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False dichotomy. There are also medics such as Cass, and the Swedes, Finns, Norwegians, Dutch and Italians who are expressing caution over the affirmative model (because of the weakness in its structure emerging from the citation cartel of WPATH etc) while also wanting to achieve the best outcomes for children presenting with gender identity problems.

Presenting false dichotomies is yet another slack debating tactic, like the many strawmen and uncited conspirators laced through this article.

If you want to persuade independent readers, you should find your opponents' best arguments, and demolish those. Any fool can defeat strawmen. But, equally, that won't fool people who can see where the facts have been ignored.

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Charles Arthur
Charles Arthur

Written by Charles Arthur

Tech journalist; author of “Social Warming: how social media polarises us all” and two others. The Guardian’s Technology editor 2005–14. Speaker, moderator.

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