Jesse Singal Assigned Media (Evan Urquhart) I’m criticizing that method those systematic reviews are using, though. I think the bar is way too high that they use, we don’t use this kind of rigor on studies for cancer medications, why use it here? It seems to be a purposefully unobtainable standard.

So the Cass Review used a Reddit survey from an undergraduate author but disregarded so much research supporting transgender people as not high enough quality?

Unreal.

Transphobes are so mad at this one, it’s fascinating.

Assigned Media (Evan Urquhart) Most of the Anti-trans medicine types also seem to operate under the assumption that doing nothing is a neutral option in medicine when any doctor will tell you it’s as active a decision as any other treatment course. Doctors can’t actually “do nothing” without patient permission

Assigned Media (Evan Urquhart) I actually just found such a misinterpretation in the recent Chloe Cole filings. Her legal team argues that low-quality studies 'present a significant risk of containing erroneous conclusions and a significant risk that the patient will not attain the desired treatment outcome.'

Erin Reed Assigned Media (Evan Urquhart) What is needed, Erin, is a federal parental rights bill including an unfettered right to direct the medical care of one's offspring. In all other pediatric conditions there are competing theories of treatment. Parents are the final arbiter of intervention. Only GD is contrary.

Shoddy NYT reporting falsely conflates peaceful on-campus protesters and off-campus trolls nytimes.com/2024/04/22/us/…

Wild to see a BBC “fact check” edited and run by people who literally like and retweet “Transgender Trend” and other anti-trans hate content.

A reminder that just because a BBC side program says it has fact checked something doesn’t make it accurate.

This right here. Another principle being ignored is that at a certain point, a mountain of lower quality evidence that nevertheless all shows the same results combines to create a larger picture.

Assigned Media (Evan Urquhart) I can see the point if it were just a single low quality evidence study. But at the point where you have dozens of low quality studies that ALL reach the same conclusion and you still fail to accept that the results are highly credible, you're just being pedantic due to bias.

Jesse's entire argument rests on the word 'new' — it's true that an untested treatment would require proof of efficacy but gender-affirming care is not new!

We have tons of data showing effectiveness in adults and consistent research showing effectiveness in youth.

Jesse keeps bringing the debate back to first principles ('does gender-affirming care work?') because he cannot present any evidence that the 'concerns' being raised have any merit. All evidence indicates that doctors are moving slowly, assessing patients and collecting more data

I'm a Jew-loving Jew. Anti-Semitism is never ok. Here's what is not anti-Semitism: Peaceful protest, criticism of the Israeli government, calling for an independent Palestine, demanding a ceasefire in Gaza, using the term apartheid to describe Israel, questioning Zionism.

I wan to just take this moment to say how proud I am of all of the trans and queer folks on this platform as well as our allies.

I have noticed a huge uptick in educated criticism against common anti-trans disinformation methods that Cass shares with other previous events.

Trans people reporting satisfaction with transitioning isn't solid evidence. However, when parents recruited on anti-trans forums tell Lisa Littman that their kids 'caught the trans' from their friends Jesse Singal nods along and calls it good science.

1. Major victory in Iowa for trans and queer people. As the legislature adjourned Sine Die, every explicitly anti-LGBTQ+ bill has died - 20 in all.

Even a last second amendment to a veterans benefit bill targeting trans people fialed.

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When I say that the evidence for everything discussed in the Cass Report other than medically treating gender dysphoria was not held to the same standards, I am engaging in understatement.