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  What the media gets wrong on gender reassignment The media is guilty of gross negligence on gender reassignment reporting June 20, 2021 | 9:47 pm FROM THE MAGAZINE Written by: Jesse Singal Share Two things can be true at the same time. First, the Republican-backed state laws banning medical gender-transition treatment for youth —  one  has already passed in Arkansas — are a very bad idea. Second, there is a serious dearth of solid evidence in this area of medicine — and some reasons to be genuinely concerned about these treatments. If you’re a consumer of mainstream American media, you’ve likely received a heaping dose of the first message. But the second, if you’ve encountered it at all, has probably been presented to you as a deeply unscientific, bigoted talking point. This is a problem. It’s impossible to unpack what’s going on here without summarizing the recent history of youth medical transition. The basic situation is this: in the mid-1990s, a Dutch gender clinic...

  Keira Bell: ‘I couldn’t sit by while so many others made the same mistake’ Her court action has led to a ruling which will make it harder for children to get puberty-blocking drugs Janic e Turner Tuesday December 01 2020, 5.00pm GMT, The Times Keira Bell: “Gender is polarised: you have to look a certain way” BETHANY CLARKE FOR THE TIMES Standing outside the High Court yesterday, Keira Bell said that she hoped the judgment marked the end of gender clinics “playing God with our bodies [by] experimenting on the young and vulnerable with untested, harmful drugs”. With her deep masculine voice, facial hair and the loss of her breasts to a double mastectomy, Bell bears on her own body the scars of irreversible treatments she began at Tavistock’s GIDS (gender identity development service) clinic at the age of 16. This quiet, reserved young woman, now 23, took on the NHS and publicly funded activist groups such as Stonewall and Mermaids — which successfully lobbied for medical interventi...