Un-paywalled: Youth gender medicine & the Cass Review

Un-paywalled: Youth gender medicine & the Cass Review

Author: Tom Chivers and Stuart Ritchie December 31, 2024 Duration: 1:15:24
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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.

If you’d like to listen to all our paywalled episodes—which are of course ad-free, like this one—you can subscribe by visiting thestudiesshowpod.com.

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

Credits

The Studies Show is produced by Julian Mayers at Yada Yada Productions.



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