Chapter 4: The Manipulating Consensus
Groups calling trans ideology a Junk Science:
-no such thing as rapid onset gender dysphoria (Journal of Pediatrics)
-wanted to eliminate rapid onset gender dysphoria (Coalition for the Advancement & Application of Psychological Science) (CAAPS)
-Dr. Littman’s paper was discredited for writing that rapid onset gender dysphoria is a lie
-Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria (ROGD) is not a medical entity recognized by any major professional association
-there is evidence that gender dysphoria can result is social contagion
***tried to tell people that puberty blockers at an early age followed by cross-sex hormones, leaves patient infertile
Groups against truth:
-60 professional associations
-American Psychological Association
-Society for Behavioral Medicine
-American Psychiatric Association
-Human Rights Campaign (HRC)
-WPATH
-USPATH
-Endocrine Society (ES)
-American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
(who in 2018 endorsed gender-affirming care (GAC) for all gender dysphoria not matter the age of the child)
-Universities like Brown
-Southern Poverty Law Center
-Toronto's Child Youth and Family Identity Clinic (GIC)
-US Food and Drug Administration
-opposers tried in 2020, 2021, and in 2022 to show their conclusions that the risks of hormones outweigh the benefits
-2021, tried to submit a resolution to halt their promotion of medical transitions for minors until research demonstrated long-term benefit
-no results would be published that discredited the efforts to support transgender youth and invalidate the perspectives of member of the transgender community
-Canada officially banned conversion therapy for gender-distressed people in 2021
-France joined UK, Finland, and Sweden urged great medical caution
Affirming Care Proponents:
-society’s transphobia causes emotional problems
-minority stress model: the idea that sexual minorities are victims of hate and discrimination resulting in suffering mental health burdens like anxiety, bipolar disorder, and suicidal thoughts and attemps
-children need to come to terms with their sex
2022 Detransition Denials
-just because a trans decides to go back to biological sex doesn’t mean there is transitional regret
-only a small minority of people turn back to their biological sex
-these people just have evolving paths or a shift of expression
Detransitioners:
-I made the mistake of my life
-I am infertile
-I am filled with regret
-the therapist and doctors failed me
-detransitioners are now called transphobic
***gender dysphoria is a coping mechanism in response to multiple complex factors including anxiety, social isolation, and social contagion