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Common Sense or Science? You Choose!

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Source Summary

Generic Confusion’s author, Greg wonders about allowing gender dysphoric children to choose their gender: “What are parents to do when their child says he’s tired of being a child, and wants to be a roadrunner? What if their child wants to go around naked?” I responded: Is wanting to be a roadrunner, a diagnosable mental disorder? Is wanting to be be naked, a diagnosable mental disorder? Does one “grow out of” mental disorders? You’ve linked to some pretty conservative blogs, and historically conservatives have fought social service organizations in regulating and defining how a child is raised (IE. corporal punishment). Does the Constitution somehow make this decision by parents and health care professionals any of your business? GID isn’t something that’s just dreamed up in the heads of the parents. It’s a known, mental disorder that is treatable. I doubt I could have a logical debate with you on this

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Why this article may matter

Community significance

“Common Sense or Science? You Choose!” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to science, evidence, and expertise, while also engaging healthcare and medicine. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.

Historical significance

As a publication record from 2006 at Transadvocate.com, “Common Sense or Science? You Choose!” provides dated evidence of how science, evidence, and expertise was being argued in relation to healthcare and medicine. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.

Policy significance

The article’s strongest policy connection is housing and social services. It links that institutional frame to science, evidence, and expertise and healthcare and medicine, making it potentially useful for tracing how an argument moves from description or history into law, regulation, administration, or public practice.

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Science, evidence, and expertiseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication
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Healthcare and medicineTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
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Education and youthTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
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Housing and social services
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How “Science, evidence, and expertise” appears across the Collective corpus

This article appeared 6 year(s) before the theme reached its highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2012.

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Marti Abernathey

369 publications · 249 inbound sources/citations