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Scientists are targeted with violent threats in Berlin — and three professional associations look on

After an international conference on the treatment of trans-identifying youth, “wanted images” featuring participants are circulating online. The German Association has condemned the practice as “unacceptable,” and views academic freedom as endangered.

I first heard about Kirk’s awful murder in Berlin, where I was at the SEGM conference on clinical approaches to gender distress in young people. A local transactivist group, bent on disruption, had put up an Instagram account to help “know your enemy”, and my face was the first one posted.

A study finds that one in five who switch gender change their mind.

An international conference with experts on gender medicine in Berlin had to take place secretly. Trans activists had put “manhunt posters” on the net and threatened: “Trans enemies on the mouth!” And on X and the platform Bluesky, after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, it reads: “Rowling next!”

Dr D’Angelo told today’s conference attendees—who included current and former leaders of gender clinics as well as researchers and practitioners from around the world—that the labelling of SEGM as a “hate group” was “a deliberate and damaging misrepresentation of our work.

WHO says that it adheres to standard protocol for its transgender health guideline, but the process has been criticised for lacking transparency and an association with WPATH—an organisation under fire for meddling with its own guideline development.

The review by Hilary Cass, paediatrician and former president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, was commissioned by the NHS and built on the findings of Cass’s 2022 interim report.

In October 2023, SEGM held its first official conference in New York, which brought together an array of high-profile speakers, such as Mikael Landén, a psychiatrist and researcher at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute, and Sallie Baxendale, a professor of clinical neuropsychology at University College London.

More and more teenage girls are choosing to change gender around the world. In Quebec, the healthcare system responds very quickly to their requests for medical transition by prescribing blockers, testosterone, and mastectomies. These young girls often have several mental health issues, and many are wondering whether enough time is taken to assess everything that’s going on in their minds.