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A recent article in a venerable American magazine expresses the belief that suffering can be relieved through sex reassignments, and yet it has inspired a volley of angry tweets and articles from trans activists. Why? Because of the author of the Atlantic piece , Jesse Singal, interviews women who have regretted their transgender treatments, parents who resisted pressure to allow their minor children hormone therapy, and sex-reassignment therapists who urge caution. Victor Manuel Markoff tweeted, “F(***) off with this transphobia. And on pride month too. This article and cover are an absolute disgrace. You should be ashamed of yourself.” Parker Malloy tweeted, “This guy’s one-man crusade against trans people has gone on for years. It really doesn’t make sense. Sad that the Atlantic gave him a cover story to spread his pseudoscience and bigotry.” Harron Walker of Jezebel magazine got in on the Singal-bashing action by writing “a lot of trans people, myself included, loathe his cove

Increasingly, gender therapists and physicians argue that children as young as nine should be given puberty-blocking drugs if they experience gender dysphoria. But  a new article by three medical experts  reveals that there is little scientific evidence to support such a radical procedure. The article, “ Growing Pains: Problems with Puberty Suppression in Treating Gender Dysphoria ,” published Tuesday in The New Atlantis , discusses over 50 peer-reviewed studies on gender dysphoria in children . It is co-authored by Dr. Paul W. Hruz, a professor at Washington University School of Medicine , Dr. Lawrence S. Mayer, a scholar in residence at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a professor at Arizona State University , and Dr. Paul R. McHugh , University Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Last year, Mayer and McHugh  published an extensive report on sexuality and gender in general . Now, working