The Cass Review and the WPATH SOC
The Cass Review draws some astonishing conclusions about the WPATH Standards of Care (SOC). More or less, the basic upshot of the Cass Review's analysis is that the SOC is…
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Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Emily Eaton, Andrew Stevens and Sean Tucker discuss how the corporate fossil fuel sector is blocking workers from pursuing sustainable jobs as part…
Let’s Talk About Data Quality For a Moment
The recently released Cass Review Final Report (Cass Review) has criticized the absence of “high quality evidence” supporting the use of puberty blockers to treat transgender youth (as well as…
Let’s Talk About Data Quality For a Moment
The recently released Cass Review Final Report (Cass Review) has criticized the absence of “high quality evidence” supporting the use of puberty blockers to treat transgender youth (as well as…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jenna Wenkoff discusses how “ethical oil” is purely a (risible) marketing concept rather than any meaningful description of actual fossil fuel operations, while…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Centrepiece cat.
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Emilia Belliveau makes the case for the fossil fuel sector to start paying for the harm it causes through carbon pollution, rather…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Amy Westervelt and Kyle Pope call out five of the most insidious fossil fuel propaganda messages. Fiona Harvey reports on Todd Stern’s rightful…
Trans Athletes …
So, wayyyy back in 2021, I wrote a piece pointing out that a lot of the arguments about whether transgender athletes (and particularly trans women as athletes) have "intrinsic advantages"…
Trans Athletes …
So, wayyyy back in 2021, I wrote a piece pointing out that a lot of the arguments about whether transgender athletes (and particularly trans women as athletes) have “intrinsic advantages”…
Eating on the road: Evan’s Fresh Seafoods in Dartmouth
My visit to Halifax in December was planned as a culinary visit, and before I left I consulted friends who were or had been local residents to get their tips…
Eating on the road: Evan’s Fresh Seafoods in Dartmouth
My visit to Halifax in December was planned as a culinary visit, and before I left I consulted friends who were or had been local residents to get their tips…
Eating on the road: Evan’s Fresh Seafoods in Dartmouth
My visit to Halifax in December was planned as a culinary visit, and before I left I consulted friends who were or had been local residents to get their tips…
Musical interlude
Deadmau5 – Wish You Were There (Ratchet Remix)
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Graham Lawton writes that continued (or worse yet growing) inequality represents an intractable obstacle to ameliorating the climate crisis. Laurence Tubiana discusses the…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Joan Westenberg discusses how to fight back in the war against knowledge, while Julia Doubleday calls out the lengths to which the…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Alex Tanzi reports on new research showing how COVID-19 has radically changed the main causes of death globally. And Michael Peluso et al.…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Tabled cat.
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Cory Doctorow discusses the inherent impossibility of trying to build any public good on an economic system centered on selfishness: This is…