The complaint is that Zac received donations to his 2024 campaign account without having closed his 2022 campaign account, which to be honest does not strike me as particularly explosive. I did laugh when I saw the bit about Zac owing $278.93 to the Billings Times since April 2022, though. Pay up deadbeat!
I'll upload the PDF later when I figure out how to make it smaller and keep it readable; it's a scan of a printed document so each page is an image and it's huge.
Not to mention that we can conduct RCTs for all sorts of treatments with obvious effects! Observation of the effects is in large part the rationale for the RCT in the first place, because it facilitates controlling for the placebo effect.
On the claim that "RCTs would be unethical", the proposals I've seen for RCTs for gender dysphoria are typically psychotherapy plus puberty blockers/cross-sex hormones for the treatment group, and psychotherapy alone (perhaps plus placebo) for the control group. Obviously this is unacceptable to Tony because he considers psychotherapy to be "conversion therapy".
It seems he continues to believe that RCTs are necessarily blinded (whether single or double), which is not the case.
He's published a new blog post about evidence quality, which I hope to have time to go through later today.
The Myth Of "Low Quality Evidence" Around Transgender Care (
archive)
Edit: I've been through his blog post now. It's garbage. I can't tell whether Tony is deliberately trying to mislead people, or he's trying to convince himself. Here's a list of the "greatest hits" that appear:
Another day, another load of nonsense from Tony. Only one treatment approach to gender dysphoria is acceptable to him: puberty blockers for children followed by cross-sex hormones for adolescents and adults. Anything else is "conversion therapy" or "unethical". Tony says that "there is no level of evidence that will ever be acceptable to those seeking to ban gender affirming care" — "And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?"
Ultimately Tony will never abandon this position (unless he detransitions or, er, joins the detransition of the 41%) because he believes (or at least professes to believe!) that trans-identified people are "born in the wrong body". He is like a lobotomy dead-ender who is convinced beyond reason that the mentally ill have a malignant extra connection in the brain that must be surgically severed.