5C. Biological, Medical Issues of Transgender and Transitioning, including Dangers of Drugs and Surgery
Entries about general science and medicine of reproduction and sex are listed in 06. 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.
Issues of child and adolescent Transgendering are covered in
07. Women and Children: General Sources. Women in Libraries, Academia and Organized Religion
Their medical issues are addressed in
07C. Medical and Other Issues of Transgendering Children and Adolescents
. Puberty Blockers
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Why does a man’s desire supersede my right to dignity? What makes certain men think their perversions are more important than a girl’s right to exist as a free human in society?
― Rose McGowan, Brave
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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
Center for Bioethics and Culture
“… to educate and inform members of the general public, thought leaders, lawmakers, and others on ethical issues in healthcare, biomedical research, and biotechnological advancement.”
https://cbc-network.org/
Do No Harm
"We are a diverse group of physicians, healthcare professionals, medical students, patients, and policymakers united by a moral mission: Protect healthcare from a radical, divisive, and discriminatory ideology. We believe in making healthcare better for all – not undermining it in pursuit of a political agenda."
https://donoharmmedicine.org/
Lupron Warriors Victims Hub
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61576148461587
The Paradox Institute
“... exploring the origins of contemporary gender theory inside the framework of postmodernism…The content we produce is informed by scientific literature; professionals from the fields of biology, psychology, endocrinology, and sociology.”
https://www.theparadoxinstitute.com/pi.html
Partners for Ethical Care
“… a non-partisan, all-volunteer, grassroots nonprofit organization... to raise awareness and support efforts to stop the unethical treatment of children by schools, hospitals, and mental and medical healthcare providers under the duplicitous banner of gender identity affirmation. We believe that no child is born in the wrong body.”
https://www.partnersforethicalcare.com
Society for Evidence Based Medicine
“…to promote safe, compassionate, ethical and evidence-informed healthcare for children, adolescents, and young adults with gender dysphoria."
https://segm.org
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Misogyny insists that a woman's appearance is of paramount value.
― Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
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Mia Ashton. “Woman who lost breasts, uterus to sex change sues doctors, mental health providers who facilitated her transition.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/WDD3l
James Cantor, Ph.D. "Expert report: Boe v. Marshall, United States District Court, Middle District of Alabama, Northern Division." [2023]
https://dm1l19z832j5m.cloudfront.net/public/2023-06/Boe-v-Marshall-2023-05-19-Cantor-Report.pdf
College Fix Staff. “‘An extraordinary medical atrocity’: Surgery professor condemns transgender treatments.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/usjNo
Zach Eliot. “A response to ‘stop using phony science to justify transphobia’.”
https://archive.ph/kbJ4w
John Ely. “Newborn babies could be harmed by woke NHS-backed guidance which states transwomen can breastfeed by taking powerful drug, experts warn.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/wwSxw
Kallie Fell, Exec. Dir., Center for Bioethics and Culture.“Men breastfeeding?”
https://archive.ph/wip/b6fZp
Claas Flint, Katharina Foester, Sophie A, Koster, et al. "Biological sex classification with structural MRI data shows increased misclassification in transgender women." [2020]
https://archive.ph/LZbc0
Karleen D. Gribble, Susan Bewley, and Hannah G. Dahlen. "Breastfeeding grief after chest masculinisation mastectomy and detransition: A case report with lessons about unanticipated harm.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/wip/UlXcT
Adrian Humphreys. “Ontario detransitioner who had breasts and womb removed sues doctors: Michelle Zacchigna is suing doctors for failing to consider alternate treatments before ushering her on an irreversible journey that she now regrets.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/jxpO5
Elizabeth Jensen. “Medical safety: Risk study of gender medicine, Part 1.” [2022] Outstanding documentation and discussion of research data
https://archive.ph/n8llG
_____. “Medical safety: Risk study of gender medicine, Part 2.” [2022]
Outstanding documentation and discussion of research data
https://archive.ph/wip/SnWIh
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Idealized media images of women are far from being the only important target when it comes to our beauty-sick culture, but their sheer ubiquity means we can't underestimate their impact. We also cannot pretend that what we see in the media doesn't shape our thoughts and behaviors. It might be tempting to think that your mind is locked behind some protective wall, safe from the influence of the media onslaught, but that's not how brains work. We are all affected by these images. Their influence is insidious, and there is no magic force field to keep it out
― Renee Engeln, Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women
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Michael K. Laidlaw, MD; Andre Van Mol, MD; Quentin Van Meter, MD; Jeffrey E. Hansen, PhD. “Dec 1, 2021. Press Release. Regarding our letter to the editor of JCEM expressing our concerns about the Madsen et al. study 'Erythrocytosis in a large cohort of trans men using testosterone: A long-term follow-up study on prevalence, determinants, and exposure years'. " [2021]
http://gendersanity.org/
Lucy Leader. "Mutilating yourself into 'Manhood:' A stitched-on phallus never looks like or functions like the real thing." [2025]
https://tinyurl.com/2vdy9xjm
Dr. Paul McHugh. “Transgender surgery isn’t the solution.” [2014]
https://couragerc.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/TransgenderSurgery.pdf
Mohammad Reza Mohammadi, Ali Kaleghi. "Transssexualism: A different viewpoint to brain changes." [2018]
https://archive.ph/oC2Gk
Talia Nava. "The ugly truth of male breastfeeding." [2023]
https://archive.ph/ITt5p
Tyler O’Neil. “Detransitioners open up about how transgender ‘medicine’ left them scarred for life.” [2021]
https://archive.ph/KL5IQ
Gordon Rayner. "Tavistock clinic ‘ignored’ link between autism and transgender children.” [2023]
tiny.cc/18h4vz
Mats Reimer, pediatrician. “The Swedish Medical Journal condemning childhood medical transition translated to English.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/wip/RCRBO
Elliott G. Richards, M.D., Ph.D., Cecile A. Ferrando, M.D., Ruth M. Farrell, M.D.,
Rebecca L. Flyckt, M.D. "A 'first' on the horizon: The expansion of uterus transplantation to transgender women.” [2023]
https://www.fertstert.org/article/S0015-0282(23)00055-9/fulltext
Royal Courts of Justice [UK]. “Quincy Bell v. Tavistock.” [2020]
https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Bell-v-Tavistock-Judgment.pdf
Elie Vandenbussche. “Detransition-related needs and support: A cross-sectional online survey.” [2021]
https://archive.ph/6ILey
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
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Always be a first-rate version of yourself instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
— Judy Garland
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Affirmation Generation. "Affirmation Generation: The lies of transgender medicine."
Now released by Panacol Productions and Deplorable Films, LLC. "No way back: The reality of gender affirming care." [2023] MOTION PICTURE
https://nowaybackfilm.com/
British Broadcast Service. “Detransitioning: Reversing a gender transition.” [2019] VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDi-jFVBLA8
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
Panacol Productions and Deplorable Films, LLC. "No way back: The reality of gender affirming care."
Formerly entitled "Affirmation Generation." [2023]
MOTION PICTURE
https://nowaybackfilm.com/
Dr. Quentin Van Meter. “The terrible fraud of transgender medicine.” [2018]
VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC0zn0D_MyM
_____. “The transgender myth with Dr. Quentin Van Meter.” [2019]
PODCAST
https://archive.ph/b06E4
Blaire White. “Detransitioner [ShapeShifter]: Botched surgery, regret, and the social contagion.” [2022] VIDEO/PODCAST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqisKeHKPzs
Stephanie Winn. “Why not ban conversion therapy?: Therapists and detransitioner testify against Oregon HB 2458.” VIDEO
https://archive.ph/wip/NAmdC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AikevMq3LOE
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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
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Paradox Institute. “Myths of gender affirming care.” [2023] DOWNLOADABLE PAMPHLET https://www.theparadoxinstitute.com/print/pamphlets/myths-of-gender-affirming-care
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
― Mahatma Gandhi