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Trans Reality: 
“I Didn’t Know There Was Another Side”

https://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/transgender-reality-i-didnt-know-there-was-another-side/

How does gender-affirming hormone therapy affect QOL in transgender patients?

https://www.mdedge.com/familymedicine/article/260062/mental-health/how-does-gender-affirming-hormone-therapy-affect-qol

"Science Vs" Cited Seven Studies To Argue There’s No Controversy About Giving Puberty Blockers And Hormones To Trans Youth. Let’s Read Them.

https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/science-vs-cited-seven-studies-to

Researchers Found Puberty Blockers And Hormones Didn’t Improve Trans Kids’ Mental Health At Their Clinic. Then They Published A Study Claiming The Opposite. (Updated)

https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/researchers-found-puberty-blockers

On Scientific Transparency, Researcher Degrees Of Freedom, And That NEJM Study On Youth Gender Medicine

https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/on-scientific-transparency-researcher

The New, Highly Touted Study On Hormones For Transgender Teens Doesn’t Really Tell Us Much Of Anything

https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/the-new-highly-touted-study-on-hormones

The New Study On Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria Published In “Pediatrics” Is Genuinely Worthless

https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/the-new-study-on-rapid-onset-gender

Gender dysphoria “cured” by status epilepticus

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=78d411ee20e7d7cca340da3a2b2fa9abd71250bf

The Gender Affirmative Treatment Model for Youth with Gender Dysphoria: A Medical Advance or Dangerous Medicine?

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-021-02232-0

Gender dysphoria and autism spectrum disorder: A narrative review

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.3109/09540261.2015.1111199

You might also consider these other limitations to the studies done:

* Comparison is done of cross-sex hormone therapy vs. no hormones. Yet why vs. sex appropriate hormones (I.e., gender dysphoric boys given testosterone, girls given estrogen) -- or perhaps other psychoactive drugs.

* Children and teens often "grow out of it" -- which points to perhaps a different cause.

* Puberty is often associated with the emergence of mental illness; if you give teens puberty blockers it's perhaps no surprise mental health improves.

* Patients who detransition represent a profound failure of appropriate diagnosis.

* The fast proliferation of clinics is resulting in more wrong diagnosis; they are money making ventures

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