Sheer silliness
Ken Zucker on that “science-based” review:
That there seemed to be a new subgroup of adolescents (more females than males) presenting, at times, to clinicians with what appeared (by parent-report in her study) to be a late-onset or rapid-onset of gender dysphoria. These youth would be as likely to meet the criteria for
— Ken Zucker (@ZUCKERKJ) July 6, 2021
In clinical psychiatry/psychology, diagnosis is largely based on self-report and the observations of others. There is no laboratory test for Gender Dysphoria, regardless of onset age. Eckert's distinction between a "made-up" diagnosis and a "real" diagnosis is sheer silliness.
— Ken Zucker (@ZUCKERKJ) July 6, 2021
Sheer silliness is chronic in this ideology.
of Transgenderism, Drummond et al. (2008) in Developmental Psychology, and Singh et al. (2021) in Frontiers in Psychiatry. I guess facts muddy the argument.
— Ken Zucker (@ZUCKERKJ) July 5, 2021
Facts are transphobic.
I was curious about that idea that ROGD is considered a medical diagnosis, and i am happy to see someone with some knowledge address this question. It had looked to me not that it was considered a diagnosis, but a description of a social phenomenon.
S-BM is using their blog to drive home the ideology that transgenderism is based on science, when it clearly is not able to be. It can’t be defined clearly enough to generate testable hypotheses. Gender dysphoria, yes, that can be defined. But cross-sex gender transference? No, No, no, no. Is it a spectrum, or is gender discrete? Is it fixed, or is it fluid? Some sort of duality, like the wave particle of light? What is a gender identity? No one really knows, do they, except that they “know” that they have one and if it doesn’t match their privates there is something medical to be done ASAP.
And to add to that is-it-science list:
What would falsify Gender Identity Theory?
What are clear, non-circular definitions of: “Sex,” “Gender,” “Man,” “Woman,” “Male,””Female.”
If a scientific test for being transgender was developed, should those who are convinced they’re transgender and fail, admit they were wrong about what they thought they knew about themselves?
If there had not been people claiming to be transgender, would scientists have been trying to solve the perplexing puzzle of how female people manage to know they’re women, and how male people figure out they’re men (the search for a biological explanation for “gender identity”)?
“Gender identity” phooey. I don’t have a “gender identity.” I don’t “identify as” anything having to do with gender, or even sex. I don’t “identify as” the sex that I am; I simply am that sex. Nothing I can do about it. To the extent I have an internal “identity,” I think of myself as a human being, a particular mind with the characteristics common to other human minds, yet with the uniqueness of my own thoughts and experiences.