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It's hard to feel sympathy for The Guardian as a trans person, when they commissioned a study on the efficacy of "sex change" surgeries that deliberately fudged it's interpretations of the data to achieve the desired outcome, and that article is still cited by transphobes today.
They commissioned a meta study of all available studies on the outcomes of sex reassignment surgery, which determined that because there was no double blind control groups for those studies, that there was no "robust" evidence for positive outcomes.
For those who don't know, double blind testing would be where, in testing a medicine for example, neither the person recieving the medication, nor the one administering it, know which is the actual medicine and which is the placebo. Hence double blind.
Because studies on the outcomes of sex reassignment did not contain double blind controls, the meta study couldn't find "robust evidence" on the efficacy of said surgery.
The Guardian lead with the following headline: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2004/jul/30/health.mentalhealth
The Guardian lead with the following headline: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2004/jul/30/health.mentalhealth
That 2004 meta study commissioned by The Guardian to produce the results they wanted is still cited by anti-LGBT hate groups, activists, politicians today.
Why, here's the Heritage Foundation citing it as a major source: https://www.heritage.org/gender/commentary/sex-reassignment-doesnt-work-here-the-evidence
Why, here's the Heritage Foundation citing it as a major source: https://www.heritage.org/gender/commentary/sex-reassignment-doesnt-work-here-the-evidence
It's hard to overstated the damage The Guardian has done to the trans community, they've had a deliberately trans hostile editorial stance for as long as I can remember. But that meta study they commissioned? That was possibly the worst, most damaging thing they've done.
Fuck em
Fuck em
Keep in mind, this study was commissioned ahead of the 2004 Gender Recognition Act. In case you thought they just did that out of nowhere, and didn't have an agenda to hold back the human rights of trans people.
