“Trans” activists know full well that honestly conducted and reported studies will not favor their cult. Studies conducted by non-profit-based-healthcare countries show little or no benefit from “gender affirmation” and high rates of regret, including a surge in suicide within a decade afterward.
The USA will be the last First World nation to put the breaks on this travesty. It’s just too profitable.
exactly!! The maintenance surgeries and of course, all the poor health outcomes will generate $$$s for many years to come. These are the surgeries that keep on giving.
Aussie here. I don’t understand who pays for all this? Many of the victims of this cruel fraud are unemployable and those who are employed are often in the lowest tier of jobs.
Under a piece of legislation known as the Affordable Care Act, referred to as Obamacare. That mandated authorization of payments for these surgeries., and all the medications We also have government aid in the form of social security disability, which counts related maladies as disabilities and gives these people housing assistance and monthly payments. If it is desired, as it is here by the ruling elite, it will happen. It is really sad as people like my neighbor, a lovely man with a 2 year old son, must have Go Fund Me fundraisers to pay for his lifesaving kidney transplant.
Employers are verbally spreading the word to not hire pronoun people; they don’t do any work and they’re in HR every day whining about “misgendering.” They’re nuisances in the workplace.
Thanks Nancy, that makes more sense. So the taxpayer and working people basically.
And yes it is very sad. You seem to have the worst of both worlds over there, not fully private nor fully public, but a corruption-ridden hybrid of the two! However, I think that’s also the way our system is going, our public health care is so bad that everyone who can afford to also gets some level of private health insurance (which often costs a lot of money but doesn’t seem to cover very much!).
Bravo, excellent article. To paraphrase an old saying, critical thinking is a flower that does not grow in everyone's garden.
Idealogical alignment and the appearance of legitimacy & authority are regarded as evidence nowadays, and feelings are seen as more important than facts. This is sadly observable at even the highest levels of law, politics, academia, & business. We've become so inundated & desensitized to dishonesty & hypocrisy that the collective response of society to even the most egregious ethical violations is an apathetic shrug.
The only thing that will save us is if people start giving a f*ck again. It has to MATTER to us when people lie. It has to MATTER when someone in a position of authority fails to live up to basic expectations of integrity & objectivity, when researchers engage in plagiarism or unethical misrepresentation of the data, and when editors value profit over professionalism. And our standards must be universally applicable to all, those we like and those with whom we disagree.
What's really sad is that it is the job of academics to offer useful critiques, bitter pills for society to swallow. Instead they are doing the bidding of the transcult and its moneyed-interests, pretending to be brave, original thinkers while pushing against a non-existent transphobic current.
yes, it is not only sad but frightening. We reply on the peer review process to help ensure that the information being published in medical and scientific journals is solid. The editors completely dropped the ball here.
I fear that in the case of these articles the editors don't so much drop the metaphorical ball as they do simply refuse to acknowledge its existence as an object worthy of their consideration. They are acting not as editors but rather as guardians of The Narrative.
Indeed. This movement is a perfect example of elites conspiring against society for their own gain. Watch them rise up in their fortunes and professions on the claim that a man is literally a woman. Dare to disagree? They will gleefully crush you while pretending to be sanctimonious about it. Just look how shoddy the evidence is that they put forth in support of their claim. It's a deliberate insult to common sense.
These are supposed to be proper science journals, right? With proper peer review? If they’re looking the other way to print this garbage, then I would venture that they’re being told that detransition is a unique topic and must be counted in a special way. It’s a way that cis people wouldn’t understand, so keep your nose out of it.
TRAs understand that they need to keep the regret numbers low. If they don’t, the risk is that regular lefties will start to pay attention and ask questions. As long as TRAs can maintain that most young people are happy with their transition and just go on to quietly live their lives, and that the Kiera Bells and Chloe Coles are a tiny minority (just anecdotal!), the transition train will keep chugging along on the tracks.
It is part of the whole downfall of society/replacement theory. The government will control the population with migration and hopes to end normal childbirth. They want us all barren, confused, frightened, and hooked up to their life sucking systems.
A great deal of additional information is omitted from these studies, because surgeons generally do not specialize in the mental/emotional states of their post op patients. We trans widows are never surveyed for the behavior we observe when our (soon to be ex) husband suddenly goes on estrogen. in my data of 60 trans widows' experiences, a high percent of us (about 1/3) have observed manic episodes suggesting estrogen in the male body causes psychiatric imbalance. The surgeons are also blissfully unaware of the sexual coercion their patients and the "gender therapists" put on wives to manufacture a "lesbian couple" to avoid recognition of the social destruction of families with young children.
Years ago, I worked in a non professional position for a group of doctors specializing in IVF and other aggressive fertility treatment. The nurses were the main contact point for patients, and they got a lot of angry, unreasonable, downright abusive treatment from them. Luckily (for the patients!) the nurses made allowances, knowing the patients were under the influence of some powerful psychotropic drugs, that is, the foreign hormones used in their treatment. After one exceptionally rough patient encouter for our head nurse , I said to her, "Michelle, do you ever think maybe God knows better than we do who ought to be a mommy?"
Time will tell who is in the right. We have very little follow-up data on the recent cohort of transitioners, who are unlike the old-fashioned gender dysphorics, especially as the clinics that are entranced by the concept of affirmative care have little to no interest in the follow-up of patients, and especially not in those who detransition and simply stop attending. If we look at those among the recent surge who exhibit regret or who actually detransition, say after ten years, we will get a better picture. If the percentage is high, that will represent a lot of damaged people because we mistreated them, and all preventable if we had been more cautious. And whether we look for the evidence or not, I suspect there will be a tidal wave of law suits from those who change their mind and want the adults who let them ruin their lives to be held responsible.
After the "Sokal Hoax" (Alan Sokal, 1996) and, more recently, the "Grievance Studies Affair" (Boghossian, Lindsay, and Pluckrose, 2016-2017), I'd have thought academics and the academic publishers would have would have engaged in serious self examination of their standards for research and the publication process including peer review. Instead, what we've seen is little more than the attacks on the perpetrators and their ethics for their mockery of the academy's output. The production of opaque, ultimately unintelligible prose seems unimpeded. What has become of Popper's requirement of falsifiability? Is it now regarded as just another device fabricated by white, European, "cisgendered", heterosexual, heteronormative men to enforce their oppression of everyone else by suppressing alternative truths and enforcing their cabal's control of the determination of what is true?
You describe the deficiencies in peer reviewed articles and then state that many are down to proofreading.....and you then misspell proofreading as "proof reading."
"Proof read", "proof-read" and "proofread" are all valid ways of writing the term. Writing it as one word appears to be the dominant way in American English, but this by no means makes "proof read" a misspelling.
“Trans” activists know full well that honestly conducted and reported studies will not favor their cult. Studies conducted by non-profit-based-healthcare countries show little or no benefit from “gender affirmation” and high rates of regret, including a surge in suicide within a decade afterward.
The USA will be the last First World nation to put the breaks on this travesty. It’s just too profitable.
exactly!! The maintenance surgeries and of course, all the poor health outcomes will generate $$$s for many years to come. These are the surgeries that keep on giving.
Not to mention a million or two for hormones.
The doctors and pharma get cash, the activists get likes. Nobody’s killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.
Aussie here. I don’t understand who pays for all this? Many of the victims of this cruel fraud are unemployable and those who are employed are often in the lowest tier of jobs.
Under a piece of legislation known as the Affordable Care Act, referred to as Obamacare. That mandated authorization of payments for these surgeries., and all the medications We also have government aid in the form of social security disability, which counts related maladies as disabilities and gives these people housing assistance and monthly payments. If it is desired, as it is here by the ruling elite, it will happen. It is really sad as people like my neighbor, a lovely man with a 2 year old son, must have Go Fund Me fundraisers to pay for his lifesaving kidney transplant.
Employers are verbally spreading the word to not hire pronoun people; they don’t do any work and they’re in HR every day whining about “misgendering.” They’re nuisances in the workplace.
Piercings and tattoos don’t help either.
Thanks Nancy, that makes more sense. So the taxpayer and working people basically.
And yes it is very sad. You seem to have the worst of both worlds over there, not fully private nor fully public, but a corruption-ridden hybrid of the two! However, I think that’s also the way our system is going, our public health care is so bad that everyone who can afford to also gets some level of private health insurance (which often costs a lot of money but doesn’t seem to cover very much!).
Bravo, excellent article. To paraphrase an old saying, critical thinking is a flower that does not grow in everyone's garden.
Idealogical alignment and the appearance of legitimacy & authority are regarded as evidence nowadays, and feelings are seen as more important than facts. This is sadly observable at even the highest levels of law, politics, academia, & business. We've become so inundated & desensitized to dishonesty & hypocrisy that the collective response of society to even the most egregious ethical violations is an apathetic shrug.
The only thing that will save us is if people start giving a f*ck again. It has to MATTER to us when people lie. It has to MATTER when someone in a position of authority fails to live up to basic expectations of integrity & objectivity, when researchers engage in plagiarism or unethical misrepresentation of the data, and when editors value profit over professionalism. And our standards must be universally applicable to all, those we like and those with whom we disagree.
And I need to stop preaching to the choir... 🤣😜
Great stuff - thank you!!! 🙏❤️🌟👍
Thank you for this excellent article highlighting another example of a blatantly fatally flawed academic publication.
What's really sad is that it is the job of academics to offer useful critiques, bitter pills for society to swallow. Instead they are doing the bidding of the transcult and its moneyed-interests, pretending to be brave, original thinkers while pushing against a non-existent transphobic current.
yes, it is not only sad but frightening. We reply on the peer review process to help ensure that the information being published in medical and scientific journals is solid. The editors completely dropped the ball here.
I fear that in the case of these articles the editors don't so much drop the metaphorical ball as they do simply refuse to acknowledge its existence as an object worthy of their consideration. They are acting not as editors but rather as guardians of The Narrative.
Indeed. This movement is a perfect example of elites conspiring against society for their own gain. Watch them rise up in their fortunes and professions on the claim that a man is literally a woman. Dare to disagree? They will gleefully crush you while pretending to be sanctimonious about it. Just look how shoddy the evidence is that they put forth in support of their claim. It's a deliberate insult to common sense.
These are supposed to be proper science journals, right? With proper peer review? If they’re looking the other way to print this garbage, then I would venture that they’re being told that detransition is a unique topic and must be counted in a special way. It’s a way that cis people wouldn’t understand, so keep your nose out of it.
TRAs understand that they need to keep the regret numbers low. If they don’t, the risk is that regular lefties will start to pay attention and ask questions. As long as TRAs can maintain that most young people are happy with their transition and just go on to quietly live their lives, and that the Kiera Bells and Chloe Coles are a tiny minority (just anecdotal!), the transition train will keep chugging along on the tracks.
It is part of the whole downfall of society/replacement theory. The government will control the population with migration and hopes to end normal childbirth. They want us all barren, confused, frightened, and hooked up to their life sucking systems.
A great deal of additional information is omitted from these studies, because surgeons generally do not specialize in the mental/emotional states of their post op patients. We trans widows are never surveyed for the behavior we observe when our (soon to be ex) husband suddenly goes on estrogen. in my data of 60 trans widows' experiences, a high percent of us (about 1/3) have observed manic episodes suggesting estrogen in the male body causes psychiatric imbalance. The surgeons are also blissfully unaware of the sexual coercion their patients and the "gender therapists" put on wives to manufacture a "lesbian couple" to avoid recognition of the social destruction of families with young children.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok4XKWlkKxg&t=14s
Studies should look at metrics other than self-reported well-being.
Years ago, I worked in a non professional position for a group of doctors specializing in IVF and other aggressive fertility treatment. The nurses were the main contact point for patients, and they got a lot of angry, unreasonable, downright abusive treatment from them. Luckily (for the patients!) the nurses made allowances, knowing the patients were under the influence of some powerful psychotropic drugs, that is, the foreign hormones used in their treatment. After one exceptionally rough patient encouter for our head nurse , I said to her, "Michelle, do you ever think maybe God knows better than we do who ought to be a mommy?"
it seems that one are where we could intervene would be mandating follow-up of these procedures, in order for a gender clinic to maintain a license.
Time will tell who is in the right. We have very little follow-up data on the recent cohort of transitioners, who are unlike the old-fashioned gender dysphorics, especially as the clinics that are entranced by the concept of affirmative care have little to no interest in the follow-up of patients, and especially not in those who detransition and simply stop attending. If we look at those among the recent surge who exhibit regret or who actually detransition, say after ten years, we will get a better picture. If the percentage is high, that will represent a lot of damaged people because we mistreated them, and all preventable if we had been more cautious. And whether we look for the evidence or not, I suspect there will be a tidal wave of law suits from those who change their mind and want the adults who let them ruin their lives to be held responsible.
After the "Sokal Hoax" (Alan Sokal, 1996) and, more recently, the "Grievance Studies Affair" (Boghossian, Lindsay, and Pluckrose, 2016-2017), I'd have thought academics and the academic publishers would have would have engaged in serious self examination of their standards for research and the publication process including peer review. Instead, what we've seen is little more than the attacks on the perpetrators and their ethics for their mockery of the academy's output. The production of opaque, ultimately unintelligible prose seems unimpeded. What has become of Popper's requirement of falsifiability? Is it now regarded as just another device fabricated by white, European, "cisgendered", heterosexual, heteronormative men to enforce their oppression of everyone else by suppressing alternative truths and enforcing their cabal's control of the determination of what is true?
You describe the deficiencies in peer reviewed articles and then state that many are down to proofreading.....and you then misspell proofreading as "proof reading."
"Proof read", "proof-read" and "proofread" are all valid ways of writing the term. Writing it as one word appears to be the dominant way in American English, but this by no means makes "proof read" a misspelling.