Your Receipts #2

Thank you for continuing to send your receipts, which I’ll keep sharing. Kara Dansky had the brilliant idea of making a Receipts tab where they will live permanently, so I’ll do that soon.

A compendium of rejected pitches and letters to mainstream Canadian outlets can be found here: “Parent Account: Mainstream Media Ignore Parent Concerns and Mounting Evidence that GAC is Harming Children.”

Journalist pitches to NY Times:

From: XXXX
Date: Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 2:17 PM

Subject: Ideas

Hi XXX

Exploring gender during adolescence. The other idea I find myself thinking about a lot these days is how teens are exploring gender. Many of my own teenager’s friends are identifying as nonbinary (as they/them) and I’m wondering why this is becoming so common versus when I was an adolescent. What is driving this? In my limited experience, it appears that many of the kids are rejecting our society’s binary, gendered norms. I was taught, as a young girl, that girls could do or be anything, just as boys could. For this generation of teens, that seems to be shifting. Gender is both fluid for some kids and irrelevant for others. What is at the heart of this wave of questioning? And how can we parent our teens through this somewhat uncharted territory?

For this article I would talk to developmental psychologists, gender experts, and people in the trans community for their perspectives. I think many parents may be facing this new territory and wondering how to support their children as they evolve.

Thank you so much for considering these ideas,

XXX

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On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 11:55 AM - XXX wrote:

Subject: Huge increase in top surgery for trans youth and majority are white adolescent girls -JAMA Pediatrics

Hi XXX,

Just wondering if you’ve seen this new study (attached). I wanted to send it along because I honestly think it’s an important issue to cover.

(We’re dealing with a lot of gender questioning in my house- -with my pre-teen and teenage kids- - and it’s no surprise since it is everywhere and all over tiktok, etc.)

This study shows a huge increase in top surgeries for teens between 2016 and 2019 (which doesn’t even include the continued rise in trans-identifying kids in the years since 2019):

“Between 2016 and 2019, the annual num- ber of gender-affirming chest surgeries increased by 389% (100