual minorities in Japan.[10] Transgender persons are at higher risk for suicidal ideation and suicide attempts at Virginia.[11] Fifty percent of transgender persons in Australia have attempted suicide at least once in their lives.[12] In England, 48% of the transgender young people had attempted suicide at least once in their lives.[13] The prevalence of suicide remains high among transgender persons irrespective of disclosing their transgender status to others and undergoing sex reassignment surgery.[8] The self-harm behavior among sexual minority including transgender persons is equally serious and impactful as suicidality; the forms of self-harm committed by the respondents are cutting on the wrists and other areas of the arms, burning oneself, pouring gasoline on oneself but not igniting it, hanging oneself, breaking glasses, cups and other objects on one's head, fists and body, banging one's head against the wall, excessive drinking, eating and drug use, harmful sexual behavior, joining crime, street gang and violent activities to purposefully drop-out from the life and society, etc.[10] Living conditions and salient features of the transgender persons Rejection and lack of support from the families and society, gender dysphoria associated with extreme stressful experiences, child sexual abuse, early discontinuation of schooling, forced marriages, lack of livelihood opportunities, sexual and financial exploitation by the partner and police and rowdies, and lack of legal measures for protection are some of the characteristics of transgender persons.[14] About 62% of the transgender respondents are either have problems with their family members, or they do not have any contact with their family members hence, they are living away from their families; they left their families because of ill-treatment, being not accepted as transgender persons and being felt embarrassed to live in the community; 56% of them have discontinued their education at either primary level or secondary level; majority of the transgender persons have opt sex industry and begging for their survival; 54% of them have the habit of consuming alcohol.[15] Fourteen percent of the transgender persons consulted mental health professionals for their gender dysphoria mostly because they were referred by the general physicians and rest of the respondents have sought help at traditional healers and transgender community leaders; 31% and 15% of the transgender persons are at high risk for tobacco and alcohol abuse, respectively, and 26% of them are have severe depression.[14] The transgender persons are forced to go out of their family and community; they are refused from education, employment and getting a house for rent; they stay at slums and many people under the same roof; they are ill-treated at health-care centers.[16] All the transgender persons are belong to lower socioeconomic status[17] have high level of perceived stigma,[18] have poor social support from family, friends and significant others, and their level of perceived stress is high.[19] Risk factors of suicide and suicidal behavior among transgender persons The studies have identified a number of risk factors for the high rates of suicide and suicidal behavior among transgender persons. The discrimination of the transgender persons in the society has prevented them from obtaining an education, job, and housing because of which they are living in slums or street and have to resort to begging and sex work;[10] this pitiful conditions have lead them to breakdown further and end their life in suicide.[6] Stigma, discrimination, and violence against transgender persons occur across multiple social and institutional contexts; they are verbally harassed, physical and sexually abused[11] and blackmailed by the police and rowdies; rejection, hateredness, verbal and physical abuse from friends and family members, stigmatization, refusal of services, and derogatory labeling at health-care system, etc., have lead them to lose interest in day-to-day activities; the risk of HIV and HIV status increase their psychological distress, and they express thoughts of committing suicide.[17] The suicidality among sexual minority community is associated with poor mental health condition in forms of mental illness,[20,21] psychological pain, emotion fatigue, and low self-esteem; life being hard, being confused about one's sexuality or difficulty in accepting it, not being able to disclose one's sexuality,[8] bullying, history of forced sex, gender-based discrimination, and victimization[9] and isolation are the other reasons for suicide among this population.[10] Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) assault hate crimes at the neighborhood are an additional sociocontextual risk factors for suicidal ideation and attempts among sexual-minority adolescents.[22] Transgender persons being in adolescents and being in their early 20 s and having history of suicide attempt,[21] those who work in the Bar, entertainment and sex industries, survivors of violence perpetrated by intimate partners or family members, are potentially in higher risk for suicidality.[10] Neither reporting the thoughts and behaviors of suicide and self-harm nor seeking help is common among sexual minorities.[10,11,14] The final triggering factors The psychological autopsy of the completed suicides among transgender persons has revealed that the factors such as break-up of love relationship initiated by the partner (64.3%), serious altercations with family members (14.3%), refusal of gender/sex reassignment by the family members (9.5%), financial problems (9.5%), being diagnosed with HIV positive in the past few days/weeks (2.4%) have triggered the act of suicide among the victims.[14] Resiliency factors and protective factors among transgender persons The research studies have tried to explore the resiliency factors which are helping the transgender community to bounce back and continue living even with a number of hardships and adverse conditions in their day-to-day living. The transgender persons have overcome from the above-mentioned situations using at least one of the coping mechanisms or having certain personal qualities such as assertive communication, self-advocacy, spiritual coping, honesty, integrity, avoidance, physical or verbal aggression, help seeking, being future-oriented with having personal goals, being outspoken, strong, friendly, outgoing, independent, determination, etc.[23] The transgender persons who have income of >10,000 Dollars and being educated at higher level,[8] employed in the mainstream jobs other than sex work and begging,[19] optimistic, having perceived social support from family, emotional stability, and child-related concerns[24] have shown better self-esteem and resiliency level. Social support from family is found to be general protective factor which is associated with reduced risk for lifetime suicide attempts among transgender persons.[21] Suicide prevention among transgender persons The National Centre for Transgender Equality provides information on services available for suicide prevention in the United States that includes national suicide prevention helpline (24 × 7, toll free), LGBT national hotline and the Trevor Project which provides telephonic, online, E-mail peer counseling, crisis intervention and online materials, and information about suicide and help.[8] The most of the programs related to LGBT youth under Trevor project deal with the issues such as school safety, health promotion, prevention of violence, harassment and discrimination, civil rights, peer education, emergency support, HIV and AIDS prevention and offer services in terms of training in life skills, enhancing peer relationships, connecting LGBT youth with supportive adults, helping parents and teachers to provide support to the LGBT youth, in-school workshops, educational materials, online educational resources for youth, and advocacy for public policy to reduce LGBT stigma.[25,26] The NGOs such as Sangama, Samara, Jeeva, Aneka, IDF and the Karnataka Women Development Corporation of Bengaluru, Karnataka, the organization Sahodari in Tamil Nadu, The Humsafar Trust in Maharashtra, and so on organizations are providing services in terms of crisis intervention services, helpline services, clinical services, information and referral services, Legal and advocacy support, drop-in-centers, alternative employment services and financial assistance, soft-skills training, self-help group formation, assistance in availing ration card, election ID card etc., creating awareness through workshops, lobbying with media to create awareness among families to increase the acceptance of transgender children, telecasting programs through community radio, developing films and videos, screening the documentaries and films, self-esteem and resilience building services, organizing health camps to provide general health and mental health services, medical services, entertainment, competition and library services, organizing seminars, discussions, and so on services to the sexual minority community at locally. Although these services explicitly do not focus on suicide prevention, they contribute enormously in enhancing the resiliency factors and protective factors among transgender persons. Suicide prevention – the recommendations The interventions and programs to enhance protective factors and resiliency factors are as important as programs for risk reduction; these interventions should be delivered through cultural competence approach[25,27] and should be more LGBT inclusive[26] which help an agency, system, or a professional to work effectively in cross-cultural situations. The suicide prevention interventions and programs for all youth can also be implemented for LGBT individuals mainly in three settings, schools (suicide awareness curricula), communities (gate-keeper training) and health-care system (screening) and crisis centres, hotlines, and risk reduction which can include restricted access to lethal means, media training, and youth life-skills training also can be part of it.[7,25] Community awareness campaigns, discrimination and hate crime legislations, culturally and age appropriate suicide prevention interventions[28] including peer-based outreach, counseling and referrals,[9] targeting the institutions such as schools, family, community, health-care system,[25] police and judiciary,[11] effective treatment for symptoms of hopelessness, depression, conduct disorder, family-based interventions to enhance the support and reduce the victimization,[21] effective intervention in addressing high rates of HIV infection, multiple and complex high-risk behavior and comorbid conditions,[27] addressing sociocultural factors such as LGBT assault hate crimes at the neighborhood[22] providing educational and resource materials on LGBT suicide to the LGBT organizations and encourage these organizations to consider suicide prevention at their organizations' mission and activities,[26] all these would help in achieving increased societal acceptance of the transgender community and decreased gender-based prejudice and also in the promotion of mental health and reduction of suicidal risk among transgender community. CONCLUSION The current review covers research studies from electronic database and manual search and also supplements information with gray literature. The review has included important studies conducted across the countries and through more light on issues and situations surrounded suicidality and suicidal behavior among transgender persons, and the efforts are taken to address the same across the countries and in the Indian context. The transgender community is highly vulnerable for suicidality and suicidal behavior which is a challenging phenomena for the governments and organizations globally. However, the countries like the United States are trying to address the same at national level but in the Indian context, a lot of ground work should happen. The involvement of government, policy, institutions, organizations, public, along with the involvement of transgender community is required. 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< Back Documentary 'TRANSMISSION' - What's the rush to reassign gender? Director, Jennifer Lahl International PLEASANT HILL, Calif., June 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Center for Bioethics and Culture has produced a powerful documentary film, "Trans Mission: What's the Rush to Reassign Gender?," taking a deep dive into the gender identity industry, exploring the issues around allowing children to medically and surgically transition. The film looks into what gender identity affirmation means when it becomes a doctor's endorsement of a minor's distress, or whether doctors can know if patients who diagnose themselves with gender dysphoria will remain happy with irreversible cosmetic procedures. Trans Mission: What's the Rush to Reassign Gender? Trans Mission: What's the Rush to Reassign Gender? Exploring the impact of gender identity affirmation on children, the film cuts through the noise and dissects how open discussion and free speech are gashed when affirmation becomes the rule for allowable public debate. "Trans Mission" explores these issues in 52 minutes of interviews with 17 doctors, parents, activists, and adults who sought medical affirmation of their gender identities. It discusses how others lash into people with concerns about gender identity beliefs, pushing them out of the conversation. One mother tells her story of how doctors scared her into thinking her daughter would commit suicide unless they let them put her on puberty blockers. Brenton, the father of a young boy, talks about the pressure that doctors put on the boy's mother to start him on hormone treatments early, while he was still growing, and the expectations this created for his son. "He has a fantasy of taking a potion and that he's going to be like Peter Pan," said Brenton. Dr. Paul Hruz, a pediatric endocrinologist, says that doctors' pressure on hesitant parents is hard to challenge without a medical background. Yet he says, "there's a very good reason to be concerned about the outcome specifically, that some of the largest studies that have been done with the longest follow-up have shown that suicide rates remain markedly elevated after you undergo these affirmation interventions." With these serious issues at stake, the film zeroes in on how anyone who expresses concern about child transition is being shut out of the public debate. Whether it's Twitter banning outspoken feminists like Meghan Murphy, or Australian universities canceling talks by pediatric endocrinologists like Dr. Quentin Van Meter, Trans-Mission lays out how hard it's become for anyone to dissent from the social prescription to affirm gender identity. As a reviewer, Dr. Heather Brunskell-Evans, sociologist and author of "Transgender Body Politics, said," The film powerfully conveys that children with gender dysphoria are the victims of a powerful ideology, with bereft parents desperately attempting to protect them in the face of social hostility." Alix Aharon, a co-founder of Partners for Ethical Care and founder of The Gender Mapping Project, says a documentary like this is crucial, especially with the hundreds of counted gender clinics for children and teens in the United States, Australia, Canada, and Europe. James Lindsay, best-selling author and founder of New Discourses, says, "One of the most concerning and harmful things happening in the world today is the wholesale and uncritical encouragement of transition in minors." "Trans Mission sheds much-needed light on this issue and is an invitation to start having crucial conversations about it that will lead to protecting some of our most vulnerable kids. Watch this film, share it, and start talking." Lindsay says. Viewers can share the Trailer, or watch the documentary on Vimeo or YouTube. Contact Details Business: Trans Mission, by the Center for Bioethics and Culture Name: Jennifer Lahl E-mail: 312410@email4pr.com Contact Number: 925-407-2660 Country: United States Original Link