Zucker was a hack who's popular with people like this because he believed that not trying to actively force kids not to be trans was morally equivalent to turni

Zucker was a hack who's popular with people like this because he believed that not trying to actively force kids not to be trans was morally equivalent to turning them trans, ran his clinic accordingly and gave it a veneer of scientific respectability when the scientific community wouldn't touch it. Just following up and seeing what happens is the mainstream approach he rejected. I had a look at some of his research and every time, there was a huge unbridgable gap between the conclusions he drew - which, naturally, supported his own existing beliefs about trans people - and the actual evidence he had. This idea that dubious work driven by the researchers' existing anti-trans beliefs is the real science and that anyone who disagrees with it is therefore attacking science is, sadly, fairly common: http://freethoughtblogs.com/atg/2016/08/07/academic-transphobia-the-persistence-of-the-activists-vs-science-false-dichotomy/ http://freethoughtblogs.com/atg/2016/08/07/academic-transpho...