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- 18 Sie 2020
Idaho’s ban on males in women’s sports, Hecox v. Little, hit the 9th Circuit court yesterday.
My highlights from the full video (link is corrected, thank you @remiem ):• Based Judge verbally spanks Chase Strangio several times. "Some of this just seems silly!" - Judge Kleinfeld
• the troon suing the State of Idaho, “Lindsay” (Bryce Patrick) Hecox has dropped out of Boise State and did not make the women’s track team- Based Judge asks what is even left to decide?
• Chase Strangio has no declaration or written statement ready to go RE: Hecox dropping out or not making the team, looks unprepared and foolish
• Chase’s audio and internet repeatedly cut out- she is warned it’s difficult to hear her, but eventually the judges stop pointing it out, as it’s clearly not making a difference in her incoherent, unfocused ranting
• Chase repeatedly goes into the weeds on hormone levels and is rebuffed several times by the judge with basic facts (like men have bigger hearts/lungs, etc, just basic shit, cry about it
Chase)
• Chase’s girly, whiny, extremely feminine voice against the male judges and attorneys. Hilarious. I listened to some without video and just.. wow.
via NPR
Idaho's Transgender Sports Ban Faces A Major Legal Hurdle
Updated May 3, 20217:36 PM ET
Heard on Morning Edition
Melissa Block
Madison Kenyon (left), who is cisgender, runs track and cross-country at Idaho State University. She supports Idaho's transgender sports ban. Lindsay Hecox (right) is transgender and hopes to make the women's track and cross-country teams at Boise State University.
Alliance Defending Freedom; Joshua Roper/American Civil Liberties Union
Do transgender women and girls have a constitutional right to play on women's sports teams? That question was argued before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday.
The landmark case stems from an Idaho law passed last year — the nation's first transgender sports ban.
For plaintiff Lindsay Hecox, a student at Boise State University, the answer to that question is clear. She is transgender, and Idaho's law, if upheld, would prohibit her from competing on women's teams.
"I'm just a 20-year-old girl, and I just want to be able to compete," she says. "It was just so blatantly wrong for politicians to legislate this."
But 19-year-old Madison Kenyon, who is cisgender, takes the opposite view. She runs track and cross-country at Idaho State University, and signed on as a party in the case, asking that Idaho's law be upheld.
"To step on the field and have it not be fair and to get beat by someone who has advantages that you'll never have, no matter how hard you train — it's so frustrating," Kenyon says. "What I'm fighting for is to preserve the integrity in women's sports and to make sure that it's a fair playing field."
A flurry of state laws
Idaho's Fairness in Women's Sports Act, signed into law in March 2020, would categorically prohibit transgender women and girls from kindergarten through college from competing on teams that align with their gender identity, including on intramural and club teams.
That law never went into effect. U.S. District Judge David Nye issued an injunction in August, writing that the plaintiffs who challenged the law are "likely to succeed in establishing the Act is unconstitutional as currently written."
The outcome of this case is seen as a bellwether for the numerous other transgender sports bans that have been approved around the country this year.
Governors in five states — Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee and West Virginia — have signed bills similar to Idaho's into law. Bills in Florida and Montana await those governors' signatures. In South Dakota, Gov. Kristi Noem vetoed anti-trans sports legislation but issued restrictive executive orders in its place.
"I'm just a 20-year-old girl, and I just want to be able to compete," Hecox says. "It was just so blatantly wrong for politicians to legislate this."
Joshua Roper/American Civil Liberties Union
"Think about us as real people"
The Idaho case before the federal appellate court is Hecox v. Little.
Little is Brad Little, Idaho's Republican governor, who signed the legislation. Lindsay Hecox signed on as plaintiff, she says, because "it would have been terrible to not take the opportunity to fight for something that I believe in."
Hecox ran track and cross-country in high school, competing on boys' teams before she transitioned. Now that she's medically suppressing her testosterone levels, she says she's seen her athletic performance level decline.
"I know I'm not as fast as I used to be," she says. "And when they have that presented to them and they still don't want me to run, it's just downright exclusionary. I don't know how else to convince someone if they still think I have an advantage that's not there."
Hecox hopes the judges considering the appeal will "think about us as real people," she says, adding, "I think trans people can be such a bogeyman sometimes."
A debate over physical advantage
Kenyon and a fellow Idaho State runner, Mary Marshall, are represented in the appeal by the conservative Christian advocacy group Alliance Defending Freedom.
The group's legal counsel, Christiana Holcomb, frames the Idaho law in the context of Title IX, the landmark 1972 law that prohibits sex discrimination in education.
"We've had women's sports as a separate category for nearly 50 years and have had no issues being able to determine who and what a woman is," Holcomb says. "We want to ensure that we protect women based on their sex, so that they have those opportunities Title IX was designed to provide them."
Holcomb argues that even with testosterone suppression, transgender women athletes still retain an absolute physical advantage.
"It only takes one biological male competing in women's sports to take the state championship title," Holcomb says. "It only takes three to knock women off the podium altogether."
However, in his ruling blocking Idaho's trans sports ban, Nye knocked those arguments down. It remains a matter of "significant dispute," the judge wrote, whether "transgender women who suppress their testosterone have significant physiological advantages over cisgender women."
What's more, he wrote, the notion that transgender women athletes are robbing their competitors of victory is not supported by the facts.
"The Proponents' failure to identify any evidence of transgender women causing purported sexual inequality other than four athletes (at least three of whom have notably lost to cisgender women) is striking," Nye wrote.
Nye also noted that Idaho's categorical ban on transgender women athletes "stands in stark contrast to the policies of elite athletic bodies that regulate sports both nationally and globally" — including the NCAA and the International Olympic Committee.
Those elite athletic organizations allow transgender women to compete on women's teams if they've met certain criteria in suppressing their testosterone levels.
Appearing virtually before the three-judge appeals court panel on Monday, attorney Roger Brooks with Alliance Defending Freedom argued that the district court got it wrong. Those elite sporting organizations' regulations, Brooks said, don't go far enough in reducing innate physiological advantages. "There are important changes — height, bone size, strength, bone strength — there are bells you can't unring when it comes to going through male puberty," he told the judges.
Idaho, Brooks concluded, was "well within its rights to look at the policies ... to look at the science ... and say, 'you know what? That's not good enough to protect safety ... and fairness for girls and women in Idaho.' "
Arguing on the other side — in opposition to the Idaho law — was Chase Strangio, deputy director for trans justice with the American Civil Liberties Union.
Strangio told the judges, "By design the [Idaho] law utilizes... a gerrymandered definition of biological sex. ... The entirety of the legislative debate surrounding the law and the singular effect of the law is to exclude transgender women and girls, and only transgender women and girls, from sports altogether."
This, the ACLU claims, violates the Equal Protection clause of the 14th amendment.
"Ultimately," Strangio concluded, "this is a law that harms all women and girls, and the district court did not abuse its discretion in concluding that it ... violates the constitution."
The humiliation of sex verification
Under Idaho's law, if the sex of a female athlete — whether transgender or not — is disputed, she would be subject to sex verification, a process District Judge Nye called "potentially invasive" and "humiliating."
In an interview with NPR last week, Strangio said the law "imposes upon all women and girls the threat of intrusive and burdensome sex verification and dispute procedures that simply cannot be squared with the Constitution."
With 33 state legislatures introducing trans sports bans this year, Strangio sees Idaho's law as part of a broad, well-coordinated agenda targeting trans youth.
"I think we'll ultimately look back on this chapter and see it for what it was," Strangio said, "which was fear driven by misinformation and just simple confusion about a subset of women and girls who are already facing so much discrimination and just want to play sports with their peers."
The Idaho bill was sponsored by Republican state Rep. Barbara Ehardt, a former college basketball player and longtime coach, working in tandem with Alliance Defending Freedom.
"Some have labeled these as transgender bills, falsely so. I don't see that at all," Ehardt says. "This legislation, it doesn't care how you identify. That's the beauty of it. You can identify however you want. This is all about sex, because in the arena of sport, one's biological sex matters. It just simply does. You can't get around that."
After her legislation passed, Ehardt testified before other states' legislatures in support of bills with language that closely mirrors Idaho's law.
"I've been pleased to see how many other states this year have followed, and many of them using the exact legislation or maybe slight deviations of what we did here in Idaho," Ehardt says.
With such an uneven landscape emerging from state to state, parties on both sides promise more legal challenges to come. University of Toledo political science professor Jami Taylor, co-author of the book The Remarkable Rise of Transgender Rights, is among many who expect this question will ultimately be resolved by the courts.
"It's not unusual for morality politics-related policies to just spread across the country like wildfire," Taylor says. "And we've seen that to some extent. The question is how long the courts are going to allow us to have this sort of patchwork in the states."
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- Dołączono
- 18 Lut 2019
From the San Francisco Chronicle came this fact:
- Dołączono
- 26 Sty 2019
I assume it's this.
How can chase be on T to the point of looking like that yet still sound so completely female. If you weren't watching the screen you'd NEVER make the assumption that was a man with that voice. It's like the cosmos aligned to make her never pass in the asset that is most important to her career, how she sounds.
- Dołączono
- 4 Gru 2018
I don’t know enough about FTM T doping, but she could just be on a very low dose— probably because deep down she knows how destructive testosterone is to female bodies.
Her mustache, which is the only masculine signifier she has, is likely filled in each morning with a brow pencil. For a thin woman who works out she has no muscle tone, no receding hairline, no voice change, which makes me wonder if she’s even on T at all. Lose the facial hair and she’s just a woman with a dumb haircut.
- Dołączono
- 18 Lis 2019
This was 100% worth watching for that judge and his zingers alone. Listening to Kate Strangio's female-impersonating-a-gay-male-lisp was icing on the cake. I don't believe I've ever heard her talk before this.
- Dołączono
- 4 Wrz 2019
This is one of the things that always gets me. They act like they're going to be doing fucking genital inspections to verify this shit.
EVERYBODY IS ABLE TO TELL! THEY NEVER PASS, AND CANNOT PASS BECAUSE THEIR BODIES ARE LITERALLY BORN A SPECIFIC SEX!
There are so many visual markers of sex that they can be wearing a conservative outfit and we'll till know it's a dude!
DumbDude42
kiwifarms.net
- Dołączono
- 12 Wrz 2019
yeah they make it out like its some lunatic "all your kids will have to go through genital inspection at school now" shit when in reality it just creates a possibility to defy tranny intrusion by putting the burden of proof on them
a lot of their arguments to be let into womens sports so far boil down to "but you cant PROVE that im no a real woman so you have to let me in"
this now shifts that dynamic, now if there's a dispute about whether you're a woman or not, it's on you to prove that. for real women this is so trivial and easy it's barely even an inconvenience, at worst they ask their family doctor to sign a letter and that's it, but that wont even happen because nobody would randomly dispute their sex in the first place, cause its fucking obvious and just a waste of time lol
DoTheDrew
kiwifarms.net
- Dołączono
- 8 Lut 2020
Terfy Twitter has spent some time spanking the UK trade mag The Bookseller for their reporting on an anonymous letter. This is just the beginning:
The mag starts with a meandering article of their own and then prints (what they say is) an edited version of the (anonymous) (open) letter. No, a group of anonymous cowards print a fact-free exploration of every offensive stereotype, equating troonism to "'homosexuals, Jews, disabled people, people of colour, Muslims, suffragettes, even left-handed people in our past”.
Yup. They really did that.
It's like Spinal Tap Mk II, a free-form jazz exploration, except the medium is emotional blackmail.
Anyway, wanted to post it, so you could have a look at some undiluted transplaining. It manages to be both hilariously overwrought and incredibly tedious. This was not written by a gay man.
The mag starts with a meandering article of their own and then prints (what they say is) an edited version of the (anonymous) (open) letter. No, a group of anonymous cowards print a fact-free exploration of every offensive stereotype, equating troonism to "'homosexuals, Jews, disabled people, people of colour, Muslims, suffragettes, even left-handed people in our past”.
Yup. They really did that.
It's like Spinal Tap Mk II, a free-form jazz exploration, except the medium is emotional blackmail.
Anyway, wanted to post it, so you could have a look at some undiluted transplaining. It manages to be both hilariously overwrought and incredibly tedious. This was not written by a gay man.
- Dołączono
- 16 Lut 2016
There we go, this is why it is impossible to let this shit fly outside of government. If you let it fly, it shows up in a lawsuit later that it was allowed to fly and therefore a fact in evidence. And there we go, a judge ruling in favor of IT'S MA'AM.
- Dołączono
- 28 Gru 2014
This doesn't look good for the plaintiffs. The panel is Kim McClane Wardlaw, a Clinton appointee, Andrew Kleinfeld, a Bush appointee, and Ronald M. Gould, a Clinton appointee. Of course, they're all boomers, and this troon shit has more or less spread like a plague in just the last few years, but even a geezer older than a boomer like Biden is solidly on the troon train.
It's possible an older woman will be less convinced by this bullshit if the plaintiff has made the case well.
Video: https://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/media/
It should be up tomorrow if you want to see what happened.
I wouldn't be at all surprised to see a 2-1 decision here, after a straight party line vote with the two Democratic appointees in the majority. From the Ninth Circuit, the most reversed Circuit in the country, a dissent is more or less sending up a Bat Signal to SCOTUS.
I'll watch the video when it shows up and see if I can discern what direction they're leaning. Sometimes their questions or demeanor give it away.
Here's the appellee's opening brief, which I haven't read yet.
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- Dołączono
- 16 Gru 2019
We got another "IT'S MA'AM" type deal situation
queue-anon
kiwifarms.net
- Dołączono
- 13 Sty 2019
Also, it's pretty easy to tell when trannies blow through the female competition. Trust your own eyes, and, in the event a "woman" is doing too well, demand a DNA test. Worst case, a well-passing tranny holds himself back like Dash at the end of The Incredibles, which is what trannies should have been doing from the beginning, but they're too egotistical and vindictive for that.
Ozone
kiwifarms.net
- Dołączono
- 24 Sie 2019
Sweden Ends the Use of Puberty Blockers for <16: New policy statement from the Karolinska Hospital
sweden becomes the first country to stop the use of the "Dutch protocol" for treating gender dysphoric minors over concerns of medical harm
The Karolinska Hospital in Sweden recently issued a new policy statement regarding treatment of gender dysphoric minors at its pediatric gender services division. This policy, which took effect in April 2021, ended the practice of prescribing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for minors under age 16. Hormonal intervention for youth ages 16-18 is still allowed, but can only occur in research settings approved by Sweden’s ethics review board, following a thorough informed consent that discloses the significant risks and uncertainties of hormonal interventions, and considers the minor’s maturity level and ability to provide true informed consent.
This is a watershed moment. Sweden is the first country to explicitly stop following the Dutch protocol, which allows for administration of puberty blockers at age 12 (and increasingly, as young as 8-9, at the early stage of puberty known as Tanner 2), and cross-sex hormones at the age of 16. It also is the first country to officially deviate from WPATH guidance. WPATH has long positioned itself as the world authority in transgender health. However, in recent months, several countries’ health authorities have conducted their own reviews of the evidence and found the evidence insufficient to justify early medical interventions promoted by WPATH’s guidelines.
Sweden’s new policy is consistent with Finland’s recently revised guidelines, which were changed to prioritize psychological interventions and support rather than medical interventions, particularly for youth with no childhood history of gender dysphoria (presently the most common presentation). Significant changes are also underway in the UK, following the High Court ruling that deemed hormonal interventions for minors experimental, and cautioned that minors are rarely able to provide truly informed consent for interventions with such profound life-long consequences. The NHS (National Health Service) has recently suspended the initiation of hormonal interventions to minors under 16. The ruling is currently under appeal, with a hearing scheduled for June 2021.
In the US, the debate about the treatment for gender dysphoric minors has become politicized, with some states introducing laws banning the use of various hormonal interventions in minors, while other states perusing legislation to ban psychological treatment modalities for gender dysphoria. As international awareness of the low quality of evidence of the benefits and the potential harm of medical interventions in gender-dysphoric minors grows, the focus is expected to shift to the non-invasive options for ameliorating distress, such as the provision of ethical psychological treatments and support.
The original announcement of the new policy obtained by SEGM, as well as the unofficial translation, are below:
Karolinska_Policy_Statement_Swedish.pdf
Karolinska _Policy_Statement_English.pdf
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- Dołączono
- 12 Mar 2021
Well, puberty blockers are out entirely then. No use pausing it at 16.
This makes me happy. Unfortunately the note about the issue being "politicized" in the US is true and will probably make us slower on this (red states not withstanding).
- Dołączono
- 16 Sie 2019
The explicit rejection of the “Dutch protocol“ and disregard for WPATH’s self-appointed status is very good news, though. The spell everyone’s under needs those components to maintain itself. As more people realize that this was all smoke and mirrors and there has never been any evidence or proper research into well, literally everything associated with the troon agenda, and that every organization behind it is a scam, it gives others space to poke their heads up and think a bit.
- Dołączono
- 4 Sty 2021
Ex-AFL coach Dani Laidley sues Victoria Police over leaked image
Former North Melbourne player and coach Dani Laidley is suing Victoria Police, alleging she was exposed to “humiliation and ridicule” when officers leaked photos of her in custody.
www.news.com.au
I like the court sketch better ...
- Dołączono
- 12 Mar 2021
YES. Classifying it all as "experimental" is a good move. And I think it's interesting that they jumped before they were forced to by a court. It means they're worried about causing harm and legitimately don't want to go in that direction.
- Dołączono
- 10 Wrz 2017
I'm assuming this statement means that Sweden is the first country to retract from the protocol. It makes it sound like Sweden is the only country in the world that prohibits it.
- Dołączono
- 21 Lis 2020
Troons mad.
www.corvallisadvocate.com
A Patient’s Case Against Dr. Bryce Cleary, Op-Ed
“You might regret it,” he said. “And then what?”
I was sitting in my doctor’s office. Internal medicine. The Corvallis Clinic. My primary care provider was refusing me treatment.
When I first started penning this piece, I wanted it to read like a scene from a movie. I wanted to portray things with color and emotion. I wanted to put my two creative writing degrees to good use. But dramatic reenactment is not the right approach. I need to be direct with you.
On August 5, 2019, I visited Dr. Bryce Cleary for help with gender dysphoria. I had, through years of therapy and self-work, come to the realization that I was transgender. Twenty-six years of presenting as a man – twenty-six years of waking up defeated – had led me to my primary care physician’s office in search of help. I was terrified.
A byproduct of trying to stay hidden for so many years is the heightened ability to read emotions. When I told Dr. Cleary that I wanted to begin hormone replacement therapy, his eyes told me all that I needed to know. They gave him up by growing wide.
If he wasn’t downright scared, he was shocked.
“I can’t go against my ethics,” he said. We were only a few feet from each other, cramped into one of those tiny Asbury Building exam rooms. “There’s just not enough science out there.”
I am a resourceful woman. I’m smart. I know how to look up scholarly, peer-reviewed studies, do my own research, inform myself. I did not go into his office ignorant, which is why the doctor’s ignorance still sits with me. There is science out there. Tons of it.
Dr. Cleary asked, “What if you get testicular cancer?”
The science says that male-to-female hormone replacement therapy reduces the likelihood of not only testicular cancer, but prostate cancer as well. This is according to the UCSF Transgender Care guidelines, which sources seven independent studies conducted between 2006 and 2015.
Dr. Cleary told me, “Almost half end up regretting it and detransitioning.”
The science says that only between 0.3% and 3.8% of people who undergo a medical transition regret doing so. Typically, that regret stems not from their own decisions, but rather from the social and familial ramifications endured while within transphobic environments. This is according to the Cornell University’s “What We Know” repository – which summarizes the findings of fifty-five primary sources.
Dr. Cleary said, “Just the other week, a transgender woman who had vocal feminization surgery was in the emergency room. She developed a throat infection. It got nasty. She almost died.”
The science says that only 14% of transgender women undergo vocal feminization surgery. This is according to a study conducted by the Yeson Voice Center and housed in the National Center for Biotechnology Information. This surgery was not on my radar. It was not why I was visiting him. Additionally, don’t all surgeries come with some degree of risk?
Dr. Cleary, who is now vying for a position of power – a position, mind you, that directly impacts the well-being of our community’s children – was trying to dissuade me with misinformation. Nothing he said on that day followed the World Professional Association for Transgender Health Standards of Care. Nothing he said that day aligned with fact or science.
Nothing that Dr. Bryce Cleary said that day helped me.
I can still pull up the visit summary. Reason for visit: None recorded. Discussion note: None recorded. Patient educational handouts: No information available. Medications administered: None recorded. The following list includes any diagnoses that were discussed at your visit: Gender dysphoria.
On that day, Dr. Cleary provided me with false data, cited incorrect information, and used fear tactics to deny me the medically accepted treatment for the condition I suffered from.
I say “suffered” because the past tense is appropriate. I am two years into my social transition and one and a half years into my medical transition. I no longer suffer, but not because of him. He had gatekept my health with falsehoods. He failed me as a healthcare provider.
Now, he wants to be placed on the school board where he can reverse the progress that has been made to protect children who are like me – children trying to find themselves and live their best lives.
Listen, I have two degrees in writing. I’ve been published in journals. I’ve read my own work for an audience, then defended that work in front of a committee. Yet these words are the hardest I have ever had to put to paper. And I say “had to” because I had to.
I am a twenty-seven-year-old trans woman and a transplant to this town. Dr. Cleary has been practicing medicine for longer than I’ve been alive. He’s embedded in this community. He’s on the Board of Directors for our little league. He’s a volunteer physician for our high schools.
This is a game of David and Goliath by societal standards, and in comparison, I am no one.
He is someone – maybe your doctor, maybe your neighbor, maybe your friend – and he has power and influence over lives like mine. I am willingly outing myself to our community because I cannot stand by and allow a man wielding faulty science and misinformation to be put into a position that can negatively affect transgender and gender non-conforming children in this community.
Dr. Bryce Cleary told me I might regret it if I transitioned. He told me he just couldn’t do it. In a way, by denying me, he was telling me transitioning was more dangerous than the risk of suicide if I didn’t.
On the other hand, he did not tell me there was a doctor down the hall – someone practicing medicine in the same clinic as him – who specialized in LGBT healthcare. He didn’t ask his colleague. He didn’t refer me out. He simply shook my hand, logged off his computer, and sent me on my way.
On August 5, 2019, in that little exam room, I believe Dr. Cleary let his prejudice get in the way of providing me life-saving medical care. This same prejudice on our school board will undoubtedly get in the way of making sure that transgender and gender non-conforming students are safe at school.
Please join me in voting against that kind of future for our children.
Sloane Rittner works in legal administration. She holds degrees from Miami University and Oregon State University. Native to Ohio, Sloane moved to Corvallis in hopes of pursuing a better life within a more accepting community. In her free time, Sloane enjoys riding her motorcycle, kicking the soccer ball around, and reading about mythical beasts and monsters.
Guest Submission By Sloane Rittner
Advocate staff attempted to contact Bryce Cleary for comment, and at press time, he had not responded.
I was sitting in my doctor’s office. Internal medicine. The Corvallis Clinic. My primary care provider was refusing me treatment.
When I first started penning this piece, I wanted it to read like a scene from a movie. I wanted to portray things with color and emotion. I wanted to put my two creative writing degrees to good use. But dramatic reenactment is not the right approach. I need to be direct with you.
On August 5, 2019, I visited Dr. Bryce Cleary for help with gender dysphoria. I had, through years of therapy and self-work, come to the realization that I was transgender. Twenty-six years of presenting as a man – twenty-six years of waking up defeated – had led me to my primary care physician’s office in search of help. I was terrified.
A byproduct of trying to stay hidden for so many years is the heightened ability to read emotions. When I told Dr. Cleary that I wanted to begin hormone replacement therapy, his eyes told me all that I needed to know. They gave him up by growing wide.
If he wasn’t downright scared, he was shocked.
“I can’t go against my ethics,” he said. We were only a few feet from each other, cramped into one of those tiny Asbury Building exam rooms. “There’s just not enough science out there.”
I am a resourceful woman. I’m smart. I know how to look up scholarly, peer-reviewed studies, do my own research, inform myself. I did not go into his office ignorant, which is why the doctor’s ignorance still sits with me. There is science out there. Tons of it.
Dr. Cleary asked, “What if you get testicular cancer?”
The science says that male-to-female hormone replacement therapy reduces the likelihood of not only testicular cancer, but prostate cancer as well. This is according to the UCSF Transgender Care guidelines, which sources seven independent studies conducted between 2006 and 2015.
Dr. Cleary told me, “Almost half end up regretting it and detransitioning.”
The science says that only between 0.3% and 3.8% of people who undergo a medical transition regret doing so. Typically, that regret stems not from their own decisions, but rather from the social and familial ramifications endured while within transphobic environments. This is according to the Cornell University’s “What We Know” repository – which summarizes the findings of fifty-five primary sources.
Dr. Cleary said, “Just the other week, a transgender woman who had vocal feminization surgery was in the emergency room. She developed a throat infection. It got nasty. She almost died.”
The science says that only 14% of transgender women undergo vocal feminization surgery. This is according to a study conducted by the Yeson Voice Center and housed in the National Center for Biotechnology Information. This surgery was not on my radar. It was not why I was visiting him. Additionally, don’t all surgeries come with some degree of risk?
Dr. Cleary, who is now vying for a position of power – a position, mind you, that directly impacts the well-being of our community’s children – was trying to dissuade me with misinformation. Nothing he said on that day followed the World Professional Association for Transgender Health Standards of Care. Nothing he said that day aligned with fact or science.
Nothing that Dr. Bryce Cleary said that day helped me.
I can still pull up the visit summary. Reason for visit: None recorded. Discussion note: None recorded. Patient educational handouts: No information available. Medications administered: None recorded. The following list includes any diagnoses that were discussed at your visit: Gender dysphoria.
On that day, Dr. Cleary provided me with false data, cited incorrect information, and used fear tactics to deny me the medically accepted treatment for the condition I suffered from.
I say “suffered” because the past tense is appropriate. I am two years into my social transition and one and a half years into my medical transition. I no longer suffer, but not because of him. He had gatekept my health with falsehoods. He failed me as a healthcare provider.
Now, he wants to be placed on the school board where he can reverse the progress that has been made to protect children who are like me – children trying to find themselves and live their best lives.
Listen, I have two degrees in writing. I’ve been published in journals. I’ve read my own work for an audience, then defended that work in front of a committee. Yet these words are the hardest I have ever had to put to paper. And I say “had to” because I had to.
I am a twenty-seven-year-old trans woman and a transplant to this town. Dr. Cleary has been practicing medicine for longer than I’ve been alive. He’s embedded in this community. He’s on the Board of Directors for our little league. He’s a volunteer physician for our high schools.
This is a game of David and Goliath by societal standards, and in comparison, I am no one.
He is someone – maybe your doctor, maybe your neighbor, maybe your friend – and he has power and influence over lives like mine. I am willingly outing myself to our community because I cannot stand by and allow a man wielding faulty science and misinformation to be put into a position that can negatively affect transgender and gender non-conforming children in this community.
Dr. Bryce Cleary told me I might regret it if I transitioned. He told me he just couldn’t do it. In a way, by denying me, he was telling me transitioning was more dangerous than the risk of suicide if I didn’t.
On the other hand, he did not tell me there was a doctor down the hall – someone practicing medicine in the same clinic as him – who specialized in LGBT healthcare. He didn’t ask his colleague. He didn’t refer me out. He simply shook my hand, logged off his computer, and sent me on my way.
On August 5, 2019, in that little exam room, I believe Dr. Cleary let his prejudice get in the way of providing me life-saving medical care. This same prejudice on our school board will undoubtedly get in the way of making sure that transgender and gender non-conforming students are safe at school.
Please join me in voting against that kind of future for our children.
Sloane Rittner works in legal administration. She holds degrees from Miami University and Oregon State University. Native to Ohio, Sloane moved to Corvallis in hopes of pursuing a better life within a more accepting community. In her free time, Sloane enjoys riding her motorcycle, kicking the soccer ball around, and reading about mythical beasts and monsters.
Guest Submission By Sloane Rittner
Advocate staff attempted to contact Bryce Cleary for comment, and at press time, he had not responded.
A Patient’s Case Against Dr. Bryce Cleary, Op-Ed - The Corvallis Advocate
“You might regret it,” he said. “And then what?” I was sitting in my doctor’s office. Internal medicine. The Corvallis Clinic. My primary care provider was refusing me treatment. When I first started penning this piece, I wanted it to read like a scene from a movie. I wanted to portray things...
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