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I ask myself everyday about my own confirmation bias. If anyone can point me to a study that challenges this one, that would be much appreciated
A landmark Finnish study has found a sharp rise in psychiatric illness among adolescents following sex-alteration procedures.
The peer-reviewed study, published in Acta Paediatrica, tracked every young person under 23 who contacted Finland's gender clinics between 1996 and 2019.
A total 2,083 individuals were studied, with 16,643 matched controls. They were followed for up to 25 years.
Finland's health registers are mandatory, which means no one opts out — this is the complete national picture.
The numbers: psychiatric morbidity rose from 9.8% to 60.7% in adolescents who underwent feminising reassignment, and from 21.6% to 54.5% in masculinising reassignment.
Even after adjusting for prior psychiatric history, gender-referred adolescents faced five times the risk of male population controls, and three times the risk of female controls.
"Psychiatric needs do not subside after medical gender reassignment," the authors concluded.
Referrals after 2010 arrived sicker. 47.9% had already needed psychiatric treatment before their first clinic visit, against 15.3% among controls.
The authors' read: for some adolescents, gender distress may be secondary to other mental health challenges.
The evidence keeps mounting. The silencing continues anyway.
How many more adolescents will be told this is "care"?
Georgina Blackmore retweeted
A big thank you to the MPs, family, friends, acquaintances, supporters, and members of the public who turned up for the inaugural flying of the Women's Suffrage flag at NZ Parliament today. You made it an awesome occasion 😍
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"Meanwhile, GLP’s founder, Jolyon Maugham (Please donate), has also been sued by Phillimore for defamation (Please donate) after he described her behaviour on X as “wicked”. Jo (Donate) stands by his words & will be defending (Donate now) the case in court. (FFS, donate!)" 🫠
⚖️ UPDATE
Barrister Sarah Phillimore repeatedly deadnamed and misgendered a trans woman online, but the regulator refuses to take action:
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Readers added context they thought people might want to know
None of the claims of misgendering or deadnaming are illegal & Sarah Phillimore was exonerated of all accusations from the Good Law Project by the Bar Standards Board. The GLP are still as of the time of this note soliciting donations to punish Sarah Phillimore. x.com/SVPhillimore/s…
Excellent article. The cannibalisation of science from the "follow the science" people, for political purpose, strikes me as bitterly ironic. If they were truely sensitive to the politics - do they ever ask why Prostate Cancer Foundations don't market to "people with prostates"?
Huge thanks to @drchrispook and Dr Julia Schaletzky for their clear, evidence based response to the recent claim that defining sex in law “fails basic science.”
They carefully dismantle the ideological distortions, the false history, the misuse of rare developmental conditions, the absolutely nutty claim that chromosomes were merely “allocated,” and the rebranding of political advocacy as settled biology - and restate what actual developmental biology shows: humans have two sexes, defined by reproductive organisation around sperm or ova.
Science is not a political prop. It’s refreshing to see scientists push back against its capture. Well done! newsroom.co.nz/2026/08/26/se…
I've watched the 'Pamhlet' coverage and I still don't know what to think about it (it seems like cern has moved me to a timeline where brains are scarce) but watch this coverage - ignore the sign-off "mores the pity" ... he's joking. Honestly.
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Jill Ovens, WRP National Secretary & Co-leader outlines key policy priorities, including reversing self-ID, reforming conversion-practices laws, protecting sex-based exceptions in the Human Rights Act, & ensuring clear language in healthcare. youtube.com/watch?v=uxleMM9J…
Yup. As an eg. Shayne Currie was seen talking at length to Bradbury at both court appearances and the best he can come up with is that she's stepping down from the FSU board - which she'd already written about last week - having served a term + a year extra at their request.
The sum is that @aniobrien is doing her job and doing it well. You can count on the fingers of one hand the number of reporters in New Zealand who practice actual journalism, and Ani is one of them. Some of the poodle media's favourite characters got exposed for what they are and rightly so. More power to Ani.
In her writing, Ani rarely presents facts, to the best of her knowledge, leading the reader to form the questions in their minds. More often than not she gives her opinion based on those facts and others are welcome to disagree.
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‘In this culture, a woman regarded as politically virtuous receives one standard of protection while a woman regarded as politically wicked can apparently be abused and have her life turned into punchlines because she had it coming. There is a particular kind of progressive misogyny, that in my view Mr Bradbury is afflicted by, that has persuaded itself that cruelty towards the wrong women does not count.’
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As she says - she reached for the tool available to her.
Put yourself in her shoes and image being attacked. Once fair arguments escalate and accumulate until your opponent is fighting you as if you have scales and claws...(I realise im taking creative liberty here)
Why in God's name didn't they take the offer?
Even if they had lost in court - that has never meant anything in this fight.
They could have appealed it and pressed it onwards with solicitors familiar with the case law.
This outcome is worse than if they did nothing.
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