Jack Turban MD

“Embarrassing” and “horrifying”: CDC workers describe the new vaccines and autism page "The best way I can put it is it feels like we're on a hijacked airplane."

New from me: I talked to CDC staffers about the new vaccines and autism page. They said things like:

“The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”

“I think people are starting to see that we can’t fulfill our mission here.”

Thank you!

Yes - reposted!

The reputation of the US Department of Health and Human Services has been in a dramatic free-fall for the past several months. Its gender dysphoria report will surely make that worse. Rather than undertaking a serious analysis of the medical literature, HHS assembled a group of report authors that included a political scientist from a right-wing think tank. The report contains an egregious lack of understanding of psychiatric medicine. For instance, the report claims that that gender dysphoria is unique because the “diagnosis of gender dysphoria is based entirely on subjective self-reports and behavioral observations, without any objective physical, imaging, or laboratory markers." This is true for nearly all psychiatric conditions, including major depressive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, autism spectrum disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder, to name just a few. Surely the psychiatrist authors of this report should have known better. The most charitable assumption is that their work was rushed, as they note they were forced to be on a quick deadline. HHS wanted the report to be out ASAP, presumably to support the political goals outlined by Trump’s executive order related to gender dysphoria. The less charitable interpretation is that this was all about politics and thus science was sacrificed. - Jack Turban MD, pediatric psychiatrist and author of the book Free to Be: Understanding Kids & Gender Identity

Wow

BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!

We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org

they say "transgender ideology" instead of "transgender people" because it sounds better to attack an abstract idea rather than a group of people that exist in our society

Also testosterone and estrogen change secondary sex characteristics. They don’t change your chromosomes. These are just a collection of observable scientific facts, not an “ideology.”

This whole charade from Texas is absurd.

Both my textbook from Springer Nature and my trade book from Simon & Schuster are full of citations to peer-reviewed scientific articles. What are we even talking about here, Texas?

Twin studies, whole exome studies, clinical research studies using validated psychometrics, the list goes on…

If someone says “gender ideology” one more time like it means something, I’m going to lose my mind.

Stop pretending like there’s not an entire scientific literature on gender identity and gender dysphoria.

They’re trying to ban the teaching of that scientific literature.

As a reminder, the Olympics have had rules allowing #trans people to complete since 2004.

A single trans woman has yet to medal.

So far my book is still available in Tennessee libraries. We’ll see if they last.

Misinformation about #trans kids is spreading like wildfire

I’m a Harvard-trained psychiatrist & researcher who has spent a decade working in this space

My new book Free to Be: Understanding [The Science Medicine & Politics of] Kids & Gender Identity is available now:

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So many legacy democrats are about to get primaried.

The essential government interest in this case is “being mean to trans people”

bills*

Reminder: the focus on #trans people is entirely from Republicans. They’ve introduced almost 1,000 bill per year about trans people and Dems have hardly introduced any at all.

More train wrecks from this administration.

Well this is about as clear as day and yet completely lost on the conservative court majority.

😂😂😂

Spectacular Republican losses prove MAGA's transphobic playbook doesn't win elections Across the country, voters chose inclusion, empathy, and competence over cruelty and division.

Today’s election results make one thing clear: Americans are rejecting divisive politics that target LGBTQ people and instead demanding leadership that focuses on the issues that matter for all Americans, including affordability, family, and freedom.
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The Evidence for Gender-affirming Medical Interventions for Transgender Adolescents Research suggests gender-affirming medical care results in better mental health. Here are the studies.

🚨New Study Added🚨

A new study published in the Journal of Pediatrics of 432 #trans adolescents and young adults receiving gender-affirming hormone therapy found statistically significant reductions in suicidality following treatment.

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Elon Endorses Cuomo, with pictures of Adnrew Cuomo and Elon Musk

Another big endorsement for Andrew Cuomo. And it only cost $959 million in tax breaks.

Ooo no but I will now

Close - Samoyed

Weird how that works!

Oh Gavin

Ooo I could maybe get into a Pokémon one