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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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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