Left panel: comparison between the photometric parallaxes (obtained from Cepheids distance estimates from Skowron et al. 2024) and trigonometric parallaxes without zero-point correction (black), with Lindegren et al. (2021) correction (red), and Lindegren et al. (2021) + additional offset correction (blue). See main text for a detailed explanation. Right panel: derived distances for the 593 young giants (d_YG), which were also classified as Cepheids, compared to their photometric (Leavitt Law) based distances (d_{S 24}).