"In interviews with Reuters, doctors and other staff at 18 gender clinics across the country described their processes for evaluating patients. None described anything like the months-lon…
"In interviews with Reuters, doctors and other staff at 18 gender clinics across the country described their processes for evaluating patients. None described anything like the months-long assessments de Vries and her colleagues adopted in their research.
At most of the clinics, a team of professionals – typically a social worker, a psychologist and a doctor specializing in adolescent medicine or endocrinology – initially meets with the parents and child for two hours or more to get to know the family, their medical history and their goals for treatment. They also discuss the benefits and risks of treatment options. Seven of the clinics said that if they don’t see any red flags and the child and parents are in agreement, they are comfortable prescribing puberty blockers or hormones based on the first visit, depending on the age of the child."
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The positive results from de Vries' research therapies cannot be (yet) separated from their methods. The clinics taking short cuts is likely wrong. The Europeans have backed away from such treatment; while WPATH and the Americans are taking out any rigor from the process.
The accusation that Americans or WPATH are taking rigor out of the process is simply that, an accusation. We can simply ask parents of patients at the clinic in St Louis if the accusations leveled against Washington University were in any way accurate. Three months after that column appeared on Weiss site, not a SINGLE patient or parent has corroborated the story. And yet we have HUNDREDS of bills all across the country stripping agency from parents and patients. Bravo Bari Weiss. Bravo Jonathan Chait. Bravo Jesse Singal.
1. Even if there are excesses in providing healthcare to transgender youth, I don't think there is a cause for a moral panic.
2. https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-transyouth-care/
"In interviews with Reuters, doctors and other staff at 18 gender clinics across the country described their processes for evaluating patients. None described anything like the months-long assessments de Vries and her colleagues adopted in their research.
At most of the clinics, a team of professionals – typically a social worker, a psychologist and a doctor specializing in adolescent medicine or endocrinology – initially meets with the parents and child for two hours or more to get to know the family, their medical history and their goals for treatment. They also discuss the benefits and risks of treatment options. Seven of the clinics said that if they don’t see any red flags and the child and parents are in agreement, they are comfortable prescribing puberty blockers or hormones based on the first visit, depending on the age of the child."
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The positive results from de Vries' research therapies cannot be (yet) separated from their methods. The clinics taking short cuts is likely wrong. The Europeans have backed away from such treatment; while WPATH and the Americans are taking out any rigor from the process.
The accusation that Americans or WPATH are taking rigor out of the process is simply that, an accusation. We can simply ask parents of patients at the clinic in St Louis if the accusations leveled against Washington University were in any way accurate. Three months after that column appeared on Weiss site, not a SINGLE patient or parent has corroborated the story. And yet we have HUNDREDS of bills all across the country stripping agency from parents and patients. Bravo Bari Weiss. Bravo Jonathan Chait. Bravo Jesse Singal.