A year ago, My daughter asked for PBs, claiming “they are reversible, why wont you let me have time to think about this?”I brought her highlighted published papers on the side effects and risks (instant menopause:, hot flashes, worsening depression, irritability, bone development, sexual development, brain/emotional development and high correlation to CSH) After our talk, she said “i didnt know”. She never asked for them again.
Now a year later she questions of she really feels like a boy. Or maybe I wont forever, maybe Im just scared to be in the world as a woman. What a difference a year of real development makes.
I have gone over and over this issue in my head, wondering how it was possible that the medical community could be so disingenuous in the face of such potential harm to children and the lack of a rational basis for their use. We received the standard "pause button" line from the gender clinic after they prescribed blockers following a 1-hour Zoom call with my son, plus the words of concern about the difficulty passing if we didn't act immediately. He was 14 at the time, and so unstable that they subsequently recommended a neuropsych evaluation and a mood stabilizer. We originally consented, but I didn't feel comfortable and started the lonely and distressing research path that all parents who question seem to find themselves on. Getting answers from the clinic about the safety of blockers, the evidence, the logic, was impossible. It took almost a year to get my child off of them — partly because I couldn't get my husband to agree and partly because the clinic put him on a 6-month dose when they ran out of the 3-month. Ultimately, his own behavior and my relentless hounding got him booted from the clinic until he was stable and "re-evaluated," rather than any acknowledgment from them or epiphany on the part of our son. Despite my complaints, they continue to provide the same misinformation to parents — nothing mentioning concerns or even the slightest controversy. I requested that they test my son's FSH and LH levels to see if his system was recovering but they refuse to do so before June 2023 — a full year and a half after he was due for the next dose. I'll need to have the tests done at an outside clinic once my son is more stable. Then we'll have a bit more information about just how reversible this "treatment" is. It sickens me to think that we may have unknowingly consented to serious, permanent harm to our child. No parent should have to live with this regret.
Absolutely. Best of luck with the book. Our story is especially egregious and I am in touch with many parents living this nightmare, should you want to talk to others.
I do not agree. The original founders of Stonewall just wanted equal human rights and now that they've got that, the organisation they founded has used their hard work to enable gender ideology to latch on. Stonewall now say they believe in same gender attraction, not sex. They do not represent anyone - least of all homosexuals and bisexuals ... or ocourse heterosexuals. No one voted for em.
In contrast, the LBG Alliance has the support of those same original Stonewall founders, they do not support Stonewall. 'queerdom' etc - let alone paediophiles. They do not agree with this dangerous unproven gender ideology cult and speak up accordingly.
You may not approve of homosexuality but why do you not respect ppl who only want to be given the freedom to be treated like anyone else; and love sexually who they will in private with consenting adults? They do not need you to approve and nor do they threaten heterosexuality nor do they need to subscribe to 'queer theory' nor exhibitionism to validate their lives - and wish to protect children from both sexual and gender exploitation.
Why not check out LGB Alliance website and then come back and decide whether it is gender ideology rather than homosexuality which poses the real dangers?
Clearly, homosexuality exists and whether you like it or not, democratic societies allow freedom of choice between consenting adults who are sexually attracted to each other. Live and let live. This is not the same as imposing unproven and harmful gender ideology.
Do you consider it humane and virtuous to stone adulterers and homosexuals because your holy book tells you these rules? The fact that you cannot accept that some people are attracted to other people of the same sex and can live decent lives is your personal choice of course but your comment will not win hearts n minds of those who disagree with you.
Heres something a bit tangental to the subject. I promise, this will go somewhere. I was talking to a colleague yesterday who was informing me he would be coming in late to take his dog in to be spayed. I said “she isnt spayed yet, isnt she about a year old?” He said, “yeah, shes about a year. They recommend waiting until after their first heat cycle. There have been a lot of demonstrated health benefits of allowing them to mature first. Especially for their bones and joint”.
Let that sink in. We allow DOGS to fully mature before sterilizing them.
Thank you for speaking out. For a future topic, I would like to know how you and your colleagues interpret this phenomena of the medical community so blindly following the affirmative care pathway, and how all of the major medical associations could be so on-board with so little apparent internal conflict. This goes beyond the laziness and greed that brought us the opioid epidemic. The information is out there in plain sight now and yet there's no backing down in much of the world.
Sadly I think too many pediatricians, often the lowest paid of the medical professionals, see manipulating gender as a new profit center. Many of them prescribe PB's much in the same way they prescribed serious psychotropic drugs like Adderall and Ritalin for earlier generations. A little knowledge is a dangerous things. And prescribing these very serious drugs without any sort of acknowledgement of the potential outcome, should be cause for some very big lawsuits.
In my area (USA - NW) nearly all the medical groups and pracitices have been bought up by four large hospitals, one is a "research" university. A year ago I asked my long-time doctor (family practice, hospital affiliated) what their group's protocol is for gender questioning youth. She stated that they are to "accept, prescribe and not follow up." I asked if there were any groups in the area who weren't captured by the gender agenda and she said, "No."
So, essentially, doctors in my area are given a choice: they can put their heads down and be part of the hospital systems, or they can practice very alone, unsupported and be gender critical.
I live in the PNW, too. Are you also in the Seattle area? I gathered from the way your doctor phrased her reply that she does not like the current affirmation protocol but feels there's nothing she can do?
Gender ideology propaganda is widespread through public high schools. I’ve seen it plastered on the walls of the guidance officers who counsel troubled children. When I asked one guidance officer about puberty blockers she said they were totally safe and 100% reversible. There is a very high mountain to climb in pushing back against this insanity. Thank you for your contribution Dr Wilson.
Thank you Dr Wilson. I sent your Open Letter to my MPs, both state and federal, and to a radio station and my GP. I was excited to hear your letter mentioned on a UK YouTube channel I follow. Thank you for your work, it is much appreciated.
So powerful. Clinic should go on to say that it is better for these children to have a future where they can fully pass as the opposite sex they were born as, so that they can live a lie their whole life with their sexual partners while being infertile and unorgasmic. What a happy future that will be! But at least their selfies will look great and they won’t be outed!!!
I have hypogonadotropic hypogonadism, which is a naturally occurring pituitary issue that Lupron causes when given to adolescents. I wrote about my experience and the data I gathered on giving your child this condition under the assumption that they will figure out what gender they want to be when they grow up??? https://jameslinehan.substack.com/p/i-went-through-gender-affirming-care?s=w
Thank you so much for discussing this issue. Please, please continue to do so. Most people have no idea of what is happening and would be horrified if they knew. An ever increasing number of young people will suffer lifelong consequences, and their parents, siblings and other family members suffer with them.
Good news - A new report into childhood gender transition from Florida Dept of Health will be a useful resource. They conclude "that several services for the treatment of gender dysphoria – i.e., sex reassignment surgery, cross-sex hormones, and puberty blockers – are not consistent with widely accepted professional medical standards and are experimental and investigational with the potential for harmful long term affects." Full report available here: https://ahca.myflorida.com/LetKidsBeKids/
Considering this study, wouldn’t it mean that (unless diagnosis in children is incredibly superior) ‘at least’ 30% of these children would detransition. So either these detransitioners are deluding themselves when they say they were never trans, or a big percentage of the these children were not ‘born’ trans, but ‘made’ trans and medically harmed for no reason? And how do we know who they are?
Love how you blatantly spread the idea that "puberty blockers aren't reversible" by bringing absolutely no statistics on it to the table and instead "pointing out" that they tend to not be reversed. Which proves, in absolute, nothing about the actual status of PBs. This is the most disingenuous article I have read in years, sheesh.
I hope this question hasn't been asked already, but I had this conversation with a very Left-wing, "trans affirming" type friend recently (who also happens ton be a Biochemistry graduate) and she insisted that in the case of trans kids, the PBs work as a pause as they do in CPP cases, and asserted that an individual who takes them and then elects to continue life as the opposite sex to their birth sex and take CSH treatments etc. will then go on to experience the puberty of their *chosen* sex.. This does not seem to be readily apparent in the discussion as it stands, and I was curious. Do the 98% of PB 'customers', let's say, who go on to receive CSHs also stop taking the PBs, or do the PBs continue to be part of their "treatment"; and if they do cease to take the PBs, does taking the CSHs lead to them experiencing the puberty of their chosen sex??
A year ago, My daughter asked for PBs, claiming “they are reversible, why wont you let me have time to think about this?”I brought her highlighted published papers on the side effects and risks (instant menopause:, hot flashes, worsening depression, irritability, bone development, sexual development, brain/emotional development and high correlation to CSH) After our talk, she said “i didnt know”. She never asked for them again.
Now a year later she questions of she really feels like a boy. Or maybe I wont forever, maybe Im just scared to be in the world as a woman. What a difference a year of real development makes.
I have gone over and over this issue in my head, wondering how it was possible that the medical community could be so disingenuous in the face of such potential harm to children and the lack of a rational basis for their use. We received the standard "pause button" line from the gender clinic after they prescribed blockers following a 1-hour Zoom call with my son, plus the words of concern about the difficulty passing if we didn't act immediately. He was 14 at the time, and so unstable that they subsequently recommended a neuropsych evaluation and a mood stabilizer. We originally consented, but I didn't feel comfortable and started the lonely and distressing research path that all parents who question seem to find themselves on. Getting answers from the clinic about the safety of blockers, the evidence, the logic, was impossible. It took almost a year to get my child off of them — partly because I couldn't get my husband to agree and partly because the clinic put him on a 6-month dose when they ran out of the 3-month. Ultimately, his own behavior and my relentless hounding got him booted from the clinic until he was stable and "re-evaluated," rather than any acknowledgment from them or epiphany on the part of our son. Despite my complaints, they continue to provide the same misinformation to parents — nothing mentioning concerns or even the slightest controversy. I requested that they test my son's FSH and LH levels to see if his system was recovering but they refuse to do so before June 2023 — a full year and a half after he was due for the next dose. I'll need to have the tests done at an outside clinic once my son is more stable. Then we'll have a bit more information about just how reversible this "treatment" is. It sickens me to think that we may have unknowingly consented to serious, permanent harm to our child. No parent should have to live with this regret.
Absolutely. Best of luck with the book. Our story is especially egregious and I am in touch with many parents living this nightmare, should you want to talk to others.
My married gay friends (in their 50's) have had very happy and fulfilling lives. I'm sorry that you think being gay is something to be ashamed of.
Me too!
I do not agree. The original founders of Stonewall just wanted equal human rights and now that they've got that, the organisation they founded has used their hard work to enable gender ideology to latch on. Stonewall now say they believe in same gender attraction, not sex. They do not represent anyone - least of all homosexuals and bisexuals ... or ocourse heterosexuals. No one voted for em.
In contrast, the LBG Alliance has the support of those same original Stonewall founders, they do not support Stonewall. 'queerdom' etc - let alone paediophiles. They do not agree with this dangerous unproven gender ideology cult and speak up accordingly.
You may not approve of homosexuality but why do you not respect ppl who only want to be given the freedom to be treated like anyone else; and love sexually who they will in private with consenting adults? They do not need you to approve and nor do they threaten heterosexuality nor do they need to subscribe to 'queer theory' nor exhibitionism to validate their lives - and wish to protect children from both sexual and gender exploitation.
Why not check out LGB Alliance website and then come back and decide whether it is gender ideology rather than homosexuality which poses the real dangers?
Polish religious nut. Yawn.
Clearly, homosexuality exists and whether you like it or not, democratic societies allow freedom of choice between consenting adults who are sexually attracted to each other. Live and let live. This is not the same as imposing unproven and harmful gender ideology.
Do you consider it humane and virtuous to stone adulterers and homosexuals because your holy book tells you these rules? The fact that you cannot accept that some people are attracted to other people of the same sex and can live decent lives is your personal choice of course but your comment will not win hearts n minds of those who disagree with you.
Heres something a bit tangental to the subject. I promise, this will go somewhere. I was talking to a colleague yesterday who was informing me he would be coming in late to take his dog in to be spayed. I said “she isnt spayed yet, isnt she about a year old?” He said, “yeah, shes about a year. They recommend waiting until after their first heat cycle. There have been a lot of demonstrated health benefits of allowing them to mature first. Especially for their bones and joint”.
Let that sink in. We allow DOGS to fully mature before sterilizing them.
Thank you for speaking out. For a future topic, I would like to know how you and your colleagues interpret this phenomena of the medical community so blindly following the affirmative care pathway, and how all of the major medical associations could be so on-board with so little apparent internal conflict. This goes beyond the laziness and greed that brought us the opioid epidemic. The information is out there in plain sight now and yet there's no backing down in much of the world.
Sadly I think too many pediatricians, often the lowest paid of the medical professionals, see manipulating gender as a new profit center. Many of them prescribe PB's much in the same way they prescribed serious psychotropic drugs like Adderall and Ritalin for earlier generations. A little knowledge is a dangerous things. And prescribing these very serious drugs without any sort of acknowledgement of the potential outcome, should be cause for some very big lawsuits.
In my area (USA - NW) nearly all the medical groups and pracitices have been bought up by four large hospitals, one is a "research" university. A year ago I asked my long-time doctor (family practice, hospital affiliated) what their group's protocol is for gender questioning youth. She stated that they are to "accept, prescribe and not follow up." I asked if there were any groups in the area who weren't captured by the gender agenda and she said, "No."
So, essentially, doctors in my area are given a choice: they can put their heads down and be part of the hospital systems, or they can practice very alone, unsupported and be gender critical.
tell your doctor to look into SEGM! She doesn't have to be public, but she can help.
I live in the PNW, too. Are you also in the Seattle area? I gathered from the way your doctor phrased her reply that she does not like the current affirmation protocol but feels there's nothing she can do?
Correct. Yes. Seattle area.
Gender ideology propaganda is widespread through public high schools. I’ve seen it plastered on the walls of the guidance officers who counsel troubled children. When I asked one guidance officer about puberty blockers she said they were totally safe and 100% reversible. There is a very high mountain to climb in pushing back against this insanity. Thank you for your contribution Dr Wilson.
The educators need educating!
Thank you Dr Wilson. I sent your Open Letter to my MPs, both state and federal, and to a radio station and my GP. I was excited to hear your letter mentioned on a UK YouTube channel I follow. Thank you for your work, it is much appreciated.
Thanks Dylan. You’re doing great work and it’s much appreciated.
So powerful. Clinic should go on to say that it is better for these children to have a future where they can fully pass as the opposite sex they were born as, so that they can live a lie their whole life with their sexual partners while being infertile and unorgasmic. What a happy future that will be! But at least their selfies will look great and they won’t be outed!!!
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Yes. Feminists are extremely concerned about this abuse of children's human rights but their voices are rarely given coverage in the media.
I have hypogonadotropic hypogonadism, which is a naturally occurring pituitary issue that Lupron causes when given to adolescents. I wrote about my experience and the data I gathered on giving your child this condition under the assumption that they will figure out what gender they want to be when they grow up??? https://jameslinehan.substack.com/p/i-went-through-gender-affirming-care?s=w
Thank you so much for discussing this issue. Please, please continue to do so. Most people have no idea of what is happening and would be horrified if they knew. An ever increasing number of young people will suffer lifelong consequences, and their parents, siblings and other family members suffer with them.
Good news - A new report into childhood gender transition from Florida Dept of Health will be a useful resource. They conclude "that several services for the treatment of gender dysphoria – i.e., sex reassignment surgery, cross-sex hormones, and puberty blockers – are not consistent with widely accepted professional medical standards and are experimental and investigational with the potential for harmful long term affects." Full report available here: https://ahca.myflorida.com/LetKidsBeKids/
https://academic.oup.com/jcem/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1210/clinem/dgac251/6572526
Considering this study, wouldn’t it mean that (unless diagnosis in children is incredibly superior) ‘at least’ 30% of these children would detransition. So either these detransitioners are deluding themselves when they say they were never trans, or a big percentage of the these children were not ‘born’ trans, but ‘made’ trans and medically harmed for no reason? And how do we know who they are?
WPATH version 8 includes a whole chapter on EUNUCHS. Read it.
Love how you blatantly spread the idea that "puberty blockers aren't reversible" by bringing absolutely no statistics on it to the table and instead "pointing out" that they tend to not be reversed. Which proves, in absolute, nothing about the actual status of PBs. This is the most disingenuous article I have read in years, sheesh.
I hope this question hasn't been asked already, but I had this conversation with a very Left-wing, "trans affirming" type friend recently (who also happens ton be a Biochemistry graduate) and she insisted that in the case of trans kids, the PBs work as a pause as they do in CPP cases, and asserted that an individual who takes them and then elects to continue life as the opposite sex to their birth sex and take CSH treatments etc. will then go on to experience the puberty of their *chosen* sex.. This does not seem to be readily apparent in the discussion as it stands, and I was curious. Do the 98% of PB 'customers', let's say, who go on to receive CSHs also stop taking the PBs, or do the PBs continue to be part of their "treatment"; and if they do cease to take the PBs, does taking the CSHs lead to them experiencing the puberty of their chosen sex??