Recent discussions and revelations surrounding transgender health care and related policies have sparked significant debate across various platforms. The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) files, leaked documents revealing insights into gender medicine practices, have led to a public outcry and a reevaluation of standards by some health services, notably the Irish health service abandoning WPATH standards. These leaks have prompted discussions on the influence of activism over medical science in transgender treatment. Simultaneously, New York Magazine published a cover story by Andrea Long Chu, defending the right to access sex-changing medical care regardless of age, gender identity, social environment, or psychiatric history. This stance has ignited further debate, with critics arguing against the feasibility and ethics of allowing minors to make such life-altering decisions. The controversy highlights the tension between advocating for morphological freedom and the social and medical implications of such policies.
“In producing such a terrible book, what is going on for Butler psychoanalytically? What is she really scared of?” Kathleen Stock @Docstockk reviews Judith Butler’s book about, in part, Kathleen Stock: https://t.co/LXBI9Hnr1c
This is what makes the piece interesting. Chu wants to throw out the dominant moral framework for trans rights, which centers gender identity -- you could even say that she is "gender critical." Instead, she has these much broader moral claims few will agree with. https://t.co/AlFxwmiVJV
Join this Space to hear details about how Beth Bourne exposed a "gender-affirming" medical scandal at Kaiser Permanente. Read Beth's full story on @RealLastStand, link below! 🔗https://t.co/c2W0NMQY1e https://t.co/GJC6245Zg5
.@_CryMiaRiver and @BillboardChris discuss the damning impact leaked conversations from clinicians aligned with the World Professional Association of Transgender Health may have on the controversial 'affirmative care' industry. REPORT by @DreaHumphrey: https://t.co/b7j5AwqvBD
“We aren’t transing kids. No one is doing that. It’s right wing talking point.” Cover of New York Magazine: https://t.co/m576HNP40Q
Whatever your views are on kids transitioning, this piece's thesis—that kids have bodily autonomy—disregards how society works. We don't let kids drink alcohol or vote. They can't get a gun or a credit card. They can't sue. The article is divorced from reality on a basic level. https://t.co/XoA70Q2oPP
In a lengthy editorial Monday, New York Magazine writer Andrea Long Chu defended the “freedom of sex” and argued people "regardless of age" should be able to access "sex-changing medical care." https://t.co/aIIW9b8Mvq
You see how they are setting the moral stage? It goes from “the moral case for children transitioning at any age” to “the moral case for sex with a child at any age.” Make no mistake. This is what’s coming. https://t.co/ceaIHQq9Gc
'Trans' Kids Deserve REAL Justice: 'Freedom of Sex' Article Reminds Us What We Are Fighting to Stop https://t.co/UnT1nuIJ9c
"We must be prepared to defend the idea that, in principle, everyone should have access to sex-changing medical care, regardless of age, gender identity, social environment, or psychiatric history." https://t.co/R860GuQKeS
The tension in Chu’s argument (not atypical of today’s left) is its fusion of maximal libertarianism—including a de-medicalization of transition—with a demand for socialization of costs. It isn’t surprising that countries with socialized medicine are doing the opposite.../1 https://t.co/pf2NUO42D3
Nice @statnews story by @_gaffknee, who spoke with a number of experts on gender-affirming care after a think tank's report raised concerns about a potential link between hormone treatments and cancer. https://t.co/RumlxR8dnu
Is it ethical for a writer for a major magazine, @NYMag, to use their social media post about their article—which is about how everyone should have unfettered access to gender-transition treatment—to raise money for a friend’s complications following such a surgery? https://t.co/PHYzQAL17l
"We should let kids get trans surgeries" "Oh also btw my friend got a trans surgery that went terribly wrong plz help" We couldn't have written this better at @TheBabylonBee https://t.co/DWJckkGq1A
Another Palestinian terror attack has been thwarted on the first night of Ramadan. This time in Israel. The first Palestinian attack was thwarted in Italy, where 3 Palestinian migrants planned suicide bombings. https://t.co/Zkwhko5HP2
NY Magazine drops major essay defending child gender transition days after leaked WPATH documents reveal doctors have concerns about risks of giving hormones to kids. | @brittybernstein https://t.co/OY3K3yYENi
Messages leaked by a think tank inflate cancer risk of gender-affirming hormone therapy. Experts say hormone treatments have been used safely for decades. https://t.co/rifhcAzb5C
After leaked messages from a WPATH message board led to a flood of media coverage last week asserting false claims about gender-affirming care and serious health risks like cancer, I talked to some experts about what we actually know: https://t.co/HpzL0fxvnQ
Disgusting: New York Magazine COVER STORY Claims to Make 'Moral Case for Any Age to Change Their Sex' https://t.co/vpNMj9SkEC
Gender transitions are only the most recent example in a long history of sex-altering medical technologies, the writer Andrea Long Chu has argued. Read more from @laureldugg on the latest case for child gender reassignment👇 https://t.co/QxrHlRCpjS
Helen Joyce: NHS gender health practices are being written by TRANS-ACTIVISTS with NO medical qualifications. 📺 Watch here: https://t.co/jqFMofuWOU The WPATH Files | Free Speech Nation Special https://t.co/KnPzKU9pa5
Andrea Long Chu tweets her cover story in NYMag defending transgender surgery for children. Her next tweet is a fundraiser for her friend who is suffering complications from a botched transgender surgery. Chu, a Pulitzer Prize winning critic, seems unaware of the irony. https://t.co/wROU7lInEH
Sex changes should be a universal right regardless of age or mental health, the writer Andrea Long Chu has argued. Read more from @laureldugg on @NYMag's latest cover story 👇 https://t.co/QxrHlRCpjS
My new review of @AbigailShrier's book Bad Therapy discusses Lana Del Rey, picky eating, questionable questionnaires, the ubiquity of The Body Keeps The Score, and more. Read here: https://t.co/iJeyf1GFmI
Chu argues that we should endorse morphological freedom without concern for whether it brings about greater health or happiness- freedom for its own sake. Which is at least more honest and consistent than other arguments for widespread transition. It reminds me of this article… https://t.co/ezqUggFm5L https://t.co/kdD5SHFipx
Transgender Medicine – The Monetization of Misery The latest market for physicians is to convince people that they were born the wrong gender. https://t.co/Oqgrag7Ti8
Immediate disqualification for this: "But if children are too young to consent to puberty blockers, then they are definitely too young to consent to puberty." We don't "consent" to any natural biological function, it just happens. This is like saying kids don't consent to… https://t.co/MFJIaJuKb2
This is absolutely wild. The masks are FULLY off now. "We must be prepared to defend the idea that, in principle, everyone should have access to sex-changing medical care, regardless of age, gender identity, social environment, or psychiatric history." https://t.co/okyRdlssac
As anti-trans policies are implemented across the country, with a particular focus on preventing children from transitioning, critic @AndreaLongChu argues that a reluctance to talk about biological sex has put trans advocates on the back foot. https://t.co/VUvNPx75jw https://t.co/DduqhhQsRT
'Trans' kids have a right to grow up. They have a right to the truth. They have a right to figure out who they are without neurotic adults imposing their own insecurities onto them. They have a right to not be political props. They have a right to a healthy future.
There is no injustice. There is nothing wrong with a child who doesn't fit into strict gender stereotypes. Their body is not 'wrong.' They have not been supernaturally switched into another body. They don't need fixing or drugs or surgery to be their 'true' selves. https://t.co/fyHDOGRENw
"We must be prepared to defend the idea that, in principle, everyone should have access to sex-changing medical care, regardless of age, gender identity, social environment, or psychiatric history," argues Andrea Long Chu. However, minors do not have the legal right to consent to… https://t.co/yz32nHtQ5d
No matter how many surgeries. No matter how frequently you inject hormones. No matter how well you pass as the other gender. 👏You 👏Cannot 👏Change 👏Sex
I really hope this represents peak gender-derangement, since Chu makes it so clear how absurd this ideology is. Chu is claiming there is a "right to change one's sex," which makes about as much sense as invoking a right to change one's species or genus. https://t.co/kyrmLDQQbl
Notice this piece arguing for allowing kids to be mutilated refers to "sex." Remember when "gender" and "sex" supposedly were distinct -- "science!" Now, they make no distinction. Which is correct in one sense. You can't change your sex. https://t.co/2xy3PtkoOq
I really hope this represents gender-derangement, since Chu makes it so clear how absurd this ideology is. Chu is claiming there is a "right to change one's sex," which makes about as much sense as invoking a right to change one's species or genus. https://t.co/kyrmLDQQbl
The bad news is that no one, regardless of their age, CAN actually change sex. The destruction to children’s bodies is very real, the delusional pursuit of actually changing sex is not. https://t.co/93tbkkf9um
You can't change your sex. https://t.co/qgZbXRV1Oi
Setting aside the nasty passage about Jesse's appearance, this is at least a different take on the ethics of transition. Rather than argue that sex-changes for kids are life-saving, Chu argues for youth transition bc kids own their own bodies. It's very libertarian. https://t.co/x9iEkAkWL4
Leaked documents from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health provide a disturbing insight into the realities of what “gender medicine” looks like in practice around the globe in the words of those directly involved. | Robert Clarke https://t.co/MZT4ibcowv
There are quite a few remarkable statements in this review of Judith Butler's new book by trans activist Andrea Long Chu. One is a frank admission by Chu that the concept of "gender identity" is a "thin peg" that was "clumsily adopted from psychiatry and strongly influenced by…
Although I’m a pediatrician now, I majored in psychology. It has always been obvious that gender dysphoria belongs with other body dysmorphic disorders, including anorexia. We don’t treat anorexia by “affirming” using weight loss drugs and surgeries, for obvious reasons. We need… https://t.co/HqDI682vPl
In New York Magazine, Andrea Long Chu makes the moral case for letting trans kids change their bodies. https://t.co/dvcYjMebQ8
The radical concept that "everyone should have access to sex-changing medical care, regardless of age, gender identity, social environment, or psychiatric history" is the long cover story in NY magazine, written by Pulitzer-Prize winning critic, Andrea Long Chu, a male who… https://t.co/Bca0aHkFfA
Our conversation with “Bad Therapy” author @AbigailShrier about kids and mental health prompted some interesting letters from @thehonestlypod listeners. We want to share a few of them with you—as well as the author's response to The FP readers: https://t.co/KywadCaoBw
🚨BREAKING🚨 Doctors complained that detransitioners and @fairforall_org were allowed to attend an @AmerAcadPeds conference and claimed they made attendees feel unsafe in emails exclusively obtained by the @DailyCaller News Foundation. My latest with @MegEBrock 🧵
Chu is a gifted writer who has written provocative things about the transgender movement. But as I’m going through this essay, virtually none of it relies on scientific studies or even mainstream psychology. It’s a defense of a political treatise by Judith Butler. https://t.co/JuxLvpabJr
🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨Top Doctors Complain Detransitioners Posed ‘Harm’ To Trans Members At Medical Conference from @kliseanderson https://t.co/hnPuJLNW2U
i wrote about what justice looks like for trans kids https://t.co/9zxwx1Shsv https://t.co/GeiYiMJDrf
.@NYMag's latest cover story is an essay by critic Andrea Long Chu, who makes the moral case for the right of anybody, at any age, to change their sex. https://t.co/Wxqds2ugj0
NO CHILD IS BORN IN THE WRONG BODY I support this bill from @trussliz. We must stop twisting our language, denying science, undermining child safeguarding, and eroding the safety, dignity, privacy of women. Enough is enough. https://t.co/itwNJo7CDO
For our latest cover story, @andrealongchu makes the moral case for letting trans kids change their bodies. https://t.co/NH1WjCwr0L https://t.co/WcvJhKx41d
Breaking News: The WPATH Files – Experimental Medicine on Children and Adults? – Critical Therapy Antidote For those who missed @andrewdoyle_com’s Free Speech Nation. Extraordinary that msm seem to be silent on this. https://t.co/ZGoSmPG0ZT
"Maybe Butler is an anti-identitarian when it comes to gender, but she sure defends her political identity most rigidly, indeed, in an obscurantist way." Judith Butler: Enough Already! From the 2021 archive: https://t.co/8KzRVQBm5Q https://t.co/iqunbdMM9w
Judith Butler: Enough Already! From the 2021 archive. https://t.co/8KzRVQBm5Q
Free Speech Nation: The WPATH Files A deep dive into one of the biggest medical scandals of the century... https://t.co/MN9QoVxVM7
Irish health service abandons use of WPATH standards after expose of trans health group's harms https://t.co/Ia630RcfCO
Are doctors with a fetish for child castration influencing transgender healthcare policies? 📺 Hear from the journalist who investigated the leaked WPATH files: https://t.co/2Ws53EYiR5 The WPATH Files | Free Speech Nation | @andrewdoyle_com https://t.co/wAvyHjiY1Y
Irish health service abandons use of WPATH standards after expose of trans health group’s harms https://t.co/BRPPhAk714
'The medical discussion [around transgender treatment] has been taken over by activism, rather than just a discussion of pros, cons, and the science' - Dr Carrie Mendoza, Emergency Medicine Physician @andrewdoyle_com | Free Speech Nation https://t.co/Eypbf9jbn4
'It seems to be the case having seen substantial evidence' senior clinicians influencing transgender treatment policy have a 'fetish for the castration of minors' Genevieve Gluck investigated WPATH, the leading authority on gender medicine, which influences NHS trans treatment. https://t.co/RhAwXypDQz
Surprise, Surprise: NYT Bestseller List Excludes Books They Don't Like https://t.co/0ncX4rgvbm
Journalist @SwipeWright calls out Democrat hypocrisy: “If Republicans were taking sex non-conforming kids, who were going to turn out gay and they were trying to give them surgeries to make them straight, that would be the biggest scandal in the world.” https://t.co/Fmov7UnUkG
Journalist @SwipeWright calls out Democrats hypocrisy on child gender identity: "If Republicans were taking sex non-conforming kids, who were going to turn out gay and they were trying to give them surgeries to make them straight, that would be the biggest scandal in the world.…
Given the damning WPATH Files, notice that the "transgender care" guidance being put forth by the World Health Organization (WHO) is strongly informed by WPATH. We must not enter into treaties or hand over sovereignty to such an organization. https://t.co/awu55Oe9Ko
The public finally has a window into what goes on behind closed doors at gender clinics. @elizamondegreen on the WPATH files 👇 https://t.co/v2U2qlSZIf
🚨 On tonight’s episode of Free Speech Nation, I’ll be delving into the WPATH files: leaked documents from the world’s leading authority on transgender health. I’ll be speaking to a range of expert guests to discuss the explosive revelations, including: • Michael… https://t.co/PTlvz2Lgin
🚨 Tune in 7pm for a special edition of Free Speech Nation, focusing on revelations in the WPATH files, with: @shellenberger @HJoyceGender @JNHanvey @stellaomalley3 Fiona McAnena Dr Az Hakeem https://t.co/HfErcre1s6
Oddly enough, I found Lauren Oyler's @newyorker essay "My Anxiety" to be kind of awesome, even if it was occasionally annoying. I suspect, though, that a lot of people will hate it. In any case, I think it gets at some aspects of reality that most of us don't like to acknowledge,…
Wow. Abigail Shrier’s book Bad Therapy is #6 on Amazon and nowhere to be found on the New York Times bestsellers list. What is this about? The New York Times just edits out books it doesn’t like…? https://t.co/k4Tx4VMJ7R