The SCOTUS decision today on the Idaho gender affirming care ban wasn't about the care. It was a wholesale attack on civil rights jurisprudence that will allow states to wantonly violate constitutional rights while judicial relief is severely restricted.

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Crazy how we have a bunch of famous, successful, happy trans people that transitioned as kids and they're never part of the conversation about how gender affirming care helps trans kids. Hunter Schafer, Kim Petras, Nicole Maines, Elliot Fletcher, Ian Alexander etc.

Timeline cleanse.

Kodi’s #psychiatry fact of the day: clozapine lowers the seizure threshold; be careful with patients who have seizure risk (eg, risk of alcohol withdrawal). #medtwitter

In a related weird medicine story, bremelanotide was originally developed for sunless tanning but didn’t work for that and was instead FDA approved for hypoactive sexual desire disorder. #medtwitter #psychiatry

Really, comments disabled on this broad assertion? What specifically are you referencing?

This came in my Sephora order, and I’m feeling scared.

Kodi’s #psychiatry fact of the day: SSRIs should not cause emotional blunting. If this is happening, tell your doctor! It often warrants a switch to a different medication.

#medtwitter #mentalhealth

My patients are quite happy with their hormone therapy.

They’re quite unhappy with all the negative things being said about them in the media.

Can we work on fixing the latter, please?

Out of 3499 patients audited by the Cass Review, only 10 detransitioned and they only spoke to 2 to find out why. Once again, detransition is proven to be incredibly rare.

That's a detransition rate of 0.2% which is in line with several studies.

🚨 New Study Alert! 🚨 We are excited to announce the latest #ThePRIDEStudyResearch led by Nguyen K. Tran, PhD, MPH: Experiences of Conversion Practice by Race, Ethnicity, and Gender 🌈🔬

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#PrideInHealth #LGBTQIA

Very happy to see this piece published with Chase Anderson, MD, MS (K.C. Ardem) 🦸🏽‍♂️🏳️‍🌈 and Jack Turban MD on an important study of the impact of 'conversion therapy' in exacerbating disparities.
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