This week, as a gift for New Year’s Eve, we’re opening up a previously-paywalled episode so that everyone can listen. It’s our episode from April 2024 on “Youth gender medicine & the Cass Review”. Since the show notes were previously behind the paywall, they’re copied below.
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Normal service will be resumed next week. Happy New Year!
Show notes
The Cass Review’s final report
List of systematic reviews from University of York researchers that were commissioned by the Cass Review
Hannah Barnes on why the Tavistock gender identity clinic was forced to close
Original Dutch single-case study on puberty blockers
Somewhat larger Dutch study of puberty blockers from 2011
The “Early Intervention” study from England (not published until 2021)
Article that’s critical of the “cis-supremacy” in the Cass Review
Billy Bragg claims that the Cass Review only included 2 studies out of 102
Owen Jones’s video where he claims studies were “arbitrarily” excluded from the report
Fact-checking post from Benjamin Ryan, covering some of the criticisms of the Cass Report
Hilary Cass interviewed by The Times
Episode of BBC More or Less that addresses some of the criticisms
2020 study on the small proportion of medical treatments where there’s strong evidence
More recent (2022) study by the same authors finding an even more depressing picture: “More than 9 in 10 healthcare interventions studied within recent Cochrane Reviews are not supported by high-quality evidence, and harms are under-reported”
The book Medical Nihilism
The BMJ review of the book, quoted in the episode
Credits
The Studies Show is produced by Julian Mayers at Yada Yada Productions.
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