Stephen Scaer, Author at Granite Grok

Stephen Scaer

Stephen is a long-time New Hampshire resident. Stephen's website is sidewalksteve.org, and his Twitter is  twitter.com/Sidewalk_Steve.

Night Cap: Sit Down and Shut Up: The Myth of Parent Involvement in Child Transing

Gender clinics welcome parent involvement as long as they do what they’re told. Dartmouth Health recently testified that giving children puberty blockers and hormones is “rendered following consultation with medical and mental health professionals and parents and guardians.” But parents are given one option: social and medical transition.

Dartmouth Health Falsely Claims Child-Transing “Well-Researched”

If Dartmouth Health is right that administering puberty blockers and hormones to boys and girls to try to make them look like the opposite sex is medically necessary, safe, and well-researched, then systematic reviews that say otherwise by France, the United Kingdom, Norway, Sweden, and Finland are wrong.

Experts: Child Transing Doesn’t Reduce Suicide

The US medical industry got a wakeup call about its affirmative-care model of medically transitioning children. In a July 14 letter to the Wall Street Journal, 21 clinicians and researchers from nine countries, including Finland’s leading expert, Riittakerttu Kaltiala, challenged Endocrine Society President Stephen Hammes’ recent claim that more than 2,000 studies clearly demonstrate that …

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The Trans Suicide Myth and Blackmail Politics

“Rates of suicide are as high as 40% in transgender youth,” Dr. Simrun Bal of Dartmouth Health testified at the New Hampshire State House. “Imagine that if there are 100 people in this room, 40 of us would have attempted suicide.”

Dartmouth Child Transing Physician Astonishingly Ignorant

Dr. Simrun Bal of Dartmouth Health testified at a public hearing at the New Hampshire State House that she doesn’t know whether puberty blockers are completely reversible, even though these chemicals are known to cause sterility and sexual dysfunction for children who take them through puberty.