Ethics
What happened, proxalutamide? New antiandrogen for COVID-19 is entangled in clinical data irregularities and human rights violations
Disclaimer: I am not a medical professional and this is not medical advice. From the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic,…
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…
Should the “gold standard” of randomized controlled trials really be the standard for transition treatment?
The standards we choose to set for the kinds of evidence that we consider valid and acceptable for a given…
Boston Children’s Hospital establishes a framework for gender-affirming surgeries on minors
Throughout the past decade, there’s been no shortage of popular alarmism surrounding the spectre of “children being given sex changes”…
Michael Laidlaw and friends still misunderstand the basics of affirming care for trans youth
I’ve previously covered Dr. Michael K. Laidlaw et al.’s (2019) remarkable feat of fitting so many inaccuracies and distortions about…
Did California state prisons perform unethical medical experiments on transgender women in 1987?
Over the past few years, I’ve made a regular habit of seeking out and compiling nearly any published research that’s…
Debra Soh is really bad at trans science (part 3)
Her alarmist claims of affirming care for trans youth functioning as anti-gay “conversion therapy” present a scenario wildly at odds…
Debra Soh is really bad at trans science (part 2)
Her alarmist claims of affirming care for trans youth functioning as anti-gay “conversion therapy” present a scenario wildly at odds…
How the WSJ handles the inconvenient facts of “rapid onset gender dysphoria”
Previously: Rapid onset gender dysphoria study misunderstands trans depersonalization Meet the unbiased parents behind the rapid onset gender dysphoria study…
Meet the unbiased, reliable, not-at-all-transphobic parents from the “rapid onset gender dysphoria” study
Previously: “Rapid onset gender dysphoria” study misunderstands trans depersonalization, ends up blaming Zinnia Jones The full “rapid onset gender dysphoria”…