Look, there are scientific controversies surrounding the treatment of trans adolescents, but a dispassionate, science-based discussion of how best to medically and surgically treat trans teens is not what the GC movement is about.
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Moreover, science denialism is less about how "settled" a given scientific/medical issue is and more about the types of misleading arguments and conspiracy theories deployed against that issue.
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Finally, I've now concluded that, if anything, GC activists inhibit, rather than foster, a good science-based discussion of the medical and scientific questions surrounding how best to treat trans teens. They produce far more heat than light.
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So a GC advocate quote-Tweeted the first Tweet in this series, claiming that I had never actually read the arguments of GC advocates. My response? The problem is, I *have* read quite a lot of them now.
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Even quite a few of the "scientific" concerns tend to be driven by covert ideological legacies in medicine (or medical personnel). People so center their gender as part of their identity that gender changes are hard for them to understand, it's like a religious belief in a way.
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I've gotten a crash education over the last five weeks, to be sure, and am a bit embarrassed now that I had previously paid so little attention to these issues.
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one stat that stuck out to me was learning there are more intersex & transgender people than redheads
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From what I remember out of undergrad psychology, that seems to be true for all kinds of morality-based political issues: ick-factor comes first, rationalization is placed on top of it
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From my perspective, this seems pretty obvious. I've yet to see a so-called "gender critical" argument that doesn't ultimately reduce to "ick".
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Or an appeal to nature or evolution that trans people are somehow against one or both.
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