7C. Medical, Psychological and Other Issues of Transgendering Children and Adolescents. Treatment of Gender Dysphoria with Drugs and Surgeries
More entries on the science and medical aspects of sexuality are listed at
6. The Science and Medicine of Sexuality and Reproduction. Clinical, and General Issues of Sex, Reproduction, and Sexual Orientation as well as Psychology and Gender Expression.
Beyond WPATH [World Professional Association for Transgender Health]
“As mental health professionals, public health scientists, and allied organizations and individuals, we have grave concerns about the damaging physical and mental health impacts of the current Standards of Care released by WPATH (the World Professional Association for Transgender Health). We hold that WPATH has discredited itself.”
https://beyondwpath.org
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A person’s a person, no matter how small.
— Dr. Seuss
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Ben Appel. "Enough with their lies: LGBT organizations and mainstream news outlets do more to contribute to the youth mental health crisis than the Trump Administration ever could." [2025]
https://benappel.substack.com/p/enough-with-their-lies
Ashley Austin, Shelley L Craig, Sandra D'Souza, Lauren B McInroy ."Suicidality among transgender youth: Elucidating the role of interpersonal risk factors.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/3VwN7
Michael Biggs. "The Dutch Protocol for juvenile transsexuals: Origins and evidence." [2022]
https://doi.org/10.1080/0092623X.2022.2121238
Julie Bindel. "Why do so many girls in Blackpool want to become boys?: In this run-down, working class seaside resort, rife with child abuse and poverty, referrals to gender clinics are almost four times higher than the national average. Why?" [2025] https://archive.ph/zOGQR
Libby Brooks. “NHS gender identity service for children can’t cope with demand, review finds: Regional hubs in England and Wales needed as waits at London clinic leave young people ‘at considerable risk’” [2022]
https://archive.ph/2jH1P
Dr. James Cantor. Transgender and gender diverse children and adolescents: Fact-checking of AAP policy.” [2019] https://archive.ph/i9IQm#selection-789.0-789.84
Cass Review. “The Cass Review: Interim report.” [2022]
https://cass.independent-review.uk/publications/interim-report/
Do No Harm Staff. “Do No Harm expert testifies at Congress.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/wip/b8thF
Laurel Duggan. “‘Horrifying’: Huge proportion of children pursuing gender transitions are actually autistic, experts believe.”[2023]
https://archive.ph/nzqo0
Stephen Frank. “Planned Parenthood enters transgender-hormone market as abortions decline, clinics close.” [2018]
https://archive.ph/4Wl99
Sinead Helyar BSc, PG Dip, MSc, PhD, RN, Laura Jackson MSc, BN, Leanne Patrick RMN, MSc, Andy Hill BA, MPhil, Grad Dip CBT, RMN, Robin Ion RMN, MSc, PhD. “Gender Dysphoria in children and young people: The implications for clinical staff of the Bell V’s Tavistock Judicial Review and Appeal Ruling.” [2021]
https://archive.ph/wip/4RMWm
Walt Heyer. “Gender dysphoria and adverse childhood experiences.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/T4mmr
https://archive.ph/T4mmr
Sheila Jeffreys. “The transgendering of children: Gender eugenics.” [2012]
https://tinyurl.com/5yz5bwrz
Karolinska Institutet. "Systematic review on outcomes of hormonal treatment in youths with gender dysphoria.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/HR2ZG
Glen Keogh. “No one kept data on Tavistock children — it’s a monumental scandal: Twenty years ago, David Freedman helped to conduct an audit of the first 124 young people referred to the gender clinic, now he discovers it was never followed up.” [2023]
https://archive.is/YpdjY
Bernard Lane. "Autonomy as a ploy: With scant evidence of health benefits for paediatric medical transition, advocates are distorting bioethics to justify treatment on demand."
https://archive.ph/wip/PaFwi
_____. "Care, not coercion." [2025]
https://archive.ph/wip/zrpsZ
_____. "Doctors for disease: Gender clinics create harmful hormonal disorders in children who come to them with healthy endocrine systems." [2025]
https://archive.ph/wip/OnZvi
______. "Think hard: Dr Hilary Cass warns girls it's difficult to come back from testosterone." [2024]
https://archive.ph/wip/i2qIv
Lucy Leader. "Mutilating yourself into 'Manhood:' A stitched-on phallus never looks like or functions like the real thing." [2025]
https://tinyurl.com/2vdy9xjm
Stephen B. Levine, E. Abbruzzese & Julia W. Mason. “What are we doing to these children? Response to Drescher, Clayton, and Balon Commentaries on Levine et al., 2022,” [2023]
https://archive.ph/wip/NohvC
Helen Lewis. "Britain is leaving the U.S. gender-medicine debate behind: The Cass report challenges the scientific basis of medical transition for minors." [2024]
https://archive.ph/VLZRQ
Lisa LIttman.“Parent reports of adolescents and young adults perceived to show signs of a rapid onset of gender dysphoria.” [2018]
https://archive.ph/HwDHb
Lumen-News. "Declaration: American doctors call for end to promotion of experimental drugs and surgeries to treat children expressing gender issues: 'Gender ideology ... leads to the inaccurate view that children can be born in the wrong body.' - Doctors Protecting Children Declaration." [2024]
https://archive.ph/2DVrl
Shefali Luthra. “Boston Children’s Hospital will no longer perform two types of intersex surgery on children.” [2020]
https://archive.ph/IdPAL
Betsy McCall. “‘Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria’ in adolescents stirs debate.” [2018]
https://tinyurl.com/6ptd2r3y
Roger McFillin. "Antidepressants increase 130% for teen girls, drop 7% for boys." [2025]
https://archive.ph/s9J2u#selection-2143.0-2143.62
Robert W. Malone, M.D., M.S. “‘Rapid-onset Gender Dysphoria’ (ROGD): Cohort and contagion effects from novel social pressure.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/lhllC
Eliza Mondragreen. “The dangers of gender-affirmative care: American doctors are unnecessarily harming children.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/wip/OV23N
______. “Medical groups are memory-holing their transguidance: The American Academy of Pediatrics wants to review its youth guidance.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/wip/dD8NZ
Fenit Nirappil. "Youth gender transition care criticized in HHS report that conceals authors: LGBTQ+ advocates, researchers and some medical experts say the review is poor research, designed to advance an agenda to eliminate transition care." [2025]
https://archive.ph/HvHVi
The Observer. “The Observer view on gender identity services for children: The Cass review’s interim report finds children with gender identity issues are ill served by adults who shut down debate.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/7qygz#selection-841.0-841.58
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The true character of a society is revealed in how it treats its children.
— Nelson Mandela
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Tyler O’Neil. “Sanity at last: Britain’s High Court protects young children from transgender chemical castration.” [2020]
https://archive.ph/wip/BwNS9
Jamie Reed. “I thought I was I saving trans kids. Now I’m blowing the whistle: There are more than 100 pediatric gender clinics across the U.S. I worked at one. What’s happening to children is morally and medically appalling.”
https://archive.ph/aPnuY
Mats Reimer, pediatrician. “The Swedish Medical Journal condemning childhood medical transition translated to English.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/wip/RCRBO
Royal Courts of Justice [UK]. “Quincy Bell v. Tavistock.” [2020]
https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Bell-v-Tavistock-Judgment.pdf
Leor Sapir. “Pediatric gender medicine and the moral panic over suicide: Hyperbolic rhetoric about suicide rates may do more to increase suicide than prevent it." [2022]
https://archive.ph/e5xF9
_____. “Why Europe and America are going in opposite directions on youth transgender medicine.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/9CSDS
Michael Shellenberger. "Democrats deny basic biology in push to change gender of children: Governor Gavin Newsom’s allies have passed legislation to block schools from telling parents when their kids think they’re the opposite sex." [2024]
https://archive.ph/xnK9L
Michael Shellenberger and Alex Gutentag. "Biden Administration ends support for trans surgeries on minors: What will it take for Democrats to ban puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for children and adolescents?" [2024]
https://archive.ph/2hQeD
Abigail Shrier. "California’s new law lets schools keep secrets from parents: Gavin Newsom signs a bill that keeps parents in the dark if their kids change gender identity at school." [2024]
https://tinyurl.com/3ape3cft
Davita Singh, Susan J. Bradley, Kenneth J. Zucker. “A follow-up study of boys with gender identity disorder.” [2021]
https://archive.ph/RNJSu
Kerry Smith, M.D. [pseudonym]. “Testosterone & young females: What is known about lifelong effects?” [2018]
https://archive.ph/wip/G7MZ1
Society for Evidence-Based Medicine. "Springer to retract a key paper in response to activist demands: A deeply problematic precedent that may lead to thousands of retractions." [2023]
https://archive.ph/wip/bHvYm
Debra Soh. “The 'Dutch protocol' and childhood gender transitioning.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/wip/xTwPJ
Transgender Trend. “British Empire Medal awarded to Transgender Trend founder in Queen’s Birthday Honours list.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/xCyNK
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. "Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria: Review of evidence and best practices." [2025]
https://opa.hhs.gov/gender-dysphoria-report
Wall Street Journal. (Opinion) "Youth gender transition is pushed without evidence: Psychotherapy, not hormones and surgery, is increasingly the first line of treatment abroad.” [2023]
Letter signed by 22 professionals—medical doctors and psychiatrists--from Europe, South Africa and the U.S.
https://archive.is/dG06b
Dr. Dylan Wilson. “On the myth that puberty blockers are ‘reversible.’” [2022]
https://archive.ph/wip/Qm4wG
Women’s Forum Australia. “Australian doctor pens powerful warning about harmful ‘gender affirmation treatments’ for children.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/CbmAA
Colin Wright. "Evidence backs the transgender social-contagion hypothesis: The share of young people claiming another ‘gender identity’ exploded. Now surveys show it is receding." [2025]
(paywall) https://www.wsj.com/opinion/evidence-backs-the-transgender-social-contagion-hypothesis-40937876
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Children must be taught how to think, not what to think
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― Margaret Mead
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60 Minutes Australia. “Transgender boy transitioning to life as girl changes his mind.” [2019] VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27qjn0v4Av4
Detrans United. “Detransitioner testimonies: Appealing to the Florida Board of Medicine and the State Board of Osteopathic Medicine to discontinue gender-affirming medicine for minors.”
Videos of detransitioners testifying before a joint committee of the Florida Board of Medicine and the state Board of Osteopathic Medicine. [2022] VIDEO
https://detransunited.substack.com/p/detransitioner-testimonies
Jordan B. Peterson. “De-transitioner: Here’s what her doctors didn’t tell her.” [2023] VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doaHPFWEa7E
Ben Shapiro. “Former transgender teen shares POWERFUL story about going in and out of transition.” [2022] VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwVyozpWWAU
Wall Street Journal. (Opinion) "Youth gender transition is pushed without evidence: Psychotherapy, not hormones and surgery, is increasingly the first line of treatment abroad.” [2023]
Letter signed by 22 professionals—medical doctors and psychiatrists--from Europe, South Africa and the U.S.
https://archive.is/dG06b
Sydney Watson. “Forcing kids to transition: Two horrific cases that EVERYONE needs to know.” [2019] VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sV2zeE4X08
Wesley Yang. “"It's not about being anti-gay, anti-lesbian, anti-bisexual. It's about letting kids enter adulthood in intact, healthy bodies, and then they can make their own decisions: [A] conversation with a veteran LGB activist at the Do No Harm rally in Anaheim, California.” [2022] VIDEO
https://archive.ph/wip/5O4Hb
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Growing up is losing some illusions, to acquire others.
— Virginia Woolf
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Hannah Barnes. Time to think: The inside story of the collapse of the Tavistock’s Gender Service for Children. [2023] BOOK, AUDIOBOOK
https://swiftpress.com/book/time-to-think/
(Amazon listing) https://archive.ph/nZyL5
Jonathan Haidt. The anxious generation: How the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness. [2024]
BOOK
https://www.anxiousgeneration.com/
Parents' Action
https://www.anxiousgeneration.com/take-action#parents
"In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt (pronounced "height") lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults. Haidt shows how the “play-based childhood” began to decline in the 1980s, and how it was finally wiped out by the arrival of the “phone-based childhood” in the early 2010s. He presents more than a dozen mechanisms by which this “great rewiring of childhood” has interfered with children’s social and neurological development, covering everything from sleep deprivation to attention fragmentation, addiction, loneliness, social contagion, social comparison, and perfectionism. He explains why social media damages girls more than boys and why boys have been withdrawing from the real world into the virtual world, with disastrous consequences for themselves, their families, and their societies.
"Most important, Haidt issues a clear call to action. He diagnoses the “collective action problems” that trap us, and then proposes four simple rules that might set us free. He describes steps that parents, teachers, schools, tech companies, and governments can take to end the epidemic of mental illness and restore a more humane childhood."
— amazon.com https://archive.ph/v4lz2
Caroline Hooten. T: The story of testosterone: the hormone that dominates and divides us. [2022]
ONLINE BOOK
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250236067/tthestoryoftestosteronethehormonethatdominatesanddividesus/