Author (A J Eckert "(they/them) Connecticut’s first out nonbinary doctor") links to our 2015 piece which examined suicidality data from the 2008 U.S. Transgender Discrimination Survey, the source of the claim that 41% of trans ADULTS attempt suicide.https://4thwavenow.com/2015/08/03/the-41-trans-suicide-rate-a-tale-of-flawed-data-and-lazy-journalists/ …
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Our article focused on the 2014 Williams Institute/American Foundation for Suicide Prevention analysis of the data, which, among other things pointed out that the 41% claim should not be interpreted to mean actual suicide attempts. In their words:pic.twitter.com/VJiahsma0B
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Their point is that a single question about suicidal thoughts is not adequate to ascertain the truth; followup questions are necessary. In our article, we said this *could* mean the actual number of surveyed trans ADULTS who attempted suicide might be closer to 20%. HOWEVER:
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(direct quote from our article): "Even if the rate is closer to 20%, that is still unacceptably high. And self harm is a huge problem, whether the actual intent to end one’s life is present or not." So what did Eckert claim we said in their
@ScienceBasedMed article?pic.twitter.com/3ZP8HxDcVW
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Why does
@ScienceBasedMed keep letting its authors misquote like this? First, we didn't "claim" anything about TEENS: The 2008 survey polled trans & GNC ADULTS. Second, the "speculative" estimate was derived from analysis by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. Third:Show this thread -
Eckert (if they read our article) KNOWS we said 20% would still be "unacceptably high", and the rest of our article--far from dismissing self harm/suicidality--discusses in detail not just the flaws in the survey, but the very serious problem of self harm in trans/GNC people.
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The series of sloppy hit pieces recently published by
@ScienceBasedMed have been rife with these sorts of errors. We call on editor@stevennovella to correct this and do a lot better at fact checking. If you can do it for anti-vax propaganda, youu can do it for trans issues, too.Show this thread -
For a some more examples of what looks like deliberate misquoting/misrepresentation in these
@sciencebasedmed articles, see here:https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1416486324387913736?s=20 …
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Here is the 2014 Williams Institute/American Foundation for Suicide Prevention report referenced in our 2015 article and discussed in these tweets. https://web.archive.org/web/20150722210834/http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/AFSP-Williams-Suicide-Report-Final.pdf …
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What kind of science reporting ignores the evidence base? Or doesn't recognize the lack of research still needed? Pls
@ScienceBasedMed, you are ensuring continued suffering by misrepresenting evidence. There is a modern day medical scandal afoot. Dig deeper, even if you disagree.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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