One study is not the same as the evidence base
Dr Helen Webberley on LBC: trans healthcare, with Tom Swarbrick, LBC
If you can find a study that supports your position, that's enough. One piece of research, cited confidently, settles the argument.
What I was pushing back on there is one of the most common moves in this debate: pulling out a single study because it fits the conclusion you already want, and presenting it as though the science is done. That is not how evidence works. What matters is what the peer-reviewed reviews of multiple studies show, taken together, over time. The overall picture in gender-affirming care is not built on one paper. It is built on decades of research, reviewed and endorsed by the major medical and scientific bodies internationally. Cherry-picking is not a method. It is a way of sounding like you have done the reading without actually doing it.
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