Jennifer Block
@writingblock
Journalist. Author of PUSHED and EVERYTHING BELOW THE WAIST. Recent words @BMJ_latest @Romper @GlobeIdeas @theFP. Mentor @theopedproject. Pro-information.
NEW DOC SHORT out. The fight over puberty blockers, hormones, etc. is often framed as inseparable from politics, but we show here why a broad coalition--yes, including lefties--is raising concerns or even supporting restrictions. jenniferblockauthor.substack.com/p/the-most-hea… YouTube link below.
Center for Medicine in the Public Interest is a pharma front group. Peter Pitts used to run the group from his office at Porter Novelli, where he repped Big Pharma clients sourcewatch.org/index.php/Pete…
More on the man destroying @POTUS legacy for helping patients. FDA’s Vinay Prasad Stands with Progressive Health Policies realclearhealth.com/articles/2025/…
Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.
"Some former staff members describe the national office as bloated, with too many employees making too much money in undefined roles....Meanwhile, many clinics are underfunded and operate at a deficit." @PPFA's identity crisis by Pamela Paul wsj.com/us-news/what-i…
I’m sharing an actual recent peer-to-peer call that shows what physicians and patients face when trying to get a surgery approved. This call felt as absurd as it sounds. The peer-to-peer call was to advocate for surgery to prevent and treat lymphedema for a patient with breast…
This is incredible. There's a heap of receipts.
Dr. Rachel Levine, a former high-ranking Biden admin health official, has denied to @TheAdvocate's @CWNewser Christopher Wiggins ever having pressured @WPATH to remove age limits on pediatric gender-transition interventions. This despite subpoenaed records showing she did, and…
Dr. Rachel Levine, a former Biden administration health official, tells @TheAdvocateMag that "the evidence base is strong for the safety and efficacy" of prescribing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to treat gender dysphoria in minors. A slew of systematic literature…
Does anyone in your life need to see the doc short on the fight over youth medical transition with subtitles en Francais? Voila! observatoirepetitesirene.org/post/au-c%C5%9…
Some dems think the fight over "gender affirming care" is just a political distraction. Here's why gay adults (among others) are sincerely concerned about medicalizing gender nonconforming kids youtu.be/yu8rDNKxf3U?si… via @YouTube
Progressives have a lot to grieve over and fight for. To get back to the project of a kind, just, sustainable, equitable USA, the Left has to look at why it lost the majority, and pediatric gender Rx is undeniably a reason. My new doc short helps explain. youtube.com/watch?v=WLyUuW…
Yes, the facts of political interference in WPATH guidelines are old news & should have been earth shattering. We cover the revelations in our doc short through the lens of gay activists who see their own youths reflected in today's young trans patients youtube.com/watch?v=WLyUuW…
This short doc from @writingblock shows how the debate over medicalizing gender in kids isn’t the left-right issue that activist orgs and news outlets keep insisting it is. youtu.be/WLyUuW1FjfM?si…
"Erasing women and women-specific language and needs based on their sex is not only wrong, but also demeaning, regressive and constitutes one of the worst forms of violence that women and girls can experience," @UNSRVAW Reem Alsalem told the @UN Human Rights Council. #HRC59