it's not always about objective scientific truth, but combating the perspectives held by detractors. Truth sometimes wins.
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Replying to @litui @jessesingal
see climate change. Sometimes it needs to be made about tangential affairs and "because we say so" rather than objectivity.
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sure, a lot of this does come down to difference between journo and activism tho
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Replying to @jessesingal
I know, and I realize we'll spin wheels going nowhere due to that gap. Your work still frames the data, activist or not...
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...the care you take with the neutrality of that framing is important as I'm sure you know. Illusion of neutrality too...
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the framing of neutrality gets used to claim the science is conclusive regardless of the substance. People don't get science.
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Replying to @jessesingal
honestly I don't think trans people have as much of a problem with the science you present as it seems, more the context...
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Replying to @litui @jessesingal
context being a world where we're not done fighting and it's not academic to most of us.
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I read the calls for you to lay off trans issues not as "stop doing truth/science" but "this doesn't help right now".
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sure, but a) a better and more nuanced understanding of GD helps trans people, and b) this isn't *just* about trans people
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Replying to @jessesingal
both fair points, too, just not always in a practical context. Academic. Popular focus is keeping us out of bathrooms.
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parental/religious rights arguments are being used to keep kids from safety/privacy. Humming and hawing over GD is distraction.
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