We can have pride in our defiance and survival rather than proud of our impairments specifically or proud of having barriers, which, ugh is a bit different from how it's framed in the countries it originated in but not a million miles off. Nor massively different to queer pride

Point 6 in the eligibility criteria, where adolescents are only eligible for potential access to puberty blockers if their clinician "believes they have participated sufficiently for their holistic health in other forms of care".

This set up gives clinicians so much power. It is set up for abuse.

This is not how you design a research study to see whether puberty blockers are beneficial.

This is how you design a research study to show they have little benefit.

Thank you. I'll email you in the morning.

Would it be ok to vent sometime soon, I would really value your perspective on aspects of it.

Yeah I just wanted a disability focused one too

I am involved with a research collective that actually does research and is actually a collective and even where there are dislikes at times we manage to function democraticly so while there can be clashes in access needs with some groups. In this case I really don't think it's me

Thanks. Plus side is I'll have much more time to focus on my own work rather than building up someone else under the false guise of a collective :)

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Thank you. That's so appreciated. Sorry this year has been that for lots of us.
I probably will take you up on this soon I'm just exhausted rn 💜