Jennifer Block
@writingblock
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Journalist. Author of PUSHED and EVERYTHING BELOW THE WAIST. Recent words @BMJ_latest @Romper @GlobeIdeas @theFP. Mentor @theopedproject. Pro-information.
Joined August 2011
NEW DOC SHORT out. The fight over puberty blockers, hormones, etc. is often framed as inseparable from politics, but we show here why a broad coalition--yes, including lefties--is raising concerns or even supporting restrictions. YouTube link below.
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This is incredible. There's a heap of receipts.
Dr. Rachel Levine, a former high-ranking Biden admin health official, has denied to @TheAdvocate's @CWNewser Christopher Wiggins ever having pressured @WPATH to remove age limits on pediatric gender-transition interventions. This despite subpoenaed records showing she did, and.
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RT @benryanwriter: Dr. Rachel Levine, a former Biden administration health official, tells @TheAdvocateMag that "the evidence base is stron….
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Does anyone in your life need to see the doc short on the fight over youth medical transition with subtitles en Francais? Voila!
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Some dems think the fight over "gender affirming care" is just a political distraction. Here's why gay adults (among others) are sincerely concerned about medicalizing gender nonconforming kids via @YouTube.
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Progressives have a lot to grieve over and fight for. To get back to the project of a kind, just, sustainable, equitable USA, the Left has to look at why it lost the majority, and pediatric gender Rx is undeniably a reason. My new doc short helps explain.
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Yes, the facts of political interference in WPATH guidelines are old news & should have been earth shattering. We cover the revelations in our doc short through the lens of gay activists who see their own youths reflected in today's young trans patients
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RT @benappel: This short doc from @writingblock shows how the debate over medicalizing gender in kids isn’t the left-right issue that activ….
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Tomorrow I'm releasing my first doc short on youth gender Rx and a new Substack, Unpopular Science. Because this isn't my first rodeo with evidence that complicates medical and cultural consensus, and there's always more in the pipeline! Featuring @JamieWhistle @hannahsbee & more
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RT @UN_HRC: "Erasing women and women-specific language and needs based on their sex is not only wrong, but also demeaning, regressive and c….
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RT @jessesingal: Picketing a podcast that hasn't yet come out because you are already mad about what will be in it nicely sums up the state….
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RT @treesey: An Ob-Gyn in Iowa writes about the gender affirming hysterectomies she carried out. And why she’s now concerned:. ‘I was curio….
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"the moment a transgender-identified person stated a biological process gave them 'gender dysphoria,' the system jumped into place to reverse the biological process, no matter how risky, painful, or expensive it may be."
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Did @nytimes know all this when it went to Baker for comment and gave him the last word in recent coverage of HHS report?.
The Whitman-Walker Institute's Kellan Baker told @ScienceMagazine's @phiejacobs of the HHS report on pediatric gender medicine, "A mere 90 days is not enough time to conduct a thorough review" and that WPATH spent more than a decade compiling multiple systematic literature
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Former senior advisor to Obama's bioethics commission told me for @bmj_latest that HHS's ethical analysis that risks of gender Rx in kids too great to justify without evidence of medical benefit was a "plausible" one. Bioethicists have for the most part been silent on this topic.
@HHS dropped its promised report on youth gender Rx today. It’s an impressive 409 pages—put together in 90 days per executive order--and unsurprisingly concludes there’s no strong evidence for puberty blockers/hormones/surgery in kids.
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RT @emilyakopp: Scientific papers funded by NIH will publish online for free at the same time as in paywalled scientific journals. The grif….
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The report models a more neutral lexicon that reporters could adopt--e.g. "pediatric gender medicine" over "affirming care"--but Trump has whipped up so much fear and fury around families & clinics along the medical path, I imagine it will be tough to see through the fog.
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