Thank you so much, friend! I appreciate you so much!

So I guess I'll meet you there in a couple of years as long as we have free and fair elections 😅

Well, if you let me know when you're going to be in NYC next, I could be your shul buddy...

I considered explicitly asking for the addition of a conservative voice, but I am incredibly happy with the voices I had.

It made me want to go to each of their services. I can say that if I'm ever in New York, I'll be checking out West End Synagogue

I was so grateful to have such an amazing Beit Din full of brilliant (and kind) rabbis

Apparently even Shammai (@shammaiintl.bsky.social) approves

Thanks, Dan!

Thank you, Wyatt!

It's just as cool to have had an old friend like Rabbi Emily to be there. I just want to thank them all so much for their support and for an amazing conversation

I love this! Thank you for sharing, Anja (and thanks for inviting me on to this!)

I was lucky to have the chance to work alongside her and many other colleagues to bring her story to light (in the very same journal that published Kosky's piece nearly 40 years ago).

Give it a read, won't you?

His study had a lot of problems. This article highlights many of them from an interesting perspective: one of a previous "participant." Jayne Fayden, the first author on this paper, was one of those "patients." Her experiences, and her actual outcomes, run incredibly contrary to Kosky's claims.

This paper highlights one of those reasons. In 1987, Robert Kosky published an article about his attempts to use in-patient psychiatric treatment, without actively trying to engage in conversion therapy, to get kids to stop being trans. He claimed to be successful

If this were true, that might be really important to know! But... that quote came from a blog post. It was based on a cursory glance of 11 studies that range in quality, and there is reason to believe that this rate may be less than accurate.

One of the oft quoted "statistics" when it comes to gender affirming healthcare for transgender youth relates to the rate of transgender identity desistance. The claim goes like this: "Roughly 60–90% of trans- kids turn out no longer to be trans by adulthood" (Cantor, 2016).

I'm okay with this

For those interested in reading my article:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36736052/