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Duchesse des Esseintes's avatar

Damn, THIS is what I'm paying for.

Thanks, Jesse, for doing the work that researchers and reviewers obviously aren't willing to do.

I bet you're often feeling like you're fighting against windmills, but you're doing stellar and really important work.

That's how it's done - not by mindlessly accusing everyone you disagree with of being a "groomer".

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Joseph Conner Micallef's avatar

Man the failure to acknowledge drop-outs is SO terrible. You didn't even mention the biggest problem with it - why exactly would a not-depressed person who does not want blockers go to a gender clinic? This is BY FAR the biggest problem in my eyes. Like take the situation the authors seem to be describing, one where no amount of distress keeps you off blockers. In that situation you would logically expect anyone who wants blockers to end up on blockers, which just leaves the people who don't want blockers in the non-blocker group. If you are in the non-blocker group AND experiencing no distress the clinic is providing you literally zero services of value - it's not therapy because you don't need therapy it's not any medical intervention because no intervention is needed - so OF COURSE they dropped out!

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