Pinboard (jm)
https://pinboard.in/u:jm/public/
recent bookmarks from jmEvidence Undermines 'Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria' Claims2023-08-24T20:50:05+00:00
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/evidence-undermines-rapid-onset-gender-dysphoria-claims/#
jm“This is just a fear-based concept that is not supported by studies,” says Marci Bowers, president of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health. The term ROGD is being used to “scare people or to scare legislators into voting for some of these restrictive policies that take away options for young people. It’s cruel, cruel legislation.”
]]>rogd gender trans politics healthcare transgenderhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:c31317856702/What the Science on Gender-Affirming Care for Transgender Kids Really Shows - Scientific American2022-08-12T14:53:15+00:00
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-the-science-on-gender-affirming-care-for-transgender-kids-really-shows/
jm
Data from more than a dozen studies of more than 30,000 transgender and gender-diverse young people consistently show that access to gender-affirming care is associated with better mental health outcomes—and that lack of access to such care is associated with higher rates of suicidality, depression and self-harming behavior. (Gender diversity refers to the extent to which a person’s gendered behaviors, appearance and identities are culturally incongruent with the sex they were assigned at birth. Gender-diverse people can identify along the transgender spectrum, but not all do.) Major medical organizations, including the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the Endocrine Society, the American Medical Association, the American Psychological Association and the American Psychiatric Association, have published policy statements and guidelines on how to provide age-appropriate gender-affirming care. All of those medical societies find such care to be evidence-based and medically necessary.
]]>trans gender science biology transgenderhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:8f01e282dd0d/Alice Goldfuss clarifies JK Rowling's "dress however you please" anti-trans comments2019-12-20T13:23:35+00:00
https://twitter.com/alicegoldfuss/status/1207733012290400256
jmJK Rowling hates trans people, but I want to talk a little bit about the *way* she hates them so you can recognize it in the wild.
She says “Dress however you please” and “Call yourself whatever you like”
At first glance it sounds supportive, but it isn’t
It’s disengaging
She is taking a very real and concrete issue (the acceptance of trans people as humans with full rights and respect in society), minimizing it to some surface level features (appearance and names), and then abdicating any responsibility
She is purposefully mischaracterizing trans people as adults playing dress-up and then claiming to be fine with that...at a distance
The language she uses is similar to language used to minimize gay people
“You can kiss whoever you want behind closed doors!”
It’s also similar to the old favorite “I don’t care if you’re black, white, or purple!”
Purple people don’t exist, but now they’ve minimized the issue of racism and swept it away while claiming to be supportive
All of these phrases add up to the same message:
“I support you, as long as you don’t change my experiences or inconvenience me in any way.”
And that’s not actual support
]]>trans rights jk-rowling gender acceptance racismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:7cb0ccf7a450/Trans kids & the people who hate them2018-06-13T21:50:06+00:00
https://medium.com/athena-talks/trans-kids-the-people-who-hate-them-8ebdae0baef2
jmResearch (Mental Health of Transgender Children Who Are Supported in Their Identities, Olson et al. 2016) has shown that children whose preferred gender identity is accepted by family and friends have no worse mental health outcomes than other children. But those who are not accepted are much more likely to have mental health issues, self harm or take their own lives.
We can take from this that acceptance causes no harm, but non-acceptance causes harm — so why are so many people angry with parents for accepting their trans kids?
]]>trans children kids parenting society gender identityhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:15a60d15f228/