Stephen Scaer, Author at Granite Grok

SCAER: Dartmouth Doctor Doubles Down on Trans-or-Die Myth

August 29, 2025 Stephen Scaer

Dartmouth Health endocrinologist Francis-Lim Liberty is doubling down on the trans-or-die myth that the medical industry uses to blackmail parents into transitioning their children. Related: Trans or Die: The Ideological Blindness of a Dartmouth Health Endocrinologist “I’m worried there’s going to be increased completed suicides in New Hampshire,” she is quoted as saying in a … Read more

National Advocates Visit New Hampshire to Fight Gender Ideology

February 28, 2025 Stephen Scaer

Advocates for evidence-based medicine are coming to New Hampshire to advocate for laws protecting children from medical experimentation. Gender-clinic whistleblower Jamie Reed, detransitioner Prisha Mosley, advocate and podcaster Cori Cohn (Heterodorx), and desister Simon Amaya Price will testify in support of bills HB377, which protects children from puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, and HB712, which … Read more

Vote Like I Tell You or the Kid Dies

January 6, 2025 Stephen Scaer

The NH Suicide Prevention Council (NHSPC) is hosting a breakfast for lawmakers on Wednesday to push its social agenda which includes opposing parents’ rights, indoctrinating children with gender ideology, and sex-change procedures for minors. The council uses the trans suicide myth to blackmail lawmakers into voting against protecting children from gender ideology and experimental medicine … Read more

ACLU Admits to SCOTUS Gender Treatments Don’t Reduce Suicide

December 13, 2024December 12, 2024 Stephen Scaer

During arguments at the US Supreme Court case United States v. Skrmetti on December 4, ACLU attorney Chase Strangio admitted that puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries do nothing to reduce suicide among trans-identified youth. Related: NH Youth Will Die if Sununu Signs Bills, Suicide Prevention Council Threatens Citing England’s Cass Review, an exhaustive systematic review of … Read more

Tell NH Executive Council to Reject Radical State Librarian Nominee

November 29, 2024November 29, 2024 Stephen Scaer

Melinda “Mindy” Atwood, nominated for the position of New Hampshire state librarian by Gov. Chris Sununu, pushes the book ban myth, the American Library Association’s (ALA) weapon used to silence and humiliate anyone who objects to materials that sexualize children and push their radical agenda. Related: Our Libraries Queer Children In October 2023, Assistant State … Read more

NH Youth Will Die if Sununu Signs Bills, Suicide Prevention Council Threatens

July 5, 2024 Stephen Scaer

The NH Suicide Prevention Council (NHSPC) is lobbying against protecting children from genital mutilation and preserving girls’ sports and private spaces.

New Hampshire Woman Sues Doctors for Gruesome “Gender Affirming Care”

July 1, 2024 Stephen Scaer

A Jaffrey, NH detransitioner is suing the local clinicians who brushed aside concerns about her autism and severe mental health disorders and pushed her down a path of testosterone and harmful, unnecessary surgeries.

England Finds No Evidence for Transing Kids. Will Dartmouth Health Listen?

April 16, 2024 Stephen Scaer

There is no sound evidence that puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones improve mental health. “The reality is that we have no good evidence on the long-term outcomes of interventions to manage gender-related distress.”

Dartmouth Health Ignores the Evidence

April 8, 2024 Stephen Scaer

A recent op-ed “Truth about gender-affirming care for NH youth from Dartmouth Health Children’s” assures us Dartmouth’s practices are grounded in “evidence-based treatment protocols.”

Our Libraries Queer Children

April 6, 2024 Stephen Scaer

Publisher’s Weekly praises “Grandad’s Pride,” a children’s book for ages 4-8, available at local libraries, for how its “Bustling, bright-hued images with a rainbow motif” portrays various “gender expressions,” including men in bondage costumes with codpieces and a bearded woman with mastectomy scars.

Sorry, Ober. It’s Time to Scrap Gender Identity Laws

March 25, 2024 Stephen Scaer

In 2018, New Hampshire legislators granted minority status to anyone who claimed that he or she has a mismatched gender identity. They were caught up in the belief that they were promoting “community, inclusion, privacy, and freedom,” as Richard Ober, head of the NH Charitable Foundation, wrote in his recent Union Leader op-ed, “LGBTQ Granite Staters deserve to feel safe and welcome.”

Rotting from the Head Down: The American Academy of Pediatrics Gender Policy

January 9, 2024 Stephen Scaer

Trans rights activists assert that all of the major medical associations support what’s euphemistically labeled “Gender Affirming Care.” True, but these associations are ideologically corrupt, and none more so than the American Academy of Pediatrics.

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

November 19, 2023 Stephen Scaer

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”

November 16, 2023 Stephen Scaer

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.

Detransitioner Sues American Academy of Pediatrics for Fraud and Conspiracy

November 14, 2023October 30, 2023 Stephen Scaer

A detransitioner who, as a 14-year-old girl, was coerced into taking testosterone that left her with vaginal atrophy, weak bones, and possible infertility is suing the experts who harmed her for malpractice, civil conspiracy, and fraud.

Dartmouth Health Staff Accuse Pediatricians Concerned About Sterilizing Children of Transphobia

August 31, 2023 Stephen Scaer

Pediatricians who aren’t on board with pronouns, puberty blockers, and hormones are guilty of “transphobia” and need help, according to Dartmouth Health staff. They suggest pediatricians reflect on their “implicit bias” and that they “do some personal work in understanding how biases negatively affect the care they provide.”

Experts: Child Transing Doesn’t Reduce Suicide

July 19, 2023 Stephen Scaer

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 the euphemistically-called gender-affirming care for children improves well-being and reduces suicide.