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You are so smart. Thank you for writing this.

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Indeed, the story is complicated, and how gender dysphoria starts, develops and how best to treat it is not understood.

There is only one truth out there, but there are different values and risks that people are willing to take given how little is known about how to support these young people. In addition to the ignorance about this condition, however, the misinformation which results from dropping facts which are considered "inconvenient" is making it much much worse.

It is not helping young people with this distress to muzzle those reporting on outcomes (and the ignorance about outcomes, which is shocking, given that these medical interventions are readily available and encouraged, in spite of their drastic physical consequences) and asking questions about what is known and not known, and pointing out the huge gaps in our understanding of who can be helped how. It is not helping young people with this distress to not report treatments besides medical intervention, which have been successful for some (for who? there is no clinical test to say who won't only need therapy, time, psychiatric medication perhaps, to have harmony between their mind and body). It is harmful to young people and their families to be lied to about what their options are, what the risks and benefits and alternatives for each are, and about how much (or in this case, little) is known!

Thank you again! Please keep reporting on this!

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