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Biased Science: The Texas and Alabama Measures Criminalizing Medical Treatment for Transgender Children and Adolescents Rely on Inaccurate and Misleading Scientific Claims
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A report finds the data used to backup the Texas and Alabama anti transgender health care laws were not rooted in science. The report finds Texas AG opinion and the Alabama Law have many scientific errors and make many omissions of data.


A Critical Review of the June 2022 Florida Medicaid Report on the Medical Treatment of Gender Dysphoria
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A report finds the data used to backup the Flordia's anti transgender health care limitations were not rooted in science. It finds Flordia's report had many errors and issues.


Do Clinical Data from Transgender Adolescents Support the Phenomenon of “Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria”?
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A study criticizing rapid onset gender dysphoria. It finds that a core claim of rapid onset gender dysphoria is not backed up by data.


Blanchard's Autogynephilia Theory: A Critique
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A critique of autogynephilia that finds many claims are not backed up by data and finds many other problems with the theory.


Methodological Critique of Littman’s (2018) Parental-Respondents Accounts of “Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria”
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A critique of the rapid onset gender dyphoria study that exposes its methodological flaws.


Sex Assigned at Birth Ratio Among Transgender and Gender Diverse Adolescents in the United States
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A study that finds a flaw with a claim of the Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria theory.


A critical commentary on follow-up studies and “desistance” theories about transgender and gender-nonconforming children
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A commentary on several studies that looked at desistance among transgender kids find they likely overestimated desistance rates.


Interrogating Gender-Exploratory Therapy
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An article that criticizes Gender-Exploratory Therapy (a new and non-affirming approach to dealing with transgender youth) and draws connections with it and conversion therapy