Dr. Marcy Bowers

Well, this is now the update here, but let me get to that. But this is the problem with the, you know, with the Hopkins shutdown of all of the major U.S. academic institutions. Remember, after Hopkins' closure in 1979, trans care continued. But where did it continue? It continued in the hands of private practitioners like Stanley Biber, my predecessor, because these patients didn't go away.

Well, this is now the update here, but let me get to that. But this is the problem with the, you know, with the Hopkins shutdown of all of the major U.S. academic institutions. Remember, after Hopkins' closure in 1979, trans care continued. But where did it continue? It continued in the hands of private practitioners like Stanley Biber, my predecessor, because these patients didn't go away.

They needed care. And he didn't look at studies. He didn't look at guidelines or data because there was none. He treated the patient first. He took the basic responsibility of medicine, and that is to treat the patient first. Now, what's going on now, what the skeptics call social contagion, and then the flip from Birth identified males, birth identified females.

They needed care. And he didn't look at studies. He didn't look at guidelines or data because there was none. He treated the patient first. He took the basic responsibility of medicine, and that is to treat the patient first. Now, what's going on now, what the skeptics call social contagion, and then the flip from Birth identified males, birth identified females.

You know, that's the stuff that we have to drill down on. And that's the stuff that requires the WPATH standards to be really, really adhered to. But remember, we lost 35 years from this Hopkins closure. So expecting it to all return. And 80% of the literature in trans medicine has been published in the last 10 years. I mean, that's a number I've heard many, many times.

You know, that's the stuff that we have to drill down on. And that's the stuff that requires the WPATH standards to be really, really adhered to. But remember, we lost 35 years from this Hopkins closure. So expecting it to all return. And 80% of the literature in trans medicine has been published in the last 10 years. I mean, that's a number I've heard many, many times.

It's astounding how much is actually published. So for it to be dismissed by a haughty old retired pediatrician who frankly doesn't know the population and hasn't seen the light in the eye return to the patients they treat, that's what really makes it in a way, fatally flawed. Not that it can't be learned from, not that she had malintent.

It's astounding how much is actually published. So for it to be dismissed by a haughty old retired pediatrician who frankly doesn't know the population and hasn't seen the light in the eye return to the patients they treat, that's what really makes it in a way, fatally flawed. Not that it can't be learned from, not that she had malintent.

It's just that, you know, it's going to make it harder for people and it's going to lead to more misery. And it's being picked up by and misrepresented and taken out of context, but by the conservative states that want to just, you know, be done with trans people altogether.

It's just that, you know, it's going to make it harder for people and it's going to lead to more misery. And it's being picked up by and misrepresented and taken out of context, but by the conservative states that want to just, you know, be done with trans people altogether.

Everyone cares about the Republicans. My concern is with doing the right thing for the children and adolescents and families that this affects. That's what I'm interested in. And when reports come out that show this two-sided thing and the skepticism and the fact there's no evidence, this just adds steel to their fire. Yeah, but that's what I mean.

Everyone cares about the Republicans. My concern is with doing the right thing for the children and adolescents and families that this affects. That's what I'm interested in. And when reports come out that show this two-sided thing and the skepticism and the fact there's no evidence, this just adds steel to their fire. Yeah, but that's what I mean.

Instead of saying that this is a nascent field, relatively speaking, and that it is, you know, its research has been essentially squelched for the last 35 years because of a similar backlash in 1979. This is Johns Hopkins, 2.0.

Instead of saying that this is a nascent field, relatively speaking, and that it is, you know, its research has been essentially squelched for the last 35 years because of a similar backlash in 1979. This is Johns Hopkins, 2.0.

And it's all there because it doesn't lie. The truth really doesn't lie. The research and the data, it's certainly coming.

And it's all there because it doesn't lie. The truth really doesn't lie. The research and the data, it's certainly coming.