Do a thought experiment: imagine an IRB lost their minds and somehow you're in a double blind trial for blockers. A year goes by and your peers are suddenly developing secondary sex characteristics, getting growth spurts and having vocal changes. You aren't. Is it still a blind trial?

The team behind it is known to favor non-affirming therapy, and came into this opposed to our care. They knew they couldn't disqualify GAC based on the available evidence, so they didn't try. Instead they did a magic trick and said none of it counted because it wasn't blinded.

As headlines explode all over about the Cass Review, here's what you need to know: it contains not a shred of original data. It is a badly done systematic review that excluded the overwhelming majority of available evidence in favor of smaller studies chosen for specious reasons. That's it.

They appointed someone with no experience in gender care or even LGBTQ care more broadly— whose published work isn't even on endocrinology or psychiatry, to create a document that could be used to justify the headlines being pumped out right now as a pretext for moving the restrictions up to age 25.

So far every newspaper is talking about lack of evidence, not one of them has pointed out that they discounted *101* of 103 studies and refused to look at any study from the last 2 years because, reasons The entire British media establishment is going to do a TLDR on it

HUH?!

All v good, Scout as a ham still a mood

Another Sunday another missive from the darkest recesses of the cinema

Missed Connection: You were sighing on the beach and searching for meaning in how the lulling waves reminded you of cloudy plumes swirling in your morning coffee. I am a horseshoe crab, perfect since 445 million years ago.

Don’t tell me how to lift my baby

@ariadnereviews.bsky.social we did it we actually manifested

"‘Pink slime’ sites masquerade as real news. There are 65 in Pennsylvania alone: These sites distort news and spew misinformation, much of it computer-generated, experts say. The goal is to muddy the waters of discourse."

..... okay sure

7 Years by Lukas Graham to the point where I have walked out of several stores they were playing it in.

@innocentlb.bsky.social core

WHAT A DAY TO PROVE LOVE. LETS TROT

extremely depressing to see the world's most famous author doing 'the Black Crime section of Breitbart News, but for trans people' and huge swathes of the sensible press applauding her for it

In the news: woman who made her fortune from words tries to make us believe words have no power.

I feel everybody should know that this has been the lead story on the Oregonian’s website for 24 hours

So, one day back in the office, everyone is in various stages of being ill, everyone is demotivated, a colleague has had a go at me and I just want to go home and lie down

great day to create. great day to prove love. great day to trot in your own unique way.

Contestant on University Challenge: "uh Tuscon, Arizona?" Me: THAT'S THE WAY WE DO IT IN TEWSON ARIZONIA

probably not normal that my body knows I'm going back to work tomorrow so it's just fucken hurting right

I do believe that with the right attitude and a lot of hard work I CAN fuck with the YouTube algorithm to the point where my entire suggested page is dance covers of DPR Ian's Don't Go Insane

There are ridiculous Hollywood holiday publicity stills. And then there's actress Gwen Lee dressed as an Easter lily in 1930.

If you’re a London cinemagoer, the Rio in Dalston needs you. They’re under attack because they cancelled a Eurovision party, due to the inclusion of Israel in the contest. Free speech, eh?

Why not spend your Easter reading a dissection of Where The Wild Roses Grow? Written by me?

Ceci n'est pas une peep.

Manifesting a celeb series over the summer I absolutely cannot go a whole year without this show

Bradley is remarkably calm when faced with Viper just RIGHT up there in his face

Telling you this now, if they don't bring back Legend in the next season I will be BEREFT

I love when they mention a Gladiator's wingspan, it makes me think Phantom is going to just fly into the rafters mid-Gauntlet

Went to the Tate yesterday (Britain, not Modern) and found this sticker stuck to lamppost outside and I have Some Questions

If you see this I invite you to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation

fuck everything, we're doing five-factor authentication

getting kicked out of jedi school for insisting that midichlorians are the powerhouse of the cell

You're telling me a sam fried this bank man?

Hello I'm queer and very tired

Please read and share this if you care about any trans people, or about clinical commissioning decisions being made on the basis of a fair assessment of the available evidence

Lacey 2024

IT'S FISH DOORBELL SEASON!!! The time of the year has arrived once again where we have to help the fish of Utrecht get through the lock by opening the door for them when you spot them on the camera. visdeurbel.nl/en/the-fish-...

tag yrself

when you realize Babar The Elephant becomes public domain in three years

*sticks thumbs up, falls over* IT'S LIVE

One of the many German words for a supermarket checkout divider is Warentrennstab, which means “the stick separating the wares”   And in German-speaking parts of Switzerland, a colloquial name for the triangular checkout divider is Kassentoblerone, or “cash register Toblerone”

Thanks to the bloke who just made me feel resoundingly uncomfortable while waiting outside the PCC for the doors to open no really graçias my guy

hurrah annual leave at last *Falls over*

spoilers for dune part 1 but this is making me pee rn, had to share