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Category Archives: COVID-19
2020’s hard lessons in public health pessimism
I was wrong. For the better part of a decade, my approach to communicating transgender medicine and science to the public has been premised on certain unexamined lay assumptions about what this wider audience struggles with and what they require … Continue reading
Posted in COVID-19, Personal, Transphobia and prejudice
Tagged personal, transphobia
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June COVID-19 update: Reassuring data on spironolactone and ACE2 risks
Disclaimer: I am not a medical professional and this is not medical advice. Our understanding of the pandemic is evolving rapidly; this information may be superseded by later and more conclusive findings. This article was last updated on June 30, 2020. … Continue reading
May COVID-19 updates: From spironolactone to estrogen to GnRH antagonists
Disclaimer: I am not a medical professional and this is not medical advice. Our understanding of the pandemic is evolving rapidly; this information may be superseded by later and more conclusive findings. This article was last updated on May 31, … Continue reading
Posted in COVID-19, Endocrinology, Health care
Tagged HRT, medicine, puberty blockers, science
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The American Enterprise Institute’s statistical fumbles: Misusing linear regression for short-term COVID-19 trends
Disclaimer: I am not a medical professional, an expert in statistics or epidemiology, or a former FDA commissioner. Since the widespread outbreak of COVID-19 in the United States, certain conservative-leaning organizations and institutions – including federal and state governments – … Continue reading
Posted in COVID-19, Ethics, Health care, Replies, Statistics and demographics
Tagged science, statistics
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“Biological sex”, empirical backfire: How transphobes gambled on COVID-19 – and lost
As the pandemic coronavirus has spread around the globe, the growing numbers of infections have revealed a surprising pattern: from China to Italy to the United States, men are more likely than women to contract the virus. And among those … Continue reading
Posted in Biology of transition, COVID-19, Philosophy and language, Transphobia and prejudice
Tagged biology, media, transphobia
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