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Suzanne's avatar

Thank you, Lisa. May it be widely reported, and make a real difference, here. Azeen Ghoryashi includes this quote from Dr Cass, and a link to Cass' interview with the BMJ:

“Children and young people have just been really poorly served,” Dr. Cass said in an interview with the editor of The British Medical Journal, released Tuesday. She added, “I can’t think of another area of pediatric care where we give young people potentially irreversible treatments and have no idea what happens to them in adulthood.”

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Thanks Lisa, for this conversation I wondered about the this sentence "This is an area of remarkably weak evidence, and yet results of studies are exaggerated or misrepresented by people on all sides of the debate to support their viewpoint." I have seen many times where the TRAs misrepresent studies that do not show positive outcomes, but how often is it the other side? Gender medicine critics who look at studies showing positive outcomes but misrepresent those?

In that same vein, what should the standard be to allow use of puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones? I see the Endocrine Society warning about plastics interfering in natural hormonal processes on one hand, but then advocate for medications that intentionally interfere with those processes on the other. Is it even possible for those interventions to have a positive effect outside of something on the mental side of care? Personally I think the bar would need to be WAY higher to justify those interventions, even in adults.

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