BMJ investigative report into evidence base for medical advice.

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pantsforteaagain · 24/02/2023 06:47

This is a commissioned investigative article in a major medical journal and a really clear-eyed look at the (lack of) evidence for transition interventions, plus who is recommending them.
BMJ article

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MrsOvertonsWindow · 26/02/2023 12:21

MavisMcMinty · 26/02/2023 12:18

As a clinical nurse specialist for the last 20 years of my career, it’s the lack of audit and research by the Tavistock that amazes me most. Every year I was expected to audit my service and write an annual report, looking at the numbers of patients, their age, sex, diagnoses, treatments, outcomes, survival from diagnosis to death… everything I could cram in there, really.

So it is quite staggering to me that they were allowed to just carry on, doing their experimental thing, everyone treated with puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones regardless of any other problems, year after year after year. Research and audit are baked in to most NHS services these days, it’s a pain, I always had to do the stats and writing up in my own time, but if I hadn’t bothered to do it at all I’d have lost my job, it was a REQUIREMENT.

It's unbelievable isn't it Mavis?
And these are children that they're experimenting on. Vulnerable children in the grip of major mental health problems, being influenced by some of the most unsuitable adults in the world to be allowed to influence children.

MavisMcMinty · 26/02/2023 12:34

As an HIV/AIDS nurse specialist in the 1990s, there were new developments/treatments/findings every week of the year, as a new (and exciting) disease it took at least half a day a week to catch up with it all. None of that with the Tavistock, the only GIDS service in the UK, another new (and exciting) “disease”.

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