Transition causes strokes! Or you know, not.
The newest claim making the sex essentialist activist rounds is that transition will probably cause you to have a stroke or heart attack. TERFs and other sex essentialist activists, from the political right to the skeptic-bro left, point to a new trans study from the Netherlands: The forthcoming study to be published in March 2019 said that trans women and men may be at higher risk for cardiovascular events and that, “[b]oth physicians and transgender individuals should be aware of these risks, and risk factors should be adequately managed.” While I don’t take issue with this sentiment, there is a huge problem with both the study and the sex essentialist rhetoric surrounding the study. While the study does, in fact, review the medical records of thousands of trans people, it compares trans people on hormones to cis people who are not on hormones. In other words, this is a study
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“Transition causes strokes! Or you know, not.” 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 2019 at Transadvocate.com, “Transition causes strokes! Or you know, not.” 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 community69%
- 3Media, rhetoric, and discourseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication26%
- 4Healthcare and medicineTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life15%
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