Do a thought experiment: imagine an IRB lost their minds and somehow you're in a double blind trial for blockers. A year goes by and your peers are suddenly developing secondary sex characteristics, getting growth spurts and having vocal changes. You aren't. Is it still a blind trial?
The team behind it is known to favor non-affirming therapy, and came into this opposed to our care. They knew they couldn't disqualify GAC based on the available evidence, so they didn't try. Instead they did a magic trick and said none of it counted because it wasn't blinded.
As headlines explode all over about the Cass Review, here's what you need to know: it contains not a shred of original data. It is a badly done systematic review that excluded the overwhelming majority of available evidence in favor of smaller studies chosen for specious reasons. That's it.
They appointed someone with no experience in gender care or even LGBTQ care more broadly— whose published work isn't even on endocrinology or psychiatry, to create a document that could be used to justify the headlines being pumped out right now as a pretext for moving the restrictions up to age 25.
So far every newspaper is talking about lack of evidence, not one of them has pointed out that they discounted *101* of 103 studies and refused to look at any study from the last 2 years because, reasons
The entire British media establishment is going to do a TLDR on it
I think in hindsight my eventual path towards vegetarianism was laid in that cafeteria. We used to call it "lapje" because it just looked like a slab of... grey something
The mention of Unidentifiable Meat Sandwiches made me think of lunch at my secondary school - it was a residential school and we'd get hot lunches which in theory was nice but in practice was a neverending parade of deeply unpleasant "meat" and potatoes
HUH?!
All v good, Scout as a ham still a mood
Missed Connection: You were sighing on the beach and searching for meaning in how the lulling waves reminded you of cloudy plumes swirling in your morning coffee. I am a horseshoe crab, perfect since 445 million years ago.
Welcome! Pasteis de nata are on the house
Don’t tell me how to lift my baby
God yes, Gareth Malone on Duel
Jesus fucking cripes
Today we truly are powerful
@ariadnereviews.bsky.social we did it we actually manifested
"‘Pink slime’ sites masquerade as real news. There are 65 in Pennsylvania alone: These sites distort news and spew misinformation, much of it computer-generated, experts say. The goal is to muddy the waters of discourse."
Menacing
truly
..... okay sure
Babadook Canterbury's Wario
7 Years by Lukas Graham to the point where I have walked out of several stores they were playing it in.
@innocentlb.bsky.social core
WHAT A DAY TO PROVE LOVE. LETS TROT
extremely depressing to see the world's most famous author doing 'the Black Crime section of Breitbart News, but for trans people' and huge swathes of the sensible press applauding her for it
In the news: woman who made her fortune from words tries to make us believe words have no power.
(Photo of a picture of a crow on a bulletin board. The crow appears to have a cigarette butt in its beak) PACIFIC NORTHWEST A talking crow went viral after befriending an Oregon elementary school. Then he went missing It turns out Cosmo had enemies, and a dark side.
I feel everybody should know that this has been the lead story on the Oregonian’s website for 24 hours
prob y
