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Surgeon/scientist promoting science in medicine and exposing quackery. Editor of Science-Based Medicine. My opinions do NOT represent those of my employers.

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    David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Jul 21

    Having unwillingly undergone a five week intensive exposure to "gender critical" arguments, I've concluded that a disturbing number of them boil down to taking "Ew, trans people ick me out" and cranking that feeling up to, "Trans people are an abomination against nature/God/etc."

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      2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Jul 21

        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.

        1 reply 52 retweets 709 likes
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      3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Jul 21

        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.

        1 reply 37 retweets 593 likes
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      4. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Jul 21

        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.

        3 replies 90 retweets 749 likes
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      5. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Jul 21

        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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      2. Lucinda Catchlove‏ @fifilamoura Jul 21
        Replying to @gorskon

        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.

        1 reply 6 retweets 175 likes
      3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Jul 21
        Replying to @fifilamoura

        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.

        2 replies 5 retweets 231 likes
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      1. Seth Trueger‏Verified account @MDaware Jul 21
        Replying to @gorskon

        one stat that stuck out to me was learning there are more intersex & transgender people than redheads

        0 replies 20 retweets 247 likes
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      1. Dr. Jens Foell‏ @fMRI_guy Jul 21
        Replying to @gorskon

        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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      2. ((MarkCC))‏ @MarkCC Jul 22
        Replying to @gorskon

        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".

        1 reply 1 retweet 42 likes
      3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Jul 22
        Replying to @MarkCC

        Or an appeal to nature or evolution that trans people are somehow against one or both.

        1 reply 0 retweets 35 likes
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