This excellent letter is too long to fit in the "contact us" section of the White House website. I took a stab at abbreviating it enough to just fit. See below. Hope this helps.
I applaud the White House proclamation that trans people should not be subject to discrimination and agree that people in this country should “work toward eliminating discrimination against all transgender, gender nonconforming, and nonbinary people — and all people.”
I also support, and hope the Biden administration does as well, the first directive of any sound medical practice – do no harm. That is not the case with the gender affirming model. It is not bigoted, hateful or unsupportive to request that, before children and young adults are put on the path to life-long medicalization, the science supports the treatment.
But there is no sound evidence of this for the gender affirmation model. The absence of even basic statistics of long term outcomes renders the current HHS statements unethical and undermine the efforts of patients and families to fully understand the potential implications and concomitant uncertainties of consenting to medical gender interventions.
I respectfully request HHS correct this policy’s incorrect statements about what has (not) been shown to follow from medical intervention, and to make this and other policies concordant with the scientific research. You might want to start here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0092623X.2022.2046221
Transgenderism is a nebulous theory originally invented to legalize autogynephiles and "fix" homosexuals. Let's stop pretending that there is more to it.
Thank you so much for compiling all this research. I will individualize this and send it to democrats. I am so mortified that my former party is hurting children in their ignorance or refusal to examine the issue. Maybe we should also send the White House some coffee to wake them up.
This excellent letter is too long to fit in the "contact us" section of the White House website. I took a stab at abbreviating it enough to just fit. See below. Hope this helps.
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I applaud the White House proclamation that trans people should not be subject to discrimination and agree that people in this country should “work toward eliminating discrimination against all transgender, gender nonconforming, and nonbinary people — and all people.”
I also support, and hope the Biden administration does as well, the first directive of any sound medical practice – do no harm. That is not the case with the gender affirming model. It is not bigoted, hateful or unsupportive to request that, before children and young adults are put on the path to life-long medicalization, the science supports the treatment.
But there is no sound evidence of this for the gender affirmation model. The absence of even basic statistics of long term outcomes renders the current HHS statements unethical and undermine the efforts of patients and families to fully understand the potential implications and concomitant uncertainties of consenting to medical gender interventions.
I respectfully request HHS correct this policy’s incorrect statements about what has (not) been shown to follow from medical intervention, and to make this and other policies concordant with the scientific research. You might want to start here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0092623X.2022.2046221
think they have a bigger agenda, that they never intended to do right.
There's a great response by SEGM today: https://segm.org/fact-checking-gender-affirming-care-and-young-people-HHS
Transgenderism is a nebulous theory originally invented to legalize autogynephiles and "fix" homosexuals. Let's stop pretending that there is more to it.
Thank you so much for compiling all this research. I will individualize this and send it to democrats. I am so mortified that my former party is hurting children in their ignorance or refusal to examine the issue. Maybe we should also send the White House some coffee to wake them up.
Done. Thank you!
I have sent this off to all the democrats in power that I know!