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Maintenance Phase

By: Aubrey Gordon & Michael Hobbes
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  • Debunking the junk science behind health fads, wellness scams and nonsensical nutrition advice.
    © 2024 Maintenance Phase
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  • BONUS: Breaking Down The Latest Anti-Trans Victory Lap

    BONUS: Breaking Down The Latest Anti-Trans Victory Lap
    Jul 1 2024

    We went a little easy on the Cass Report in our last main feed episode, so we're back to [Mortal Kombat voice] FINISH HIM!!!

    This was supposed to be a Patreon bonus episode but we'd rather you support the lovely trans people who helped us with the research and fact-checking of this episode!

    Julia Serano: https://www.patreon.com/juliaserano
    Parker Molloy: https://www.readtpa.com/
    Katelyn Burns: https://www.patreon.com/katelynburns
    Evan Urquhart: https://www.assignedmedia.org/support
    Erin Reed: https://www.erininthemorning.com/

    Or organizations that work with trans youth in the UK:
    Gendered Intelligence: https://genderedintelligence.co.uk/
    Mermaids: https://mermaidsuk.org.uk/
    Stonewall: https://www.stonewall.org.uk/

    Thanks to Doctor Dreamchip for our lovely theme song!

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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • "Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria" Part 2: Panic! At The Endocrinologist.

    "Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria" Part 2: Panic! At The Endocrinologist.
    Jun 18 2024

    Thanks to Jules Gill-Peterson (jgillpeterson.com) and Julia Serano (patreon.com/juliaserano) for help researching this episode and Evan Urquhart, Parker Molloy and Katelyn Burns for fact-checking!

    Support us:

    • Hear bonus episodes on Patreon
    • Donate on PayPal
    • Get Maintenance Phase T-shirts, stickers and more
    • Watch Aubrey's documentary
    • Buy Aubrey's book
    • Listen to Mike's other podcast

    Links!

    • Origins of "Social Contagion" and "Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria"
    • The "Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria" Controversy at AACAP's Annual Meeting
    • Methodological Critique Of The Cass Review
    • Methodological Critique of Littman (2018)
    • Parent reports of adolescents and young adults perceived to show signs of a rapid onset of gender dysphoria
    • A critical commentary on ‘rapid-onset gender dysphoria’.
    • Foundations Of The Contemporary Anti-LGBTQ+ Pseudoscience Network
    • Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria: Parent Reports on 1,655 Possible Cases
    • Opinion: England's Anti-Trans Cass Review Is Politics Disguised As Science
    • Tavistock v Bell
    • Actually Nothing: The Non-Starter Non-Story of the WPATH Files
    • As anti-trans legislation proliferates in 2024, community fears erasure from public view
    • States Passed a Record Number of Transgender Laws. Here’s What They Say.

    Thanks to Doctor Dreamchip for our lovely theme song!

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    1 hr and 31 mins
  • "Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria" Part 1: The Cooties Theory of Transgender Identity

    "Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria" Part 1: The Cooties Theory of Transgender Identity
    May 9 2024

    Thanks to Jules Gill-Peterson (jgillpeterson.com) and Julia Serano (patreon.com/juliaserano) for help researching this episode and Evan Urquhart and Parker Molloy for fact-checking!

    Support us:

    • Hear bonus episodes on Patreon
    • Donate on PayPal
    • Get Maintenance Phase T-shirts, stickers and more
    • Watch Aubrey's documentary
    • Buy Aubrey's book
    • Listen to Mike's other podcast

    Links!

    • Origins of "Social Contagion" and "Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria"
    • What does the scholarly research say about the effect of gender transition on transgender well-being?
    • Mental Health Outcomes in Transgender and Nonbinary Youths Receiving Gender-Affirming Care
    • Fresh trans myths of 2017: “rapid onset gender dysphoria”
    • Rapid Onset of Gender Dysphoria in Adolescents and Young Adults: a Descriptive Study
    • The Detransitioners: They Were Transgender, Until They Weren't
    • How the idea of a “transgender contagion” went viral—and caused untold harm
    • Mental Health Outcomes in Transgender and Nonbinary Youths Receiving Gender-Affirming Care
    • 'Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria' Is Biased Junk Science
    • A careful step into a field of landmines
    • Detransition, Desistance, and Disinformation: A Guide for Understanding Transgender Children Debates
    • Recognizing and responding to misleading trans health research

    Thanks to Doctor Dreamchip for our lovely theme song!

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    1 hr and 28 mins
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All time favorite podcast

Aubrey & Michael are the best friends I’ve never met. If you’re mid thirties and grew up in a diet obsessed environment ALL the references hit.

Reasons to listen:

#1 The amount of research is impressive. I can never again uncritically accept nutrition study findings.
#2 I’m less of a jerk. They helped me recognize and end my own anti fat behaviors.
#3 it’s super entertaining. The format of the show (hosts take turns teaching one another about the topic) is great. You get to be shocked/angered at the same time as Michael or Aubrey!

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love it!

They are great! so funny and while I knew about Joseph Pilates never knew about Kathleen Stanford Grant. Great episode.

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Hanging on every word

This podcast is SO hilarious. The podcasters feel like your best friends, the stories are hilarious and well-researched.

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my new favorite podcast

I love this podcast. Mike and Aubrey are my soul mates. I love the sass with their well-researched topics. I work in a college counseling center with students so brutalized by fat shaming, diet culture, etc. This is a great place to send them for an introduction to shutting off the never-enough megaphone so they can begin to love and accept their bodies and themselves. Thank you, thank you, thank yoi!

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My favorite podcast!

As a researcher, I appreciate the critical review of research and the presentation of facts. These two are knowledgeable AND entertaining. I hope they around for many years to come.

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My favorite podcast ever.

Snarky, warm and opinionated. Really deepened my understanding of the topic in a very entertaining way. Also, Aubrey and Mike have a great chemistry and are just fun to listen to.

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Rewiring our brains on what Healthy "looks like"

excellent episode. I'll be listening to this series based on this episode! Thank you Glennon and Abby for introducing me to this podcast!

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I love these hosts.

Always so informative and interesting. while the topics are complex, they are so good at unwinding the issues.

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Language my mother wouldn't approve but

This podcast is one of my favorites! Aubrey and Michael are so fun to listen to and I am so engaged in every single episode.

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Thank you Aubrey and Michael

First of all I almost had a wreck laughing when you tasted the celery juice. You two are so funny together. I’m enjoying the deep-dive, origin-story synthesis of American ridiculousness that got us into so many of these hilarious-in-hindsight predicaments like the Presidential Fitness what-the-eff-were-they-thinking. Although that is a shared American ordeal that can unite our fractured country at least for a nanosecond of conversation. And if somebody says “oh I thought that presidential fitness test was super fun” you know to get away fast. You have helped me to organize my own baked-in fat self-hate, the circus of diet hopes and highs and lows, the perils of being a weight loss Judas, the thick sludge of stupid opinions and concern trolling we all have to wade through. Thank you for radicalizing me.

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