Evidence-Based-ish Resources and Gender Medicine™: Now with 70% More Moral Panic
Not all science is welcome. Just the sad, scary bits.
Here you’ll find a collection of selectively chosen media articles, decontextualised research summaries, and “independent” opinion pieces (usually written by the same three people). All designed to promote doubt, delay, and dysphoria. While there has been a global shift toward evidence-based, affirming healthcare for trans youth, we prefer to dwell in the margins — where outdated theories thrive, anecdotal panic reigns, and every PDF is a potential “gotcha.”
We know it can be hard to find balance in legacy media — especially when actual experts keep publishing things we disagree with. That’s why we’ve done the work of filtering out the affirming science, leaving only the stuff that fits our pre-approved narrative. Below you’ll find our carefully curated canon, organised by theme — from Detransition Panic to The Great Turban Conspiracy. Read on if you’d like to experience what it’s like to watch the same three studies cited 47 different ways.
Giddy, Janet
Just so we’re clear: The links below aren’t citations — they’re antidotes. These resources unpack and refute the very nonsense we’ve been parodying.
Dr Allan Donkin
Evidence Reviews and Policy Changes
A round-up of international health bodies slowly backtracking under political pressure, conservative backlash, and manufactured moral panic — all of which we interpret as “the tide is turning.” If a country restricts care, we cite it. If a country expands access, we ignore it.
Dr Allan Donkin
The Cass Review: Cis-supremacy in the UK’s approach to healthcare for trans children
Cal Horton
Dr Janet Giddy, First Do No Harm
Biological and psychosocial evidence in the Cass Review: a critical commentary
D. M. Grijseels
Dr Allan Donkin
Other International Reviews
Here’s where we pull Finland, Sweden, and Germany out of context and pretend they reflect global consensus — instead of politically motivated overcorrections. Bonus points for anything that says “more research needed,” which we treat as “stop everything immediately.”
Dr Janet Giddy, FDNHSA
Fact Checked: New Problematic “Finnish Study” Actually Shows Trans Care Saves Lives
Erin Read
Dr Allan Donkin
Debunked: “The Swedish Study” Doesn’t Say What Anti-Trans Activists Claim It Says
Erin Read
Reitze Rodseth
The Myth of ‘Reliable Research’ in Pediatric Gender Medicine
Our favourite kind of article: one that discredits decades of peer-reviewed work by misreading methodology and dismissing any study that includes trans people as “activist science.”
Gender Exploratory Therapy
The Myth Of “Low Quality Evidence” Around Transgender Care
Erin Read
gender-affirming care
Fact Sheet: Evidence-Based Health Care for Transgender People and Youth
GLAAD
Transgender Rights
Get the Facts on Gender-Affirming Care
Humain Rights Campaign
Dr Allan Donkin
First Do No Harm Souther Africa
Informed Consent
In which we pretend trans teens are incapable of making informed decisions, and adults are being duped by Big Gender. Because we trust people — until they say they’re trans.
First Do No Harm Southern Africa
Informed consent and access to gender-affirming treatment for children in South Africa
Karabo Ozah
Capacity to consent
Capacity to consent: a scoping review of youth decision-making capacity for gender-affirming care
Loren G. Marino, Katherine E. Boguszewski, Haley F. Stephens & Julia F. Taylor
Dr Jannet Giddy, concerned doctor, gender critical
Puberty Blockers
Where we wildly speculate about brain damage while ignoring the decades of safe use in paediatric endocrinology for other conditions. We just like it better when the blockers go in the “cancer” or “early puberty” columns.
FDNHSA.org
Is puberty delaying treatment ‘experimental treatment’?
Simona Giordano & Søren Holm
Dr Reitze Rodseth
Maria ATC van der Loos, Sabine E Hannema, Daniel T Klink, Martin den Heijer & Chantal M Wiepjes
FDNHSA gender distress
Kerry McGregor, John L. McKenna, Coleen R. Williams, Ellis P. Barrera & Elizabeth R. Boskey
FDNHSA Voluntary Association
Desistance, Detransition and Regret
Our most treasured section. Carefully assembled stories of pain, often lifted from right-wing media, to convince you that every trans person is just a future regret story waiting to happen.
Donkin, Giddy
Retransitioning: The experiences of youth who socially transition genders more than once
Lily Durwood, Katherine A. Kuvalanka, Shira Kahn-Samuelson, Ashley E. Jordan, Jennifer D. Rubin, Pauline Schnelzer, Aaron H. Devor & Kristina R. Olson
Doctors for Life
Debunked: No, 80% Of Trans Youth Do Not Detransition
Erin Reed
Dr Janet Giddy, biblical understanding of health
Detransition, desistance, and disinformation: A guide for understanding transgender children.
Julia Serano
Dr Allan Donkin, GP
Suicide Narrative
We say we care about suicide — but only when we can use it to discredit trans-affirming care. These cherry-picked studies help us imply that suicide rates are either exaggerated or not preventable through support. (Don’t try this with cis kids.)
Dr Janet Giddy, hiv and aids
Association between recalled exposure to gender identity conversion efforts and psychological distress and suicide attempts among transgender adults.
Jack L. Turban, Noor Beckwith, Sari L. Reisner & Alex S. Keuroghlian
Amy E. Green, Jonah P. DeChants, Myeshia N. Price & Carrie K. Davis
Janet Giddy and Jesus Christ
Trans Youth Suicides Covered Up By NHS, Cass After Restrictions, Say Whistleblowers
Erin Reed
Bible Bashing Dr Donkin
The WPATH Files
Welcome to our favourite conspiracy rabbit hole. Here we reveal the dark secrets of a global medical organisation… by quoting angry subreddits and calling it a “scandal.”
Janet Giddy: I love Jesus
Fact Check: 216 Instances Of Factual Errors Found In Right-Wing “WPATH Files” Document
Erin Reed
GP, Allan Donkin
Alternative Approaches
Featuring rebranded conversion therapy, psychoanalytic guilt-trips, and long-term gatekeeping in a velvet glove. “Exploration” means never arriving.
Janet Giddy Transphobia
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Expression Change Efforts and Suicidality: Evidence, Challenges, and Future Research Directions
Trevor Goodyear, J Andrés Delgado-Ron, Florence Ashley, Rod Knight & Travis Salway
Anti-trans association giddy et al
Interrogating Gender-Exploratory Therapy
Florence Ashley
Allan Donkin school
Testosterone in “Women & Girls“
Ending with some pelvic floor panic and speculative harms to transmasculine people, served without context or comparative health data. Because what’s healthcare without a little fear?
FDNHSA
Moral Panic
Wikipedia Contributors, thank you