Did a WPATH Leader Lie About Why Age Limits Vanished From Their Trans-Care Guidelines? A video I obtained of a 2022 World Professional Association for Transgender Health conference shows Dr. Scott Leibowitz making demonstrably false claims about why the age limits were removed.

Did a WPATH Leader Lie About Why Age Limits Vanished From Their Trans-Care Guidelines?
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A video I obtained of a 2022 World Professional Association for Transgender Health conference shows Scott Leibowitz making false claims about why the age limits were removed.

This is a very interesting read, particularly for long and enlightening Q&As with the study lead author and with another subject expert. It will not be popular with advocates of rapid access to gender reassignment, and broadly supports the more cautious approach now taken across most of Europe.

Most Youths Who Got Medical Gender-Transitions Were Likely Treated for Serious Mental Illness, Finnish Study Finds | The New York Sun Having added fuel to the debate that these medical interventions have been oversold, this study is being met with fierce resistance by supporters of pediatric gender medicine.

I also reported about the nuances, strengths and weaknesses of the new Finnish study about youth gender care for The New York Sun:

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The Author of the Controversial Finnish Study on Youth Gender Care Responds to Critics A new study found a surge in psych care typically reserved for severe mental health problems following gender-transition interventions in youth—prompting sharp pushback from transgender advocates.

My latest:

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Opinion | Finland’s Lessons on Transgender Children Gender reassignment didn’t improve mental health, a new study says.

This WSJ oped is way too confident in interpreting the findings of the new Finnish study on youth gender-transition treatment. It doesn’t acknowledge that the study relied on a proxy measure of severe mental health problems that has limitations. www.wsj.com/opinion/finl...

Exclusive: AMA Documents Expose Internal Schism and Uproar Over Its Youth-Gender-Surgery Position This follow-up to my investigation in The Free Press details the fallout within the American Medical Association after it declared that gender surgeries should generally be delayed until adulthood.

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I never said it was an outlier, but the potential harms of a treatment for a psych condition, rather than a lethal cancer, are.

How the Top Transgender Medicine Group Taught Members to Fight Misinformation...With Misinformation In a video I obtained of a 2023 conference of the US branch of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, a top PR agency offered a buffet of false claims about youth gender medicine.

How the Top Transgender Medicine Group Taught Members to Fight Misinformation...With Misinformation

In a video I obtained of a 2023 trans-medicine conference, a top PR agency offered a buffet of false claims about youth gender medicine.
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The Medical Establishment Is Tearing Itself Apart over Youth Gender Surgeries The American Medical Association said it supported restricting gender surgeries for minors. Then it said it didn’t. We still don’t know where it stands, writes Benjamin Ryan.

The Medical Establishment Is Tearing Itself Apart Over Youth Gender Surgeries

The American Medical Association said it supported restricting gender surgeries for minors. Then it said it didn’t. We still don’t know where it stands, I report for The Free Press.

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“One Session May Be Sufficient.” How Activist Providers Want to Overhaul Assessments for Youth Gender Transitions

I obtained a video of a 2023 conference presentation regarding an “embodiment goals” focused youth-gender-care assessment model.

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Harvard Law School clinical instructor and trans activist Alejandra Caraballo is a conspiracy theorist. She throws out conspiracies such as this on a near daily basis, rarely with supporting evidence. But because of Bluesky’s strict culture forbidding dissent, her claims stand.

That you will read it.

How Common Is Detransitioning? Never trust someone who says they know precisely how commonly people detransition. Research on the subject, especially pertaining to minors, remains maddeningly hazy.

I did not say “proves,” I used the word “suggests”. And I have reported on scores of studies of this field for years. I never suggested this one was the one and only definitive study anyone should consider. And I did not bring up anecdotes, the other person did. open.substack.com/pub/benryan/...

There is very little data on detransitioning amping those who have transitioned as minors. Anyone who thinks they know what the rate is doesn’t know this subject well. Also, it was the other person who brought up anecdotes, not me. open.substack.com/pub/benryan/...

What happens to a detransitioner when they go public? How are they treated online? What incentive structure does the process of public flogging create for public declarations of this kind?

How Common Is Detransitioning? Never trust someone who says they know precisely how commonly people detransition. Research on the subject, especially pertaining to minors, remains maddeningly hazy.

That is not an evidence-based assessment:

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Real charmers.

Major Gender Doctor Isn't 'Interested In' Whether Minors Seeking Gender Drugs Are 'Really Trans' “That’s actually not the discussion that I’m interested in," Johanna Olson-Kennedy said of whether kids are "really trans," documented in a video I obtained of a 2023 transgender-medicine conference.

Major Gender Doctor Isn't 'Interested In' Whether Minors Seeking Gender Drugs Are 'Really Trans'

“That’s actually not the discussion that I’m interested in," Johanna Olson-Kennedy said of whether kids are "really trans," in a 2023 conference video I obtained.
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Thanks!

Major Psychiatric Problems Didn't Improve After Youth Gender-Transition Treatment In Finland—They Rose The study, which was based on comprehensive nationalized health data and included control groups, appears to call into question the claim that such treatment is broadly beneficial to mental health.

Indicators of Major Psychiatric Problems Didn't Improve After Youth Gender-Transition Treatment In Finland—They Rose

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You are talking past me.

You are acting as if you know more about this dynamic than I do, which you do not.

You’ll hear from me about this in the morning.

🚨 Congress held NIH and NSF budgets roughly flat. Scientists celebrated.

Here is what actually happened.

NIH awarded 4,641 fewer grants in FY2025 than the 4-year avg. New awards dropped 14%. Over $1.3B never reached investigators.

NSF awards fell 22%.

The money was there.

You’re missing the point.

Depends on your perspective.

I told you, it’s more complicated than you think and you are missing the forest for the trees.

It is, and you will be hearing from me exactly why on Monday morning. Stay tuned.

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