SEGM
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Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine. Promoting ethical and evidence-informed healthcare for children, adolescents & young adults. (Formerly SEGMtweets)
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🚨 WPATH has conceded in court that its "Standards of Care" is merely an opinion. WPATH says it represents one side of an unsettled scientific debate marked by uncertainty — and physicains & orgs that rely on WPATH as the standard of care must bear "independent responsibility."/1
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All psychological models agree that adolescent identity is in flux and that identities are co-constructed. There is no reason to believe that these same principles don't apply to adolescent trans identities. What is unique in pediatric gender medicine is that clinicians are tasked with predicting identity development—but no tool for this exists, argues Dr. Anna Hutchinson, at the joint @CanSG_org -SEGM conference at @UCL today.
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