Ben is off crafting his masterpiece memoir this week. In the meantime, Cori, Eliza, Jamie and Lisa dig into a troubling new article from the Amsterdam gender clinic that lays out a survival strategy for the embattled field of youth gender medicine.
Show notes:
* Gender-affirming medical treatment for adolescents: a critical reflection on “effective” treatment outcomes (open access)
Background on the Dutch protocol:
* Gender: A Wider Lens episode with Annelou De Vries and Thomas Steensma
* The Dutch Protocol for Juvenile Transsexuals: Origins and Evidence by Michael Biggs (open access)
* The Myth of "Reliable Research" in Pediatric Gender Medicine: A critical evaluation of the Dutch Studies-and research that has followed by Zhenya Abbruzzese, Stephen Levine, and Julia Mason (open access)
* Eliza's 2023 article reporting from inside gender conferences
* Alex Bakker's 2021 book, The Dutch Approach: Fifty years of transgender health care at the VU Amsterdam gender clinic
Our non-gender recs for the week:
* Saki's The Unrest-Cure
* The Unspeakeasy online community
