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 (https://bmcmedethics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12910-024-01143-8#Abs1) (open access)
Background on the Dutch protocol:
* Gender: A Wider Lens episode with Annelou De Vries (https://www.widerlenspod.com/p/66-pioneers-series-where-it-all-started-7ea) and Thomas Steensma
* The Dutch Protocol for Juvenile Transsexuals: Origins and Evidence (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0092623X.2022.2121238) 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 (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36593754/) by Zhenya Abbruzzese, Stephen Levine, and Julia Mason (open access)
* Eliza's 2023 article reporting from inside gender conferences (https://unherd.com/2023/12/the-secret-life-of-gender-clinicians/)
* Alex Bakker's 2021 book, The Dutch Approach: Fifty years of transgender health care at the VU Amsterdam gender clinic (https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Dutch-Approach-transgender-health-Amsterdam/dp/9024444683)
Our non-gender recs for the week:
* Saki's The Unrest-Cure (https://www.nyrb.com/products/the-unrest-cure-and-other-stories)
* The Unspeakeasy (https://www.theunspeakeasy.com/) online community
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