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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him

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    1. Yvette, exiled Queen of the Seychelles.‏Verified account @TheSciBabe Jun 15

      Yvette, exiled Queen of the Seychelles. Retweeted Martin Cleaver - #rEUnion #FBPE #FPPPR  💜

      "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 …

      Yvette, exiled Queen of the Seychelles. added,

      Martin Cleaver - #rEUnion #FBPE #FPPPR  💜 @MCleaver
      Replying to @ALLIANCELGB @AbigailShrier
      Great book. And great that http://sciencebasedmedicine.org  posts such a good review. It's crazy that so many pro-science sites and accounts, like @TheSciBabe and @Gorskon, seem to have swallowed the genderist line.
      14 replies 1 retweet 36 likes
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    2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jun 15
      Replying to @TheSciBabe @HHSkepDoc @gorskon

      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

      3 replies 1 retweet 13 likes
    3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jun 15
      Replying to @GidMK @TheSciBabe and

      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

      2 replies 0 retweets 8 likes
    4. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jun 15
      Replying to @GidMK @TheSciBabe and

      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

      1 reply 1 retweet 5 likes
    5. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jun 15
      Replying to @GidMK @TheSciBabe and

      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

      2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
    6. Martin Cleaver - #rEUnion #FBPE #FPPPR  💜‏ @MCleaver Jun 16
      Replying to @GidMK @TheSciBabe and

      You don't agree that 88% can desist?

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    7. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jun 16
      Replying to @MCleaver @TheSciBabe and

      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

      1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
    8. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jun 16
      Replying to @GidMK @MCleaver and

      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

      2 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jun 16
      Replying to @GidMK @MCleaver and

      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

      12:33 AM - 16 Jun 2021
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