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If you look at the studies examined, many of them are from the 90s and all are from before 2019. The rate of transition in minors has increased rapidly in the last 10 years, and it's not very convincing to see data about mostly adults and assume it's going to apply to this new situation.


There isn’t much data, because not many people (child or adult) medically transition. But if you want to follow the data we need to do what we were doing before all this moral panic about trans kids kicked in: cautiously allow kids to transition(1), and collect data about outcomes. It’s disingenuous to complain about bad data in one breath, while blocking any path that would create new data.

(1) by transition i mean socially transition and go on puberty blockers if they want them.




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