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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]your cherrypicking references- and ignoring their subtitles.  Here are the articles they list under the category 'if you only read one thing'  Especially the Littman article is sound research .

If you only read one thing:
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Paul W. Hruz, Lawrence S. Mayer, and Paul R. McHugh, "Growing Pains: Problems with Puberty Suppression in Treating Gender Dysphoria," The New Atlantis, Number 52, Spring 2017, pp. 3-36.

More research is needed to resolve these unanswered questions. At the same time, research into how and why gender dysphoria occurs, persists, and desists must also continue, as it could elucidate new ways to help people cope with gender dysphoria with less permanent and drastic treatments than sex reassignment. In light of the many uncertainties and unknowns, it would be appropriate to describe the use of puberty-blocking treatments for gender dysphoria as experimental.

GENDER IDENTITY DYSOPHORIA (GID) & RAPID-ONSET GENDER DYSPHORIA (ROGD)

Littman, Lisa (2018). Rapid-onset gender dysphoria in adolescents and young adults: A study of parental reports. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0202330

Conclusion: Rapid-onset gender dysphor?ia (ROGD) describes a phenomenon where the development of gender dysphoria is observed to begin suddenly during or after puberty in an adolescent or young adult who would not have met criteria for gender dysphoria in childhood. ROGD appears to represent an entity that is distinct from the gender dysphoria observed in individuals who have previously been described as transgender. The worsening of mental well-being and parent-child relationships and behaviors that isolate AYAs from their parents, families, non-transgender friends and mainstream sources of information are particularly concerning. More research is needed to better understand this phenomenon, its implications and scope.[/quote]

I'm cherry picking references? Those are, literally, the FIRST SIX THINGS on the "research" page. The only person "cherry picking" here is the person who finds a bunch of hacks with made-up studies to support their point, and links to a fake political organization called "American College of Pediatricians", when the ACTUAL "American Academy of Pediatrics" urgest support & care of transgender/gender divers kids: https://www.aap.org/en-us/about-the-aap/aap-press-room/Pages/AAP-Policy-Statement-Urges-Support-and-Care-of-Transgender-and-Gender-Diverse-Children-and-Adolescents.aspx

Where's the link to that?

Anyway, that's nice that there's an article about "puberty suppression" that isn't written by someone associated with a fake pediatric professional organization, or a right-wing think tank. I read it, and I'm not sure what it has to do with APS's policy. The policy has no mention of "puberty suppression" nor does this study have anything to do directly with the debate at hand here. I don't know much about puberty suppression to say whether I think it's a good thing or not, but since APS doesn't say anything about it either, it seems completely irrelevant to this discussion.

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