AFFIRMATION GENERATION: A SYNOPSIS:
Detransitioners Michelle, Laura, Cat, David, Joel and Abel tell the stories of their gender distress, transgender medicalization, and subsequent detransition. Without diagnostic clarity or mental health evaluations, their doctors quickly affirmed them as “transgender,” and mindlessly ushered them along the path of medical transition. (The “gender-affirming care” is the only treatment recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics.) These young people were harmed irrevocably by the doctors they trusted.
AFFIRMATION GENERATION demonstrates how the “one-size-fits-all” medicalization – the “gender-affirming care” – has failed these patients.
The stories of the detransitioners are examined by twelve leading experts with decades of clinical practice treating gender-distressed patients: psychotherapists Lisa Marchiano, Sasha Ayad, Stella O’Malley, physician-scientist Lisa Littman, endocrinologist Dr. William Malone, MD; sociologist Dr. Michael Biggs, paediatrician Dr. Julia Mason and NYT best-selling writer Lisa Selin Davis among others.
This 90-minute documentary cites 45 peer-reviewed medical and journalist articles.
WATCH: 'Affirmation Generation'
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Hosted a viewing party the other night here in Glasgow. This is the doc we’ve all been waiting for. Thank you and well done! 👏