Gender Identity Five Years After Social Transition

The sample group...isn't great. Only for participants who had completely socially transitioned between ages 3-12, and enrolled in the Trans Youth Project.

I'm very surprised Princeton and UW professors would generalize from this group to anyone who socially transitions...

Anti-trans activists like to use an old, discredited study that found 80% of trans kids retransitioned back to their gender assigned at birth to argue that minors shouldn't be allowed to take puberty blockers or hormones, because it'll ruin their body and it's a phase they'll just grow out of and regret.

They also like to use better studies on the subject like this one, which finds that 2.5% of trans kids retransitioned, to argue that social transition is a harmful gateway into a lifelong pipeline of medicalization with puberty blockers and hormones that will ruin their body and that they'll one day regret.

I imagine it must be convenient to have an unfalsifiable belief system.

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