WORLD ROUNDUP: New developments about gender-questioning youth this week

By Genspect

While Texas tries to make gender-affirming care illegal, Sweden just released their new standards which takes an evidence-based approach and prioritizes psychotherapy over medicalization, in a dramatic departure from WPATH. Finland did the same in 2020, the first in the world to make such recommendations for gender-dysphoric youth under age 25. At the same time, the UK, in preparation for an independent and non-partisan review of gender medicine, has found through comprehensive reviews that the evidence for puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones is “very low”.

It is a profound shame that this important issue gets dealt with as part of the culture war in the US and that any debate is automatically labelled as “transphobic.” This issue is too important to make political use of, especially with the exponentially growing numbers of desisters and detransitioners coming forward.

Detransitioner voices are too critical to be silenced in this debate, which is why Genspect is hosting one of the first international conferences devoted entirely to this cohort, in conjunction with Detrans Awareness Day on March 12, 2022. Please join us and detransitioners from around the world, including the United States, to hear their stories and why it’s essential we allow open inquiry, research, and discussion when it comes to gender medicine.