Hahaha, you’re too late. We’ve made sure that person you were talking to won’t be meddling with our important work any longer. You should take this as a lesson about what happens to people who blab about our plot to make parents second guess their decision to have their child start a transition by disseminating fake…

Oh my god, I’m so glad I was able to reach you. Look, I only have a brief window before they cut my access. I’m actually a double agent who was only pretending to be a part of the worldwide doctor, scientist, government, professional civil servant, anti-trans conspiracy. I need to warn you! They’ve somehow found your…

I wonder if your child’s endocrinologist also believes there is a world-wide anti-trans conspiracy to create studies showing potentially dangerous long term effects to children who use Lupron or other GnRH analogues? Maybe they were who tipped you off to the existence of the conspiracy in the first place!

With Citizens United and other SCOTUS decisions weakening restrictions on how wealthy individuals and corporations can spend money to influence politics, money has been rushing in via “Super Pacs”, 501(c)(4)‘s, and other entities designed to allow spending beyond the traditional campaign donation limits.

I only know about other peoples’ motivations in the same way you do. From hearing their stories either individually or collected together in a study. I don’t know “more” about a particular trans person’s experience or motivations. But I know just as much about any particular trans person’s experience and motivations…

Totally. It’s me, the person who isn’t “asking questions” buy bringing attention to peer reviewed studies about the effects of a particular drug on prepubescent children, who is like anti-evolutionists and anti-vaxers. You, the person who is positing a giant conspiracy with participation from professional bureaucrats…

Dysphoria is a mental illness. ProdiGal described the feelings of mental/emotional distress she suffered from when she saw her male body and secondary sex characteristics.

I’m not projecting anything on to you. I’m trying to understand how what I wrote could be construed as suggesting I believe “that trans men and boys don’t really exist nor should they.” Because it wasn’t very clear.

It’s about as believable as Andrew Wakefield’s vaccination studies.

Admittedly, conflating trans peoples’ health in general and transitioning specifically in the context of the movement away from doctors as “gate-keepers” was not the most generous reading of Walker and the commenter.

Since drugs like Lupron have only been used since the mid 80's it’s a bit premature to say “studies have shown that there are no “life-long implications””. And in fact, some studies in the US and Europe have shown the opposite. Following women prescribed puberty blockers as a treatment for precocious puberty as a…

I don’t believe we have data that suggests “gender identity is biologically hardwired” beyond a few small scale brain imaging studies with interesting results. That is not even close to enough data to suggest anything about where our gender identities are formed.

I didn’t see any place in the article where Singal advocates parents of a child who is exploring their gender identity not allow the child to access medical support. Unless the “qualified” in “qualified medical support” means only medical support that advocates for children to immediately begin taking hormones and/or…

But from the responses in these comments it seems like critiquing and/or exploring the misogyny young women experience which might be a factor in some of their transitions is not allowed. Because it takes being trans from a innate quality (the “I always felt like a boy/girl”) to a chosen response. So how can we…

“that trans men and boys don’t really exist nor should they.”

So I guess TERF is just a meaningless slur now. Since apparently it encompasses both radical feminists on the left who have a problem with the underlying extreme misogyny driving young women, girls really, to reject femaleness as a reaction to realizing the nature of our patriarchal society; and conservatives who…

What was the hateful, transphobic conclusion Singal started with? Is there a not hateful, non-transphobic way to be wary about the use of hormones or hormone blockers in young children with body dysmorphia or some sort of gender identity issue? It seems like there isn’t. Walker specifically criticized anything less…

That’s basically it. Transitioning as a reaction to the realization of the true nature of misogyny in our society. It’s really upsetting that young women are being essentially pushed into “becoming” men in order to avoid all the bullshit women have to deal with. Like instead of changing society we are forcing women to…

Maybe that’s the disconnect. Not everyone agrees that body dysmorphia can only be, or is even best treated by, medication for young women. Some people might think it’s pretty fucking outrageous that young women who are clearly distressed by the horrible misogyny they suffer from in our patriarchal society are being…

What interactions? According to Harron Walker having a doctor take any interest in a trans persons’ health, mental or physical, is “gate-keeping”. Hormones for everyone!