The Medical University of South Carolina initially said it wouldn’t be affected by a law banning use of state funds for treatment “furthering the gender transition” of children under 16. Months later, it cut off that care to all trans minors.

The Medical University of South Carolina initially said it wouldn’t be affected by a law banning use of state funds for treatment “furthering the gender transition” of children under 16. Months later, it cut off that care to all trans minors.

One Saturday morning in September 2022, Terrence Steyer, the dean of the College of Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina, placed an urgent call to a student. Just a year prior, the medical student, Thomas Agostini, had won first place at a university-sponsored event for his graduate research on transgender pediatric patients. He also had been featured in a video on MUSC’s website highlighting resources that support the LGBTQ+ community.

Now, Agostini and his once-lauded study had set off a political firestorm. Conservative activists seized on one line in particular in the study’s summary — a parenthetical noting the youngest transgender patient to visit MUSC’s pediatric endocrinology clinic was 4 years old — and inaccurately claimed that children that young were prescribed hormones as part of a gender transition. Elon Musk amplified the false claim, tweeting, “Is it really true that four-year-olds are receiving hormone treatment?” That led federal and state lawmakers to frantically ask top MUSC leaders whether the public hospital was in fact helping young children medically transition. The hospital was not; its pediatric transgender patients did not receive hormone therapy before puberty, nor does it offer surgical options to minors.

  • webadict@lemmy.world
    5·
    11 months ago

    I pointed out the studies flaws because you didn’t read it, can’t interpret it yourself, and are not a doctor. Here is a list of actual major medical organizations that suggest gender-affirming care for trans youth:

    American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

American Academy of Dermatology

American Academy of Family Physicians

American Academy of Nursing

American Academy of Pediatrics

American Academy of Physician Assistants

American College Health Association

American College of Nurse-Midwives

American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists

American College of Physicians

American Counseling Association

American Heart Association

American Medical Association

American Medical Student Association

American Nurses Association

American Osteopathic Association

American Psychiatric Association

American Psychological Association

American Public Health Association

American Society of Plastic Surgeons

Endocrine Society

Federation of Pediatric Organizations

GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBTQ Equality

National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women's Health

National Association of Social Workers

National Commission on Correctional Health Care

Pediatric Endocrine Society

Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine

World Medical Association

World Professional Association for Transgender Health

    And if the WPATH didn’t find actual health benefits that outweighed the actual downsides for puberty blockers and hormonal treatments, then they fucking wouldn’t recommend them. This would be obvious to anyone that knew anything.

    • Murvel@lemm.ee
      12·
      11 months ago

      I didn’t write the study. If you think it’s flawed take that up with the researches who did write it.

      • webadict@lemmy.world
        31·
        11 months ago

        Typical transphobic coward. You refuse to defend the study, but you won’t admit it’s a bad study.

        Will you argue you’re not transphobic? Because that would involve admitting that gender-affirming care and all it entails should be administered to any trans person that wants it. Otherwise, you do not care about the outcomes and health of trans people, at best, or want them to suffer, at worst.

        • Murvel@lemm.ee
          12·
          11 months ago

          You obviously have some personal issues related to this subject-matter. All I did was refute the bullshit claim you made in the original comment by linking this study.

          But if you feel so threatened by scientific research that doesn’t align with your world view then you need to get help somehow.

          I’m not a transphobe.

          But again all of this seems to me a way for you to manage what amounts to a threat to your world view.

          • webadict@lemmy.world
            3·
            11 months ago

            I do. I have many trans friends whose lives depend on their care. They have to listen to this shit way more than I do, to justify their existence as if being trans is something they chose to be. They didn’t.

            People use the same words you’re using now to defend why trans people should not be allowed gender-affirming care that they and their doctors suggest they should have. It must only be coincidental that the words you say are the words spoken by transphobes.

            Say that trans people should get the gender-affirming care they desire, that gender-affirming care is scientifically backed, and that trans rights are human rights, and I’ll take back that you’re a cowardly transphobe.

            • Murvel@lemm.ee
              11·
              11 months ago

              I have only discussed this article. I’ve made no personal statement on the subject matter. And you are losing your mind, you cannot accept this data for what it is. To you, it’s a personal insult, but there is nothing personal about it.

              I’ll say this to anyone who reacts to scientific research with hostility, would that be Flat earthers, Q-anons, Religious fanatics or anyone else; seek help!

              It’s the only advice I can give.