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Julia Mason

Clinical Advisor, Pediatrician, Society For Evidence Based Gender Medicine

Updated: August 7, 2023

Critiqued studies that refuted the social contagion theory for the increase in American you identifying as transgender and found that using puberty blockers lowered suicide risk for transgender youth. No evidence for such contagion exists in a reputable study.

Said her transgender patients “are not going to college” and “are not blossoming” even though “they’re their true selves.” (22:37)

Co-author on an article published in the Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy that argued that the “social, medical and surgical interventions” involved in gender-affirming care are based on “very low-quality evidence.” The authors thanks SEGM staff for providing “grant and bibliographic support.” SEGM is an activist non-profit organization that is known for mischaracterizing standards of care for transgender youth and engaging in political lobbying using misinformation which contradicts the evidence base around transgender healthcare.

In response to a February 18, 2022 interpretation of state law by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (impeached by the state House and awaiting trial by the Senate) that asserted certain medical procedures constitute child abuse as defined in the Texas Family Code, the Yale School of Medicine writes that the “AG Opinion greatly exaggerates the extent to which adolescent gender dysphoria abates without treatment, and it repeats discredited claims [by the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine] that there is a novel wave of rapid-onset dysphoria among today’s teens.” Yale School of Medicine adds that “AG Opinion does not cite reputable scientific evidence. Instead, it cites a biased source—the website of the so-called [SEGM]. SEGM is not a recognized scientific organization,” and “bias… infuses its medical claims. The SEGM website badly mischaracterizes the underlying source that it cites for the 61-98% figure.”

Doctors and researchers representing organizations like SEGM And American College of Pediatricians “Have effectively accomplished for gender dysphoria what anti-vaxxer medical professionals have sought to do for their cause,” reports Buzzfeed. “Yet while opposition in the medical field has been overwhelming, it has not been unanimous. A small number of highly controversial doctors and researchers have been pushing these anti-trans bills. Representing organizations with seemingly professional names like the American College of Pediatricians or the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine, they have effectively accomplished for gender dysphoria what anti-vaxxer medical professionals have sought to do for their cause: give credence to the notion that no scientific or medical consensus exists regarding the relative safety and efficacy of a given treatment, despite the clear and growing evidence to the contrary.”

SEGM public members are outspoken critics of regulation against conversion therapy on transgender people.

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