A US columnist has given voice to the suffering of detransitioners who as teenagers were ‘unquestioningly affirmed’ in their gender-confusion by medics. Writing in The New York Times following her interviews with several detransitioners, Pamela Paul questioned the prevailing “treatment orthodoxy” of trans-drugs and irreversible surgery for “children with gender dysphoria”. Last year, a group of international experts warned that ‘gender-affirming care’ in the States was “exaggerating the benefits and minimising the risks” of sex-swap drugs and surgery. GraceGrace Powell, 23, told how she was only 12 or 13 when she believed herself to be a boy. He told Paul: “You’re made to believe these slogans.

Source: New York Times February 14, 2024 16:28 UTC