Tag: detransitioner

The English Court of Appeal has partially overturned the judgement that had given right to the young detransitioner Keira Bell (here is her story) against the Tavistock Clinic that, when she was 16 years old, had hastily introduced her to therapy with puberty blockers. With a pilatesque and merely formalistic judgement, the Court threw the ball back to the doctors: it is up to them, and not to the courts, to establish whether a minor can access this 'therapy' with hormone blockers. It must be the doctors and not [...]

An article in the prestigious Lancet Child & Adolescent Health (see here) proposes more caution in the use of puberty blockers on children diagnosed as gender dysphoric. According to Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, further research is needed to determine the best treatment for children who have received this diagnosis, particularly for those in whom the disorder did not manifest until after puberty. Gender is a highly politicised issue, and any scientific article that poses a threat to mainstream narratives [...]

The phenomenon of transition appears to have profoundly changed in the last thirty years. The main change - though not the only one - concerns the biological sex of the people who decide to transition, which is now more females than males. Female-to-male FtMs were once an absolute rarity. The proportions were roughly one FtM for every hundred MtF, and even then they were two worlds anthropologically different and distant from each other. Today, FtMs make up the clear majority [...].

The phenomenon of transition appears to have changed profoundly over the last thirty years. The main change - though not the only one - concerns the biological sex of the people who decide to transition, today more females than males. Once upon a time, female-to-male FtMs were an absolute rarity. The proportions were roughly one FtM for every hundred MtF, and even then they were two anthropologically different and distant worlds. Today FtMs constitute the clear majority of early transitions -7-8 cases out of 10- and [...]

The strategy of queer activism always orders silence. If politicians are discussing a bill to introduce gender self-determination, it is preferable that the media do not talk about it, and if they do talk about it, they have to say that the bill is only "against discrimination of LGBT people" and keep quiet about the rest. Any opinion that is even the slightest bit dissonant is silenced with insults, threats (chilling effect) and blackout (no platform). All this happens also in Italy, see for example [...]

Time dedicated its latest cover to Elliot Page (formerly Ellen). 'I am entirely what I am,' he says. Pale, emaciated, his features already hardened by the hormone treatment, his chest flattened by a double mastectomy, the air not exactly happy - let's hope that the rest of his life will go better - Elliot tells of the suffering of having had to undergo the hyper-feminisation imposed by Hollywood. He says that even at the age of 9 he felt like a boy and that it was hard having to accept the roles that [...]

The November-December 2020 issue of the journal Pediatria (vol. 27, n.6) published a bill by Amigay, an association of LGBTI or Friendly doctors and health professionals, which concerns intersex children (very rare cases of sexual "uncertainty" at birth, i.e. children with physical abnormalities) and "gender variant" children, whose behaviour does not conform to gender stereotypes (i.e. dysphoric children, affected by an identity disorder), making them a single category. Point 4 of the bill proposes [...]

Abigail Shrier is a freelance journalist who has recently written mainly for the Wall Street Journal. The idea for her book Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters (Regnery Publishing, among the best books of the year according to The Times and The Sunday Times), an essay analysing the more than 3,000 per cent increase in gender dysphoria among teenage girls, came to her after she wrote an article about new legislation in several US states that requires the [...]