Almost nothing about this pod was scientific. Almost all of it was political, namely taking a political stance against Republican efforts to restrict access to gender-transition treatment, in particular for minors, but in some cases also for adults.
At the end of the podcast, they made a series of non-evidence based claims. And they also did not distinguish between pediatric and adult gender-transition treatment and how the ethical considerations and evidence base differ between them.
They falsely claimed that doctors in this field simply “follow the evidence”; because if they did, those doctors would know that evidence-based medicine experts have widely concluded that for minors in particular, gender-transition treatment is not evidence-based and instead is grounded in weak and uncertain research findings.
Most notably, no research has backed the claim that this treatment lowers suicide deaths. Only one study has sought to determine whether these treatments are life saving for youths and it found that they are not.
@scifri turned off replies when this post was inundated with people saying the pod is not scientific. The pod then falsely claimed they were muting the replies because of hate. I do not see hate in the comments. I see people arguing about science.
At the end of the podcast, they made a series of non-evidence based claims. And they also did not distinguish between pediatric and adult gender-transition treatment and how the ethical considerations and evidence base differ between them.
They falsely claimed that doctors in this field simply “follow the evidence”; because if they did, those doctors would know that evidence-based medicine experts have widely concluded that for minors in particular, gender-transition treatment is not evidence-based and instead is grounded in weak and uncertain research findings.
Most notably, no research has backed the claim that this treatment lowers suicide deaths. Only one study has sought to determine whether these treatments are life saving for youths and it found that they are not.
@scifri turned off replies when this post was inundated with people saying the pod is not scientific. The pod then falsely claimed they were muting the replies because of hate. I do not see hate in the comments. I see people arguing about science.
Here are some of the replies that @scifri hid from the post, which I gather are the reason they turned off replies: 
@scifri Here’s my latest on pediatric gender medicine:
https://twitter.com/benryanwriter/status/1852429685797339608
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