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 There isn't a possible way to do this with trans people for the following reasons:
-* There is no placebo effect for medicine. Those who take hormones will notice their body change.
-* It's unethical to not provide hormones to someone who wants to transtiion, and it's unethial to given them to someone who isn't transgender.
+  * There is no placebo effect for medicine. Those who take hormones will notice their body change.
+  * It's unethical to not provide hormones to someone who wants to transtiion, and it's unethial to given them to someone who isn't transgender.
 Infact, the tobacco industry made the same argument that smoking couldn't be proved to be dangerous because their aren't any RCTs. London also posted a satire article saying parachutes can not be proven since there hasn't been RCTs of people skydiving. Obviously, it would be unethical to have someone jump out of a plane without one.
 What there IS lots of is **observational studies**. These are metrics of a persons mental health before, during, and after transitoning.
+For instance, the paper "Clinical guidelines for children and adolescents experiencing gender dysphoria or incongruence: a systematic review of guideline quality" (https://adc.bmj.com/content/archdischild/109/Suppl_2/s65.full.pdf?with-ds=yes) applies AGREE II grading system to studies for hormone therapy. This scale is objective, and how results were obtained in the article was not mentioned.