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Gender Dysphoria Support Network vs. transgender people

Gender Dysphoria Support Network (GDSN) is a website run by anti-transgender extremists. GDSN is closely aligned with global anti-trans ringleader Stella O’Malley.

Open letters

GDSN published a 2022 open letter by Stella O’Malley of Genspect titled “An Open Letter to Pediatric Gender Clinics.”

GDSN published a 2021 open letter critical of EPATH and signed by anti-trans activist groups.

Signatories:

GDSN recommendations

The GDSN site recommends like-minded anti-trans extremism

Books

Podcasts

Films

  • Trans Kids: It’s time to talk
  • Dysphoric (a four-part documentary series)
  • The Trans Train (a three-part Swedish documentary series with English subtitles)
  • Trans Mission – What’s the rush to reassign gender?

YouTube

In the media

  • The Federalist – Is transgender the new anorexia?
  • The Economist – An English Ruling on Transgender Teens Could Have Global Repercussions
  • Newsweek – We need balance when it comes to gender dysphoric kids
  • Quillette – No one is born in the wrong body
  • The Sunday Times – The Detransitioners
  • Public Discourse – The Impossibility of Informed Consent for Transgender Interventions
  • Sexology Today – Do trans-kids stay trans- when they grow up?

Key studies

  • Lisa Littman – Parent reports of adolescents and young adults perceived to show signs of a rapid onset of gender dysphoria
  • SEGM – Correction of a Key Study: No Evidence of “Gender-Affirming” Surgeries Improving Mental Health
  • Lisa Marchiano – Outbreak: On Transgender Teens and Epidemics
  • Roberto D’Angelo, Ema Syrulnik, Sasha Ayad, Lisa Marchiano, Dianna Theadora Kenny & Patrick Clarke – One Size Does Not Fit All: In Support of Psychotherapy for Gender Dysphoria
  • Anastassis Spiliadis – ‘Taking the lid off the box’: The value of extended clinical assessment for adolescents presenting with gender identity difficulties
  • Elie Vandenbussche – Detransition-Related Needs and Support: A Cross-Sectional Online Survey

Recommended Online Reading

  • Transgender terminology
  • Top ten tips for parents
  • Lisa Marchiano – Guidance for Parents of Teens with Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria
  • Lisa Marchiano – New Guidance for Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria
  • Lisa Marchiano – Should I take testosterone?
  • Sasha Ayad – Finding Support at Home and Beyond
  • Carey Callahan – Advice for gender dysphoric teens
  • Stella O’Malley – ‘Gaslighting the Concerned Parents of Trans Children – A Psychotherapist’s View

Exploring Specific Issues

  • Puberty Blockers – I couldn’t sit by while so many others made the same mistake: Keira Bell
  • Autism – Autism, Puberty, and Gender Dysphoria: Elizabeth Hawker
  • Gender-questioning Boys (Angus Fox) – When Sons Become Daughters: Parents of transitioning boys speak out on their own suffering
  • Gender-questioning Boys – Masculinity, anime and gender dysphoria
  • Suicidality – Suicide facts and myths, Gender dysphoria and suicide
  • Parental Alienation – Trans kids may reject family, not the other way around

Detransition

  • Elle Palmer – Channel
  • Daisy Chadra – Channel
  • DeTrans Stories: Suffering & Sincerity with Torren
  • Detransition: The Elephant in the Room Documentary

Resources

GDSN lists other anti-trans resources

INTERNATIONAL

  • Gender Critical Resources Support Board
  • Oasis: A Place for Parents (Facebook group)
  • Our Duty – UK , USA, Australia, Canada
  • Parents of ROGD Kids
  • Amanda Familias

BY COUNTRY

  • Cry For Recognition (Belgium)
  • No Corpo Certo (Brazil)
  • Kirjo (Finland)
  • Ypomoni (France)
  • Transteens Sorge berechtigt (Germany)
  • Genitori De Gender (Italy)
  • Aotearoa Support (NZ)
  • Genid: Gender Identity Challenge – Norway, Sweden
  • AMQG (Switzerland)
  • Bayswater Support Group (UK)
  • Cardinal Support Network (US – Ohio)

INTERNATIONAL

BY COUNTRY