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The Tide Goes Out on Youth Gender Medicine

Helen Lewis · 12 Feb 2026

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  1. As the shaky evidence base for youth gender medicine has become better known, activists have retreated to an argument from authority.
  2. The story of youth gender medicine is one of good intentions, arrogance, fear, and polarization. It is also an avoidable tragedy.

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