Ben is off crafting his masterpiece memoir this week. In the meantime, Cori, Eliza, Jamie and Lisa dig into a troubling new article from the Amsterdam gender clinic that lays out a survival strategy for the embattled field of youth gender medicine.

Show notes:

* Gender-affirming medical treatment for adolescents: a critical reflection on “effective” treatment outcomes (open access)

Background on the Dutch protocol:

* Gender: A Wider Lens episode with Annelou De Vries and Thomas Steensma

* The Dutch Protocol for Juvenile Transsexuals: Origins and Evidence by Michael Biggs (open access)

* The Myth of "Reliable Research" in Pediatric Gender Medicine: A critical evaluation of the Dutch Studies-and research that has followed by Zhenya Abbruzzese, Stephen Levine, and Julia Mason (open access)

* Eliza's 2023 article reporting from inside gender conferences

* Alex Bakker's 2021 book, The Dutch Approach: Fifty years of transgender health care at the VU Amsterdam gender clinic

Our non-gender recs for the week:

* Saki's The Unrest-Cure

* The Unspeakeasy online community

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