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Journal Club: Informed Consent in Trans Healthcare
A 2019 paper by stef shuster found providers often substituted gatekeeping for informed consent in the practice of transgender healthcare.
What Does the Research Say About Top Surgery for Trans Youth?
The politicization of surgery for minors has made discussing this evidence deeply taboo.
New Study Shows Stopping Medical Transition is Not the Same as Detransition
Of those who discontinued medical treatments such as hormone therapy, a new study found that 80 percent continued to endorse a trans identity.
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Transgender Brains
Research into the brains of transgender people might illuminate some of the deepest mysteries of gender, transness, and sex differences.
Federal Judge DESTROYS “Low Quality” Evidence Claims
When the evidence favoring a treatment is weakly positive and the evidence against the treatment is nonexistent, an evidence-based approach will favor the treatment.
Methods Change Raises New Questions of Bias in Cass Review
Questions surround changes to the methodology of several systematic reviews of gender-affirming treatments for minors by York University.
In Defense of the Medical Model for Trans Healthcare
Andrea Long Chu thinks libertarianism will save the trans community. That’s bonkers.
What’s in the Cass Report?
The final report of the Cass Review of gender-affirming care for youth is being taken as vindication from anti-trans activists.
The Evidence Supports Informed Consent
Two models of gender-affirming care provision are currently in conflict. What does the research say?
Rethinking Mastectomies
Viewing mastectomy as a loss or diminishment of health makes little sense when you consider the lifetime risk of breast cancer is a whopping 1 in 8.
Helen Lewis’ Bait and Switch
Research shows that puberty blockers and testosterone therapy do not seem to impact fertility, bone density, or sexual function for trans boys. The Atlantic’s moral panic depends on you not knowing that.
More Evidence that Gender Affirming Care is Good Medicine
A new study adds to the body of research supporting the use of puberty blockers for trans youth in early puberty.
Your Preferred Narrative on Detransition Needs Complicating
The two questions everyone has about detransition, definitively answered for all time.
If Gender Affirming Care Doesn’t Have Enough Evidence, Should We Prefer a Treatment With None?
A column that ran in the Boston Globe by Jennifer Block implies it is sensible to prefer a treatment approach with no studies showing its benefits to one that has many.
Will an RCT of HRT Finally Satisfy Critics of Trans Care?
At long last critics will concede this is evidence-based medicine… right?
SEGM Isn’t Interested in Science
A closer look at the organization’s response to a study showing high satisfaction and low regret among top surgery patients.