Un-paywalled: Youth gender medicine & the Cass Review
Science Fictions · Stuart Ritchie and Tom Chivers
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Show Notes
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
* VICE interview with a Tavistock doctor, including information on patient numbers
* 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
* BMJ editorial on 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
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