Three Card Monte, Bailey Style
I’m getting rather tired of posting about this, but J. Michael Bailey is at it again. He posted “Transsexual Smokescreen: Ignoring Science In “The Man Who Would Be Queen” at Scientific Blogging.com. The post is a microcosm of the disingenuous nature of this man. He’s said in multiple forums: (from the KQED Forum interview) I wrote what is commonly understood to be a popular science book, in which I reviewed serious academic work by myself and other scholars.” So the book is science? He later said: “All I did was notice some things. Is this controversial that gay men are more likely than straight men to be florists? That’s what I said. I didn’t say they were suited, although—you know, I don’t know what that means. And I also said that in my observations, that Latina women are more likely than —or I’m sorry, Latina transgendered people—are more likely than
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“Three Card Monte, Bailey Style” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to science, evidence, and expertise, while also engaging transgender identity and history. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.
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As a publication record from 2007 at Transadvocate.com, “Three Card Monte, Bailey Style” provides dated evidence of how science, evidence, and expertise was being argued in relation to transgender identity and history. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.
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- 1Science, evidence, and expertiseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication100%
- 2Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community27%
- 3Violence, safety, and dehumanizationTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict5%
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Dated source evidence currently stored by the CollectiveMonstrous Regiment » Blog Archive » bad idea, part 3: shut up, i’m speaking for you
[...] made it fashionable, i wrote about J. Michael Bailey and his claims about autogynephilia. Now, as Marti points out, Bailey has written on ScientificBlogging about the criticism he’s undergone since his book [...]
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