Category: Transgender Ideology

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Transition Regret: Understanding Detransition

The medical professionals at SEGM have taken a look at a new peer-reviewed article, “Transition Regret and Detransition: Meaning and Uncertainties,” published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior.

Takeaways

Gaps in Healthcare: Many detransitioners report not feeling adequately informed about the health implications of treatments before undergoing them. They also feel that they did not receive sufficient exploration of preexisting psychological and emotional problems. Most patients did not maintain contact with their gender clinic during their detransition, and there is a lack of clinicians knowledgeable about how to safely stop hormonal therapies and surgical reversal or restorative options.

Predicting Transition Outcomes: The ability to predict who will benefit from transition-related medical interventions and who will be harmed by them is limited. There is no systematic tracking of how many young people regret transition or how many are helped by it. Recent studies suggest that up to 30% of those who undergo medical transition may discontinue it within a few years, and a number of them may experience significant regret over lost opportunities and permanent physical changes.

Transition Models and Their Implications: The less restrictive eligibility criteria for accessing transition-related medical interventions under the gender-affirmation and informed consent models, coupled with the rapid rise of adolescents and young adults presenting to gender clinics, have important implications for the incidence of transition regret and detransition. These models view hormonal therapies and surgery as a means of realizing personal identity or ’embodiment goals,’ rather than treating an underlying illness or injury.

Preventing Detransition and Inappropriate Transitions: The author of the article suggests several measures to prevent detransition and inappropriate transitions, including improving the process of informed consent, prioritizing treatment of co-occurring social, developmental, and psychological problems, using precise language about medical interventions, helping young people expand their understanding of gender, and being transparent about the quality of evidence supporting medical interventions and the uncertainty about long-term harms.

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Detransitioner Layla Jane; Double Mastectomy Age 13

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Brazil: Journalist Ordered To Pay Damages For ‘Misgendering’

A female journalist was convicted of causing “moral damage” to a male influencer who claims to be a woman.

Left: Rebecca Gaia. Right: Madeleine Lacsko

A Brazilian journalist, Madeleine Lacsko, was convicted of  causing “moral damage” to a trans-identified male influencer, who adopted the name Rebecca Gaia. Ms. Lacsko was found guilty of “transphobia” over “misgendering” for addressing Gaia using the word “cara,” as “cara” means “dear” but also “guy” (a man). The journalist was told to delete her tweets and pay three thousand reais (over $500) to the influencer.

. . . the journalist’s “conduct” – using the word “cara” as a masculine form, was “enough to conclude that there was grave violation of the [influencer’s] personality, resulting in their humiliation in front of other users on social media.”

“The case that happened to me is important for the freedom of expression of women in the public sphere, especially in discussions about gender. I was judicially sanctioned without even having entered into the discussion, simply because I used a vocative that was misunderstood by the people attacking me,” Ms Lacsko continued.

Lacsko has been a journalist for 27 years and also works as a “digital and social reputation risk management consultant.” She is a columnist for the news outlet UOL, a speaker, an author and has focused on the topic of lifelong learning for senior executives, Digital Citizenship and human rights while working as a consultant for UNICEF Angola and as an advisor to Brazil’s Supreme Court.

Source: 4W

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Planned Parenthood Sex-Ed Lesson In Elementary School

Nine and ten year olds in a Washington State Elementary School get an eye-opening and confusing lesson about sex and gender.

Podcaster Brandi Kruse reported on a sex education lesson provided to fourth and fifth grade students at Lincoln Elementary School on May 9, 2023. The lesson included over 40 images of different drawings of male and female genitalia. Another page from the lesson shows what children may need during puberty. One item is listed as “puberty blockers.” One page has a “gender wheel” that shows children they can be transgender and pick their pronouns. Examples of identities on this wheel include “drag king,” “boyish girl,” and “femme boy.” The word “tree” is also listed as a pronoun. The page for the wheel states:

You can keep your understanding of bodies, gender and pronouns as dancing and alive and current as possible. This means knowing about lots of different kinds of people and including every body as a normal part of your regular, everyday life.

Source: Parents Defending Education

“Words and ways of thinking are changing all the time as old, limiting beliefs transform and evolve.’

Gender Wheel Quote – 4th Grade Sex-Ed Material

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