LGB NewsRe-analysis of a study on puberty blockers found that participants, after receiving puberty blockers, more often suffered worsened mental health than had improved mental health - BBC article (UK)

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[–]reluctant_commenter[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yikes, but I'm not surprised. I haven't looked at the actual dataset yet. I can't decide whether to laugh or be pissed off. This is reflective of how little trans "rights" activists care about the health and well-being of GNC people, LGB people, and "trans" people, who they claim to want to protect...

We're doomed if this is what they refer to when talking about "settled science" that we need to trust.

Agreed, and it's worth mentioning, very, very few phenomena are agreed upon as "settled science," lol. 9/10 times when I hear this phrase I am immediately suspicious. It's a phrase designed to deter further investigation and sometimes people who are invested in a particular possibility say it even about findings that are not politically charged but that they are personally invested in.

but it's baffling that this got peer-reviewed and published

The BBC article says it hasn't been peer reviewed yet, actually. But I haven't looked st the study itself yet so I'll go ahead and do that too, hopefully later today. Thanks for looking :)

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It's the new re-analysis that hasn't been peer-reviewed, the original 2021 study has been. You can even read the comments by the anonymous reviewers: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/peerReview?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0243894