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Sex and Gender

Breaking Down Cass Review Myths and Misconceptions: What You Need to Know: Part 2

Continued from Breaking Down Cass Review Myths and Misconceptions: What You Need to Know: Part 1 The Myths (Part 1) … Myth 1: 98% of all studies in this area were ignoredMyth 2: Cass recommended no Trans Healthcare for Under 25s.Myth 3: Cass is demanding only Double Blind Randomised Controlled Trials be used as evidence in “Trans Healthcare”Myth 4: There were less than 10 detransitioners out of 3499 patients in the Cass study. The Myths (Part 2)… Myth 5: The Cass Review is worthless because it is not Peer ReviewedMyth 6: The proposed service is based on the idea that [read more...]

Sex and Gender

Breaking Down Cass Review Myths and Misconceptions: What You Need to Know: Part 1

It has now been just little under a week since the publication of the long anticipated NHS independent review of gender identity services for children and young people, the Cass Review. The review recommends sweeping [read more...]

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John Wesley and The Origins of the Natural Health Movement

by Andy L in featured 41

Examine the discourse of any alternative medicine and you will encounter a surprisingly homogenous set of themes: that their methods are natural, simple, available to all, and are based on ancient and traditional knowledge. Cures for disease are freely available from nature and we do not need the intermediation of [read more...]

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The Vets Who Make People Feel Better

by Andy L in featured 43

Some years ago, a well meaning but utterly deluded friend gave me a book entitled Natural Remedies For Your Cat by Christopher Day. It is a slightly disturbing tome that appears to recommend homeopathic remedies for pretty much everything – from fleas to gunshot wounds. Rational cat lovers might find [read more...]