At PITT, we’re hard at work on the supply side, trying to slow down the torrent of hormones dangled in front of our kids, to hold practitioners accountable for the experimental nature of their medical gender “transition” treatments. We’re shining a light on the negligence of therapists, practitioners and gender clinics who, with only
There are a lot of young people against medicalizing, but when we speak up we’re labeled as murderers and bigots rather than just nerds. The current cultural climate is one where young people have to live in fear. More young people are against this than you think, we just don’t want to risk our social lives and reputations speaking out.
Back in the day, I was one of the "cool kids" who laughed at the Just Say No campaign and the frying egg. It was a joke to us. I think that you have hit on a better approach: Kids formulating words and images that might actually make sense to their peer groups. Nancy Reagan was not my idea of a role model. I also recall the Parents Music Resource Council? (PMRC) that sought to put labels on objectionable music. It only made kids know what records to want listen to. I'm sure a bunch of old guys in some office came up with the frying egg. Somehow teenaged rebelliousness and contrarianism has to be incorporated into an anti message. Otherwise, it's useless.
my kid, adopted from a Chinese orphanage at seven had no English for about 3 mos.
Then he did.
One of his first questions: "Why Americans blue hair? Look BAD!"
I said, "Because in America its more important to look different than it is to look good. And its more important to be different than it is to be right."
My kid is all over this. When she is at home. When at school, with her cool multicolor-haired friends, she is terrified of being cancelled and won't say a word. It's mind control all the way down with this trend. :(
They should add “this is your brain when you hang out with good kids” and “this is your brain when you hang out with stupid kids” . Because it’s clear to me that my son is hanging out with the dumb ones who things this gender ideology is everything.
They could have a field day looking at some of the papers being used to support this medical craziness-some really does look like groups of doctors wanting you to hire them for what they do, no matter what?
What are the motivations for the Endocrine Society (Henbree et Al, 2017) saying to use hormones even though they themselves find the evidence base to mostly be low quality,very low quality or they didn't um check that part (ungraded good practice statement?)? They have 3 recommendations which are not in these categories: confirm diagnosis, counsel regarding fertility preservation, and take care of medical conditions that will interact badly with hormones. But nevermind, the answer is hormones, hormones, hormones-that's the answer by the endocrinologists ! Oh do check they don't know long term effects! How curious that this answer, take hormones, also means you're taking drugs that endocrinologists should oversee....for life! How odd!
Or anyone in high school could see the AAP couldn't even understand its own references when it quoted them to set its policy (see Cantor's 2019 peer reviewed fact checking of AAP policy).
There are some adults with lots of letters behind their names some kids could have a blast seeing through.
There are a lot of young people against medicalizing, but when we speak up we’re labeled as murderers and bigots rather than just nerds. The current cultural climate is one where young people have to live in fear. More young people are against this than you think, we just don’t want to risk our social lives and reputations speaking out.
Back in the day, I was one of the "cool kids" who laughed at the Just Say No campaign and the frying egg. It was a joke to us. I think that you have hit on a better approach: Kids formulating words and images that might actually make sense to their peer groups. Nancy Reagan was not my idea of a role model. I also recall the Parents Music Resource Council? (PMRC) that sought to put labels on objectionable music. It only made kids know what records to want listen to. I'm sure a bunch of old guys in some office came up with the frying egg. Somehow teenaged rebelliousness and contrarianism has to be incorporated into an anti message. Otherwise, it's useless.
my kid, adopted from a Chinese orphanage at seven had no English for about 3 mos.
Then he did.
One of his first questions: "Why Americans blue hair? Look BAD!"
I said, "Because in America its more important to look different than it is to look good. And its more important to be different than it is to be right."
His response, "That waste."
Yep. Its all a big waste.
My kid is all over this. When she is at home. When at school, with her cool multicolor-haired friends, she is terrified of being cancelled and won't say a word. It's mind control all the way down with this trend. :(
They should add “this is your brain when you hang out with good kids” and “this is your brain when you hang out with stupid kids” . Because it’s clear to me that my son is hanging out with the dumb ones who things this gender ideology is everything.
Yes!!! Who’s in!
They could have a field day looking at some of the papers being used to support this medical craziness-some really does look like groups of doctors wanting you to hire them for what they do, no matter what?
What are the motivations for the Endocrine Society (Henbree et Al, 2017) saying to use hormones even though they themselves find the evidence base to mostly be low quality,very low quality or they didn't um check that part (ungraded good practice statement?)? They have 3 recommendations which are not in these categories: confirm diagnosis, counsel regarding fertility preservation, and take care of medical conditions that will interact badly with hormones. But nevermind, the answer is hormones, hormones, hormones-that's the answer by the endocrinologists ! Oh do check they don't know long term effects! How curious that this answer, take hormones, also means you're taking drugs that endocrinologists should oversee....for life! How odd!
Or anyone in high school could see the AAP couldn't even understand its own references when it quoted them to set its policy (see Cantor's 2019 peer reviewed fact checking of AAP policy).
There are some adults with lots of letters behind their names some kids could have a blast seeing through.