Abigail Shrier
@AbigailShrier
The Biden Administration has now determined that "gender affirming care" - including puberty blockers, hormones and surgeries - is a right of trans youth and "appropriate" and "necessary" for their health.

The Biden Justice Department will come after states that disagree.

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9:15 PM · Mar 31, 2022

Abigail Shrier
@AbigailShrier
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Mar 31, 2022
Replying to @AbigailShrier
The Administration now owns this absurd position at precisely the moment that many European countries (France, UK, Sweden and Finland) are backing away from these interventions, having examined a decade of evidence that failed to establish the purported benefits.

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Abigail Shrier
@AbigailShrier
Here's today's press release from the DOJ:

https://justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1489066/download //

Bernard Lane
@Bernard_Lane
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Mar 31, 2022
The US administration has issued a series of statements endorsing medicalised gender change for minors, & claims that puberty blocker drugs & cross-sex hormones are "evidence-based".

In other countries, there's a shift to caution about these interventions. Who's got it right? 1/
Bernard Lane
@Bernard_Lane
Sweden: "The National Board of Health & Welfare in Sweden has urged 'restraint' in the use of hormonal drug treatments for medicalised gender change with minors, warning that the risks appear to outweigh the benefits."
genderclinicnews.substack.com
Sweden transitions to caution
10:53 PM · Mar 31, 2022

Bernard Lane
@Bernard_Lane
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Mar 31, 2022
Replying to @Bernard_Lane
The UK: "The evidence for using puberty blocking drugs to treat young people struggling with their gender identity is 'very low", an official review has found ... existing studies of the drugs were small and 'subject to bias and confounding'.".
bbc.com
Evidence for puberty blockers use very low, says NICE
Bernard Lane
@Bernard_Lane
France: " 'Sterilisation risk' from gender medicine | The French National Academy of Medicine has sounded the alarm about an epidemic-like surge in young people seeking hormone drugs and surgery."
genderclinicnews.substack.com
'Sterilisation risk' from gender medicine
10:53 PM · Mar 31, 2022