'The more one knows about the 'science' being used to justify placing children on a path to hormonal and surgical interventions, the more one recognizes it as a kind of Collateralized Debt Obligation: constructed out of low-quality studies that are then aggregated into a new entity, which is blessed by the proverbial ratings agency of captured institutions — and then wielded as a blunt instrument by activists claiming a medical “consensus” where none exists. The bizarre claims are then repeated ad nauseum by officials, instituted into policy by organs of the medical establishment, and mouthed by the President of the United States himself — even as medical establishments across Europe evaluating the same data pull back from such policies.
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In a guest post at Wesley Yang's "Year Zero" Substack, Lisa Selin Davis, author of Tomboy: The Surprising History and Future of Girls Who Dare to Be Different shows how this process has played out with respect to "gender-affirming care."