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"You can post as much biology as you want". Evolved from a unisex tadpole. Still Bullshit Intolerant. This is the Way.

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@SVPhillimore @Bird_OnA_Wire Not any generation apart from the most recent one.

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@Mark_A_K_W @SVPhillimore Does that extend to their media lawyers, who'll be the one's checking for potential liabilities in the content of the documentary before it airs?

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There are a couple of significant points of interest here.

First, Cass's statement suggests that the PB arm of the trial is based squarely bon the original proposal for the Dutch Protocol, which was designed specifically for early onset cases and only early onset cases.

This means that the UK trial will deviate from the original Dutch Protocol trial, which went beyond the proposal an included later presentation cases in its female cohort. This isn't made explicit in the descriptive section of the original study paper (De Vries, 2011) but is referred to in the discussion:-

"At baseline, gender dysphoric natal males were younger and showed less problem behavior than natal females. With a mean age of 14, most natal females had developed breasts and had their menarche."

Second, this aligns well with the 2013 Steensma paper on persistence/desistence which notes that:-

"When asked with what sex they identified (“Are you a boy or a girl?”), children who expressed cross-gender identification had a greater chance of persisting GD. This seems to be in concordance with the underlying motives reported by the persisters and desisters in the qualitative study by Steensma et al.2 Persisters indicated that they believed that they were the “other” sex, and the desisters indicated they wished they were the “other” sex; this difference may also underlie our finding of a higher report of cognitive cross-gender identification in the persisters than in the desisters;"

Before adding:-

"Childhood social transitions were important predictors of persistence, especially among natal boys. Social transitions were associated with more intense GD in childhood, but have never been independently studied regarding the possible impact of the social transition itself on cognitive representation of gender identity or persistence."

If the trial can examine the role of social transition in any depth then we may well be getting somewhere in terms of useful data.

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@_ChrisLepkowski Doesn't really work in Black Country, mind.

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@SaulSanders8 Morgan is on the same learning curve as Price was last season.

He did well enough early on to get the attention of our opponents, who've now had time to work on plans to cancel him out.

Learning to adapt is his next challenge.

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@Scott_Wortley One of the high numbered channels on Freeview has recently been showing 'Star Maidens', which originally aired in 1976 and has no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

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@Scott_Wortley Not sure Google's AI understands either...

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@WNlombardi I'd explain but your grasp of reality is tenuous enough without the stress of trying to understand a joke.

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PSA. A couple of posts have appeared on the #wba hashtag referencing safeguarding complaints to the Premier League.

I asked Grok to assess the account making these seemingly serious allegations and it came up with this.

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@WNlombardi Sigh, someone's off his dried frog pills.

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@WNlombardi Based on the content of your account, have you considered seeking psychiatric help?

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Looked at WellBN's prescribing data last year and while I couldn't dig up anything useful on PB usage - largely, I suspect because low numbers of scripts across a range of different hormone suppressants makes this a needle in a haystack job - I was able to pull some interesting longitudinal data on prescribing patterns for male and female sex hormones.

Important caveats:

1) There's a practice merger in 2022 to be taken into account as this significantly increased the size of the surgery's patient list outside its targeting of services toward people seeking 'gender-affirming' care.

2) The data for female sex hormones doesn't distinguish between scripts issued to natal males and those issued to females as HRT.

I did, however, run a comparison of the age demographics of WellBN other surgeries in its Primary Care Network and the graph, I think, speaks for itself and support view that its prescribing pattern for female hormone is not just down to an influx of menopausal women.

I also used another surgery - St Peter's - to provide a baseline because it had its own gender medicine service during this period.

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@rthonbwooster IQ in bio?

Clearly not a PhD in Psychology, then.

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Seeing a few calls for a return to Merry Hill. #wba

Can't see that being cost effective as a long term thing but running a pop up shop there during key periods, i.e. July/August for kit launches, pre-Christmas and March/April for an end of season sale, might be viable.

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We can confirm our retail stall at West Bromwich Indoor Market, the Albion Alcove, will close permanently on Saturday, October 17.

🔗 https://t.co/IcCyYf8yVt

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@CaptainSensible @Rat_Scabies @thedamned Looks like a Fender case.

What did he buy, Strat or Tele?

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@bindelj On his own?

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@HJoyceGender It's not the BBC per se as most of its cheap daytime content is commissioned from independent production companies - this show is produced by Curve Media, for example.

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@ThatEricAlper Tis but a six year old spoof...

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@thebeercolonel @Scott_Wortley Google, however, offers a more illuminating take...

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@thebeercolonel @Scott_Wortley I was going to say that we can at least be sure there's no AI involvement in this but, having run the question past ChatGPT, I'm now not so sure...