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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Replying to @GidMK @TheSciBabe and
Nor do they ask "do you believe in God".
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Replying to @MCleaver @TheSciBabe and
Imagine not asking whether people believed in God in a study of whether people believe in God, and instead using a questionnaire containing things like "have you wondered where all life came from in the last 12 months?" Similar idea
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Why would you ask a Scientologist if he believed in Scientology? Redundant question, methinks.
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What a bizarre non-sequitur
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Here's a fun way to think about it: imagine running a study on whether people were still Scientologists and not asking them "are you still a Scientologist" as part of the survey
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