J.K. Rowling Backs Warning Against Immediately Affirming Gender Dysphoria
Rowling said as she tweeted a clip of Bell's interview on BBC News that was posted by a former BBC journalist.Bell, who is a former staff governor at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, was speaking about children who suffer from gender dysphoria.
There has been a "great pressure to affirm these children as being trans" without having "appropriate exploration," according to Bell.History will judge whether Dr David Bell was a hateful transphobe or trying to alert people to a medical scandal, but he's far from the only health professional raising these concerns (and I have the letters and emails to prove it.) https://t.co/siTOdD6CGC"Thirty-five percent of these children are on the autistic spectrum.
A large number of these children are gay and lesbian children, who are suffering in relation to their sexual orientation, need to be helped to understand themselves better," he said.The doctor also said that some of those children and young people have "internalized homophobia" as they "hate their sexual body and want to get out of it," and therefore it is important to recognize their "terrible suffering" and not label them trans and "put them on a medical pathway, which has irreversible consequences.""There's been a tendency to interpret the memorandum of understanding, which is the professional framework, as implying that children and young people who present with gender identity issues should be immediately affirmed and this has caused damage," he added.Rowling has been scrutinized over the years over her comments about the transgender community and has been accused of being transphobic.
However, she has insisted that she doesn't have any negative feelings toward transgender people.In another tweet on Friday,.
