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@judas22x And by the way, trans identified people are not some new breed, some master race of superior beings. You’re not special, you’re not different, you’re not better. You’re just bog standard ordinary people like the rest of us. Calling yourself trans doesn’t change that fact.

🇫🇮 Finland just blew a hole in the biggest lie in youth gender medicine The paper’s abstract says that among adolescents who underwent medical gender reassignment, psychiatric morbidity increased markedly during follow-up consultations. For years, we have been told the same thing, over and over, with absolute moral certainty. If a child says they’re transgender, then the compassionate thing to do is affirm it. Affirm the identity. Affirm the new name. Affirm the pronouns. And if that child is distressed enough, then affirm the drugs, too. Puberty blockers. Cross-sex hormones. Eventually, irreversible experimental cosmetic surgery. And why? Because we were told this was lifesaving. We were told it improves mental health. We were told the only alternative was suffering, self-harm, even suicide. Well, now comes a major study out of Finland, and it says something the activists are going to hate. It says the mental health problems did not get better. In some cases, they got worse. This was published in Acta Paediatrica just days ago. The study looked at 2,083 adolescents and young adults in Finland who were referred to specialized gender identity services before age 23, and compared them to 16,643 matched controls. It tracked severe psychiatric morbidity before and after referral. And the findings are brutal for the activists’ favourite talking point. These youth already had significantly higher psychiatric morbidity than the control group before referral, and they still had dramatically higher psychiatric morbidity at least two years afterward. The paper’s abstract says that among adolescents who underwent medical gender reassignment, psychiatric morbidity increased markedly during follow-up, rising from 9.8% to 60.7% in the feminizing group and from 21.6% to 54.5% in the masculinizing group. The study’s conclusion was plain: psychiatric needs did not subside after medical gender reassignment. Now, to be careful and fair, this is an observational study. It does not prove that the interventions caused every worsening outcome. But it absolutely does destroy the sales pitch that these interventions reliably improve mental health. If the entire public argument for rushing vulnerable kids down this pathway is that it makes them psychologically better, then a large nationwide study showing no such improvement is a very big problem. And here’s what makes Finland so important. Finland did not just stumble into this debate yesterday. Finland has been dealing with this issue at the clinical and policy level for years. In 2020, Finland’s Council for Choices in Health Care issued guidance saying first-line treatment for minors with gender dysphoria should be psychosocial support, psychotherapy when needed, and treatment for co-occurring psychiatric disorders. In other words, slow down, assess thoroughly, and do not treat medicalization as the automatic first answer. Why did Finland move in that direction? Because their health authorities concluded the evidence for pediatric medical transition was weak, and because these young patients often present with serious mental health complexity that cannot just be waved away with a new name and a prescription pad. That is the part activists hate most: the possibility that gender distress does not exist in isolation. These are often not otherwise healthy kids with one single issue that can be solved by hormones. These are often deeply distressed young people with overlapping psychiatric needs. Finland’s own recent and earlier research points in exactly that direction. The new study found that severe psychiatric morbidity was common among these patients and even more prevalent in the later referral cohort. Earlier Finnish work also found that when psychiatric morbidity is taken into account, the simplistic suicide narrative collapses fast. That matters because the whole political machine around youth gender medicine has run on emotional blackmail. Question this and you want kids dead. Ask for evidence and you’re hateful. Point to weak studies and you’re accused of bigotry. Suggest therapy first and suddenly you’re the villain. But science is not supposed to be a hostage situation. And what Finland is showing, again, is that vulnerable kids deserve real medicine, not ideology dressed up in a white coat. Because if a treatment is supposed to improve mental health, and the best response to long-term negative findings is to scream at critics and hide behind slogans, then maybe the evidence was never as solid as they claimed in the first place. That’s been the dirty little secret of this whole field. A lot of the evidence used to justify pediatric transition has been low quality, short term, uncontrolled, or riddled with follow-up problems. A 2024 Acta Paediatrica review said longitudinal studies had not consistently shown mental health benefit from hormonal interventions in adolescents, and Finland’s cautious approach reflected that uncertainty. So when a country with centralized services and nationwide health data says, “Actually, the psychiatric distress does not disappear after medicalization,” that is not some fringe blog post. That is a warning flare. And Canada, save for a sane exception to this madness in Alberta, should be paying attention. Because here, too many institutions still behave as though affirmation is the only ethical option, as though asking questions is cruelty, and as though parents should just hand over their child to an ideology that promises certainty where the evidence does not. But kids are not political fashion accessories. They are not a social movement. And they are not lab rats for a treatment model built on activist pressure and wishful thinking. If Finland’s data show that these young people remain psychiatrically unwell, and in some treatment groups appear worse over time, then the humane response is not to double down. It is to stop. To reassess. To tell the truth. And to finally admit that the slogan was never science. Because “affirm or die” made for a nasty bumper sticker. But Finland just handed us something much more inconvenient — data.

@TiffanyAK @The_good_voice @salltweets 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@realityphile @The_good_voice @salltweets Dude, seriously, go take your unhinged meltdown elsewhere. You f-cked up. End of story. Be a dang adult and move tf on. Absolute psychopath behavior.

It’s not possible to be radicalized into believing men can *not* be women.

@SwipeWright @jk_rowling This is about the standard ofidiocy we expect from them. Not surprisingly, the worst thing that can happen to a person is to lose “status”, that being so much more important than integrity or courage, apparently.

This new academic paper claims that @jk_rowling has essentially become Voldemort via her “celebrified transphobia,” which is apparently the authors’ term for Rowling publicly acknowledging basic biology. It argues that the “Wizarding World should be considered a cultural field” whose defining principle is “trans/queer inclusivity,” and says Rowling’s views have “significantly depleted her once-elite status.” It says Harry Potter has been read as “resisting binary gendering” and presenting gender as “varied, easily shifting, exploratory, and ‘slippery,’” with the Wizarding World offering trans and queer fans “identification and community” and “a ‘place of belonging.’” So Rowling became the moral equivalent of her own villain because some readers projected gender ideology onto the books, then felt shocked when the author turned out to believe sex is real. And in case the paper was not absurd enough already, its conclusion declares: “You’re a muggle, Joanne.”

@TiffanyAK @The_good_voice @salltweets 🤡

@realityphile @The_good_voice @salltweets Sis is literally f-ing insane.

@TiffanyAK @The_good_voice @salltweets I’m a woman, you idiot. Not knowing what you’re talking about is part of what makes us older gals snigger. Thanks for giving me a really good giggle. You’re like a human version of that cartoon Tasmanian Devil. Maybe you need one of these jackets? Have a nice angry life.

@realityphile @The_good_voice @salltweets Dude - there's at least a 75% chance you're younger than me. You certainly have been sounding like it. I expect a tween to come in swinging and then feign like the other person is having a "hissy fit" - certainly not an adult. As stated, the projection continues to be glaring.

@TiffanyAK @The_good_voice @salltweets One of the pleasures of getting older (you’ll realise if you ever grow up) is the hours of entertainment provided by self-righteous young people having hissy fits. It really is hilarious.

@realityphile @The_good_voice @salltweets yOuThFuL bRaTtINeSs Yeah, sure, pull the other one. Again, the projection is glaring. YOU f-ed up. Not me. And you don't even have the maturity to simply own it. But, yeah, sure, I'M the young one here. Somehow. JFC, you're a stereotype.

@TiffanyAK @The_good_voice @salltweets Not misogyny, just awareness of your (tiresome) youthful brattiness.

@realityphile @The_good_voice @salltweets Oh, look, misogyny too! eMoTiOnAl indeed, says the dude having a meltdown. Stop lying to yourself. Only one of us needs a playpen, and it sure isn't me.

@TiffanyAK @The_good_voice @salltweets Oh dear, you are tired and emotional. Time for you to go have a nice lie down in your playpen.

@realityphile @The_good_voice @salltweets Not to mention the carrying on about "arguing intelligently" while lobbing insults, etc. You being butthurt I characterized the argument being made as a common stock one is your problem. F- off if you can't deal with being wrong, because I sure af am not liable for your errors.

@TiffanyAK @The_good_voice @salltweets There’s only one person here arguing for the gender crap so saying “you’re all hypocrites” is demented. Also, there’s no evidence that person is a hypocrite. Clearly hypocrite is your favourite word. But it’s completely misplaced here. Argue intelligently or don’t argue at all.

@realityphile @The_good_voice @salltweets LMFAO. Suuuuure, sis. You come at me and it's my fault. Apparently you ARE a hypocrite too. What we need is people with an ounce of sanity. Sall qualifies. You, not so much. The projection is glaring.

@TiffanyAK @The_good_voice @salltweets No, you’re confused, & you’re an aggressive twit. The gender critical side needs people who can argue coherently. That’s not you. You can’t even count, you can’t analyse the issue accurately & you can’t tell who the enemy is. You need to get OFF the grass. Too much THC methinks.

@realityphile @The_good_voice @salltweets People making that nonsense argument. JFC, dude. How could you even read my comment and be THIS confused to begin with? And then to try to come at me with a snarky "do you even know" rather than just admit you made an oopsie? Touch grass. Seriously.

@TiffanyAK @The_good_voice @salltweets You said “you’re hypocrites”. Who are you referring to? Do you even know?

@realityphile @The_good_voice @salltweets Um... that would be you, dear. Start by learning to follow a conversation thread. This is embarrassing.

@TiffanyAK @The_good_voice @salltweets We’re hypocrites? I said “gender dysphoria” is just unhappiness about something that can’t be changed, & that humans can’t change sex & Sall is the most gender critical Aussie on X. So WTF are you talking about? You’re seriously confused. You need to work on your comprehension.

@The_good_voice @realityphile @salltweets "Gender dysphoria" is wholly irrelevant to the topic by any reasonable or logical standard. People can either change sex, or they can't. If they can't, then they need to accept reality, and know total strangers are never responsible for their mental health. You're hypocrites.

🚨After 12 years of thinking I was born with a male brain in a female body, I now understand that I was born with an AUTISTIC brain in a female body. I then began to understand that I could cure my own crippling gender dysphoria by better understanding my autism. Instead of binding my breasts & pretending to be a man, I now meet my sensory needs with mild compression undershirts that don’t actively destroy my lungs, back, ribs, spine, nerves and breasts. I now intentionally choose to wear bras with a maximum of two textures, and thick straps that don’t twist as I move, in addition to the mild (full upper body) compression shirts because I know this is what I can tolerate. By managing the sensory needs of my whole body in all sorts of new ways, I no longer focus on the discomfort my breasts and 99.99% of bras cause me. As a result, my body is now a much more tolerable place for my brain to live. The only qualms I have now have with that part of my body I used to hate so much, was the destruction I’ve caused myself in the misguided attempt to fix an unacknowledged severe sensory issue (that as a kid caused me to toe walk and to compulsively pull out my eyelashes before it became fixated on gender) with an attempted gender transition. Happy autism awareness month!

@WomenSpeakTas @mc_simmy Ghastly news.

Dr Upton is now practising in Australia. If you don't know about the case click below 👇 sex-matters.org/case-briefings…

@itsjustuschick @The_good_voice @salltweets Nobody can change sex but doctors are selling this to kids & adults with no critical thinking skills. Gender dysphoria just means people aren’t happy about their sex. People aren’t happy abt many things but we don’t normally chop off body parts to “help” them. It’s a scandal.

@The_good_voice @realityphile @salltweets Gender dysphoria existing doesn’t mean anyone can change sex

@The_good_voice @salltweets It’s just an invented diagnosis as of this century, all it means is that a person is unhappy with their sex. When you tell people (kids especially) they can change their sex, you get more of them assuming sex is their problem and that they need to change it. Great business model!

“Exercising intelligence” while conflating biological sex with gender identity two things medical science has explicitly distinguished for decades is a bold move. Nobody asked reality to change. Gender dysphoria is documented, clinically recognised, and treated by every major health institution on earth. Your certainty is loud. Your research is absent. 🙂

@The_good_voice @salltweets Exercising intelligence and knowledge isn’t bigotry. Humans can’t change sex. Men can never become women. I know it comes as a shock but you blokes can’t just have everything you want, even if you really, really want it. Reality is an immovable force impervious to your desires.

@salltweets People used to say the same thing about interracial marriage being obviously wrong. Same bigots different time period telling people how to live.

Impressive woman after impressive woman.

One of the reasons why it’s so important for people to speak up is so they can never say “we didn’t know”.