This transgender trend has been going a fair while. The experimental, off-label drug use, widespread 'affirmative care'. The Dutch protocol is now two decades old. People on all sides of the divide tell us more evidence is needed desperately. But where are the studies? I just can't understand a/ the lack of studies when you have the study population queuing at your door, and b/ the poor quality of studies done, no control group etc.
If you compare to another novel and perhaps controversial treatment, the COVID mRNA vaccine, urgent circumstances required fast roll out under emergency conditions. Data was harvested as soon as possible to verify its safety. This was essential to gain user trust. And to actually find out, you know, if it actually worked! Wherever you fall on the vaccine debate, no one can argue the studies were poor or weakly designed, or simply not done.
How can the affirmative care brigade possibly justify their inaction? The Tavistock told each other and everyone else over and over that studies were needed but sat on their own data. Trans inclusion in women's sports is predicated on us 'not knowing' if male born trans athletes have a systemic advantage. And they tell us we won't know for thirty years. Am I going mad? It's all there. The experiment has been rolling on for over 15 years across the westernised world. In the absence of 'evidence' (and bizarrely in the US they are told 'because of the evidence'), the urgent state of the trans population means, oh dear, we have to act now to save lives. Medicate first and do the research later. Sometime. Sometime never.