Mallory Moore

"We found no evidence that gender dysphoria can't be cured by other means than transition" is an interesting thing for someone who is a legitimate expert to say, and a completely meaningless thing for someone invested in conversion therapy and not reading evidence countering it.

There's around 70 years history of psychotherapeutic and other approaches to "remediation" of Trans gender dysphoria issues. The conclusion most psychotherapists came to in 1950s was that it doesn't work.

The conclusion most psychotherapists came to in the 1970s was it doesn't work. The conclusion a very small handful came to in the 1980s was they thought they might be able to get it to work but couldn't really prove it, but the consensus was it didn't work.

The consensus in the 2000s was still that noone has really solved "how to cure transsexuals of being transsexual". The widely held consensus in trans healthcare now is that actually trying to cure trans people is bad, caused decades of harm and probably exacerbates psych illness

So when you know someone is a shite artist and they pop up claiming they've cracked this apparently hard problem in psych care, and that in fact we need to push the stop button on medicalised transition, so they can do a expensive, years long therapy solution, they need evidence.

And saying they're a shite artist is absolutely enough to dismiss their work for the average lay person. Maybe you're an experimental psychologist and you want to test their claims with a longitudinal study of outcomes for some of their patients and see how they're claims work.

But most of us are not experimental psychologists with a need to advance our careers by studying people probably in the process of being medically mismanaged by some crank with an ax to grind.

At this point it's a lot like fucking alchemists arguing that maybe we haven't drunk enough Mercury to readjust the humours. There's *a lot* of harmful backlog which itself is evidence that further research in that vein is a risk to trans people.