Category: Gender Science

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88% Desisters In Study of Dysphoric Boys

“Two young boys, seated with books, in the children’s department of a Toronto public library, Toronto, Ontario / by BiblioArchives / LibraryArchives is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

Vast majority of gender dysphoric boys desist, long-term study finds.

The study was done at the University of Toronto by Singh, Bradley and Zucker and published by Frontiers in Psychiatry (March 29, 2021)

Researchers found that 17 (12.2%) of the participants persisted in their gender dysphoria, and the remaining 122 (87.8%) desisted. 82 (63.6%) of the participants were ascertained to be bisexual or gay and 43 (33.3%) were heterosexual. The remaining 4 (3.1%) reported no sexual fantasies.

One of the scientists, Kenneth J. Zucker, Ph.D., adolescent and child psychologist and chair of the DSM-5 Work Group on Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders was discussed in an early post last year.

Our Girls – Entry 1

Full Study Here.

This is why “watchful waiting” was always the preferred method until recently. But if you suggest that today you might be accused of trying to practice Conversion Therapy.

Today, clinicians advise social transition, then puberty blockers, and cross-sex hormones at earlier ages. There will be no turning back, no desisting from that. The only options will be either to continue identifying as the opposite sex/gender OR become a Detransitioner after having done irreversible harm to your body.

As a Classic Christian I encourage everyone to “Embrace, Don’t Affirm.”

Individuals with a Gender Identity Disorder (Gender-Dysphoria) need Truth-filled Love. Please read this post for more details.

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“Medically Inaccurate” Charge Dropped Against Gender Critical Nurse

Nurse Amy Hamm and the billboard she sponsored.

This is a follow up to a post I made several months ago about a nurse in Canada.

Canadian Nurse Amy Hamm is being investigated and charged with professional misconduct for disagreeing with Gender Ideology.  Here is my earlier post.

Punishing Our Gender Critical Nurses.

The latest development is that the charge against Nurse Hamm about making statements that included “medically inaccurate information” have been dropped.

The original charge said that Hamm: 

“…made discriminatory and derogatory statements regarding transgender people, some of which statements included medically inaccurate information, while identifying yourself as a nurse or nurse educator. These statements were made across various online platforms, including but not limited to, podcasts, videos, published writings and social media.”

Professionally, I suppose, that could have been a problem. Though everybody knows medical professionals sometimes make inaccurate statements. They are only human, after all.

But the new charge now reads:

“Between approximately July 2018 and March 2021, you made discriminatory and derogatory statements regarding transgender people, while identifying yourself as a nurse or nurse educator. These statements were made across various online platforms, including but not limited to, podcasts, videos, published writings and social media.”

Of course that is a step in the right direction.

However. Nurse Hamm’s free speech right to make, as a medical professional, the completely rational and scientific statement that it is impossible to change your sex is still, unfortunately, facing discipline.

Regulatory bodies are increasingly policing the speech of professionals (see this post)

Human Rights Code Used To Cancel Canadian Teacher

to “cancel” medical and educational professionals with whom they disagree. But as more and more decide to bravely face this cancel culture of intimidation, I hope the current trajectory of this debate will change. One can only hope.

You can read more about Amy’s story here. Go Amy!!

“Medically inaccurate” charge dropped against nurse facing discipline for gender critical statements

As a Classic Christian I encourage everyone to “Embrace, Don’t Affirm.”

Individuals with a Gender Identity Disorder (Gender-Dysphoria) need Truth-filled Love. Please read this post for more details.

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The Torment & Tragedy of Teenage Girls

This blog has introduced you many times to the splendid reporting of Abigail Shrier. Now I want to introduce my readers to Heather Heying. From her website you’ll find the following credentials:

I am an evolutionary biologist, which means I’m interested in everything from brains to bugs, culture to consciousness. Just about everything most humans think about is evolutionary, except for rocks and quarks and the like. Other descriptions for what kind of scientist I am include animal behaviorist, zoologist, herpetologist, tropical biologist, and evolutionary ecologist. I have conducted research on the evolution of social systems and sexual selection, from frogs to humans. I received my PhD in Biology from the University of Michigan, where I earned the university’s top honor for my dissertation, and have a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of California at Santa Cruz. From 2019 – 2021 I was a Visiting Fellow at Princeton University.

Impressive.

If you want a relatively brief synopsis of a complicated subject, what Abigail calls the “Transgender Craze,” you need to read their LetterWiki exchange from 2020.

The Torment & Tragedy of Teenage Girls.

During the exchange Heather says:

“Why do we chastise teenage girls when they cut themselves, but celebrate them when they find a doctor to do it for them? When a teenage girl cuts herself, or starves herself, we try to help the human being. We do not sanctify the behavior.”

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