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TDOV VideoTranscription with Time Stamps:
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it’s Trans Day of visibility
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and I am trans and I am a physician
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and I wanted to remind everyone that gender affirming care
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is medically necessary
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evidence based in life saving gender affirming care is not new medicine
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the first trans medicine clinic was opened in pre war Germany in 1919
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um since 1975
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there have been over 2,000 peer reviewed publications on the um
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benefits of gender affirming care and people across all ages
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260 of those studies have incited in the Enterprise Society practice guidelines
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who are like the gold standard
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and gender affirming care
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W Path has been released since the 70s
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and it is updated every few years
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to account for the newest research and literature
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we’re on standard of care eight
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adolescent gender affirming care
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the model we use was developed in the late 80s and early 90s
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and since then there have been studies that are published
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including over 55,000 participants
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that have indicated that adolescent gender forming care with medical transition
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um reduces risk of um
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depression and anxiety and suicidality
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suicide attempts
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and improves adolescent self esteem and general life functioning
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and let me be clear that reduction and suicide
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suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts last well into adulthood
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every major medical association in the United States um
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has a statement supporting gender affirming care
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there’s a lot of misinformation on the internet
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and driven by a lot of organizations
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that are funded and backed by really conservative political bodies um
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about gender affirming care
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about transgender medicine
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about adolescent gender affirming care um
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there
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there is no debate in the medicine or the science of our field
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no one who is actually investing in the medicine and the science of our field um
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thinks that this
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there’s questions about whether or not this care is beneficial to people
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there are medical experts
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who contend that gender affirming care is not useful for people
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and those are people actually paid by right wing organizations who generally
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most of the time
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actually don’t have the expertise or experience working with adolescence
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with gender dysphoria they miss quote science and research
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they use studies that are over 10 years old
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which FYI
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if you’re gonna present at a conference as a clinician
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your studies are supposed to be less than five years old
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that you reference um
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these studies that are over 10 years old
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that had less than 300 participants um
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that
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that give you that often cited number of 80% of trans and gender diverse youth
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don’t go on to be trans in adult head
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that is research using old criteria
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it had less than 300 participants
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and it’s misquoted
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and the authors of those people actually stayed at their misquote
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so if you or other people
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you know are getting confused by the misinformation that’s out there
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it’s understandable
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our brains actually take repeated information over authority and information um
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and so that’s why they do it
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because it works but if you’re getting confused
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come here see me
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talk to me I can help root you in what the actual research and literature shows
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and I also like to remind people
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you know the first western medicine clinic for gender care started in 1919
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but over 150 pre colonial cultures honored a gender outside the binary
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um and so transness
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gender diversity is an inherent part of who we are as humans
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um and it’s not new um
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it’s just like the call
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it’s just that the colonizers really needed a binary gender system um
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to really perpetuate
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and the inheritance of wealth and our generational wealth and power
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I mean that’s why we have this compulsory gender binary
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that is part of our current system
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happy t o d V
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TDOV oh gosh
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trans day of visibility acronyms are hard
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