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Makes sense. But wasn't there the AIAB/Assigned Intersex At Birth term (about that part where you say it excludes intersex ppl)? /Genq

Here’s your friendly reminder that AFAB and AMAB are meaningless and obsolete terms!

With the Alberta government announcing a ban on gender-affirming care until 16 years old, let’s take a minute to correct some misinformation using peer-reviewed publications. A thread.🧵

“High quality evidence doesn’t support gender-affirming care.”

‘High quality evidence’ is a technical term that essentially just means ’no randomized controlled trials.’ RCTs are not scientifically feasible for trans youth care and would be unethical (link).

The evidence-base for gender-affirming care is quite robust and is at least as good at the evidence base for comparable interventions like abortion and birth control. For an overview of available studies, albeit already few years outdated, see page 144 onwards (link).

“Over 80% of kids grow out of being trans.”

That’s just not true. The claim is based on old, poor-quality studies that included tons of kids who never claimed to be trans (link).

But even if we took the percentage at face value, it would be irrelevant since it’s based on pre-pubertal data and virtually all the so-called ‘desistance’ occurred before puberty, when gender-affirming care becomes available (link).

More recent, better studies suggest that only around 2.5% have ‘grown out of it’ after 5 years (link).

“Kids falsely believe that they are trans because of social contagion.”

There is no evidence for that claim. It’s based on the reports of transphobic parents who were surprised that their kid came out ‘out of the blue’ and happened to have trans friends, as trans kids tend to do. For a careful explanation of why the claim is completely unsupported by evidence, see this (link).

Studies of trans youth that used clinical data to look into the claim have also failed to find any evidence of epidemic or large-scale social contagion (link).

“We need a years-long diagnostic process to make sure kids are ‘truly’ trans before they transition.”

There is no evidence that gender assessments fare any better than self-report at predicting future outcomes, as we explain in our recent review (link).

“Gender-exploratory therapy can help identify the trauma that made these kids gender dysphoric.”

Gender-exploratory therapy is extremely difficult to distinguish from classic conversion therapy, which also starts from the premise that ‘trauma’ makes people LGBTQ2S+ (link).

Since conversion therapy is known to be harmful, we have reasons to believe that gender-exploratory therapy would be as well.

Self-directed exploration is good. Forced exploration rooted in suspicion towards trans identities isn’t. If you’re starting from the belief that trans identities are inherently suspicious, you’re not doing therapy, you’re doing transphobia.

Any more myths about gender-affirming care you’d like me to bust, Tumblr?

“It doesn't matter the color, gender, sexuality or any other characteristic; the important thing is to hate everyone equally.”

— A very wise person.

Could you elaborate on this? /genq

Here’s your friendly reminder that AFAB and AMAB are meaningless and obsolete terms!

If there was never such a thing as a racial hierarchy or white supremacy, race wouldn't exist at all. Historically, the social construction of race emerged as a tool for colonisers to justify viewing certain groups as inferior, dehumanising them, and providing a pretext for committing unforgivable crimes without consequences. The existence of race was purely made to oppress, and so if oppression didn't exist against race in the first place, race wouldn't exist.

By being transracial, you push the idea that race does exist as a tangible and valid construct and, as a result, is something that can be transitioned to. As well as this, you ignore a fundamental part of the existence of race, which is the oppression or privileges' one gains as a result of their race, which you have never experienced. At the end of the day, race is centered around oppression. Generally, transition for transracial people looks like appropriation of culture, which is not a fundamental part of race, and doing racially insensitive things such as painting your skin darker, which is considered black face. As well as this, being transracial and transitioning pushes against race being phased out of society, which is what we want, as it actually still serves no purpose but to point out the oppressed and oppressors'. In addition to all of this, by labelling yourselves as "Trans" you insinuate that being transgender and transracial are two equally valid ideas and come hand in hand when they are two completely different structures that work in to different ways.