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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They continually associate transgender women with sexual predators preying on 'real' women/girls. Interestingly, they never seem to worry about transgender men preying on boys.
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That's another thing I've noticed over the last five weeks.
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Replying to @gorskon
TERFS are the folks I have zero tolerance for. Nope. Not even going to entertain their bullshit.
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What depresses me is how many self-identified "skeptics" are "gender critical."
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Are they simply scared that someone transgender is a better person than them? Or jealous of the same?
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I've been asking for a while, though: What is it about the UK that seems to breed these GC people, who seem to be more numerous there? Or is it that they're just more vocal and prominent in the UK?
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It's my understanding a lot of it was spread via SiTP in the UK. I didn't see GC crap in New England or DK SiTP, so something across the Channel is rotten.
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Seriously? Skeptics in the Pub? (I presume that's what you meant and that's the first thing that popped into my mind, but I could be wrong...)
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L. Tock Retweeted Alice Sheppard
https://twitter.com/PenguinGalaxy/status/1372561279337041924?s=20 … there was a whole thread, but the flying monkeys hit it.
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Alice Sheppard @PenguinGalaxyAlthough I know a lot of SITP people including SITP leaders who are passionately supportive of trans people, this thread does pretty much sum up why I'm no longer involved. Also, doing skepticism properly = things are rarely simple. But that's easy to forget. https://t.co/11hlHfT5UxShow this thread1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes - Show replies
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