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Spinning the Tevistock story
Activists are twisting the closure of Tavistock as a win for gender ideology.
Lane, Bernard http://quillette.com/2022/09/23/spinning-the-tavistock-story/
Publisher: Quillette
Date Written: 23/09/2022
Year Published: 2022
Resource Type: Article
Will research gradually displace ideology from the field of gender? Too early to say, but gender-affirming research has certainly set a low bar for quality. Kids with cancer join randomised control trials of experimental treatments, knowing they may get a placebo. But this would be unethical with gender dysphoria, according to gender clinics researchers who set up a false binary between their own affirmative treatments and “doing nothing” to relieve distress. Why not use a comparison group offered exploratory talk therapy? That’s likely to be denounced as hateful conversion therapy. The affirmative mindset is curious. It admits the need for research but resists the possibility that anyone in a study could be denied affirmative treatment. It’s as if research is redundant because clinicians already know their affirmative approach is “life-saving”—and they’ve got the headlines to prove it.
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