Appendix 4 in the Cass Review revealed that 6 out of the 7 adult GDC clinics currently operating in the UK refused to collect or share their patient followup data. If you want better care for struggling LGBT kids, you need the data.

  • CatTrickery@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    7 months ago

    In this case, they used an adaptation of Newcastle Ottowa scale, however they didn’t provide an appendix of what those adaptations actually were. The specific points were raised that the studies weren’t double blind, which would obviously be a violation of basic ethics in this case. There were multiple conversion therapists involved in the report so its pretty reasonable to assume malicious intent.

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      7 months ago

      Ah, okay, I misunderstood what you meant by “The way in which they dismissed the evidence was notably the exclusion of double blind studies.” I thought you meant they had excluded studies for being double blind, which would obviously be quite weird.

      It’s frustratingly common in mental health (which gender dysphoria is still officially considered) for regulators to demand double blind studies, no matter how strong the evidence from observational studies is.