98.1% of you were correct. In the last 12 months, 2.7 articles were written about puberty blockers per trans adolescent under 15 given puberty blockers:
@DailyMailUK 34
@thetimes 16
@Telegraph 14
@guardian 11
@BBC 9
@TheSun 7
@TheEconomist 6
@DailyMirror 3
@spectator 3
#Obsessed
Methodology:
I used Google to search specific web sites of large circulation media (print & online-only platform) in the last 12 months - up to 30th April 2020.
The following search terms were used:
puberty blocker(s)
puberty blocking
hormone blocker(s)
hormone blocking
Data cleansing was minimal & was as follows:
Removed repeated instances on same site
Removed local news stories (BBC)
Removed entries clearly not trans related
Removed hits which linked to archives, indexes or topics
Removed references to intersex health if not also trans health.
I have retained article headings and dates from cached google search but not links. Happy to share this data on request.
*Note This was a final list arrived at after some experimentation. The only site where these terms didn't provide a full list of relevant articles was the Sun where additional terms were required. I applied the additional Sun specific terms to all sites with no additional returns
For previous survey on number of under 15s prescribed puberty blockers on the NHS see here:
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