Thread on anti-trans bloggers vs science:

The entirety of the anti-trans care movement is sustained by concern-trolling bloggers who have unprecedented access to large media platforms.

You know who they are.

Here's a rock carver who runs @Transgendertrd:
Then there's @4th_WaveNow, run by a very, terribly, horribly "concerned" cis woman who has zero medical or psychological expertise
Then there's @4th_WaveNow, run by a very, terribly, horribly "concerned" cis woman who has zero medical or psychological expertise
Then there's @4th_WaveNow, run by a very, terribly, horribly "concerned" cis woman who has zero medical or psychological expertise
An entire anti-science ecosystem grew up around them to promote their various "concerns". Here are some of the right-wing anti-LGBT hate groups that promote their "concerns" -

Heritage Foundation
Family Policy Alliance
Minn Family Council
Cornerstone
NC Family Policy Council
But, let's look at who's on the other side: the side of science, peer-review, and of decades of actual research.

Here are just some of the medical & psych associations that support trans care and reject the Right/GC/TERF anti-trans hysteria:
American Psychological Association @APA https://www.apa.org/topics/lgbt/transgender
Answers to your questions about transgender people, gender identity, and gender expression

Transgender is an umbrella term used to describe people whose gender identity (sense of themselves as male or female) or gender expression differs from socially constructed norms associated with...

https://www.apa.org/topics/lgbt/transgender
American Psychiatric Association @apapsychiatric

https://www.psychiatry.org/File%20Library/About-APA/Organization-Documents-Policies/Policies/Position-2018-Access-to-Care-for-Transgender-and-Gender-Diverse-Individuals.pdf
American Medical Association @amermedicalassn

http://www.tgender.net/taw/ama_resolutions.pdf
American College of Physicians @acpinternists

https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M14-2482
American Academy of Pediatrics @aapnews

http://assets2.hrc.org/files/documents/SupportingCaringforTransChildren.pdf
American Academy of Family Physicians @aafp

https://www.aafp.org/dam/AAFP/documents/about_us/special_constituencies/2012RCAR_Advocacy.pdf
National Association of Social Workers @nasw

https://www.socialworkers.org/assets/secured/documents/da/da2008/reffered/Transgender.pdf
National Health Service @NHSuk https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/gender-dysphoria/treatment/
Gender dysphoria - Treatment

Treatment for gender dysphoria aims to help people live the way they want to, in their preferred gender identity or as non-binary.

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/gender-dysphoria/treatment/
Royal College of Psychiatrists @rcpsych

https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/docs/default-source/improving-care/better-mh-policy/college-reports/cr181-good-practice-guidelines-for-the-assessment-and-treatment-of-adults-with-gender-dysphoria.pdf?sfvrsn=84743f94_2
British Association of Urological Surgeons @bausurology

https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/docs/default-source/improving-care/better-mh-policy/college-reports/cr181-good-practice-guidelines-for-the-assessment-and-treatment-of-adults-with-gender-dysphoria.pdf?sfvrsn=84743f94_2
British Psychological Society @bpsofficial

https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/docs/default-source/improving-care/better-mh-policy/college-reports/cr181-good-practice-guidelines-for-the-assessment-and-treatment-of-adults-with-gender-dysphoria.pdf?sfvrsn=84743f94_2
The Royal College of General Practitioners @rcgp

https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/docs/default-source/improving-care/better-mh-policy/college-reports/cr181-good-practice-guidelines-for-the-assessment-and-treatment-of-adults-with-gender-dysphoria.pdf?sfvrsn=84743f94_2
The Royal College of Nursing @theRCN

The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists @RCObsGyn

The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health @rcpchtweets

The Royal College of Physicians @rcplondon

https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/docs/default-source/improving-care/better-mh-policy/college-reports/cr181-good-practice-guidelines-for-the-assessment-and-treatment-of-adults-with-gender-dysphoria.pdf?sfvrsn=84743f94_2
The Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists @rcslt

The Royal College of Surgeons @rcsnews

The UK Council for Psychotherapy @ukcp_updates

https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/docs/default-source/improving-care/better-mh-policy/college-reports/cr181-good-practice-guidelines-for-the-assessment-and-treatment-of-adults-with-gender-dysphoria.pdf?sfvrsn=84743f94_2
That's not listing the universities, researchers, and other national orgs throughout the world.

But, you go on platforming bloggers without any relevant medical or psych expertise, cis media. Whatever scares parents and generates clicks, eh? @CNN @BBC @theeconomist @independent
That's not listing the universities, researchers, and other national orgs throughout the world. But, you go on platforming bloggers without any relevant medical or psych expertise, cis media. Whatever scares parents and generates clicks, eh? @CNN @BBC @theeconomist @independent
That's not listing the universities, researchers, and other national orgs throughout the world. But, you go on platforming bloggers without any relevant medical or psych expertise, cis media. Whatever scares parents and generates clicks, eh? @CNN @BBC @theeconomist @independent
That's not listing the universities, researchers, and other national orgs throughout the world. But, you go on platforming bloggers without any relevant medical or psych expertise, cis media. Whatever scares parents and generates clicks, eh? @CNN @BBC @theeconomist @independent
That's not listing the universities, researchers, and other national orgs throughout the world. But, you go on platforming bloggers without any relevant medical or psych expertise, cis media. Whatever scares parents and generates clicks, eh? @CNN @BBC @theeconomist @independent
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