Gender-Critical Policy Causes Brain Damage in Trans Youth

Interventions designed to prevent, halt, or reverse non-cisgender experiences are known as conversion therapy. The scientific consensus is that these practices are “pseudoscientific,” and experts on torture have identified these pseudoscientific practices as “torture.” As such, these interventions represent Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), which are scientifically demonstrated to cause brain damage, life-long disabilities, and significantly shortened lifespans. In short, severe emotional abuse is torture; conversion interventions are severe emotional abuse, interventions designed to prevent, halt, or reverse non-cisgender experiences are conversion therapies, and as such, irreparably harm the developing amygdala, hippocampus, and connecting nerve fibers within the developing brains of trans youth. While it is true that ACE-related experiences of crushing anxiety, toxic shame, and guilt are not uncommon pathological aspects related to the DSM-5 diagnosis of “Gender Dysphoria,” merely having a non-cisgender experience of self is, scientifically speaking, not pathological. What is pathological are the ACE effects anti-trans people

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