Yeah I’ve seen GC parents like ‘OMG MY CHILD IS BEING SO HOSTILE NOW THE TRANSCULT MADE THEM LIKE THIS’

This. Basically like detransitioning is a thing, people who detransition need support, more research would be good.

Primarily many black trans women and young gay men are sex workers for lack of being able to find employment elsewhere - this contributes greatly to their high death rates.

I honestly worry that the number of serial killers in the US is woefully underestimated due to the fact that marginalized people such as trans people, Black people (especially young Black girls) and the rest of the LGBT community are all treated as “runaways” when they go missing.

Yes, there are a lot of people out there who see the existence of trans people as an affront to their own way of life, and are violent to trans people because of that. Prejudiced people also are less likely to hire trans people, and that can drive trans people into more hazardous ways of earning a living, like sex…

I followed some writers into the “think of the children!!” weeds (re: trans kids) a few years ago. After awhile, I was struck by the similarity between people fussing over the details of conditions/treatments they themselves would never deal with and how people talk about late-term abortion. The average lay person…

This is my city.

But if all he reports is the rare cases in which people regret their transition, or feel that they rushed into it, then isn’t that contributing to the idea that detransition is commonplace? It’d be like only reporting on bisexual people who end up in opposite-sex relationships-it isn’t that those people don’t exist,…

“I think you did a great job with this and from all I can see, you bent over backwards to make sure it was balanced and not anti-trans...”

How will they be found out? It could be anyone with access.

The irony is that medical science absolutely supports the current trans discourse of self-determination and biological origin.

You know a lot of kids claiming to be transgender I take it?
You made sure those kids saw a therapist to sort through things right? And you fully supported and enabled them to live the life they want to, free of harassment or other outside factors pressuring their identity in one way or another? You watched these kids…

“My own experience...”

The only ‘treatment’ very young trans kids even receive is hormone blockers and those are 100% safe.

Hi Victor! The problem with your defense is the same problem that Harron is writing about here: Instead of thinking about this topic in an analytical, unbiased way (which is VERY important in journalism), you’re going into it with a bias, personal opinion that you are supporting with “evidence” (personal experience is…

People are always hiding behind science when they get called out on transphobic bullshit as if scientists have never been wrong before (see entire Eugenicist movement, sexism and homophobia in the DSM 5, etc.) At the end of the day, people bring their biases into what they do. It’s ridiculous, and extremely…

My own experience is that every child I know that claimed to be transgender has also changed their mind, as children do.

Pre-adolescents don’t take hormones. They don’t have surgery. So, what are the downsides? And are they worse than the high rate of suicide among kids who don’t get the gender-affirmative treatments they need? What about the lifelong trauma associated with that? Because if you foreclose the option of transitioning for…

What downsides are you talking about? Perhaps speaking to a real trans person (of which he is not) may help alleviate those concerns?

So you didn’t read the article then? Or like, have ever spoken to a trans person?