"Those who transition rarely adopt the stereotypical habits of men (like buying a weight set), only 3% have had a phalloplasty (to create an artificial penis), and only 13% say they want one."
Uh, @HHSkepDoc, fucking yikes.
@gorskon, this is SBM now?https://twitter.com/MCleaver/status/1404886031724331014 …
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Oooof there are a lot of outright mistakes there. One example - the article implies that detransition is common and widespread especially among trans men, but the biggest sample to date of 17k people suggests it impacts <15% and is less common for trans men
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There are also a lot of fairly misleading statements. The "4400%" increase in teenage girls seeking gender treatment in the UK, for example, represents an absolute increase from ~0.00005% to ~0.002%, roughly
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Most of the statements made as fact are unreferenced, and I can't find support for many of them. Moreover, the argument presented as the "pro" transgender side is a straw manpic.twitter.com/nqPBScSLJQ
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Also, I'm now diving down a rabbit hole of the evidence used to support this article and WOW IT IS SO INCREDIBLY BAD The study used to support this statement, for example, is just atrociouspic.twitter.com/EP7aqeXiT8
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The study didn't show that 88% desisted. They surveyed a biased, tiny sample drawn exclusively from their own patients not all of whom were contacted, and defined "persistence" and "desistence" using gender dysphoria questionnaires
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They literally didn't report asking the question "how do you identify?" at any point in the study, which seems like a remarkably basic thing to do if you're looking for the persistence of transgender self-identification
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At best, you could say that in this relatively small case series there was some measure of desistence, but saying it supports anything more than that is total nonsense and certainly not a scientific stance
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