Singal’s Florida: You’re very wrong about trans kids
UPDATE (4/20/22): This article was updated to respond to spurious recommendations from the Florida Department of Health, which assert the same debunked claims this article […]
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How “Transgender identity and history” appears across the Collective corpus
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- Transadvocate.com840
- Cristan’s Research83
- The TERFs52
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- Law and civil rights424
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- Culture, identity, and representation270
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- Critical theory72
- Empirical and quantitative research62
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- Elections and democratic governance94
- Research ethics and data governance71
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- Administrative classification and identity documents35
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Available scholarly citations plus verified non-scholarly sourcesGender-Critical Policy Causes Brain Damage in Trans Youth
In 2004, the radical feminist and clinical psychologist Arlene Lev published Transgender Emergence: Therapeutic Guidelines for Working with Gender-Variant People and Their Families, which advocated against the use of operant conditioning aimed at preventing, halting, or reversing a non-cisgender experience of self because outcomes were consistently poor. In 2008, the…
APA worried, FBI arrests GCer for terrorism, and JKR goes full Glinner
Echoing our own assessment, the APA said the course that Florida and other states are taking will harm trans youth:
WPATH responds to Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria (ROGD)
The above quote comes from the newly minted “Pediatric and Adolescent Gender Dysphoria Working Group” (PAGDWG). Members of this group include the internet troll Oren Amitay, a sexologist who refuses to debate her public dissemination of misinformation, a sexologist who has a history of “harassing” people who disagree with him,…
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