Oh boy, there's so many I asked just even today. Some questions about gender dysphoria, like what exactly causes it, and how it relates to gender.
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Replying to @EnnyishQuil @della_morte_
You don't need to know that, and we don't need to tell you. All you need to know is that trans people know who we are, and we know what we need, and we deserve happiness and freedom.
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Replying to @sladeofyaupon
You don't get to tell me what I'm allowed to know
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Replying to @EnnyishQuil @sladeofyaupon
Sure I do, if they're questions only I can answer
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literally my reaction to assigned sex fields on forms: “That’s classified”
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There are many cases in history where communities have come together to publicly refuse participation in research, because they believe that research will be used against them
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Replying to @arthur_affect @life_minutiae and
A conscious decision to "spoil" data - if there's a strong community norm against participation, then any data you do gather will be useless, because it's a non-representative sample (your sample will be biased towards those who have chosen to defect)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @life_minutiae and
Researchers get very upset when this happens and then frequently try to lie that it didn't happen, which is where so many of the hilariously bad studies in anthropology come from But it's no one's responsibility but yours to build trust with the people you would study
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Replying to @arthur_affect @life_minutiae and
(See, for example, Puerto Rican independence supporters openly campaigning to abstain from any PR statehood referendum, so it will be publicly known the results will be statistically invalid and illegitimate)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @life_minutiae and
Anyway looking at the havoc academic sexology has wreaked on trans communities in the past I can't fault anyone for putting out a call for silence when mainstream cis researchers come calling
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Jesse Singal and his idol Ken Zucker have vividly demonstrated how academia and the press have no interest in representing your truth accurately to the world You're just grist for the factory to manufacture ammo against other people like you
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Replying to @arthur_affect @life_minutiae and
Similarly, tell the census you’re a citizen
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